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Foster TL, Kloiber-Maitz M, Gilles L, Frei UK, Pfeffer S, Chen YR, Dutta S, Seetharam AS, Hufford MB, Lübberstedt T. Fine mapping of major QTL qshgd1 for spontaneous haploid genome doubling in maize (Zea mays L.). TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2024; 137:117. [PMID: 38700534 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-024-04615-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2023] [Accepted: 04/04/2024] [Indexed: 05/09/2024]
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KEY MESSAGE A large-effect QTL was fine mapped, which revealed 79 gene models, with 10 promising candidate genes, along with a novel inversion. In commercial maize breeding, doubled haploid (DH) technology is arguably the most efficient resource for rapidly developing novel, completely homozygous lines. However, the DH strategy, using in vivo haploid induction, currently requires the use of mutagenic agents which can be not only hazardous, but laborious. This study focuses on an alternative approach to develop DH lines-spontaneous haploid genome duplication (SHGD) via naturally restored haploid male fertility (HMF). Inbred lines A427 and Wf9, the former with high HMF and the latter with low HMF, were selected to fine-map a large-effect QTL associated with SHGD-qshgd1. SHGD alleles were derived from A427, with novel haploid recombinant groups having varying levels of the A427 chromosomal region recovered. The chromosomal region of interest is composed of 45 megabases (Mb) of genetic information on chromosome 5. Significant differences between haploid recombinant groups for HMF were identified, signaling the possibility of mapping the QTL more closely. Due to suppression of recombination from the proximity of the centromere, and a newly discovered inversion region, the associated QTL was only confined to a 25 Mb region, within which only a single recombinant was observed among ca. 9,000 BC1 individuals. Nevertheless, 79 gene models were identified within this 25 Mb region. Additionally, 10 promising candidate genes, based on RNA-seq data, are described for future evaluation, while the narrowed down genome region is accessible for straightforward introgression into elite germplasm by BC methods.
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- Tyler L Foster
- Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011, USA.
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- Limagrain Europe SAS, Research Centre, 63720, Chappes, France
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- Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011, USA
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- Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011, USA
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- Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011, USA
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- Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011, USA
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Wear EE, Song J, Zynda GJ, Mickelson-Young L, LeBlanc C, Lee TJ, Deppong DO, Allen GC, Martienssen RA, Vaughn MW, Hanley-Bowdoin L, Thompson WF. Comparing DNA replication programs reveals large timing shifts at centromeres of endocycling cells in maize roots. PLoS Genet 2020; 16:e1008623. [PMID: 33052904 PMCID: PMC7588055 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2020] [Revised: 10/26/2020] [Accepted: 08/28/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Plant cells undergo two types of cell cycles–the mitotic cycle in which DNA replication is coupled to mitosis, and the endocycle in which DNA replication occurs in the absence of cell division. To investigate DNA replication programs in these two types of cell cycles, we pulse labeled intact root tips of maize (Zea mays) with 5-ethynyl-2’-deoxyuridine (EdU) and used flow sorting of nuclei to examine DNA replication timing (RT) during the transition from a mitotic cycle to an endocycle. Comparison of the sequence-based RT profiles showed that most regions of the maize genome replicate at the same time during S phase in mitotic and endocycling cells, despite the need to replicate twice as much DNA in the endocycle and the fact that endocycling is typically associated with cell differentiation. However, regions collectively corresponding to 2% of the genome displayed significant changes in timing between the two types of cell cycles. The majority of these regions are small with a median size of 135 kb, shift to a later RT in the endocycle, and are enriched for genes expressed in the root tip. We found larger regions that shifted RT in centromeres of seven of the ten maize chromosomes. These regions covered the majority of the previously defined functional centromere, which ranged between 1 and 2 Mb in size in the reference genome. They replicate mainly during mid S phase in mitotic cells but primarily in late S phase of the endocycle. In contrast, the immediately adjacent pericentromere sequences are primarily late replicating in both cell cycles. Analysis of CENH3 enrichment levels in 8C vs 2C nuclei suggested that there is only a partial replacement of CENH3 nucleosomes after endocycle replication is complete. The shift to later replication of centromeres and possible reduction in CENH3 enrichment after endocycle replication is consistent with a hypothesis that centromeres are inactivated when their function is no longer needed. In traditional cell division, or mitosis, a cell’s genetic material is duplicated and then split between two daughter cells. In contrast, in some specialized cell types, the DNA is duplicated a second time without an intervening division step, resulting in cells that carry twice as much DNA. This phenomenon, which is called the endocycle, is common during plant development. At each step, DNA replication follows an ordered program in which highly compacted DNA is unraveled and replicated in sections at different times during the synthesis (S) phase. In plants, it is unclear whether traditional and endocycle programs are the same, especially since endocycling cells are typically in the process of differentiation. Using root tips of maize, we found that in comparison to replication in the mitotic cell cycle, there is a small portion of the genome whose replication in the endocycle is shifted in time, usually to later in S phase. Some of these regions are scattered around the genome and mostly coincide with active genes. However, the most prominent shifts occur in centromeres. The shift to later replication in centromeres is noteworthy because they orchestrate the process of separating duplicated chromosomes into daughter cells, a function that is not needed in the endocycle.
