Abstract: Because of its rich anthocyanins and high nutritional value, red-skinned pear is favored by consumers and has become a hot spot for the development of China's characteristic pear industry. It has been reported that the binding of transcription factors with EAR motif to TOPLESS/TOPLESS-related(TPL/TPR) has a transcriptional inhibitory effect on the accumulation process of anthocyanins. In order to further investigate its function, this paper uses polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to clone the coding sequence (CDS) full-length and specific region silencing sequence of the PyTPL2 gene, which were connected to pSAK277 transient expression vector, and the recombinant plasmid was transferred into the expression strain GV3101, and then co-injected with the transcription factor PyMYB6 with EAR motif. It was found that PyMYB6 could inhibit the synthesis of anthocyanins when co-injected with PyTPL2, and PyMYB6 could promote the synthesis of anthocyanins when co-injected with PyTPL2-RNAi. The results provide a reference for further exploration of the role of pear PyTPL2 gene in pear peel anthocyanins.
Keywords: pear; anthocyanin; PyTPL2; homologous recombination; transient expression