Identifying key genes involved in yellow leaf variation in ‘Menghai Huangye’ based on biochemical and transcriptomic analysis

Fromme P, Melkozernov A, Jordan P, Krauss N (2003) Structure and function of photosystem I: interaction with its soluble electron carriers and external antenna systems. FEBS Lett 555:40–44

Goral TK, Johnson MP, Duffy CDP, Brain APR, Ruban AV, Mullineaux CW (2012) Light-harvesting antenna composition controls the macrostructure and dynamics of thylakoid membranes in Arabidopsis. Plant J 69:289–301

Jiang XF, Zhao H, Guo F, Shi XP, Ye C, Yang PX, Liu BY, Ni DJ (2020) Transcriptomic analysis reveals mechanism of light-sensitive albinism in tea plant Camellia sinensis ‘Huangjinju.’ BMC Plant Biol 20:216

Kim EH, Li XP, Razeghifard R, Anderson JM, Niyogi KK, Pogson BJ, Chow WS (2009) The multiple roles of light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b-protein complexes define structure and optimize function of Arabidopsis chloroplasts: a study using two chlorophyll b-less mutants. Biochim Biophys Acta 1787:973–984

Latijnhouwers M, Xu XM, Møller SG (2010) Arabidopsis stromal 70-kDa heat shock proteins are essential for chloroplast development. Planta 232:567–578

Li CF, Xu YX, Ma JQ, Jin JQ, Huang DJ, Yao MZ, Ma CL, Chen L (2016) Biochemical and transcriptomic analyses reveal different metabolite biosynthesis profiles among three color and developmental stages in ‘Anji Baicha’ (Camellia sinensis). BMC Plant Biol 16:195

Li WX, Yang SB, Lu ZG, He ZC, Ye YL, Zhao BB, Wang L, Jin B (2018) Cytological, physiological, and transcriptomic analyses of golden leaf coloration in Ginkgo biloba L. Hortic Res 5:12

Li NN, Lu JL, Li QS, Zheng XQ, Wang XC, Wang L, Wang YC, Ding CQ, Liang YR, Yang YJ (2019) Dissection of chemical composition and associated gene expression in the pigment-deficient tea cultivar ‘Xiaoxueya’ reveals an albino phenotype and metabolite formation. Front Plant Sci 10:1543

Lichtenthaler HK (1987) Chlorophylls and carotenoids: pigments of photosynthetic biomembranes. Methods Enzymol 148C:350–382

Liu C, Li YM, Liu DJ, Yan ZS, Feng GJ, Yang XX (2020a) Blocked chlorophyll synthesis leads to the production of golden snap bean pods. Mol Genet Genomics 295(6):1325–1337

Liu YF, Pang DD, Tian YP, Li YY, Jiang HB, Sun YN, Xia LF, Chen LB (2020b) Comparative transcriptomic analysis of the tea plant (Camellia sinensis) reveals key genes involved in pistil deletion. Hereditas 157:39

Livak KJ, Schmittgen TD (2001) Analysis of relative gene expression data using real-time quantitative PCR and the 2(-Delta Delta C(T)) Method. Methods 25:402–408

Lu MQ, Han JY, Zhu BY, Jia HY, Yang TY, Wang RJ, Deng WW, Zhang ZZ (2019) Significantly increased amino acid accumulation in a novel albino branch of the tea plant (Camellia sinensis). Planta 249:363–376

Ma QP, Li H, Zou ZW, Arkorful E, Lv QR, Zhou QQ, Chen X, Sun K, Li XH (2018) Transcriptomic analyses identify albino-associated genes of a novel albino tea germplasm ‘Huabai 1.’ Hortic Res 5:54

Nagata N, Tanaka R, Satoh S, Tanaka A (2005) Identification of a vinyl reductase gene for chlorophyll synthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana and implications for the evolution of Prochlorococcus species. Plant Cell 17:233–240

Pang DD, Liu YF, Sun YN, Tian YP, Chen LB (2021) Menghai huangye, a novel albino tea germplasm with high theanine content and a high catechin index. Plant Sci, 311, 110997.

Qin L, Huang J, Liu S, Li J, Liu Z (2011) Proteomic analysis of young leaves at three developmental stages in an albino tea cultivar. Proteome Sci 9:44

Sakuraba Y, Rahman ML, Cho SH, Kim YS, Koh HJ, Yoo SC, Paek NC (2013) The rice faded green leaf locus encodes protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase B and is essentia for chlorophyll synthesis under high light conditions. Plant J 74(1):122–133

Satou M, Enoki H, Oikawa A, Ohta D, Saito K, Hachiya T, Sakakibara H, Kusano M, Fukushima A, Saito K, Kobayashi M, Nagata N, Myouga F, Shinozaki K, Motohashi R (2014) Integrated analysis of transcriptome and metabolome of Arabidopsis albino or pale green mutants with disrupted nuclear-encoded chloroplast proteins. Plant Mol Biol 85:411–428

