Long Li, Zhitao Tian, Jie Chen, Zengdong Tan, Yuting Zhang, Hu Zhao, Xiaowei Wu, Xuan Yao, Weiwei Wen, Wei Chen, Liang Guo

Genome Biology, volume24, Article number:141(2023), Published:19 June 2023

【英文摘要】

Background: Seed oil content is an important agronomic trait of Brassica napus (B. napus), and metabolites are considered as the bridge between genotype and phenotype for physical traits.

Results: Using a widely-targeted metabolomics analysis in a natural population of 388 B. napus inbred lines, we quantify 2,173 metabolites in mature seeds by liquid chromatography mass spectrometry, in which 131 marker metabolites are identified to be correlated with seed oil content. These metabolites are then selected for further metabolite genome-wide association study and metabolite transcriptome-wide association study. Combined with weighted correlation network analysis, we construct a triple relationship network, which includes 21,000 edges and 4,384 nodes among metabolites, metabolite quantitative trait loci, genes, and co-expression modules. We validate the function of BnaA03.TT4, BnaC02.TT4 and BnaC05.UK, three candidate genes predicted by multi-omics analysis, which show significant impacts on seed oil content through regulating flavonoid metabolism in B. napus.

Conclusions: This study demonstrates the advantage of utilizing marker metabolites integrated with multi-omics analysis to dissect the genetic basis of agronomic traits in crops.

论文链接：https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-023-02984-z