Differential Pigment Accumulation in Carrot Leaves and Roots during Two Growing Periods
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- 作者：Florent Perrin ; Marwa Brahem ; Cécile Dubois-Laurent ; Sébastien Huet ; Matthieu Jourdan ; Emmanuel Geoffriau ; Didier Peltier ; Séverine Gagné
- 刊名：Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：February 3, 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：64
- 期：4
- 页码：906-912
- 全文大小：338K
- ISSN：1520-5118
文摘
Carotenoids are important secondary metabolites involved in plant growth and nutritional quality of vegetable crops. These pigments are highly accumulated in carrot root, but knowledge about the impact of environmental factors on their accumulation is limited. The purpose of this work was to investigate the impact of environmental variations on carotenoid accumulation in carrot leaves and roots. In this work, carrots were grown during two contrasting periods to maximize bioclimatic differences. In leaves, carotenoid and chlorophyll contents were lower in the less favorable growing conditions, whereas relative contents were well conserved for all genotypes, suggesting a common regulatory mechanism. The down-regulation of all genes under environmental constraints demonstrates that carotenoid accumulation is regulated at the transcriptional level. In roots, the decrease in α-carotene and lutein contents was accompanied by an increase of β-carotene relative content. At the transcriptional level, LCYB and ZEP expression increased, whereas LCYE expression decreased, in the less favorable conditions, suggesting that carotenoid biosynthesis is switched toward the β-branch.