An organ-specific role for ethylene in rose petal expansion during dehydration and rehydration
Identifieur interne : 000115 ( Pmc/Corpus ); précédent : 000114; suivant : 000116An organ-specific role for ethylene in rose petal expansion during dehydration and rehydration
Auteurs : Daofeng Liu ; Xiaojing Liu ; Yonglu Meng ; Cuihui Sun ; Hongshu Tang ; Yudong Jiang ; Muhammad Ali Khan ; Jingqi Xue ; Nan Ma ; Junping GaoSource :
- Journal of Experimental Botany [ 0022-0957 ] ; 2013.
Abstract
Dehydration is a major factor resulting in huge loss from cut flowers during transportation. In the present study, dehydration inhibited petal cell expansion and resulted in irregular flowers in cut roses, mimicking ethylene-treated flowers. Among the five floral organs, dehydration substantially elevated ethylene production in the sepals, whilst rehydration caused rapid and elevated ethylene levels in the gynoecia and sepals. Among the five ethylene biosynthetic enzyme genes (
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Meng</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="AF0001"><institution>Department of Ornamental Horticulture, China Agricultural University</institution>,<addr-line>Beijing 100193</addr-line>,<country>PR China</country></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Sun, Cuihui" sort="Sun, Cuihui" uniqKey="Sun C" first="Cuihui" last="Sun">Cuihui Sun</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="AF0001"><institution>Department of Ornamental Horticulture, China Agricultural University</institution>,<addr-line>Beijing 100193</addr-line>,<country>PR China</country></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Tang, Hongshu" sort="Tang, Hongshu" uniqKey="Tang H" first="Hongshu" last="Tang">Hongshu Tang</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="AF0001"><institution>Department of Ornamental Horticulture, China Agricultural University</institution>,<addr-line>Beijing 100193</addr-line>,<country>PR China</country></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Jiang, Yudong" sort="Jiang, Yudong" 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China</country></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Ma, Nan" sort="Ma, Nan" uniqKey="Ma N" first="Nan" last="Ma">Nan Ma</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="AF0001"><institution>Department of Ornamental Horticulture, China Agricultural University</institution>,<addr-line>Beijing 100193</addr-line>,<country>PR China</country></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Gao, Junping" sort="Gao, Junping" uniqKey="Gao J" first="Junping" last="Gao">Junping Gao</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="AF0001"><institution>Department of Ornamental Horticulture, China Agricultural University</institution>,<addr-line>Beijing 100193</addr-line>,<country>PR China</country></nlm:aff></affiliation></author></analytic><series><title level="j">Journal of Experimental Botany</title><idno type="ISSN">0022-0957</idno><idno type="eISSN">1460-2431</idno><imprint><date when="2013">2013</date></imprint></series></biblStruct></sourceDesc></fileDesc><profileDesc><textClass></textClass></profileDesc></teiHeader><front><div type="abstract" xml:lang="en"><p>Dehydration is a major factor resulting in huge loss from cut flowers during transportation. In the present study, dehydration inhibited petal cell expansion and resulted in irregular flowers in cut roses, mimicking ethylene-treated flowers. Among the five floral organs, dehydration substantially elevated ethylene production in the sepals, whilst rehydration caused rapid and elevated ethylene levels in the gynoecia and sepals. Among the five ethylene biosynthetic enzyme genes (<italic>RhACS1–5</italic>), expression of <italic>RhACS1</italic> and <italic>RhACS2</italic> was induced by dehydration and rehydration in the two floral organs. Silencing both <italic>RhACS1</italic> and <italic>RhACS2</italic> significantly suppressed dehydration- and rehydration-induced ethylene in the sepals and gynoecia. This weakened the inhibitory effect of dehydration on petal cell expansion. β-glucuronidase activity driven by both the <italic>RhACS1</italic> and <italic>RhACS2</italic> promoters was dramatically induced in the sepals, pistil, and stamens, but not in the petals of transgenic <italic>Arabidopsis</italic>. This further supports the organ-specific induction of these two genes. Among the five rose ethylene receptor genes (<italic>RhETR1–5</italic>), expression of <italic>RhETR3</italic> was predominantly induced by dehydration and rehydration in the petals. <italic>RhETR3</italic> silencing clearly aggravated the inhibitory effect of dehydration on petal cell expansion. However, no significant difference in the effect between <italic>RhETR3</italic>-silenced flowers and <italic>RhETR-</italic>genes-silenced flowers was observed. Furthermore, <italic>RhETR-</italic>genes silencing extensively altered the expression of 21 cell expansion-related downstream genes in response to ethylene. These results suggest that induction of ethylene biosynthesis by dehydration proceeds in an organ-specific manner, indicating that ethylene can function as a mediator in dehydration-caused inhibition of cell expansion in rose petals.</p></div></front><back><div1 type="bibliography"><listBibl><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Adato, I" uniqKey="Adato I">I Adato</name></author><author><name sortKey="Gazit, S" uniqKey="Gazit S">S Gazit</name></author></analytic></biblStruct><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Aird, Wc" uniqKey="Aird W">WC Aird</name></author><author><name sortKey="Parvin, Jd" uniqKey="Parvin J">JD Parvin</name></author><author><name sortKey="Sharp, Pa" uniqKey="Sharp P">PA Sharp</name></author><author><name sortKey="Rosenberg, Rd" uniqKey="Rosenberg R">RD Rosenberg</name></author></analytic></biblStruct><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Argueso, Ct" uniqKey="Argueso C">CT Argueso</name></author><author><name sortKey="Hansen, M" 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<front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">J Exp Bot</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="iso-abbrev">J. Exp. Bot</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="hwp">jexbot</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">jexbot</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Journal of Experimental Botany</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">0022-0957</issn><issn pub-type="epub">1460-2431</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Oxford University Press</publisher-name><publisher-loc>UK</publisher-loc></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="pmid">23599274</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="pmc">3654423</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1093/jxb/ert092</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Paper</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>An organ-specific role for ethylene in rose petal expansion during dehydration and rehydration</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Liu</surname><given-names>Daofeng</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="AF0001"><sup>1</sup></xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="AF0002"><sup>2</sup></xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="c2">*</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Liu</surname><given-names>Xiaojing</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="AF0001"><sup>1</sup></xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="AF0003"><sup>3</sup></xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="c2">*</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Meng</surname><given-names>Yonglu</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="AF0001"><sup>1</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Sun</surname><given-names>Cuihui</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="AF0001"><sup>1</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Tang</surname><given-names>Hongshu</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="AF0001"><sup>1</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Jiang</surname><given-names>Yudong</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="AF0001"><sup>1</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Khan</surname><given-names>Muhammad