Correction: Transcriptome analysis of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) shoots reveals a crosstalk between auxin and strigolactone.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0201124.].

Transcriptome analysis of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) shoots reveals a crosstalk between auxin and strigolactone.

Auxin and strigolactone (SL) are two important phytohormones involved in shoot branching and morphology. Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.), a member of the Solanaceae family, is one of the most popular food crops with high economic value in the world. To seek a better understanding of the responses to exogenous hormones, transcriptome analyses of the tomato shoots treated with exogenous auxin and SL, separately or together, were performed. A total of 2326, 260 and 1379 differential expressed genes (DEGs) were identified under the IAA, GR24 and IAA+GR24 treatments, respectively. Network analysis pointed out two enriched interaction clusters, including "ethylene biosynthesis" and "photosynthesis". Several ethylene biosynthesis and metabolism-related genes were up-regulated under both IAA and IAA+GR24 treatments, suggesting their involvement in the regulation of ethylene biosynthesis. Besides, auxin-SLs-triggered the expression of several CAB genes may lead to systemic increases in the induction of photosynthesis. Several auxin-activated metabolic pathways could be reduced by the GR24 treatment, indicated that the crosstalk between auxin and SLs may be involved in the metabolic regulation of tomato. Further analysis showed that SLs affect the responses of tomato shoots to auxin by inducing the expression of a series of auxin downstream genes. On the other hand, auxin regulated the biosynthesis of SLs by affecting the genes in the "Carotenoid biosynthesis" pathway. Our data will give us an opportunity to reveal the crosstalk between auxin and SLs in the shoots of tomato.

[Genome-wide identification, sequence characteristic and expression analysis of heat shock factors (HSFs) in cucumber].

Heat shock factors (HSFs) are ubiquitous in eukaryotes with diversification in structural feature and biological function in plants. Based on the availability of whole cucumber genome sequences, we characterized the cucumber HSFs gene family which contains at least 21 members. Sequence alignments show that all HSFs possess a specific DNA binding domain (DBD). These HSFs genes are unevenly distributed in the seven cucumber chromosomes except for Csa026480 (located on Scaffold_repeat037858). Phylogenetic analysis shows that HSFs in cucumber could be divided into three families, in which family I included three categories (A, B and C). Phylogenetic tree also reveals nine pairs of orthologous genes and three pairs of paralogous genes, suggesting that HSFs gene family have existed before the separation of cucumber and Arabidopsis thaliana. EST analysis shows that cucumber HSFs may be involved in the development of fruit, female flower and hermaphrodite flower. qRT-PCR analysis demonstrated that these genes exhibit different expression levels in heat stress treatment. These results will provide a foundation for the functions of the HSF gene family.