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  • Title: Contrasting β-ODAP content correlates with stress gene expression in Lathyrus cultivars.
    Author: Verma A, Nidhi N, Kaur G, Mantri S, Sharma TR, Pandey AK, Kandoth PK.
    Journal: Physiol Plant; 2022 Jan; 174(1):e13616. PubMed ID: 35199360.
    Abstract:
    Lathyrus sativus, commonly known as grass pea, is a nutrient-rich pulse crop with remarkable climate-resilient attributes. However, wide use of this nutritious crop is not adopted owing to the presence of a non-protein amino acid β-N-oxalyl-l-α,β-diaminopropionic acid (β-ODAP), which is neurotoxic if consumed in large quantities. We conducted a de novo transcriptomic profiling of two ODAP contrasting cultivars, Pusa-24 and its somaclonal variant Ratan, to understand the genetic changes leading to and associated with β-ODAP levels. Differential gene expression analysis showed that a variety of genes are downregulated in low β-ODAP cultivar Ratan and include genes involved in biotic/abiotic stress tolerance, redox metabolism, hormonal metabolism, and sucrose, and starch metabolism. Several genes related to chromatin remodeling are differentially expressed in cultivar Ratan. β-ODAP biosynthetic genes in these cultivars showed differential upregulation upon stress. ODAP content of these cultivars varied differentially upon stress and development. Physiological experiments indicate reduced relative water content and perturbed abscisic acid levels in the low ODAP cultivar. Altogether, our results suggest that the low ODAP cultivar may have a reduced stress tolerance. The dataset provides insight into the biological role of ODAP and will be helpful for hypothesis-driven experiments to understand ODAP biosynthesis and regulation.
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