Ali</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="AF0001"><sup>1</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Xue</surname><given-names>Jingqi</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="AF0004"><sup>4</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Ma</surname><given-names>Nan</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="AF0001"><sup>1</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Gao</surname><given-names>Junping</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="AF0001"><sup>1</sup></xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="c1"><sup>†</sup></xref></contrib><aff id="AF0001"><sup>1</sup><institution>Department of Ornamental Horticulture, China Agricultural University</institution>,<addr-line>Beijing 100193</addr-line>,<country>PR China</country></aff><aff id="AF0002"><sup>2</sup><institution>College of Horticulture and Landscape, Southwest University</institution>,<addr-line>Chongqing 400715</addr-line>,<country>PR China</country></aff><aff id="AF0003"><sup>3</sup><institution>Flower Research and Development Center, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences</institution>,<addr-line>Hangzhou 311202</addr-line>,<country>PR China</country></aff><aff id="AF0004"><sup>4</sup><institution>Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences</institution>,<addr-line>Beijing 100081</addr-line>,<country>PR China</country></aff></contrib-group><author-notes><corresp id="c2">* These authors contributed equally to this work.</corresp><corresp id="c1"><sup>†</sup> To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: <email>gaojp@cau.edu.cn</email></corresp></author-notes><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><month>5</month><year>2013</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>18</day><month>4</month><year>2013</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="pmc-release"><day>18</day><month>4</month><year>2013</year></pub-date><pmc-comment> PMC Release delay is 0 months and 0 days and was based on the
<volume>64</volume><issue>8</issue><fpage>2333</fpage><lpage>2344</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>© The Author(2) [2013].</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2013</copyright-year><license license-type="creative-commons"><license-p><pmc-comment>CREATIVE COMMONS</pmc-comment>This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/</ext-link>), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Dehydration is a major factor resulting in huge loss from cut flowers during transportation. In the present study, dehydration inhibited petal cell expansion and resulted in irregular flowers in cut roses, mimicking ethylene-treated flowers. Among the five floral organs, dehydration substantially elevated ethylene production in the sepals, whilst rehydration caused rapid and elevated ethylene levels in the gynoecia and sepals. Among the five ethylene biosynthetic enzyme genes (<italic>RhACS1–5</italic>), expression of <italic>RhACS1</italic> and <italic>RhACS2</italic> was induced by dehydration and rehydration in the two floral organs. Silencing both <italic>RhACS1</italic> and <italic>RhACS2</italic> significantly suppressed dehydration- and rehydration-induced ethylene in the sepals and gynoecia. This weakened the inhibitory effect of dehydration on petal cell expansion. β-glucuronidase activity driven by both the <italic>RhACS1</italic> and <italic>RhACS2</italic> promoters was dramatically induced in the sepals, pistil, and stamens, but not in the petals of transgenic <italic>Arabidopsis</italic>. This further supports the organ-specific induction of these two genes. Among the five rose ethylene receptor genes (<italic>RhETR1–5</italic>), expression of <italic>RhETR3</italic> was predominantly induced by dehydration and rehydration in the petals. <italic>RhETR3</italic> silencing clearly aggravated the inhibitory effect of dehydration on petal cell expansion. However, no significant difference in the effect between <italic>RhETR3</italic>-silenced flowers and <italic>RhETR-</italic>genes-silenced flowers was observed. Furthermore, <italic>RhETR-</italic>genes silencing extensively altered the expression of 21 cell expansion-related downstream genes in response to ethylene. These results suggest that induction of ethylene biosynthesis by dehydration proceeds in an organ-specific manner, indicating that ethylene can function as a mediator in dehydration-caused inhibition of cell expansion in rose petals.</p></abstract><kwd-group><title>Key words:</title><kwd>cut roses</kwd><kwd>dehydration</kwd><kwd>ethylene biosynthesis</kwd><kwd>ethylene perception</kwd><kwd>petal expansion</kwd><kwd>rehydration.</kwd></kwd-group><counts><page-count count="12"></page-count></counts></article-meta></front><body><sec id="s1"><title>Introduction</title><p>Dehydration typically causes numerous morphological and developmental changes in plants, such as a reduced life cycle, inhibition of shoot and leaf growth, promotion of root growth, and early flowering (<xref rid="CIT0038" ref-type="bibr">Xiong and Zhu, 2002</xref>). In the past two decades, the dehydration signalling pathway has been thoroughly studied (<xref rid="CIT0028" ref-type="bibr">Seki <italic>et al</italic>., 2007</xref>). Although abscisic acid is generally regarded as the major hormonal signalling molecule for plants in response to dehydration (<xref rid="CIT0028" ref-type="bibr">Seki <italic>et al</italic>., 2007</xref>), previous reports have demonstrated that ethylene can also play an important role in this biological process (<xref rid="CIT0036" ref-type="bibr">Wilkinson and Davies, 2010</xref>).</p><p content-type="indent">The role of ethylene appears to be highly species and/or organ specific. Dehydration cannot induce ethylene production in an organ attached to a plant in many plant species, including wheat, beans, cotton, and miniature rose (<xref rid="CIT0022" ref-type="bibr">Morgan <italic>et al</italic>., 1990</xref>; <xref rid="CIT0024" ref-type="bibr">Narayana <italic>et al</italic>., 1991</xref>). However, dehydration can result in ethylene production in detached plant organs, such as cotton bolls and petioles (<xref rid="CIT0021" ref-type="bibr">McMichael <italic>et al</italic>., 1972</xref>; <xref rid="CIT0008" ref-type="bibr">Guinn, 1976</xref>), wheat leaves (<xref rid="CIT0020" ref-type="bibr">McKeon <italic>et al</italic>., 1982</xref>), carnation and valencia orange flowers (<xref rid="CIT0005" ref-type="bibr">Ben-Yehoshua and Aloni, 1974</xref>; <xref rid="CIT0040" ref-type="bibr">Yakimova and Woltering, 1997</xref>), and avocado and persimmon fruits (<xref rid="CIT0001" ref-type="bibr">Adato and Gazit, 1974</xref>; <xref rid="CIT0023" ref-type="bibr">Nakano <italic>et al</italic>., 2003</xref>). In addition, ethylene has also been reported to function in rehydration, which usually occurs after dehydration during post-harvest handling. In Cleopatra mandarin seedlings, a rapid and substantial increase in ethylene production is observed in the leaves of water-stressed plants after rehydration, resulting in leaf abscission (<xref rid="CIT0032" ref-type="bibr">Tudela and Primo-Millo, 1992</xref>). In wheat ears, rehydration of plants at full turgor after desiccation cause a high level of ethylene production (<xref rid="CIT0004" ref-type="bibr">Beltrano <italic>et al</italic>., 1997</xref>).</p><p content-type="indent">As elevated ethylene production is reported in both dehydration and rehydration, it is of interest to study how the regulation of ethylene biosynthesis is involved in a plant’s response to dehydration and rehydration. Over the past three decades, the ethylene biosynthesis mechanism has been well documented in higher plants. The rate-limiting step of ethylene biosynthesis is conversion of AdoMet to 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (ACC) by ACC synthase (ACS). ACC is then oxidized to ethylene by ACC oxidase (<xref rid="CIT0041" ref-type="bibr">Yang and Hoffman, 1984</xref>). Ethylene is perceived by a family of endoplasmic reticulum-localized receptors (ETR1, ERS1, ETR2, EIN4, and ERS2) that are similar to the bacterial two-component system and function as negative regulators of the ethylene response (<xref rid="CIT0007" ref-type="bibr">Chen <italic>et al</italic>., 2005</xref>).