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- Emily E. Wear
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Texas Advanced Computing Center, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, United States of America
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- Texas Advanced Computing Center, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America
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- Texas Advanced Computing Center, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
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Casier K, Delmarre V, Gueguen N, Hermant C, Viodé E, Vaury C, Ronsseray S, Brasset E, Teysset L, Boivin A. Environmentally-induced epigenetic conversion of a piRNA cluster. eLife 2019; 8:39842. [PMID: 30875295 PMCID: PMC6420265 DOI: 10.7554/elife.39842] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2018] [Accepted: 03/06/2019] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Transposable element (TE) activity is repressed in animal gonads by PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) produced by piRNA clusters. Current models in flies propose that germinal piRNA clusters are functionally defined by the maternal inheritance of piRNAs produced during the previous generation. Taking advantage of an inactive, but ready to go, cluster of P-element derived transgene insertions in Drosophila melanogaster, we show here that raising flies at high temperature (29°C) instead of 25°C triggers the stable conversion of this locus from inactive into actively producing functional piRNAs. The increase of antisense transcripts from the cluster at 29°C combined with the requirement of transcription of euchromatic homologous sequences, suggests a role of double stranded RNA in the production of de novo piRNAs. This report describes the first case of the establishment of an active piRNA cluster by environmental changes in the absence of maternal inheritance of homologous piRNAs. Editorial note This article has been through an editorial process in which the authors decide how to respond to the issues raised during peer review. The Reviewing Editor's assessment is that all the issues have been addressed (see decision letter).
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- Karine Casier
- Laboratoire Biologie du Développement, UMR7622, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire Biologie du Développement, UMR7622, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine, Paris, France
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- GReD, Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, INSERM, BP 10448, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Laboratoire Biologie du Développement, UMR7622, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire Biologie du Développement, UMR7622, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine, Paris, France
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- GReD, Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, INSERM, BP 10448, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Laboratoire Biologie du Développement, UMR7622, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine, Paris, France
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- GReD, Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, INSERM, BP 10448, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Laboratoire Biologie du Développement, UMR7622, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire Biologie du Développement, UMR7622, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine, Paris, France
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Bennetzen JL, Wang X. Relationships between Gene Structure and Genome Instability in Flowering Plants. MOLECULAR PLANT 2018; 11:407-413. [PMID: 29462722 DOI: 10.1016/j.molp.2018.02.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2017] [Revised: 02/11/2018] [Accepted: 02/13/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Flowering plant (angiosperm) genomes are exceptional in their variability with respect to genome size, ploidy, chromosome number, gene content, and gene arrangement. Gene movement, although observed in some of the earliest plant genome comparisons, has been relatively underinvestigated. We present herein a description of several interesting properties of plant gene and genome structure that are pertinent to the successful movement of a gene to a new location. These considerations lead us to propose a model that can explain the frequent success of plant gene mobility, namely that Small Insulated Genes Move Around (SIGMAR). The SIGMAR model is then compared with known processes for gene mobilization, and predictions of the SIGMAR model are formulated to encourage future experimentation. The overall results indicate that the frequent gene movement in angiosperm genomes is partly an outcome of the unusual properties of angiosperm genes, especially their small size and insulation from epigenetic silencing.
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- Jeffrey L Bennetzen
- State Key Laboratory of Tea Plant Biology and Utilization/Key Laboratory of Tea Biology and Processing, Ministry of Agriculture, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, Anhui 230036, People's Republic of China; Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA.
