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Science and Technology Daily reporter Wang Zhuhua correspondent Ding Shuxian
Recently, the forage research team of the Institute of quality and resources of the Chinese Academy of Thermal Sciences has made important progress in the research on the mechanism of low phosphorus stress tolerance of pigeonpea. The relevant research results are published online in the Journal of Horticulture Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences under the title of "integrating multi omics analysis to explain the genome evolution and low phosphorus adaptation mechanism of pigeonpea".
Pigeonpea is an important edible legume and feed crop in tropical and subtropical areas. It has excellent adaptability to Phosphorus Deficient acidic soil, but the potential molecular mechanism is not clear. Using the published pigeonpea genome data, this study has made important discoveries and made significant progress in this field through in-depth data mining, combined with research methods such as transcriptome, metabolome, lipome, targeted metabolite detection and phenotypic trait analysis. This study revealed the molecular basis for the formation of low phosphorus tolerance traits in pigeonpea genome evolution. The results have reference value for the study of the mechanism of tropical crops adapting to acid soil and the cultivation of new varieties of low phosphorus tolerant crops.
Liu Guodao, a researcher and Liu Pandao, an associate researcher of the Chinese Academy of Thermal Sciences, are the co corresponding authors of the paper. Liu Chun, a master's student jointly trained by the Institute and Hainan University, is the first author of the paper. The research was supported by the youth talent promotion project of China Association for science and technology, the agricultural scientific research outstanding talent training plan of the Ministry of agriculture and rural areas, and the basic scientific research business fee of the central public welfare scientific research institutes.
