CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing uncovers the role of CTR1 and ROS1 in melon fruit ripening and epigenetic regulation

Melon (Cucumis melo L.) has emerged as an alternative model to study fruit ripening due to the coexistence of climacteric and non-climacteric varieties. The previous characterization of a major QTL ETHQV8.1 sufficient to trigger climacteric ripening in a non-climacteric background allowed the identification within the QTL interval of a negative regulator of ripening CmCTR1-like (MELO3C024518), and a putative DNA demethylase CmROS1 (MELO3C024516), the orthologue of DML2, a DNA demethylase regulating fruit ripening in tomato. To understand the role of these genes in climacteric ripening, we generated homozygous CRISPR knockout mutants of CmCTR1-like and CmROS1 in a climacteric genetic background. The climacteric behavior was altered in both loss-of-function mutants in two summer seasons with an advanced ethylene production profile compared to the climacteric wild type, suggesting a role of both genes in climacteric ripening in melon. Single cytosine methylome analyses of the CmROS1 knockout mutant revealed DNA methylation changes in the promoter regions of key ripening genes as ACS1, ETR1 and ACO1, and ripening associated-transcription factors as NAC-NOR, RIN and CNR, suggesting the importance of CmROS1-mediated DNA demethylation for triggering fruit ripening in melon.

• Publication year

  2022

• Venue

  bioRxiv

• Publication date

  2022-01-31

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1101/2022.01.30.478227PMID 35394503
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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