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- State Key Laboratory of Tea Plant Biology and Utilization/Key Laboratory of Tea Biology and Processing, Ministry of Agriculture, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, Anhui 230036, People's Republic of China; Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
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Genomic features shaping the landscape of meiotic double-strand-break hotspots in maize. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2017; 114:12231-12236. [PMID: 29087335 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1713225114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Meiotic recombination is the most important source of genetic variation in higher eukaryotes. It is initiated by formation of double-strand breaks (DSBs) in chromosomal DNA in early meiotic prophase. The DSBs are subsequently repaired, resulting in crossovers (COs) and noncrossovers (NCOs). Recombination events are not distributed evenly along chromosomes but cluster at recombination hotspots. How specific sites become hotspots is poorly understood. Studies in yeast and mammals linked initiation of meiotic recombination to active chromatin features present upstream from genes, such as absence of nucleosomes and presence of trimethylation of lysine 4 in histone H3 (H3K4me3). Core recombination components are conserved among eukaryotes, but it is unclear whether this conservation results in universal characteristics of recombination landscapes shared by a wide range of species. To address this question, we mapped meiotic DSBs in maize, a higher eukaryote with a large genome that is rich in repetitive DNA. We found DSBs in maize to be frequent in all chromosome regions, including sites lacking COs, such as centromeres and pericentromeric regions. Furthermore, most DSBs are formed in repetitive DNA, predominantly Gypsy retrotransposons, and only one-quarter of DSB hotspots are near genes. Genic and nongenic hotspots differ in several characteristics, and only genic DSBs contribute to crossover formation. Maize hotspots overlap regions of low nucleosome occupancy but show only limited association with H3K4me3 sites. Overall, maize DSB hotspots exhibit distribution patterns and characteristics not reported previously in other species. Understanding recombination patterns in maize will shed light on mechanisms affecting dynamics of the plant genome.
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Wear EE, Song J, Zynda GJ, LeBlanc C, Lee TJ, Mickelson-Young L, Concia L, Mulvaney P, Szymanski ES, Allen GC, Martienssen RA, Vaughn MW, Hanley-Bowdoin L, Thompson WF. Genomic Analysis of the DNA Replication Timing Program during Mitotic S Phase in Maize ( Zea mays) Root Tips. THE PLANT CELL 2017; 29:2126-2149. [PMID: 28842533 PMCID: PMC5635974 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.17.00037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2017] [Revised: 07/31/2017] [Accepted: 08/24/2017] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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All plants and animals must replicate their DNA, using a regulated process to ensure that their genomes are completely and accurately replicated. DNA replication timing programs have been extensively studied in yeast and animal systems, but much less is known about the replication programs of plants. We report a novel adaptation of the "Repli-seq" assay for use in intact root tips of maize (Zea mays) that includes several different cell lineages and present whole-genome replication timing profiles from cells in early, mid, and late S phase of the mitotic cell cycle. Maize root tips have a complex replication timing program, including regions of distinct early, mid, and late S replication that each constitute between 20 and 24% of the genome, as well as other loci corresponding to ∼32% of the genome that exhibit replication activity in two different time windows. Analyses of genomic, transcriptional, and chromatin features of the euchromatic portion of the maize genome provide evidence for a gradient of early replicating, open chromatin that transitions gradually to less open and less transcriptionally active chromatin replicating in mid S phase. Our genomic level analysis also demonstrated that the centromere core replicates in mid S, before heavily compacted classical heterochromatin, including pericentromeres and knobs, which replicate during late S phase.
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- Emily E Wear
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695
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- Texas Advanced Computing Center, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78758
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- Texas Advanced Computing Center, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78758
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York 11724
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695
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- Department of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695
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- Texas Advanced Computing Center, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78758
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695
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Shang Y, Yang F, Schulman AH, Zhu J, Jia Y, Wang J, Zhang XQ, Jia Q, Hua W, Yang J, Li C. Gene Deletion in Barley Mediated by LTR-retrotransposon BARE. Sci Rep 2017; 7:43766. [PMID: 28252053 PMCID: PMC5333098 DOI: 10.1038/srep43766] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2016] [Accepted: 01/27/2017] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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A poly-row branched spike (prbs) barley mutant was obtained from soaking a two-rowed barley inflorescence in a solution of maize genomic DNA. Positional cloning and sequencing demonstrated that the prbs mutant resulted from a 28 kb deletion including the inflorescence architecture gene HvRA2. Sequence annotation revealed that the HvRA2 gene is flanked by two LTR (long terminal repeat) retrotransposons (BARE) sharing 89% sequence identity. A recombination between the integrase (IN) gene regions of the two BARE copies resulted in the formation of an intact BARE and loss of HvRA2. No maize DNA was detected in the recombination region although the flanking sequences of HvRA2 gene showed over 73% of sequence identity with repetitive sequences on 10 maize chromosomes. It is still unknown whether the interaction of retrotransposons between barley and maize has resulted in the recombination observed in the present study.
