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1 A systems-approach to understand the regulation of plant growth and biomass production in bioenergy crops Camila Caldana Brazilian Bioethanol Science and Technology Laboratory (CTBE) Workshop on Interdisciplinary Plant Science- 16/12/2013

2 Brazilian Centre of Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM) CTBE is part of Ministry of Science and Technology with other three National Labs

3 Virtual Biorefinery Agriculture Industrial Sustainability Basic Science Plant Yield Bioinformatics Biomass Structure Microbiology Enzymology Molecular Genetics Facilities

4 Metabolite Profile Platform ( Facility ) PLANT GROWTH/YIELD (Molecular Plant Physiology) Biomarkers identification for sugarcane breeding Growth regulation (TOR)

5 COOPERATIONS Metabolite Profile Platform ( Facility ) PLANT GROWTH/YIELD (Molecular Plant Physiology)

6 Metabolic inventory for Setaria and Sugarcane Stress series Developmental series Genotypes Long term: feed with collaborators data Cooperation with Diego Rìaño

7 Metabolite Profile Platform ( Facility ) PLANT GROWTH/YIELD (Molecular Plant Physiology) Biomarker identification for sugarcane breeding Prof. Lothar Willmitzer (MPIMP, Germany) Anete P. De Souza (Unicamp) Augusto Garcia (ESALQ-USP) Luciana R Pinto (IAC Cana) Mauro Xavier (IAC Cana) Silvana Creste (IAC Cana) Metabolic marker as selection tool for sugarcane breeding Genetic variation and regulation of growth/biomass

8 Natural/Genetic Variation x Metabolism Genetic factors underlying metabolite variation reveals: Dominant or Addictive modes of inheritance Chemically correlated metabolites displayed the similar mode of inheritance Relationships between metabolites, agronomical traits and biological significance Combination of metabolites correlated with complex traits such as biomass Predictive power for plant performance Keurentjes JJB, et al. (2006). Nat Genet 38(7): Lisec J, et al. (2008) Plant J. 53(6): Lisec J, et al. (2012) Plant J. 68(2):

9 METABOLITE MARKERS Sugarcane Breeding Population Genetic Mapping Phenotyping Yield Brix Sugar yield IACSP-3018 X IACSP-3046 Marker Assistant Selection SSR-EST QTL Elite clone Susceptible to disease Metabolite Profile Analysis High levels of sucrose High Metabolic tillering rate Marker Tolerant to disease Suitable for mechanic harvest mqtl Data Analysis mqtl Gene Function Prediction

10 Metabolite Profile Platform ( Facility ) PLANT GROWTH/YIELD (Molecular Plant Physiology) Diego Riaño-Pachón (CTBE) Tiago Sobreira (LNBio) Michel Vincentz (UNICAMP) Silvana Creste (IAC Cana) Carlos Hotta (IQ/USP) Lothar Willmitzer (MPIMP, Germany) Patrick Giavalisco (MPIMP, Germany) Christian Meyer (INRA Versailles, France) Henriette Schlupmann (Utrecht University, Holland) Growth regulation (TOR) Regulation of Plant Growth by the Target of Rapamycin Pathway A systems-approach to understand the regulation of plant growth and biomass production in bioenergy crops

11 What is TOR? - Target of rapamycin RAPAMYCIN FKBP12 TOR GROWTH

12 I. I. Introduction

13 Target of rapamycin (TOR) functions Rapamycin Nutrients Stress Hypoxia Low energy Insulin NUTRIENT TRANSPORT METABOLISM RIBOSOME BIOGENESIS TOR TRANSLATION TRANSCRIPTION G0 AUTOPHAGY ACTIN ORGANIZATION GROWTH REGULATION

14 TOR in photosynthetic organisms Insensitive to rapamycin (?) AtTOR interacts with AtRaptor and regulates S6K activity and stress response Growth is positively correlated with TOR WT Ind irna OX Mahfouz et al (2006) Plant Cell 18(2): Deprost et al. (2007) EMBO 8(9):864-70

15 TOR in photosynthetic organisms Phenotype Transcript profile amir-tor9 amir-tor20 Control Estradiol Protein Degradation Autophagy ROS Secondary metabolism Lipid metabolism Cell wall modification Major CHO metabolism Hormone metabolism Signalling/TF Metabolic profile Amino acids TCA intermediates Phenylpropanoid Glucosinolates Lipids Carbon Storage Starch Caldana et. al (2013). Plant J. 73(6): Ren et. al (2012). Plant Cell 24(12):

16 Our hypothesis TOR x GROWTH STARVATION STRESS? Metabolism reprogramming STORAGE AND SURVIVAL

17 TOR x BIOENERGY CROPS

18 TOR in photosynthetic organisms? Upstream Partners Interactions Partner Zhang Y et al. Mol. Plant 2013;mp.sst094

19 Molecular Plant Physiology Group Juliana Aricetti Larissa Cruz Lucia Wolf Guilherme de Abreu (IC) Heitor Rosa (PhD student) Viviane da Silva (Postdoc) Fernanda dos Santos (Postdoc) Dr Alexandra Bottcher DrTiago Sobreira (LNBio) Dr Diego Riaño-Pachón (CTBE) Dr Marina Martins (CTBE) Dr Sarita Rabelo (CTBE) Partners Prof. Lothar Willmitzer (MPIMP, Germany) Dr Patrick Giavalisco (MPIMP, Germany) Dr Michel Vincentz (UNICAMP) Dr Carlos Hotta (IQ/USP) Dr Christian Meyer (INRA Versailles, France) Dr Henriette Schlupmann (Utrecht Uni, Holland) Prof Anete P. De Souza (Unicamp) Prof Augusto Garcia (ESALQ-USP) Dr Luciana R Pinto (IAC Cana) Dr Mauro Xavier (IAC Cana) DrSilvana Creste (IAC Cana)

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