</p><p content-type="indent">ACS plays a key role in the rate-limiting step in ethylene biosynthesis, even though ACC oxidase can control ethylene production in some cases (<xref rid="CIT0029" ref-type="bibr">Shi <italic>et al</italic>., 2006</xref>). ACS is encoded by a divergent multigene family and is regulated at both the transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels by various internal and external factors (<xref rid="CIT0003" ref-type="bibr">Argueso <italic>et al</italic>., 2007</xref>). Expression of <italic>ACS</italic> genes exhibits spatial- and temporal-specific patterns in post-pollinated orchid flowers: <italic>PhalACS2</italic> and <italic>PhalACS3</italic> correlate with higher ACS activity in the stigma and ovary. A sequential increase in ACS activity in the labellum is attributed to the increased expression of ethylene-inducible <italic>PhalACS1</italic> (<xref rid="CIT0006" ref-type="bibr">Bui and O’Neill, 1998</xref>). In carnations, <italic>DCACS2</italic> and <italic>DCACS3</italic> are preferentially expressed in the styles, whereas <italic>DCACS1</italic> mRNA is most abundant in the petals (<xref rid="CIT0014" ref-type="bibr">Jones and Woodson, 1999</xref>). In detached persimmon fruits, water-loss-induced expression of <italic>DkACS2</italic>, a wound-induced <italic>ACS</italic> gene, in the calyx, caused large amounts of ethylene production. This triggers expression of <italic>DKACS1</italic> and <italic>DKACS2</italic>, which leads to ethylene production in other tissues, such as the pulp, peel, and core (<xref rid="CIT0023" ref-type="bibr">Nakano <italic>et al</italic>., 2003</xref>).</p><p content-type="indent">The rose is thought of as one of the most beautiful flowers in the world, with many romantic and sentimental associations. Cut roses account for approximately 31 and 21% of all cut-flower trade business in European and Chinese markets, respectively (<xref rid="CIT0010" ref-type="bibr">Heinrichs, 2008</xref>). As a fresh product, rose flowers are particularly susceptible to dehydration-induced stress, which usually results in damage, such as the failure of buds to expand, wilted flowers, and bent necks (<xref rid="CIT0013" ref-type="bibr">Jin <italic>et al</italic>., 2006</xref>). In cut roses, after ethylene treatment, the rapid and substantial increase in ethylene production in the gynoecia is associated with a rapid and enhanced expression of <italic>RhACS2</italic> and <italic>RhACS3</italic> (<xref rid="CIT0039" ref-type="bibr">Xue <italic>et al</italic>., 2008</xref>). Expression of two receptor genes, <italic>RhETR1</italic> and <italic>RhETR3</italic>, is enhanced by ethylene (<xref rid="CIT0018" ref-type="bibr">Ma <italic>et al</italic>., 2006</xref>), and <italic>RhETR3</italic> has been proven to be expressed in an organ-specific manner (<xref rid="CIT0039" ref-type="bibr">Xue <italic>et al</italic>., 2008</xref>).</p><p content-type="indent">Currently, there is no direct evidence showing that members of the <italic>ACS</italic> gene family correspond to dehydration- and rehydration-induced ethylene biosynthesis in detached plant organs. It is also unclear which receptor gene plays a crucial role in the perception of ethylene during dehydration and rehydration.</p><p content-type="indent">In the work presented here, the temporal and spatial expression of <italic>ACS</italic> genes in rose floral organs was measured during dehydration and rehydration. Furthermore, the role of members of the <italic>ACS</italic> gene family in rose petal expansion in response to dehydration and rehydration was investigated using a virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) approach. The perception of ethylene and the effect of the key receptor genes on the expression of potential ethylene-downstream genes related to cell expansion in rose petals were also investigated. The results suggested that induction of ethylene biosynthesis during dehydration proceeds in a tissue-specific manner and allows ethylene to function as a mediator in inhibition of cell expansion of rose petals caused by dehydration.</p></sec><sec sec-type="materials|methods" id="s2"><title>Materials and methods</title><sec id="s3"><title>Plant materials</title><p>Cut rose (<italic>Rosa hybrida</italic>) cv. Samantha was produced in a local solar greenhouse using standard commercial practices in Beijing, PR China. The flowers were harvested at flower opening stage 2 (completely opened bud) (<xref rid="CIT0017" ref-type="bibr">Ma <italic>et al</italic>., 2005</xref>) and placed immediately in water. The flowers were delivered to the laboratory within 1h of harvesting and the stems were re-cut to 30cm in length under water and placed in deionized water (DW) until further processing.</p></sec><sec id="s4"><title>Dehydration treatment and phenotype observations</title><p>For the dehydration treatment, the flowers were placed horizontally on test beds and exposed to air for 6, 12, 18, and 24h. The environmental conditions were: 25 °C, 40–50% relative humidity, and continuous light (140 μmol m<sup>–2</sup> s<sup>–1</sup>). After dehydration treatment, the bottom stems of the flowers were re-cut under water, removing approximately 1cm from the 30cm total length, and were then placed in DW for rehydration and further evaluation of their opening.</p><p content-type="indent">To investigate the role of ethylene in dehydration, the rose flowers were sealed in a 64 l chamber with 2 ppm of 1-methylcyclopropene (1-MCP) for 12h and then with 10 ppm of ethylene for 24h at 25 °C, 40–50% relative humidity. The flowers exposed to ordinary atmospheric air served as the control group. NaOH (1M) was used to prevent the accumulation of CO<sub>2</sub>.</p><p content-type="indent">For observations of the phenotype and cell counting, one petal was chosen randomly from the second layer of each flower on the third day after dehydration. Photos of petals were taken using a USB scanner (Microtek Scanmaker 8700), and petal areas were measured independently using Adobe Photoshop 7.0 software. Abaxial subepidermis (AbsE) cell photography and cell counting were performed as described by <xref rid="CIT0019" ref-type="bibr">Ma <italic>et al</italic>. (2008)</xref>. A tissue sample (0.5×0.4cm) was excised at 25% of the petal length from the petal tip. The tissue slices were fixed in formaldehyde and cleared using ethanol. The number of AbsE cells was counted using ImageJ software in a visual field of 1360×1024 μm<sup>2</sup>.</p><p content-type="indent">Ethylene production of whole flowers and different floral tissues, including sepals, petals, androecia, gynoecia, and the receptacle, was determined as described by <xref rid="CIT0039" ref-type="bibr">Xue <italic>et al</italic>. (2008)</xref>. Based on previous work, the floral organs can produce wound ethylene when the incubation time is longer than a particular time. To avoid contamination of wound-induced ethylene, the gas chromatography vials were capped and incubated at 25 °C for 1h for sepals, petals, androecia, and receptacle, and for 40min for gynoecia (<xref rid="CIT0039" ref-type="bibr">Xue <italic>et al</italic>., 2008</xref>).</p></sec><sec id="s5"><title>RNA extraction and semi-quantitative RT-PCR analysis</title><p>For RNA extraction, one flower was defined as an independent sample. All sepals and gynoecia from the flower were collected. Petals from the second and third whorl were taken from the flower. Total RNA from the sepals and petals was extracted using the hot borate method described by <xref rid="CIT0034" ref-type="bibr">Wan and Wilkins (1994</xref>). Total RNA from the gynoecia was extracted using the hot phenol method (<xref rid="CIT0017" ref-type="bibr">Ma <italic>et al</italic>., 2005</xref>).