Paper · 2025 · Scientia Horticulturae

UV-B pre-irradiation-promoted flavonoid accumulation enhances cold tolerance in tea plants by mediating CsHY5 pathways

Ziwen Zhou; Xiaoman Chu; Yaohua Cheng; et al.

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Abstract

• UV-B pre-irradiation reduced cold injury in tea plants. • Involvement of CsHY5 in UV-B reduced cold damage in tea plants. • UV-B preirradiation of tea plants enhances cold tolerance by inducing CsHY5 expression and triggering an increase in flavonoid accumulation. Flavonoids derived from the phenylpropane pathway are polyphenolic secondary metabolites in plants, which are involved in various processes of plant growth and abiotic stress. Based on metabolome and transcriptome analysis, we speculated that UV-B irradiation may be a convenient method to improve the cold resistance of tea plants. In our study, tea plants pre-irradiated with 2 μmol·m -2· s -1 UV-B exhibited a cold tolerant phenotype at -4 °C. HY5 plays a pivotal role in mediating the crosstalk between light and temperature signaling pathways in plants. To further explore the internal mechanisms, the role of CsHY5 , acted as UV-B photoreceptors, in cold tolerance was investigated. CsHY5- silenced in tea leaves dramatically impaired UV-B pre-irradiation-enhanced effects on cold tolerance of tea plants, also the contents of flavonoid and the downstream gene expression level of CsMYB12, CsFLS, CsDFR, CsUGT78A14 and CsANR in CsHY5 -silenced tea leaves were significantly decreased. On the contrary, CsHY5 overexpression lines of in Arabidopsis thaliana pre-irradiated with UV-B significantly elevated cold tolerance, and the higher flavonoid content and AtFLS, AtDFR and AtANR expression level was detected compared with WT under cold stress. Therefore, our study indicated UV-B preirradiation of tea plants enhances cold tolerance by inducing CsHY5 expression and triggering an increase in flavonoid accumulation.

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

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UV-B pretreatment reduced cold injury in tea plants.

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“UV-B pre-irradiation reduced cold injury in tea plants”

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Tea plants pre-irradiated with 2 μmol·m -2· s -1 UV-B showed a cold tolerant phenotype at -4 °C.

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“tea plants pre-irradiated with 2 μmol·m -2· s -1 UV-B exhibited a cold tolerant phenotype at -4 °C”

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CsHY5 silencing impaired UV-B-induced cold tolerance in tea plants.

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“CsHY5- silenced in tea leaves dramatically impaired UV-B pre-irradiation-enhanced effects on cold tolerance of tea plants”

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CsHY5 silencing significantly decreased flavonoid content in tea leaves.

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“the contents of flavonoid and the downstream gene expression level of CsMYB12, CsFLS, CsDFR, CsUGT78A14 and CsANR in CsHY5 -silenced tea leaves were significantly decreased”

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CsHY5 silencing significantly decreased downstream gene expression in tea leaves.

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“the downstream gene expression level of CsMYB12, CsFLS, CsDFR, CsUGT78A14 and CsANR in CsHY5 -silenced tea leaves were significantly decreased”

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UV-B pretreatment of CsHY5 overexpression lines of Arabidopsis increased cold tolerance relative to wild type.

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“CsHY5 overexpression lines of in Arabidopsis thaliana pre-irradiated with UV-B significantly elevated cold tolerance, and the higher flavonoid content and AtFLS, AtDFR and AtANR expression level was detected compared with WT under cold stress”

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UV-B-pretreated CsHY5 overexpression Arabidopsis lines had higher flavonoid content than wild type under cold stress.

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Arabidopsis thaliana
Arabidopsis thaliana · TaxonOriginal uploader was Brona at en.wikipedia . User:Roepers at nl.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“CsHY5 overexpression lines of in Arabidopsis thaliana pre-irradiated with UV-B significantly elevated cold tolerance, and the higher flavonoid content and AtFLS, AtDFR and AtANR expression level was detected compared with WT under cold stress”

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Associationobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

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UV-B-pretreated CsHY5 overexpression Arabidopsis lines had higher AtFLS, AtDFR and AtANR expression than wild type under cold stress.

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Arabidopsis thalianaArabidopsis thalianae0
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CsHY5 overexpression linese0
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AtFLS, AtDFR and AtANRe0
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AtFLS, AtDFR and AtANR expression levele0
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highere0
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cold stresse0
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WTe0

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Arabidopsis thaliana
Arabidopsis thaliana · TaxonOriginal uploader was Brona at en.wikipedia . User:Roepers at nl.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“CsHY5 overexpression lines of in Arabidopsis thaliana pre-irradiated with UV-B significantly elevated cold tolerance, and the higher flavonoid content and AtFLS, AtDFR and AtANR expression level was detected compared with WT under cold stress”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1275–1517 · show in text ↑

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