18 July 2022
Cathrine Kiel Skovbjerg, Deepti Angra, Tom Robertson‑Shersby‑Harvie, Jonathan Kreplak, Gabriel Keeble‑Gagnère, Sukhjiwan Kaur, Wolfgang Ecke, Alex Windhorst, Linda Kærgaard Nielsen, Andrea Schiemann, Jens Knudsen, Natalia Gutierrez, Vasiliki Tagkouli, Lavinia Ioana Fechete, Luc Janss, Jens Stougaard, Ahmed Warsame, Sheila Alves, Hamid Khazaei, Wolfgang Link, Ana Maria Torres, Donal Martin O’Sullivan, Stig Uggerhøj Andersen - Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2022
A major objective in faba bean breeding is to improve its protein quality by selecting cultivars with enhanced desirable physicochemical properties. However, the protein composition of the mature seed is determined by a series of biological processes occurring during seed growth. Thus, any attempt to explain the final seed composition must consider the dynamics of the seed proteome during seed development. Here, we investigated the proteomic profile of developing faba bean seeds across 12 growth stages from 20 days after pollination (DAP) to full maturity. We analyzed trypsin-digested total protein extracts from the seeds at different growth stages by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS), identifying 1217 proteins. The functional clusters of these proteins showed that, in early growth stages, proteins related to cell growth, division, and metabolism were most abundant compared to seed storage proteins that began to accumulate from 45 DAP. Moreover, label-free quantification of the relative abundance of seed proteins, including important globulin proteins, revealed several distinct temporal accumulation trends among the protein classes. These results suggest that these proteins are regulated differently and require further understanding of the impact of the different environmental stresses occurring at different grain filling stages on the expression and accumulation of these seed storage proteins.
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