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- Yi Shang
- National Barley Improvement Centre, Institute of Crop and Nuclear Technology Utilization, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Science, Hangzhou 310021, China
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- Department of Genetics and Cell Biology, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, Hubei 434023, China
- Western Barley Genetics Alliance, Murdoch University, 90 South Street, Murdoch WA 6150, Australia
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- Luke/BI Plant Genomics Lab, Institute of Biotechnology and Viikki Plant Science Centre, University of Helsinki, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland
- Green Technology, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Viikinkaari 1, FIN-00790 Helsinki, Finland
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- National Barley Improvement Centre, Institute of Crop and Nuclear Technology Utilization, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Science, Hangzhou 310021, China
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- Western Barley Genetics Alliance, Murdoch University, 90 South Street, Murdoch WA 6150, Australia
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- National Barley Improvement Centre, Institute of Crop and Nuclear Technology Utilization, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Science, Hangzhou 310021, China
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- Western Barley Genetics Alliance, Murdoch University, 90 South Street, Murdoch WA 6150, Australia
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- College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, China
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- National Barley Improvement Centre, Institute of Crop and Nuclear Technology Utilization, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Science, Hangzhou 310021, China
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- National Barley Improvement Centre, Institute of Crop and Nuclear Technology Utilization, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Science, Hangzhou 310021, China
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- Department of Genetics and Cell Biology, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, Hubei 434023, China
- Western Barley Genetics Alliance, Murdoch University, 90 South Street, Murdoch WA 6150, Australia
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Yousfi FE, Makhloufi E, Marande W, Ghorbel AW, Bouzayen M, Bergès H. Comparative Analysis of WRKY Genes Potentially Involved in Salt Stress Responses in Triticum turgidum L. ssp. durum. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2016; 7:2034. [PMID: 28197152 PMCID: PMC5281569 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.02034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2016] [Accepted: 12/20/2016] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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WRKY transcription factors are involved in multiple aspects of plant growth, development and responses to biotic stresses. Although they have been found to play roles in regulating plant responses to environmental stresses, these roles still need to be explored, especially those pertaining to crops. Durum wheat is the second most widely produced cereal in the world. Complex, large and unsequenced genomes, in addition to a lack of genomic resources, hinder the molecular characterization of tolerance mechanisms. This paper describes the isolation and characterization of five TdWRKY genes from durum wheat (Triticum turgidum L. ssp. durum). A PCR-based screening of a T. turgidum BAC genomic library using primers within the conserved region of WRKY genes resulted in the isolation of five BAC clones. Following sequencing fully the five BACs, fine annotation through Triannot pipeline revealed 74.6% of the entire sequences as transposable elements and a 3.2% gene content with genes organized as islands within oceans of TEs. Each BAC clone harbored a TdWRKY gene. The study showed a very extensive conservation of genomic structure between TdWRKYs and their orthologs from Brachypodium, barley, and T. aestivum. The structural features of TdWRKY proteins suggested that they are novel members of the WRKY family in durum wheat. TdWRKY1/2/4, TdWRKY3, and TdWRKY5 belong to the group Ia, IIa, and IIc, respectively. Enrichment of cis-regulatory elements related to stress responses in the promoters of some TdWRKY genes indicated their potential roles in mediating plant responses to a wide variety of environmental stresses. TdWRKY genes displayed different expression patterns in response to salt stress that distinguishes two durum wheat genotypes with contrasting salt stress tolerance phenotypes. TdWRKY genes tended to react earlier with a down-regulation in sensitive genotype leaves and with an up-regulation in tolerant genotype leaves. The TdWRKY transcripts levels in roots increased in tolerant genotype compared to sensitive genotype. The present results indicate that these genes might play some functional role in the salt tolerance in durum wheat.
