Journal: bioRxiv
Article Title: The MBW complex regulates volatiles in petunia flowers: EOBV interacts with AN1 to suppress biosynthesis of phenylpropenes
doi: 10.64898/2026.03.01.708793
Figure Lengend Snippet: a) Phylogenetic tree displaying the similarity between EOBV and subgroup 4 R2R3-MYBs from other plants. Protein sequences were aligned by ClustalW, followed by neighbor-joining method with 1000 bootstraps using MEGA version 11. b) Nuclear localization of EOBV in petal epidermal cells by confocal microscopy. Petunia petals were inoculated with agrobacteria carrying EOBV-GFP or GFP-EOBV and RFP - NLS, or only RFP - NLS as a control. Bars = 10 μm. BF = bright field. NLS, nuclear localization signal. c) Expression of EOBV in different plant organs. Tissues from different organs were collected at 1100 h. RT-qPCR data were normalized to ACTIN , and the presented data were normalized to the sample with the highest expression level. Significance of differences was calculated by Tukey’s multiple comparison test following one-way ANOVA. Values with different letters are significantly different at P ≤ 0.05. d) EOBV transcripts are enriched in the petal adaxial epidermis. Normalized counts in the petal adaxial epidermis (purple bars) vs. whole petal (gray bars) based on the transcriptome data from Skaliter et al . (2024) . Significance of differences was calculated by two-tailed unpaired Student’s t -test: * P ≤ 0.05. EVER, EPIDERMIS VOLATILE EMISSION REGULATOR. CAB, CHLOROPHYLL A/B BINDING PROTEIN. e) Transient suppression of EOBV in petunia cv. Mitchell flowers inoculated with agrobacteria carrying pTRV2-CHS as a control or pTRV2-EOBV. Flowers were harvested 2 days after inoculation and subjected to localized headspace sampling followed by GC–MS analysis or RNA extraction followed by RT-qPCR analysis (inset). Data are means ± SEM ( n = 11–12). RT-qPCR data were normalized to ACTIN , and the presented data were normalized to those from pTRV2-CHS. Significance of differences between treatments was calculated by two-tailed unpaired Student’s t -test: (* P ≤ 0.05, ** P ≤ 0.01, *** P ≤ 0.001). Standard errors are indicated by vertical lines.
Article Snippet: Tobacco rattle virus RNA2 (pTRV2) vectors pTRV2-sgRNA1-sgRNA2 and pTRV2-sgRNA1-sgRNA3, were synthesized by Twist Bioscience (San Francisco, CA, USA), based on the pTRV2 vector with GenBank accession AF406991 .
Techniques: Confocal Microscopy, Control, Expressing, Quantitative RT-PCR, Comparison, Two Tailed Test, Binding Assay, Sampling, Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry, RNA Extraction