</p><p content-type="indent">For semi-quantitative RT-PCR analysis, cDNAs were synthesized from 1 μg of total RNA using Moloney murine leukemia virus reverse transcriptase (Promega, Madison, WI, USA). The rose <italic>ubiquitin1</italic> gene (<italic>Ubi1</italic>, JK622648) was used as the internal control. The primer sequences are listed in <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1093/jxb/ert092/-/DC1">Table S1</ext-link> at <italic>JXB</italic> online. The specificity of each primer pair was checked by sequencing of the PCR products. PCRs were carried out with 31 cycles for <italic>RhACS1–5</italic>, 27 cycles for <italic>Ubi1</italic>, and 27 cycles for <italic>RhETR1–5</italic>. The linearity of response with these cycle numbers was tested using cDNA dilutions. To control for background DNA contamination, a reaction using each gene primers but no reverse transcriptase, was performed. The relative transcript levels were determined by the densitometry of the signals using AlphaImagerTM2200 software (Alpha Innotech, USA), and a statistical analysis was performed using Duncan’s multiple range tests (<italic>P</italic> <0.05).</p></sec><sec id="s6"><title>Silencing of RhACS and RhETR genes in rose flowers by VIGS</title><p>A tobacco rattle virus (TRV)-based vector, including pTRV1 and pTRV2 VIGS vectors (<xref rid="CIT0016" ref-type="bibr">Liu <italic>et al</italic>., 2002</xref>), used in this work were graciously provided by Dr Yule Liu (Tsinghua University, PR China). The gene silencing in rose flowers by VIGS was performed according to the procedures described by <xref rid="CIT0019" ref-type="bibr">Ma <italic>et al</italic>. (2008)</xref> with some modifications. VIGS experiments were performed a minimum of five times.</p><p content-type="indent">For <italic>ACS</italic> gene silencing, a 360bp gene-specific fragment at the 3′ end of <italic>RhACS1</italic> and a 325bp fragment at the 3′ end of <italic>RhACS2</italic> were amplified using cDNA as template. For <italic>RhACS1/2</italic> silencing, the fragments of <italic>RhACS1</italic> and <italic>RhACS2</italic> were fused by overlapping PCR. The resulting products were inserted into pGEM-T Easy vector and subjected to sequencing. The vector was digested to produce fragments of 360bp for <italic>RhACS1</italic>, 325bp for <italic>RhACS2</italic>, and 685bp for <italic>RhACS1/2</italic>, which were then inserted into TRV2 plasmids. For ethylene receptor gene silencing, a 410bp gene-specific fragment at the 3’ end of <italic>RhETR3</italic> and a 852bp fragment possessing a conserved domain of the ethylene receptor gene was used to construct the pTRV2-<italic>RhETR3</italic> and pTRV2-<italic>RhETR</italic>s vectors, respectively, as described above (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1093/jxb/ert092/-/DC1">Table S2</ext-link> at <italic>JXB</italic> online).</p><p content-type="indent">The constructs were transformed into <italic>Agrobacterium</italic> GV3101 by electroporation. <italic>Agrobacterium</italic> containing pTRV1, pTRV2, pTRV2-<italic>RhACS1</italic>, pTRV2-<italic>RhACS2</italic>, pTRV2-<italic>RhACS1/2</italic>, pTRV2-<italic>RhETR3</italic>, or pTRV2-<italic>RhETR</italic>s were grown at 28 °C in Luria–Bertani medium supplemented with 10mM MES, 20mM acetosyringone, and 50mg l<sup>–1</sup> of kanamycin for approximately 24h. <italic>Agrobacterium</italic> cells were harvested and suspended in the infiltration buffer (10mM MgCl<sub>2</sub>, 200mM acetosyringone, and 10mM MES, pH 5.6) to a final optical denisty at 600nm of 1.5. A mixture of <italic>Agrobacterium</italic> cultures containing pTRV1 and pTRV2 or its derivatives (pTRV2-<italic>RhACS1</italic>, -<italic>RhACS2</italic>, -<italic>RhACS1/2</italic>, -<italic>RhETR3</italic>, or -<italic>RhETR</italic>s) at a ratio of 1:1 (v/v) were placed at room temperature for 4h before vacuum infiltration.</p><p content-type="indent">For vacuum infiltration, flower stems were placed upside down in an 81.64 l container, with the whole flower immersed into the bacterial suspension solution. They were then infiltrated by vacuum at 30 mmHg for 2min and allowed to slowly recover. The rose flowers were washed with DW and kept in DW for 3 d at 8 °C before the dehydration treatment.</p><p content-type="indent">A preliminary experiment observing the phenotype showed that it was difficult to see the difference in petal areas between TRV control and VIGS-silenced petals from the outer layers, because the petals of the outer layers partially extended during virus infection for 3 d at 8 °C before dehydration treatment. Therefore, petals were chosen randomly from the fourth layer of each flower on the second day after the treatment for measurements. Petal areas and cell numbers were determined according to the methods described above.</p></sec></sec><sec id="s7"><title>Results</title><sec id="s8"><title>Induction of ethylene production by dehydration in rose floral parts</title><p>After 24h of dehydration, flowers lost 22.8% of their initial weight and the flower water potential decreased to −3.2MPa from −0.5MPa (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1093/jxb/ert092/-/DC1">Supplementary Fig. S1</ext-link> at <italic>JXB</italic> online). The flowers were capable of recovery with full opening once they had been rehydrated in water. However, after 36h dehydration, flower opening was severely impeded resulting in buds that would not open in over 50% of flowers during rehydration (data not shown). Therefore, in the following experiments, the dehydration treatment was only performed for a measurement of 24h.</p><p content-type="indent">Compared with the control, flowers subjected to dehydration developed irregular shapes including uneven unfurling of the outer layer petals and curly edges (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="F1">Fig. 1A</xref>). Dehydration also resulted in vertically compressed flowers with a decreased flower height-to-diameter ratio (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="F1">Fig. 1B</xref>). This phenomenon was similar to those that were treated with ethylene. Pre-treatment with 1-MCP, an ethylene action inhibitor, clearly weakened the dehydration-induced negative effects on flower opening (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="F1">Fig. 1A</xref>, <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F1">B</xref>). Dehydration significantly decreased the petal area of the second layer in comparison with control flowers, similar to the observations on ethylene-treated flowers. As expected, 1-MCP pre-treatment effectively prevented petals from all negative influence caused by dehydration (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="F1">Fig. 1C</xref>).</p><fig fig-type="figure" id="F1" position="float"><label>Fig. 1.</label><caption><p>Effect of dehydration on flower opening and petal expansion in cut roses. (A) Flower opening processes in a vase after dehydration. Flowers at stage 2 were used for all treatments. Control, flowers placed in DW and under air throughout; Dehyd, flowers placed in DW were under air for 12h and then subjected to dehydration for 24h; 1-MCP+Dehyd, flowers placed in DW were pre-treated with 2 ppm 1-MCP for 12h and then subjected to dehydration for 24h; Ethylene, flowers placed in DW were pre-treated with 10 ppm ethylene for 12h and then moved to air. BPT, before pre-treatment; BT, before treatment; 0, 1, 3, 5, d in a vase after treatment. Each treatment comprised a minimum of 30 replicates, and representative results are shown. (B) Ratio of flower height-to-diameter. Asterisks indicate significant differences between control and dehydration-, 1-MCP+dehydration-, or ethylene-treated flowers according to Duncan’s multiple range test (<italic>n</italic>=30, <italic>P</italic> <0.05). (C) Petal expansion after dehydration. Upper panels: petal size (<italic>n</italic>=30). Lower panels: outline of petal AbsE cells. Bars, 200 μm. The traces were drawn using Photoshop 7.0 software. Cell numbers were counted using ImageJ software in a visual field of 1360×1024 μm<sup>2</sup> (<italic>n</italic>=15). Different letters indicate significant differences among the treatments according to Duncan’s multiple range test (<italic>P</italic> <0.05).</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="exbotj_ert092_f0001"></graphic></fig><p content-type="indent">The cell size of the petals was also measured to determine whether or not dehydration decreased petal area by inhibiting cell expansion. As shown in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F1">Fig. 1C</xref>, dehydration significantly increased cell density by 18.1% compared with the control. This indicated that dehydration caused a decrease in the cell size of the petals. Moreover, dehydration also resulted in a severely interlocking AbsE cell shape that mimicked the ethylene-treated petal cells. As expected, 1-MCP pre-treatment weakened the influence of dehydration on AbsE cell size and shape, indicating that ethylene may mediate the influence of dehydration on petal expansion of rose flowers.