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Deletion of beta‐fructofuranosidase (invertase) genes is associated with sucrose content in Date Palm fruit

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revised on 2024-09-25, 07:59 and posted on 2024-09-25, 08:01 authored by Joel A. Malek, Sweety Mathew, Lisa S. Mathew, Shameem Younuskunju, Yasmin A. Mohamoud, Karsten Suhre

The fruit of date palm trees are an important part of the diet for a large portion of the Middle East and North Africa. The fruit is consumed both fresh and dry and can be stored dry for extended periods of time. Date fruits vary significantly across hundreds of cultivars identified in the main regions of cultivation. Most dried date fruit are low in sucrose but high in glucose and fructose. However, high sucrose content is a distinctive feature of some date fruit and affects flavor as well as texture and water retention. To identify the genes controlling high sucrose content, we analyzed date fruit metabolomics for association with genotype data from 120 date fruits. We found significant association of dried date sucrose content and a genomic region that contains 3 tandem copies of the beta-fructofuranosidase (invertase) gene in the reference Khalas genome, a low-sucrose fruit. High-sucrose cultivars including the popular Deglet Noor had a homozygous deletion of two of the 3 copies of the invertase gene. We show the deletion allele is derived when compared to the ancestral allele that retains all copies of the gene in 3 other species of Phoenix. The fact that 2 of the 3 tandem invertase copies are associated with dry fruit sucrose content will assist in better understanding the distinct roles of multiple date palm invertases in plant physiology. Identification of the recessive alleles associated with end-point sucrose content in date fruit may be used in selective breeding in the future.

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Published in: Plant Direct
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
See article on publisher's website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pld3.214

Funding

Qatar National Research Fund (NPRP-EP X-014-4-001).

History

Language

  • English

Publisher

Wiley

Publication Year

  • 2020

License statement

This Item is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Institution affiliated with

  • Weill Cornell Medicine - Qatar

Related Datasets

Malek,J.A., Mathew,L.S., Younuskunju,S., Mohamoud,Y.A. and Suhre,K. (2020). GenBank: MT009343.1. National Library of Medicine : National Center for Biotechnology Information : Nucleotide. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/MT009343 Malek,J.A., Mathew,L.S., Younuskunju,S., Mohamoud,Y.A. and Suhre,K. (2020). GenBank: MT009344.1. National Library of Medicine : National Center for Biotechnology Information : Nucleotide. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/MT009344