Genome-wide identification of Hami melon miRNAs with putative roles during fruit development

MicroRNAs represent a family of small endogenous, non-coding RNAs that play critical regulatory roles in plant growth, development, and environmental stress responses. Hami melon is famous for its attractive flavor and excellent nutritional value, however, the mechanisms underlying the fruit development and ripening remains largely unknown. Here, we performed small RNA sequencing to investigate the roles of miRNAs during Hami melon fruit development. Two batches of flesh samples were collected at four fruit development stages. Small RNA sequencing yielded a total of 54,553,424 raw reads from eight libraries. 113 conserved miRNAs belonging to 30 miRNA families and nine novel miRNAs comprising nine miRNA families were identified. The expression of 42 conserved miRNAs and three Hami melon-specific miRNAs significantly changed during fruit development. Furthermore, 484 and 124 melon genes were predicted as putative targets of 29 conserved and nine Hami melon-specific miRNA families, respectively. GO enrichment analysis were performed on target genes, “transcription, DNA-dependent”, “rRNA processing”, “oxidation reduction”, “signal transduction”, “regulation of transcription, DNA-dependent”, and “metabolic process” were the over-represented biological process terms. Cleavage sites of six target genes were validated using 5’ RACE. Our results present a comprehensive set of identification and characterization of Hami melon fruit miRNAs and their potential targets, which provide valuable basis towards understanding the regulatory mechanisms in programmed process of normal Hami fruit development and ripening. Specific miRNAs could be selected for further research and applications in breeding practices.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  PLoS ONE

• Publication date

  2017-07-24

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0180600PMID 28742088PMCID 5524408
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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