Sugar units, not chilling units, control endodormancy duration in plants; potato tuber as a case study
Danieli, R.; Assouline, S.; Salam, B. B.; Teper-Bamnolker, P.; Belausov, E.; Friedmann, Y.; Granot, D.; Eshel, D.
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Endodormancy (ED) is a crucial stage in the life cycle of many perennial plants, regulated by genetic and environmental factors. Chilling units, growth regulators, and nutrient supply are considered inducers of ED release, but the mechanism governing ED duration is poorly understood. The potato tuber has been used as a model system to study metabolic processes associated with ED release. Cold-induced sweetening is a well-known response of the tuber to chilling. Here, we found that cold stress induces an increase in sugar units in association with plasmodesmatal closure in the dormant bud cells. Tuber sweetening was associated with shortened ED duration after cooling. Heat exposure also caused sugar unit accumulation followed by faster ED release. A logistic function was developed to predict ED duration based on sugar unit measurements. We discovered that ED release is better correlated with the accumulation of sugar units compared to chilling units. CRISPR/Cas9 knockout of the vacuolar invertase gene (StVInv) induced longer ED, but only in cultivars in which the mutation modified the level sugar units. Our results suggest that sugar units are better predictors of vegetative bud ED duration than chilling units.
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