CHEN Lihua, YANG Ximeng, JIA Hao, SONG Lihua
Taking 6-year old jujube cultivar Lingwuchangzao (Zizyphus jujube Mill cv.Lingwuchangzao) saplings as experimental subjects, we studied the effect of sugar accumulation, key sucrose enzymes metabolism and related genes expression of Lingwuchangzao on the response of the conditions of elevated air temperature and soil drought. A two-factor experiment of atmospheric temperature and soil water content were set up to study the content of glucose, fructose, sucrose, starch, invertase (AI, NI), sucrose synthase (SS-s, SS-c), sucrose phosphate at different ripening stages synthetase (SPS) and other key enzyme activity changes, and analyze gene expression characteristics from the molecular level. The results showed that compared with the natural air temperature environment (T1), the contents of glucose, fructose, sucrose, starch and the activities of NI, SPS and SS-s increased by 0.18%~22.02%, 0.97%~21.97%, 0.43%~85.30%, 5.39%~49.06%, 0.60%~28.53, 0.01%~31.21% and 0.77%~25.31%, respectively, under the raising the air temperature (T2). Compared with normal soil water supply conditions (D1), the contents of fructose, sucrose, starch, and the activities of NI, SS-c increased by 44.26%, 49.56%, 38.20%, 56.04%, and 45.36%, respectively, under the moderate drought (D2). When the air temperature increased by about 2.0℃, ZjNI 1 and ZjNI 2 in ZjNI gene were up-regulated to 14.25 and 14.52 times, respectively. ZjSPS 1 and ZjSPS 4 in ZjSPS gene were up-regulated by 24.36 and 93.70 times, respectively, and ZjSS 1 and ZjSS 3 in ZjSS gene were up-regulated by 131.29 times and 81.38 times, respectively, under elevated temperature accompanied by severe drought. In conclusion, the effect of drought on sugar content and key enzyme activity in fruit of Lingwuchangzao was significant. The elevated temperature slowed the promotion effect of moderate drought on sugar accumulation, and intensified the inhibiting effect of severe drought on sugar accumulation. The increased temperature and drought promoted the up-regulation of gene expression of key enzyme of sucrose metabolism. This study indicated that the elevated temperature and drought were the most significant factors to the fruit nutrition quality of jujube cultivar Lingwuchangzao, which will provide theoretical guidance and technological support for Lingwuchangzao industry in Ningxia to global climate change.