Spatiotemporal oscillations of morphinan alkaloids in opium poppy
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Spatiotemporal oscillations of morphinan alkaloids in opium poppy
Abstract
Here, a comprehensive endeavor is made to simultaneously scrutinize spatiotemporal oscillations of three imperative morphinan alkaloids (i.e. thebaine, codeine, and morphine) alongside dynamic transcriptional patterns of TYDC, SalAT, COR, T6ODM, and CODM genes in different tissues of Papaver somniferum (i.e. root, bottom part of stem, upper part of stem, leaf, capsule wall, and capsule content) over five distinguished ontogenic stages (i.e. rosette, bud initiation, pendulous bud, flowering, and lancing). Apart from bottom stem and leaf, the maximum thebaine content occurred in lancing stage, while its minimum content did not follow a systematic rhythm, either among six tissues or five various sampling times. Regarding codeine, excepting upper stem, the highest ratios of codeine were observed at flowering and lacing stages, while negligible amounts were overall detected at early stages of plant growth like rosette. Considering morphine, apart from upper stem, it appears that late ontogeneic times including lancing and flowering are the most appropriate phases to achieve high amounts of morphine, while at early stages the aforesaid alkaloid possessed lower accumulation. Furthermore, all the five genes under study, overall, exhibited a variety of transcript levels either among six tissues or five various sampling times. Interestingly, a connection occurred between transcript ratio of SalAT and thebaine content, suggesting that thebaine biosynthesis is coordinated tightly by the enzymatic function of SalAT enzyme. Meanwhile, despite low magnitudes of T6ODM and CODM transcripts in the root-harvested samples at pendulous bud and flowering stages, both codeine and morphine were surprisingly in acceptable quantities, plausibly owing to the translocation of both alkaloids from the producing (source) tissues to the roots (sink), known as a phenomenon of 'source-to-sink transportation'. The results, altogether, could provide us enough information in acquiring new insights towards potential impacts of spatiotemporal oscillations on the magnitudes of all the above-mentioned alkaloids alongside transcription ratios of the key genes in opium poppy.
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