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Acta Horticulturae Sinica ›› 2025, Vol. 52 ›› Issue (9): 2317-2328.doi: 10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2024-0750

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Analysis of Promoter Activity and Screening of Interaction Factors of Carrot Lycopene ε-Cyclase Gene DcLCYE

WANG Yahui1, ZHANG Yuqing1, ZHANG Rongrong1, LIU Peizhuo1, LIANG Yi2, ZHOU Jianhua3, XIONG Aisheng1,*()   

  1. 1 College of HorticultureNanjing Agricultural University/State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics & Germplasm Enhancement and Utilization/Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Key Laboratory of Biology and Germplasm Enhancement of Horticultural Crops in East China, Nanjing 210095, China
    2 Beijing Vegetable Research Center of Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing 100097, China
    3 Zhengzhou Agricultural Science and Technology Research Institute, Zhengzhou 450050, China
  • Received:2025-04-17 Revised:2025-07-21 Online:2025-09-25 Published:2025-09-24
  • Contact: XIONG Aisheng

Abstract:

The 970 bp promoter sequence of DcLCYE was cloned and bioinformatics analysis was carried out from carrot‘Kurodagosun’‘Hongyu 8’‘Benhong Jinshi’‘Meiguihong’‘Dayu Meirenzhi’and‘Beita’,respectively. The results showed that the promoter region of carrot DcLCYE contained various light response elements,hormone response elements and transcription factor binding sites. GUS reporter expression was driven by promoter deletion fragments of DcLCYE with different lengths,and promoter activity was detected by stable expression in carrot. The results showed that the promoter region of 610 bp upstream of the initiation codon had stronger promoter activity. By comparing the sequences of DcLCYE promoters of different carrot varieties,it was found that the sequences of DcLCYE promoters of carrot varieties with similar phenotypes were more consistent. The differences of promoters may affect the transcription of DcLCYE in different carrot varieties. A carrot cDNA library was constructed,and the upstream regulatory factors interacting with DcLCYE promoter were screened by yeast one-hybrid system. Positive clones included several antioxidant proteins,heat shock proteins,zinc finger proteins,hydrolase proteins,etc. Transcription factors such as MYB,bHLH and bZIP,which may play roles in the regulation of carrot carotenoid accumulation were also screened.

Key words: carrot, lycopene, promoter, yeast one-hybrid, transcription factor