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Article

Transcriptomic Analysis on the Peel of UV-B-Exposed Peach Fruit Reveals an Upregulation of Phenolic- and UVR8-Related Pathways

by
Marco Santin
1,†,
Samuel Simoni
1,†,
Alberto Vangelisti
1,*,
Tommaso Giordani
1,2,
Andrea Cavallini
1,2,
Alessia Mannucci
1,
Annamaria Ranieri
1,2 and
Antonella Castagna
1,2
1
Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Pisa, Via del Borghetto 80, 56124 Pisa, Italy
2
Interdepartmental Research Center Nutrafood ‘‘Nutraceuticals and Food for Health’’, University of Pisa, Via del Borghetto 80, 56124 Pisa, Italy
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
†
These authors contributed equally to this work.
Plants 2023, 12(9), 1818; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12091818
Submission received: 21 February 2023 / Revised: 18 April 2023 / Accepted: 27 April 2023 / Published: 28 April 2023
(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Multifaceted Responses of Plants to Visible and Ultraviolet Radiation)
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Abstract

UV-B treatment deeply influences plant physiology and biochemistry, especially by activating the expression of responsive genes involved in UV-B acclimation through a UV-B-specific perception mechanism. Although the UV-B-related molecular responses have been widely studied in Arabidopsis, relatively few research reports deepen the knowledge on the influence of post-harvest UV-B treatment on fruit. In this work, a transcriptomic approach is adopted to investigate the transcriptional modifications occurring in the peel of UV-B-treated peach (Prunus persica L., cv Fairtime) fruit after harvest. Our analysis reveals a higher gene regulation after 1 h from the irradiation (88% of the differentially expressed genes—DEGs), compared to 3 h recovery. The overexpression of genes encoding phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL), chalcone syntase (CHS), chalcone isomerase (CHI), and flavonol synthase (FLS) revealed a strong activation of the phenylpropanoid pathway, resulting in the later increase in the concentration of specific flavonoid classes, e.g., anthocyanins, flavones, dihydroflavonols, and flavanones, 36 h after the treatment. Upregulation of UVR8-related genes (HY5, COP1, and RUP) suggests that UV-B-triggered activation of the UVR8 pathway occurs also in post-harvest peach fruit. In addition, a regulation of genes involved in the cell-wall dismantling process (PME) is observed. In conclusion, post-harvest UV-B exposure deeply affects the transcriptome of the peach peel, promoting the activation of genes implicated in the biosynthesis of phenolics, likely via UVR8. Thus, our results might pave the way to a possible use of post-harvest UV-B treatments to enhance the content of health-promoting compounds in peach fruits and extending the knowledge of the UVR8 gene network.
Keywords: flavonoids; metabolomics; Prunus persica; secondary metabolism; transcriptomics; UV-B radiation flavonoids; metabolomics; Prunus persica; secondary metabolism; transcriptomics; UV-B radiation

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Santin, M.; Simoni, S.; Vangelisti, A.; Giordani, T.; Cavallini, A.; Mannucci, A.; Ranieri, A.; Castagna, A. Transcriptomic Analysis on the Peel of UV-B-Exposed Peach Fruit Reveals an Upregulation of Phenolic- and UVR8-Related Pathways. Plants 2023, 12, 1818. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12091818

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Santin M, Simoni S, Vangelisti A, Giordani T, Cavallini A, Mannucci A, Ranieri A, Castagna A. Transcriptomic Analysis on the Peel of UV-B-Exposed Peach Fruit Reveals an Upregulation of Phenolic- and UVR8-Related Pathways. Plants. 2023; 12(9):1818. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12091818

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Santin, Marco, Samuel Simoni, Alberto Vangelisti, Tommaso Giordani, Andrea Cavallini, Alessia Mannucci, Annamaria Ranieri, and Antonella Castagna. 2023. "Transcriptomic Analysis on the Peel of UV-B-Exposed Peach Fruit Reveals an Upregulation of Phenolic- and UVR8-Related Pathways" Plants 12, no. 9: 1818. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12091818

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Santin, M., Simoni, S., Vangelisti, A., Giordani, T., Cavallini, A., Mannucci, A., Ranieri, A., & Castagna, A. (2023). Transcriptomic Analysis on the Peel of UV-B-Exposed Peach Fruit Reveals an Upregulation of Phenolic- and UVR8-Related Pathways. Plants, 12(9), 1818. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12091818

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