</p><p content-type="indent">Ethylene production was determined in different floral parts during dehydration and rehydration. For the whole flower, ethylene production levels were low in untreated controls in a vase (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1093/jxb/ert092/-/DC1">Supplementary Fig. S2</ext-link> at <italic>JXB</italic> online). It substantially increased from 18 to 24h in the control during dehydration. Surprisingly, 1-MCP pre-treatment promoted ethylene production during dehydration (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="F2">Figs 2</xref> and <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1093/jxb/ert092/-/DC1">S2</ext-link>). Among the five floral organs, sepal-produced ethylene exhibited a clear increase from 12 to 24h, accounting for 44.3 and 65.4% of ethylene production in whole flowers at 18 and 24h (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1093/jxb/ert092/-/DC1">Table S4</ext-link> at <italic>JXB</italic> online). Additionally, 1-MCP pre-treatment showed a significantly elevated effect on ethylene production in sepals among the five floral organs (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="F2">Fig. 2</xref>).</p><fig fig-type="figure" id="F2" position="float"><label>Fig. 2.</label><caption><p>Ethylene production in whole flowers and five floral organs of cut roses treated by dehydration. Dark grey shading indicates 1-MCP pre-treatment duration; light grey shading indicates the duration of dehydration, and a white background indicates the rehydration duration. Results are shown as means ±standard error (SE) (<italic>n</italic>=30).</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="exbotj_ert092_f0002"></graphic></fig><p content-type="indent">During rehydration for the whole flower, ethylene slightly and transiently decreased at 1h and then sharply increased at 3h, followed by a gradual decline until 24h. Additionally, ethylene production of flowers was further promoted by 1-MCP pre-treatment during rehydration (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="F2">Figs 2</xref> and S2). In the gynoecia, ethylene production increased dramatically and attained a peak value, accounting for 20-fold that before rehydration, at 1h. In sepals, rehydration-induced ethylene production decreased at 1h and then recovered to a level close to that before rehydration. After recovery, it then decreased gradually. Ethylene production in the androecia and the receptacle maintained a constant level after slightly increasing at 3h. During the entire rehydration period, ethylene production in petals remained at a low level. 1-MCP pre-treatment further elevated ethylene production in all five tissues at an earlier time during rehydration.</p></sec><sec id="s9"><title>Dehydration-induced expression of RhACS genes in the sepals and gynoecia</title><p>As ACS is the rate-limiting enzyme in ethylene biosynthesis, the mRNA levels of five known <italic>ACS</italic> genes in rose were determined during dehydration and rehydration. As dehydration-induced ethylene production is organ specific, more focus was given to the sepals and gynoecia, which are more responsible for ethylene production, during gene expression. <italic>RhACS1</italic> and <italic>RhACS2</italic> displayed substantially increasing levels of expression throughout the dehydration period (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="F3">Fig. 3</xref>). <italic>RhACS3</italic> mRNA levels maintained a constant level, whereas the mRNA levels of the <italic>RhACS4</italic> and <italic>RhACS5</italic> genes were hardly detectable. During dehydration, in sepals, expression of <italic>RhACS1</italic> was slightly enhanced at 12h and then increased linearly. Expression of <italic>RhACS2</italic> was increased at 18h. In the sepals, there was a significant difference in gene expression at late times of dehydration for <italic>RhACS2</italic> but not for <italic>RhACS1</italic> between the air control and 1-MCP pre-treatment.</p><fig fig-type="figure" id="F3" position="float"><label>Fig. 3.</label><caption><p>Expression of <italic>RhACS1–5</italic> in sepals (A) and gynoecia (B) of cut roses. Air, flowers placed in DW under air for 12h; 1-MCP, flowers placed in DW and pre-treated with 2 ppm 1-MCP for 12h. BPT, before pre-treatment. The number of hours of dehydration or rehydration treatment is indicated. One flower was defined as an independent biological sample. Each time point in the figure is the mean±SE of five biological replicates. The relative transcript levels were determined by densitometry of the signals using AlphaImagerTM2200. Asterisks indicate significant differences between BPT and each time point for the same gene according to Duncan’s multiple range tests (<italic>P</italic> <0.05). (This figure is available in colour at <italic>JXB</italic> online.)</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="exbotj_ert092_f0003"></graphic></fig><p content-type="indent">In the gynoecia, the <italic>RhACS1</italic> mRNA levels strongly increased at 1h during rehydration and remained at a high level until 3h, before gradually decreasing. Meanwhile, <italic>RhACS2</italic> expression increased slightly at 0.5h and attained a peak value at 1h, before dramatically decreasing during rehydration. In the sepals, expression of <italic>RhACS1</italic> exhibited a fluctuating pattern, and the expression decreased within 1h, began to increase at 3h, and then decreased gradually during rehydration. Expression of <italic>RhACS2</italic> clearly increased at 0.5h and then declined (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="F3">Fig. 3</xref>).</p></sec><sec id="s10"><title>Effect of RhACS1/2 silencing on petal expansion of rose flowers during dehydration</title><p>In order to understand the contribution of <italic>RhACS1</italic> and <italic>RhACS2</italic> in the dehydration-caused ethylene production, <italic>RhACS1</italic>, <italic>RhACS2</italic> or <italic>RhACS1/2</italic> were silenced in rose flowers using a VIGS approach (<xref rid="CIT0016" ref-type="bibr">Liu <italic>et al</italic>., 2002</xref>; <xref rid="CIT0019" ref-type="bibr">Ma <italic>et al</italic>., 2008</xref>) (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1093/jxb/ert092/-/DC1">Supplementary Fig. S3</ext-link> at <italic>JXB</italic> online).</p><p content-type="indent">As described above, increased levels of ethylene were observed in the sepals from 12 to 24h in the dehydration treatment. In the gynoecia and sepals, elevated ethylene levels occurred within 6h of rehydration. Therefore, ethylene production was determined at 18h of dehydration and 3h of rehydration in the sepals and gynoecia of gene-silenced flowers.</p><p content-type="indent">At 18h of dehydration, when compared with the TRV control, ethylene production was significantly reduced in <italic>RhACS1</italic>-, <italic>RhACS2</italic>-, or <italic>RhACS1/2</italic>-silenced sepals (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="F4">Fig. 4A</xref>). <italic>RhACS1/2</italic>-silenced sepals had a greater reduction (79%) in ethylene production when compared with <italic>RhACS1</italic>- or <italic>RhACS2</italic>-silenced petals. At 3h of rehydration, in contrast to TRV, silencing of <italic>RhACS1</italic>, <italic>RhACS2</italic>, or <italic>RhACS1</italic>/<italic>2</italic> significantly reduced ethylene production in the sepals and gynoecia (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="F4">Fig. 4B</xref>).</p><fig fig-type="figure" id="F4" position="float"><label>Fig. 4.