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- Fatma-Ezzahra Yousfi
- Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, Center of Biotechnology of Borj Cedria, Borj Cedria Science and Technology ParkHammam-lif, Tunisia
- Centre National de Ressources Genomiques Vegetales, French Plant Genomic Center, INRA–CNRGVCastanet-Tolosan, France
- INRA, UMR990 Genomique et Biotechnologie des FruitsCastanet-Tolosan, France
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- Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, Center of Biotechnology of Borj Cedria, Borj Cedria Science and Technology ParkHammam-lif, Tunisia
- Centre National de Ressources Genomiques Vegetales, French Plant Genomic Center, INRA–CNRGVCastanet-Tolosan, France
- INRA, UMR990 Genomique et Biotechnologie des FruitsCastanet-Tolosan, France
- INPT, Laboratoire de Genomique et Biotechnologie des Fruits, University of ToulouseCastanet-Tolosan, France
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- Centre National de Ressources Genomiques Vegetales, French Plant Genomic Center, INRA–CNRGVCastanet-Tolosan, France
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- Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, Center of Biotechnology of Borj Cedria, Borj Cedria Science and Technology ParkHammam-lif, Tunisia
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- INRA, UMR990 Genomique et Biotechnologie des FruitsCastanet-Tolosan, France
- INPT, Laboratoire de Genomique et Biotechnologie des Fruits, University of ToulouseCastanet-Tolosan, France
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- Centre National de Ressources Genomiques Vegetales, French Plant Genomic Center, INRA–CNRGVCastanet-Tolosan, France
- *Correspondence: Hélène Bergès
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Bass HW, Hoffman GG, Lee TJ, Wear EE, Joseph SR, Allen GC, Hanley-Bowdoin L, Thompson WF. Defining multiple, distinct, and shared spatiotemporal patterns of DNA replication and endoreduplication from 3D image analysis of developing maize (Zea mays L.) root tip nuclei. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2015; 89:339-51. [PMID: 26394866 PMCID: PMC4631726 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-015-0364-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2015] [Accepted: 08/19/2015] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Spatiotemporal patterns of DNA replication have been described for yeast and many types of cultured animal cells, frequently after cell cycle arrest to aid in synchronization. However, patterns of DNA replication in nuclei from plants or naturally developing organs remain largely uncharacterized. Here we report findings from 3D quantitative analysis of DNA replication and endoreduplication in nuclei from pulse-labeled developing maize root tips. In both early and middle S phase nuclei, flow-sorted on the basis of DNA content, replicative labeling was widely distributed across euchromatic regions of the nucleoplasm. We did not observe the perinuclear or perinucleolar replicative labeling patterns characteristic of middle S phase in mammals. Instead, the early versus middle S phase patterns in maize could be distinguished cytologically by correlating two quantitative, continuous variables, replicative labeling and DAPI staining. Early S nuclei exhibited widely distributed euchromatic labeling preferentially localized to regions with weak DAPI signals. Middle S nuclei also exhibited widely distributed euchromatic labeling, but the label was preferentially localized to regions with strong DAPI signals. Highly condensed heterochromatin, including knobs, replicated during late S phase as previously reported. Similar spatiotemporal replication patterns were observed for both mitotic and endocycling maize nuclei. These results revealed that maize euchromatin exists as an intermingled mixture of two components distinguished by their condensation state and replication timing. These different patterns might reflect a previously described genome organization pattern, with "gene islands" mostly replicating during early S phase followed by most of the intergenic repetitive regions replicating during middle S phase.
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- Hank W Bass
- Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, 319 Stadium Drive, King Life Sciences Building, Tallahassee, FL, 32306-4295, USA.
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- Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, 319 Stadium Drive, King Life Sciences Building, Tallahassee, FL, 32306-4295, USA
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695-7612, USA
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695-7612, USA
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- Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, 319 Stadium Drive, King Life Sciences Building, Tallahassee, FL, 32306-4295, USA
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- Department of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695-7609, USA
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695-7612, USA
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695-7612, USA
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Enke N, Kunze R, Pustahija F, Glöckner G, Zimmermann J, Oberländer J, Kamari G, Siljak-Yakovlev S. Genome size shifts: karyotype evolution in Crepis section Neglectoides (Asteraceae). PLANT BIOLOGY (STUTTGART, GERMANY) 2015; 17:775-786. [PMID: 25683604 DOI: 10.1111/plb.12318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2014] [Accepted: 01/19/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Plant genome size evolution is a very dynamic process: the ancestral genome of angiosperms was initially most likely small, which led to a tendency towards genome increase during evolution. However, findings in several angiosperm lineages demonstrate mechanisms that also led to genome size contraction. Recent molecular investigations on the Asteraceae genus Crepis suggest that several genomic reduction events have occurred during the evolution of the genus. This study focuses on the Mediterranean Crepis sect. Neglectoides, which includes three species with some of the smallest genomes within the whole genus. Crepis neglecta has the largest genome in sect. Neglectoides, approximately twice the size of the two species Crepis cretica and Crepis hellenica. Whereas C. cretica and C. hellencia are more closely related to each other than to C. neglecta the karyotypes of the latter species and C. cretica are similar, while that of C. hellenica differs considerably. Here, the karyotypic organisation of the three species is investigated with fluorescence in-situ hybridisation and studied in a molecular phylogenetic framework based on the nuclear markers Actin, CHR12, CPN60B, GPCR1 and XTH23. Our findings further corroborate the occurrence of genome size contraction in Crepis, and suggest that the difference in genome size between C. neglecta and C. cretica is mostly due to elimination of dispersed repetitive elements, whereas chromosomal reorganisation was involved in the karyotype formation of C. hellenica.
