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Length-dependent accumulation of double-stranded RNAs in plastids affects RNA interference efficiency in the Colorado potato beetle

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Bock,  R.
Organelle Biology and Biotechnology, Department Bock, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Max Planck Society;

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He, W., Xu, W., Xu, L., Fu, K., Guo, W., Bock, R., et al. (2020). Length-dependent accumulation of double-stranded RNAs in plastids affects RNA interference efficiency in the Colorado potato beetle. Journal of Experimental Botany, 71(9), 2670-2677. doi:10.1093/jxb/eraa001.


Zitierlink: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0005-769C-7
Zusammenfassung
Transplastomic potato plants expressing double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) targeted against essential genes of the Colorado potato beetle (CPB) can be lethal to larvae by triggering an RNA interference (RNAi) response. High accumulation levels of dsRNAs in plastids are crucial to confer an efficient RNAi response in the insects. However, whether length and sequence of the dsRNA determine the efficacy of RNAi and/or influence the level of dsRNA accumulation in plastids is not known. Here we compared the RNAi efficacy of different lengths of dsRNA targeted against the CPB β–Actin gene (ACT) by feeding in vitro-synthesized dsRNAs to larvae. We show that, while the 60 bp dsRNA induced only a relatively low RNAi response in CPB, dsRNAs of 200 bp and longer caused high mortality and similar larval growth retardation. When the dsRNAs were expressed from the plastid (chloroplast) genome of potato plants, we found that their accumulation levels were negatively correlated with length. dsRNA accumulation levels were positively associated with the observed mortality, suppression of larval growth and suppression of target gene expression. Importantly, transplastomic potato plants expressing the 200 bp dsRNA were better protected from CPB than plants expressing the 297 bp dsRNA, the best-performing line in our previous study. Our results suggest that the length of dsRNAs is an important factor that influences their accumulation levels in plastids and thus determines the strength of the insecticidal RNAi effect. Our findings will aid the design of optimized dsRNA expression constructs for plant protection by plastid-mediated RNAi.