</label><caption><p>Ethylene production of <italic>RhACS1</italic>-, <italic>RhACS2</italic>-, and <italic>RhACS1/2</italic>-silenced flowers during dehydration and rehydration. Rose flowers were infiltrated with <italic>Agrobacterium</italic> containing TRV alone (TRV: pTRV1+pTRV2) or TRV carrying a fragment of <italic>RhACS1</italic>, <italic>RhACS2</italic>, or <italic>RhACS1/2</italic> (TRV-<italic>RhACS1</italic>: pTRV1+pTRV2-<italic>RhACS1</italic>; TRV-<italic>RhACS2</italic>: pTRV1+pTRV2-<italic>RhACS2</italic>; TRV-<italic>RhACS1/2</italic>: pTRV1+pTRV2-<italic>RhACS1/2</italic>). (A) Ethylene production in sepals. Upper panel, RT-PCR analysis of <italic>RhACS1</italic> and <italic>RhACS2</italic> in <italic>RhACS1</italic>-, <italic>RhACS2</italic>-, and <italic>RhACS1/2</italic>-silenced flowers. Lower panel, ethylene production at 18h dehydration and 3h rehydration. Different letters indicate significant differences between different treatments according to Duncan’s multiple range test (<italic>P</italic> <0.05). (B) Ethylene production in gynoecia at 3h rehydration. (C) Phenotype of <italic>RhACS1</italic>-, <italic>RhACS2</italic>-, and <italic>RhACS1/2</italic>-silenced flower petals after dehydration. Upper panel, petal size. Lower panel, outline of AbsE cells of petals. Cell numbers were counted using ImageJ software in a visual field of 1360×1024 μm<sup>2</sup>.</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="exbotj_ert092_f0004"></graphic></fig><p content-type="indent">Flower opening was then observed in the <italic>RhACS1</italic>/<italic>2</italic>-silenced flowers. Consistent with ethylene production, the ratio of flower height to diameter was increased significantly in <italic>RhACS1</italic>-, <italic>RhACS2</italic>-, and <italic>RhACS1/2</italic>-silenced flowers after 24h of dehydration (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1093/jxb/ert092/-/DC1">Supplementary Fig. S4</ext-link> at <italic>JXB</italic> online). This was in stark contrast to the TRV control. Again using TRV as a comparison, petal areas in the fourth layer of flowers significantly increased in <italic>RhACS1</italic>-, <italic>RhACS2</italic>-, and <italic>RhACS1/2</italic>-silenced flowers (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="F4">Fig. 4C</xref>). Furthermore, the cell density of AbsE cells decreased significantly in <italic>RhACS1</italic>-, <italic>RhACS2</italic>-, and <italic>RhACS1/2</italic>-silenced petals (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="F4">Fig. 4C</xref>).</p></sec><sec id="s11"><title>Induction of the RhACS1/2 promoter activities in Arabidopsis floral parts by dehydration</title><p>To test whether or not dehydration directly influenced the expression of <italic>RhACS1</italic> and <italic>RhACS2</italic>, the 2080bp 5’-upstream sequence of <italic>RhACS1</italic> and 1584bp 5’-upstream sequence of <italic>RhACS2</italic> were isolated from rose flowers. A number of <italic>cis</italic>-elements, including abscisic acid, dehydration-responsive, and tissue-specific elements, were identified in the two promoters (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1093/jxb/ert092/-/DC1">Supplementary Fig. S5</ext-link> at <italic>JXB</italic> online) using the PLACE program (<xref rid="CIT0011" ref-type="bibr">Higo <italic>et al</italic>., 1999</xref>). The <italic>RhACS1</italic> promoter contained eight putative MYC (CANNTG) and two MYB (WAACCA) motifs, and the <italic>RhACS2</italic> promoter possessed six putative MYC motifs and one MYB motif. Putative GATA boxes and OSE were also found in both promoters, which are considered to be involved in tissue-specific expression (<xref rid="CIT0002" ref-type="bibr">Aird <italic>et al</italic>., 1994</xref>; <xref rid="CIT0033" ref-type="bibr">Vieweg <italic>et al</italic>., 2004</xref>). A promoter assay using β-glucuronidase as reporter showed that the expression of <italic>RhACS1</italic> and <italic>RhACS2</italic> genes could be induced by dehydration, and the two genes showed an organ-specific induced expression (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1093/jxb/ert092/-/DC1">Figs S6</ext-link> and <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1093/jxb/ert092/-/DC1">S7</ext-link> at <italic>JXB</italic> online).</p></sec><sec id="s12"><title>Perception of dehydration-induced ethylene by rose petals</title><p>As ethylene may mediate the effect of dehydration on petal expansion, tests were performed to determine whether petals perceived the signal of ethylene induced by dehydration in the sepals and gynoecia. mRNA levels of <italic>RhETR2</italic> and <italic>RhETR4</italic> were undetectable, whilst <italic>RhETR5</italic> expression was constant. Similarly, <italic>RhETR1</italic> expression was not induced by dehydration. In contrast, <italic>RhETR3</italic> expression was induced gradually in petals during the 24h dehydration treatment. During rehydration, <italic>RhETR3</italic> expression maintained high levels until 1h of rehydration and then visibly decreased at 3h, and maintained an almost constant level within 24h of determination. 1-MCP pre-treatment strongly inhibited the expression of <italic>RhETR3</italic> during dehydration and rehydration (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="F5">Fig. 5</xref>).</p><fig fig-type="figure" id="F5" position="float"><label>Fig. 5.</label><caption><p>Expression of <italic>RhETR1–5</italic> genes in petals of cut roses. BPT, before pre-treatment. The number of hours of dehydration or rehydration treatment is indicated. One flower was defined as an independent biological sample. Each time point in the figure represents five biological replicates, and each band in the figure is a representative result. The relative transcript levels were determined by the methods used in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F3">Fig. 3</xref>. (This figure is available in colour at <italic>JXB</italic> online.)</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="exbotj_ert092_f0005"></graphic></fig><p content-type="indent">In addressing the role of <italic>RhETR3</italic> in petal expansion during dehydration, the effect of <italic>RhETR3</italic> or <italic>RhETR-</italic>genes silencing on petal expansion was explored in rose flowers treated by dehydration using a VIGS approach (<xref rid="CIT0016" ref-type="bibr">Liu <italic>et al</italic>., 2002</xref>; <xref rid="CIT0019" ref-type="bibr">Ma <italic>et al</italic>., 2008</xref>) (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1093/jxb/ert092/-/DC1">Supplementary Fig. S8</ext-link> at <italic>JXB</italic> online). Following infiltration treatment for the whole flower, <italic>RhETR3</italic>- and <italic>RhETR-</italic>genes-silenced flowers were successfully obtained, although the degree of silencing varied among the three <italic>RhETR</italic> members (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="F6">Fig. 6A</xref>).</p><fig fig-type="figure" id="F6" position="float"><label>Fig. 6.</label><caption><p>Silencing of <italic>RhETR3</italic> or the <italic>RhETR</italic> genes in rose flowers by VIGS. Rose flowers were infiltrated with <italic>Agrobacterium</italic> containing TRV alone (TRV: pTRV1 + pTRV2) or TRV carrying a fragment comprising <italic>RhETR3</italic> or the <italic>RhETR</italic> genes (TRV-<italic>RhETR3</italic>: pTRV1+pTRV2-<italic>RhETR3</italic>; TRV-<italic>RhETR</italic>s: pTRV1+pTRV2-<italic>RhETR</italic>s). (A) RT-PCR analysis of <italic>RhETR1</italic>, <italic>RhETR3</italic>, and <italic>RhETR5</italic> genes in <italic>RhETR3</italic>- or <italic>RhETR-</italic>genes-silenced flower petals. (B) The phenotype of <italic>RhETR3-</italic> or <italic>RhETR-</italic>genes-silenced flower petals after dehydration. Upper panel, petal size. Lower panel, outline of AbsE cells of petals. Cell numbers were counted using ImageJ software in a visual field of 1360×1024 μm<sup>2</sup>. Different letters indicate significant differences between different treatments according to Duncan’s multiple range tests (<italic>P</italic> <0.05).</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="exbotj_ert092_f0006"></graphic></fig><p content-type="indent">On the second day after dehydration treatment, dehydration-caused flower-opening phenotypes, such as irregular shape, were further aggravated in <italic>RhETR3</italic>-silenced flowers compared with TRV (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1093/jxb/ert092/-/DC1">Supplementary Fig. S9</ext-link> at <italic>JXB</italic> online). Dehydration-caused inhibition of petal expansion and cell expansion was also significantly aggravated in <italic>RhETR3</italic>-silenced rose flowers (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="F6">Fig. 6B</xref>).