Acidic soils are particularly predominant in a northern ‘temperate belt’ and a southern ‘subtropical belt’. The contrasting regulation of RNA translation and response signalling suggests that response timing is critical in high Al 3+-tolerant Brachiaria.Īcid soils, aluminium tolerance, Brachiaria, differential expression, genome assembly, grass, QTL mapping, Urochloa IntroductionĪcidic soils constitute ~30% of the world’s total land area and 50% of the potentially available arable land ( Von Uexküll and Mutert, 1995). However, there was limited regulation of malate transporters in Brachiaria, which suggests that exudation of organic acids and other external tolerance mechanisms, common in other grasses, might not be relevant in Brachiaria. We observed differential expression during stress of genes involved in RNA translation, response signalling, cell wall composition, and vesicle location homologous to aluminium-induced proteins involved in limiting uptake or localizing the toxin. By integrating these results with a new Brachiaria reference genome, we identified 30 genes putatively responsible for Al 3+ tolerance in Brachiaria. We identified three QTLs (quantitative trait loci) associated with root vigour during Al 3+ stress in their hybrid progeny. In this work, we explored the natural variation in tolerance to Al 3+ between high and low tolerant Brachiaria species and characterized their transcriptional differences during stress. Brachiaria grasses, which are commonly sown as forage in the tropics because of their resilience and low demand for nutrients, show greater tolerance to high concentrations of aluminium cations (Al 3+) than most other grass crops. Toxic concentrations of aluminium cations and low phosphorus availability are the main yield-limiting factors in acidic soils, which represent half of the potentially available arable land.
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