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T1 Changes in anthocyanin production during domestication of Citrus
A1 Butelli, Eugenio
A1 García-Lor, Andrés
A1 Licciardello, Concetta
A1 Las Casas, Giuseppina
A1 Hill, Lionel
A1 Reforgiato Recupero, Giuseppe
A1 Keremane, Manjunath L
A1 Ramadugu, Chandrika
A1 Krueger, Robert
A1 Xu, Qiang
A1 Deng, Xiuxin
A1 Fanciullino, Anne-Laure
A1 Froelicher, Yann
A1 Navarro, Luis
A1 Martin, Cathie
K1 MYB transcription factors
K1 Phylogenetic analysis.
K1 F30  Plant genetics and breeding
K1 Anthocyanins
K1 Citrus
K1 Domestication
K1 Hybridization
AB Mandarin (Citrus reticulata), citron (Citrus medica), and pummelo (Citrus maxima) are important species of the genus Citrus and parents of the interspecific hybrids that constitute the most familiar commercial varieties of Citrus: sweet orange, sour orange, clementine, lemon, lime, and grapefruit. Citron produces anthocyanins in its young leaves and flowers, as do species in genera closely related to Citrus, but mandarins do not, and pummelo varieties that produce anthocyanins have not been reported. We investigated the activity of the Ruby gene, which encodes a MYB transcription factor controlling anthocyanin biosynthesis, in different accessions of a range of Citrus species and in domesticated cultivars. A white mutant of lemon lacks functional alleles of Ruby, demonstrating that Ruby plays an essential role in anthocyanin production in Citrus. Almost all the natural variation in pigmentation by anthocyanins in Citrus species can be explained by differences in activity of the Ruby gene, caused by point mutations and deletions and insertions of transposable elements. Comparison of the allelic constitution of Ruby in different species and cultivars also helps to clarify many of the taxonomic relationships in different species of Citrus, confirms the derivation of commercial varieties during domestication, elucidates the relationships within the subgenus Papeda, and allows a new genetic classification of mandarins.
PB American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB)
SN 1532-2548
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11939/6686
UL http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11939/6686
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NO Butelli, E., Garcia-Lor, A., Licciardello, C., Las Casas, G., Hill, L., Recupero, G. R., ... & Deng, X. (2017). Changes in anthocyanin production during domestication of Citrus. Plant Physiology, 173(4), 2225-2242.
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RD Jan 20, 2021