</p><p content-type="indent">In addition, the changes in petal cell expansion contrasted between <italic>RhETR3</italic>- and <italic>RhETR</italic>s-silenced flowers. The decrease in petal area in <italic>RhETR3</italic>-silenced petals (11.3%) was equivalent to 85.0% of that in <italic>RhETR</italic>s<italic>-</italic>silenced petals (13.3%). The increased in cell density accounted for 73.7% of that in <italic>RhETR</italic>s-silenced petals (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="F6">Fig. 6B</xref>). These findings illustrated that <italic>RhETR3</italic> plays an important role in perception of ethylene production induced by dehydration.</p><p content-type="indent">The expression of relevant ethylene-downstream genes was also determined in <italic>RhETR</italic>s-silenced flowers on the third day after 24h of dehydration. The results showed that, among the 32 genes, <italic>RhETR</italic>s silencing substantially upregulated ten genes, including endoxyloglucan transferase, xyloglucan endotransglycosylase-related protein, β-1,3-glucanase-like protein, two of the sugar transporters and one of the putative microtubule and kinesin proteins. This was in contrast to the TRV controls. Moreover, <italic>RhETR</italic>s silencing also substantially downregulated 11 genes including extensin and expansin, cellulose synthase-like protein, cellulase, sugar transporter, actin depolymerizing-factor, putative microtubule proteins, kinesin, and gibberellin 20-oxidase (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="F7">Fig. 7</xref>).</p><fig fig-type="figure" id="F7" position="float"><label>Fig. 7.</label><caption><p>Semi-quantitative RT-PCR analysis of 32 ethylene-signalling downstream genes in <italic>RhETR-</italic>genes-silenced rose petals. <italic>Ubi1</italic> was used as the internal control. TRV-<italic>RhETR</italic>s, petals infiltrated by TRV-<italic>RhETR</italic>s with <italic>RhETR1</italic>, -<italic>3</italic>, and -<italic>5</italic> silenced; TRV, petals infiltrated by empty vector. At least three biological replicates, were tested for each gene and representative results are shown. The relative transcript levels were determined by densitometry of the signals using AlphaImagerTM2200, and fold change in expression of each gene was calculated by using the relative transcript levels in <italic>RhETR-</italic>genes<italic>-</italic>silenced compare to TRV-silenced petals. SD, standard deviation. Asterisks indicates significant differences between the TRV- and <italic>RhETR-</italic>genes-silenced petals for the same gene according to Duncan’s multiple range tests (<italic>P</italic> <0.05).</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="exbotj_ert092_f0007"></graphic></fig><p content-type="indent">These results indicated that the inhibitory effect of dehydration-caused ethylene on petal expansion may occur partially through regulating the expression of relevant downstream genes related to cell expansion.</p></sec></sec><sec id="s13"><title>Discussion</title><sec id="s14"><title>Spatial-specific induction of ethylene biosynthesis by dehydration in rose flowers</title><p>Decades ago, several reports indicated that detached vegetative organs usually produce an ethylene burst in response to dehydration. Detached wheat and orange leaves produce large amounts of ethylene under dehydration (<xref rid="CIT0005" ref-type="bibr">Ben-Yehoshua and Aloni, 1974</xref>; <xref rid="CIT0020" ref-type="bibr">McKeon <italic>et al</italic>., 1982</xref>). In cotton, bracts as green organs, lose much more water and produce greater amounts of ethylene than the rest of the boll during dehydration (<xref rid="CIT0008" ref-type="bibr">Guinn, 1976</xref>). For detached reproductive organs, ethylene has been reported to be induced rapidly and dramatically in the calyx in detached persimmon fruit under dehydration (<xref rid="CIT0023" ref-type="bibr">Nakano <italic>et al</italic>., 2003</xref>). Here, we found that ethylene was primarily produced in the sepals among the five floral organs of detached rose flowers during dehydration treatment. Interestingly, the response of the calyx in persimmon suggests that different plants respond similarly to dehydration stress.</p><p content-type="indent">Surprisingly, we found that ethylene production appeared to be highly induced in the gynoecia during the initial period of rehydration, and in the sepals (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="F2">Fig. 2</xref>); it is suggested here that gynoecia are more sensitive than the other floral organs in the production of ethylene as a response to rehydration.</p><p content-type="indent">In most reported plants, tissue-specific ethylene induction is attributed to the temporal and spatial regulation of <italic>ACS</italic> genes (<xref rid="CIT0015" ref-type="bibr">Lin <italic>et al</italic>., 2009</xref>). In post-pollinated orchid flowers, elevated expression of <italic>PhalACS2</italic> and <italic>PhalACS3</italic> in stigma and ovary subsequently resulted in increased expression of <italic>PhalACS1</italic> in the labellum (<xref rid="CIT0006" ref-type="bibr">Bui and O’Neill, 1998</xref>). In carnation, ethylene treatment affects the induction of ethylene biosynthetic genes with different kinetics in all flower organs. Expression of <italic>DCACS2</italic> and <italic>DCACS3</italic> in styles causes enhanced ethylene production, which is able to induce <italic>DCACS1</italic> expression in petals (<xref rid="CIT0014" ref-type="bibr">Jones and Woodson, 1999</xref>). In cut roses, after ethylene treatment, the rapid and substantial increase in ethylene production in the gynoecia is attributed to rapid and enhanced expression of <italic>RhACS2</italic> and <italic>RhACS3</italic> (<xref rid="CIT0039" ref-type="bibr">Xue <italic>et al</italic>., 2008</xref>).</p><p content-type="indent">Here, we found that expression of <italic>RhACS1</italic>, a wounding-inducible gene, and <italic>RhACS2,</italic> a senescence-inducible gene (<xref rid="CIT0017" ref-type="bibr">Ma <italic>et al</italic>., 2005</xref>), exhibited spatial and temporal specificity during dehydration and rehydration in detached rose flowers (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="F3">Fig. 3</xref>) in a pattern consistent with the ethylene production in the two organs (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="F2">Fig. 2</xref>). Gene silencing by VIGS further confirmed the role of the <italic>RhACS1</italic> and <italic>RhACS2</italic> genes in producing ethylene. This ethylene resulted in sequential phenotypic changes in response to dehydration and rehydration (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="F4">Fig. 4</xref>).</p><p content-type="indent">Similarly, in detached persimmon fruit, water loss also induced expression of a wounding-induced <italic>ACS</italic> gene, <italic>DkACS2</italic>, in the calyx and caused large amounts of ethylene production.</p><p content-type="indent">Together, these findings indicate that, in detached rose flowers during dehydration and rehydration, the sepals and gynoecia are the main organs of ethylene induction, and <italic>RhACS1</italic> and <italic>RhACS2</italic> primarily contribute to ethylene induction at the transcriptional level.</p></sec><sec id="s15"><title>Regulation of ETR genes in response to dehydration and rehydration</title><p>It has been well documented that the ethylene receptors act as negative regulators of ethylene responses. This means that reducing the levels of receptor increases signal output, and vice versa (<xref rid="CIT0012" ref-type="bibr">Hua and Meyerowitz, 1998</xref>). Ethylene receptor genes exhibit higher expression levels in reproductive tissues, such as the androecia and gynoecia of <italic>Arabidopsis</italic> (<xref rid="CIT0027" ref-type="bibr">Sakai <italic>et al</italic>., 1998</xref>), anthers of rice (<xref rid="CIT0042" ref-type="bibr">Yau <italic>et al</italic>., 2004</xref>), pollen and embryo of tobacco (<xref rid="CIT0043" ref-type="bibr">Zhang <italic>et al</italic>., 2001</xref>), flowers and fruits of tomato (<xref rid="CIT0031" ref-type="bibr">Tieman and Klee, 1999</xref>), and gynoecia of rose flowers (<xref rid="CIT0039" ref-type="bibr">Xue <italic>et al</italic>., 2008</xref>). Here, among the five rose <italic>ETR</italic> genes, <italic>RhETR1</italic> and <italic>RhETR3</italic> were upregulated during dehydration and rehydration in petals (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="F5">Fig. 5</xref>).