ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Plant Sci.
Sec. Crop and Product Physiology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpls.2025.1586093
This article is part of the Research TopicPhysiological Growth of Crops in Saline-Alkali Land and Its New Quality Productive Control MethodsView all articles
Study on physiological changes and response mechanism of Cerasus humilis under alkali stress
Provisionally accepted
Meitong Pan1
Shan Jiang1*
Lengleng Ma1
Junbai Ma1Chenzhuo Yue1
Lingyang Kong1Danli Wang2
Wei Ma1Xiubo Liu3- 1Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine, Harbin, China
- 2Yichun Branch of Heilongjiang Academy of Forestry, Harbin, China
- 3Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine, jiamusi, China
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Cerasus humilis has high economic and nutritional value, but at the molecular level, there are few studies on salt-alkali stress of C. humilis, and no one has reported the response mechanism of the oxidation system of C. humilis under abiotic stress. In this research, transcriptomic and metabolomic analysis showed that C. humilis had a wide range of metabolic activities under alkali stress, and antioxidant enzymes played an important role in response to alkali stress. ChWRKY29 and ChWRKY34, which are likely to respond to alkali stress, were screened based on transcriptomic data and phylogenetic relationship, and their direct regulation on downstream ChMSD2 and ChCSD2 genes were verified by yeast single hybridization experiment. Combined with heat map and qPCR analysis, ChWRKY29 and ChWRKY34 may regulate the up-regulation of ChMSD2 and ChCSD2 gene expression under alkali treatment, and further affect the antioxidant capacity of plants in response to alkali stress. The analysis of ChSOD gene family showed that 9 ChSODs were identified from C. humilis, which were the closest relatives to Pyrus bretschneideri. There are a certain number of cis-acting elements in the ChSOD promoter region for hormone and abiotic stress, and there is no tandem replication between ChSOD genes, but only one fragment replication. Fragment repetition may be the main driving force for the evolution of SOD gene family in C. humilis, and the results of interspecific collinearity analysis indicate that C. humilis and Malus pumila are most closely related. In this study, the mechanism of alkali resistance of C. humilis was discussed, which provided reference for exploring the mechanism of alkali resistance of rosaceae, in order to provide scientific theoretical basis for expanding the cultivation range and development and utilization of C. humilis.
Keywords: gene function, gene family, SOD gene, Plant antioxidant, abiotic stress 1 Introduction
Received: 03 Mar 2025; Accepted: 24 Apr 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Pan, Jiang, Ma, Ma, Yue, Kong, Wang, Ma and Liu. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Shan Jiang, Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine, Harbin, China
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