Slattery RA, VanLoocke A, Bernacchi CJ, Zhu XG, Ort DR (2017) Photosynthesis, light use efficiency, and yield of reduced-chlorophyll soybean mutants in field conditions. Front Plant Sci 8:549

Song LB, Ma QP, Zou ZW, Sun K, Yao YT, Tao JH, Kaleri NA, Li XH (2017) Molecular link between leaf coloration and gene expression of flavonoid and carotenoid biosynthesis in Camellia sinensis cultivar ‘Huangjinya.’ Front Plant Sci 8:803

Tanaka A, Tanaka R (2006) Chlorophyll metabolism. Curr Opin Plant Biol 9:248–255

Tanaka R, Tanaka A (2007) Tetrapyrrole biosynthesis in higher plants. Annu Rev Plant Biol 58:321–346

Wang WX, Vinocur B, Shoseyov O, Altman A (2004) Role of plant heat-shock proteins and molecular chaperones in the abiotic stress response. Trends Plant Sci 9:244–252

Wang L, Cao HL, Chen CS, Yue C, Hao XY, Yang YJ, Wang XC (2016) Complementary transcriptomic and proteomic analyses of a chlorophyll-deficient tea plant cultivar reveal multiple metabolic pathway changes. J Proteomics 130:160–169

Wang JY, Chen JD, Wang SL, Li C, Ma CL, Yao MZ (2020a) Repressed gene expression of photosynthetic antenna proteins associated with yellow leaf variation as revealed by bulked segregant RNA-seq in tea plant Camellia sinensis. J Agric Food Chem 68:8068–8079

Wang M, Chen L, Liang ZJ, He XM, Liu WR, Jiang B, Yan JQ, Sun PY, Cao ZQ, Peng QW, Lin YE (2020b) Metabolome and transcriptome analyses reveal chlorophyll and anthocyanin metabolism pathway associated with cucumber fruit skin color. BMC Plant Biol 20:386

Wu ZM, Zhang X, He B, Diao LP, Sheng SL, Wang JL, Guo XP, Su N, Wang LF, Jiang L, Wang CM, Zhai HQ, Wan JM (2007) A chlorophyll-deficient rice mutant with impaired chlorophyllide esterification in chlorophyll biosynthesis. Plant Physiol 145:29–40

Wu HY, Shi N, An XY, Liu C, Fu HoF, Cao L, Feng Y, Sun DJ, Zhang LL (2018) Candidate genes for yellow leaf color in common wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and major related metabolic pathways according to transcriptome profiling. Int J Mol Sci, 19, 1594.

Xia EH, Tong W, Hou Y, An YL, Chen LB, Wu Q, Liu YL, Yu J, Li FD, Li RP, Li PH, Zhao HJ, Ge RH, Huang J, Mallano AI, Zhang YR, Liu SR, Deng WW, Song CK, Zhang ZL, Zhao J, Wei S, Zhang ZZ, Xia T, Wei CL, Wan XC (2020) The reference genome of tea plant and resequencing of 81 diverse accessions provide insights into its genome evolution and adaptation. Mol Plant 13:1013–1026

Xu P, Su H, Jin R, Mao YX, Xu AA, Cheng HY, Wang YF, Meng Q (2020) Shading effects on leaf color conversion and biosynthesis of the major secondary metabolites in the albino tea cultivar “Yujinxian.” J Agric Food Chem 68:2528–2538

Xu YX, Chen W, Ma CL, Shen SY, Zhou YY, Zhou LQ, Chen L (2017) Proteome and acetyl-proteome profiling of Camellia sinensis cv. ‘Anjin Baicha’ during periodic albinism reveals alterations in photosynthetic and secondary metabolite biosynthetic pathways. Front Plant Sci, 8, 2104.

Yu XQ, Wang XX, Hyldgaard B, Zhu ZB, Zhou RR, Kjaer KH, Ouzounis T, Lou QF, Li J, Cai QH, Rosenqvist E, Ottosen CO, Chen JF (2018) Allopolyploidization in Cucumis contributes to delayed leaf maturation with repression of redundant homoeologous genes. Plant J, 94(2).

Zeng CZ, Lin HY, Liu ZX, Liu ZH (2019) Analysis of young shoots of ‘Anji Baicha’ (Camellia sinensis) at three developmental stages using nontargeted LC-MS-Based metabolomics. J Food Sci 84:1746–1757

Zhu XB, Liang SH, Yin JJ, Yuan C, Wang J, Li W, He M, Wang JC, Chen WL, Ma BY, Wang YP, Qin P, Li SG, Chen XW (2015) The DnaJ OsDjA7/8 is essential for chloroplast development in rice (Oryza sativa). Gene 574:11–19