</p><p content-type="indent">As the ethylene receptors are negative regulators of ethylene signalling, silencing of the ethylene receptor might increase ethylene sensitivity in plants. A double mutant of subfamily I receptor, <italic>etr1ers1</italic>, exhibited hypersensitivity to ethylene, whereas single- and double-gene knockouts of the other subfamily did not clearly display different phenotypes. This observation indicates that the subfamily I receptors are more important than the subfamily II receptors in determining competency in response to ethylene in <italic>Arabidopsis</italic> (<xref rid="CIT0035" ref-type="bibr">Wang <italic>et al</italic>., 2003</xref>). In tomato, however, silencing of the <italic>LeETR4</italic> or <italic>LeETR6</italic> gene, both subfamily II members, displays exaggerated ethylene response phenotypes, including epinastic growth, premature flower senescence, and early fruit ripening (<xref rid="CIT0030" ref-type="bibr">Tieman <italic>et al</italic>., 2000</xref>). In the present study using the VIGS approach, it was confirmed that silencing of <italic>RhETR3</italic>, a subfamily II receptor, significantly aggravated dehydration-caused inhibition of petal expansion in rose flowers (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="F6">Fig. 6</xref>), indicating that RhETR is a negative regulator for ethylene signalling in rose flowers. Therefore, ethylene perception and signalling might vary in different plant species.</p><p content-type="indent">A dehydration-caused abnormal phenotype, such as inhibition of petal expansion, might result from inappropriate cell expansion. Generally, cell expansion is thought to depend on degradation and resynthesis of cell-wall substrates, changes in cell turgor, and remodelling of the cytoskeleton. In the present work, it was found that, in <italic>RhETR-</italic>genes-silenced petals, there were 21 substantially altered genes among 32 rose genes that were related to cell expansion.</p><p content-type="indent">Of the genes related to the cell wall, <italic>RU00040</italic> and <italic>RU10722</italic> encode xyloglucan endotransglycosylase-related protein, which is a key enzyme in catalysing the biosynthesis of major structural polysaccharides for primary cell walls (<xref rid="CIT0009" ref-type="bibr">Hayashi and Kaida, 2011</xref>). <italic>RU06454</italic>, <italic>RU00964</italic>, and <italic>RU20002</italic> encode endoxyloglucan transferase, which can catalyse the cleavage and molecular grafting of xyloglucan polymers. A gene encoding endoxyloglucan transferase has been suggested as one of the most likely agents responsible for cell-wall loosening (<xref rid="CIT0025" ref-type="bibr">Nishitani, 1997</xref>).</p><p content-type="indent">Of the genes related to cell turgor, <italic>RU04803</italic>, <italic>RU04906</italic>, <italic>RU00922</italic>, and <italic>RU08526</italic> encode sugar-transport proteins, which play a crucial role in long-distance and cell-to-cell distribution of sugars. These are key signalling molecules that can potentially regulate cell growth throughout the plant (<xref rid="CIT0037" ref-type="bibr">Williams <italic>et al</italic>., 2000</xref>). In diffusely growing cells, microtubules provide tracks for the movements of cellulose synthases and hence provide directional deposition of cellulose, the major factor controlling cell expansion. The binding of microtubules and microfilaments in plant cells appears to regulate cytoskeleton bundling (<xref rid="CIT0026" ref-type="bibr">Petrásek and Schwarzerová, 2009</xref>).</p><p content-type="indent">Taken together, these results indicated that <italic>RhETR-</italic>genes silencing leads to substantial expression changes in genes associated with the cell wall, cytoskeleton, and cell turgor, which regulate cell expansion.</p></sec><sec id="s16"><title>Conclusions</title><p>Based on the present findings, a working model of the role of ethylene under dehydration in rose petal expansion is proposed. As shown in <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1093/jxb/ert092/-/DC1">Supplementary Fig. S10</ext-link> at <italic>JXB</italic> online, for ethylene biosynthesis, dehydration- and rehydration-caused ethylene primarily contributes to <italic>RhACS1</italic> and <italic>RhACS2</italic> gene expression in the sepals and gynoecia, and the perception of ethylene is chiefly attributable to <italic>RhETR3</italic> in petals. The perception of ethylene by <italic>RhETR3</italic> further influences the expression of genes related to cell expansion and finally influences petal cell expansion.</p></sec></sec><sec sec-type="supplementary-material" id="s17"><title>Supplementary data</title><p>Supplementary data are available at <italic>JXB</italic> online.</p><p><ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1093/jxb/ert092/-/DC1">Supplementary Fig. S1</ext-link>. Changes in fresh weight loss rate during dehydration.</p><p><ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1093/jxb/ert092/-/DC1">Supplementary Fig. S2</ext-link>. Ethylene production in whole flowers.</p><p><ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1093/jxb/ert092/-/DC1">Supplementary Fig. S3</ext-link>. Alignment of the cDNA sequence of <italic>RhACS1–5</italic> genes and the specific fragments used in VIGS.</p><p><ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1093/jxb/ert092/-/DC1">Supplementary Fig. S4</ext-link>. Phenotype of <italic>RhACS1</italic>-, <italic>RhACS2</italic>-, and <italic>RhACS1/2</italic>-silenced flowers (upper) and ratio of height to diameter (lower).</p><p><ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1093/jxb/ert092/-/DC1">Supplementary Fig. S5</ext-link>. The promoters of <italic>RhACS1</italic> and <italic>RhACS2</italic>.</p><p><ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1093/jxb/ert092/-/DC1">Supplementary Fig. S6</ext-link>. Induction of <italic>RhACS1</italic> promoter activity by dehydration in flowers of transgenic <italic>Arabidopsis</italic>.</p><p><ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1093/jxb/ert092/-/DC1">Supplementary Fig. S7</ext-link>. Induction of <italic>RhACS2</italic> promoter activity by dehydration in flowers of transgenic <italic>Arabidopsis</italic>.</p><p><ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1093/jxb/ert092/-/DC1">Supplementary Fig. S8</ext-link>. Alignment of the cDNA sequence with <italic>RhETR1–5</italic> genes and the specific fragments used in VIGS.</p><p><ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1093/jxb/ert092/-/DC1">Supplementary Fig. S9</ext-link>. The phenotype of <italic>RhETR3</italic>- and <italic>RhETR-</italic>genes-silenced flowers (upper) and the ratio of height to flower diameter (lower).</p><p><ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1093/jxb/ert092/-/DC1">Supplementary Fig. S10</ext-link>. Proposed model of dehydration-affected flower opening mediated by ethylene in rose flowers.</p><p><ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1093/jxb/ert092/-/DC1">Supplementary Table S1</ext-link>. Primer sequences of the various genes in RT-PCR analysis.</p><p><ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1093/jxb/ert092/-/DC1">Supplementary Table S2</ext-link>. Primer sequences of the various genes for construction of VIGS vectors.</p><p><ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1093/jxb/ert092/-/DC1">Supplementary Table S3</ext-link>. Primer sequences of the various genes in RT-PCR analysis for gene silencing.</p><p><ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1093/jxb/ert092/-/DC1">Supplementary Table S4</ext-link>. Proportion of each floral tissue contributing to increased ethylene production.</p><supplementary-material id="PMC_1" content-type="local-data"><caption><title>Supplementary Data</title></caption><media mimetype="text" mime-subtype="html" xlink:href="supp_64_8_2333__index.html"></media><media xlink:role="associated-file" mimetype="application" mime-subtype="pdf" xlink:href="supp_ert092_jexbot088591_file001.pdf"></media></supplementary-material></sec></body><back><ack><title>Acknowledgement</title><p>This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant nos 31130048 and 30671480) and the ‘948’ project (grant no. 2011-G17) from the Ministry of Agriculture. We thank Mr Gabriel M. 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