Affiliation:
1. Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, China
Abstract
Background
Ophiocordyceps sinensis is a species endemic to the alpine and high-altitude areas of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau. Although O. sinensis has been cultivated since the past few years, whether cultivated O. sinensis can completely replace wild O. sinensis remains to be determined.
Methods
To explore the differences of O. sinensis grown in varied environments, we conducted morphological and transcriptomic comparisons between wild and cultivated samples who with the same genetic background.
Results
The results of morphological anatomy showed that there were significant differences between wild and cultivated O. sinensis, which were caused by different growth environments. Then, a total of 9,360 transcripts were identified using Illumina paired-end sequencing. Differential expression analysis revealed that 73.89% differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were upregulated in O. sinensis grown under natural conditions compared with that grown under artificial conditions. Functional enrichment analysis showed that some key DEGs related to fatty acid metabolism, including acyl-CoA dehydrogenase, enoyl-CoA hydratase, 3-ketoacyl-CoA thiolase, and acetyl-CoA acetyltransferase, were upregulated in wild O. sinensis. Furthermore, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry results confirmed that the fatty acid content of wild O. sinensis was significantly higher than that of cultivated O. sinensis and that unsaturated fatty acids accounted for a larger proportion.
Conclusion
These results provide a theoretical insight to the molecular regulation mechanism that causes differences between wild and cultivated O. sinensis and improving artificial breeding.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Sichuan Province Youth Innovation Team Fund
Subject
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology,General Medicine,General Neuroscience
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