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- N Enke
- Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Dahlem Centre of Plant Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Dahlem Centre of Plant Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Institut für Biologie - Angewandte Genetik, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- CNRS, Laboratoire Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution, UMR 8079, Université Paris Sud, Orsay, France
- Faculty of Forestry, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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- Institute for Biochemistry I, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
- Molecular Biology Group, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany
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- Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- AG Spezielle Botanik, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Giessen, Germany
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- Dahlem Centre of Plant Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Institut für Biologie - Angewandte Genetik, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Botanical Institute, University of Patras, Patras, Greece
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- CNRS, Laboratoire Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution, UMR 8079, Université Paris Sud, Orsay, France
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Paszkowski J. Controlled activation of retrotransposition for plant breeding. Curr Opin Biotechnol 2015; 32:200-206. [PMID: 25615932 DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2015.01.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2014] [Revised: 12/30/2014] [Accepted: 01/05/2015] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Plant genomes consist to a large extent of transposable elements (TEs), predominantly retrotransposons. Their accumulation through periodic transposition bursts has shaped the structure and regulatory organization of plant genomes, often contributing to phenotypic traits. Transposon-generated phenotypes selected by humans during plant domestication have been maintained under strict selection during subsequent plant breeding. Our knowledge of the epigenetic, environmental, and developmental regulation of TE activity has advanced considerably in recent years. Here I will consider TEs as an attractive endogenous source of genetic variation that can be liberated in a controlled fashion and thus offer novel phenotypic diversity to be selected for crop improvement.
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- Jerzy Paszkowski
- The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1LR, United Kingdom.
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Daron J, Glover N, Pingault L, Theil S, Jamilloux V, Paux E, Barbe V, Mangenot S, Alberti A, Wincker P, Quesneville H, Feuillet C, Choulet F. Organization and evolution of transposable elements along the bread wheat chromosome 3B. Genome Biol 2014; 15:546. [PMID: 25476263 PMCID: PMC4290129 DOI: 10.1186/s13059-014-0546-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2014] [Accepted: 11/17/2014] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The 17 Gb bread wheat genome has massively expanded through the proliferation of transposable elements (TEs) and two recent rounds of polyploidization. The assembly of a 774 Mb reference sequence of wheat chromosome 3B provided us with the opportunity to explore the impact of TEs on the complex wheat genome structure and evolution at a resolution and scale not reached so far. RESULTS We develop an automated workflow, CLARI-TE, for TE modeling in complex genomes. We delineate precisely 56,488 intact and 196,391 fragmented TEs along the 3B pseudomolecule, accounting for 85% of the sequence, and reconstruct 30,199 nested insertions. TEs have been mostly silent for the last one million years, and the 3B chromosome has been shaped by a succession of bursts that occurred between 1 to 3 million years ago. Accelerated TE elimination in the high-recombination distal regions is a driving force towards chromosome partitioning. CACTAs overrepresented in the high-recombination distal regions are significantly associated with recently duplicated genes. In addition, we identify 140 CACTA-mediated gene capture events with 17 genes potentially created by exon shuffling and show that 19 captured genes are transcribed and under selection pressure, suggesting the important role of CACTAs in the recent wheat adaptation. CONCLUSION Accurate TE modeling uncovers the dynamics of TEs in a highly complex and polyploid genome. It provides novel insights into chromosome partitioning and highlights the role of CACTA transposons in the high level of gene duplication in wheat.
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- Josquin Daron
- />INRA UMR1095 Genetics, Diversity and Ecophysiology of Cereals, 5 chemin de Beaulieu, 63039 Clermont-Ferrand, France
- />University Blaise Pascal UMR1095 Genetics, Diversity and Ecophysiology of Cereals, 5 chemin de Beaulieu, 63039 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- />INRA UMR1095 Genetics, Diversity and Ecophysiology of Cereals, 5 chemin de Beaulieu, 63039 Clermont-Ferrand, France
- />University Blaise Pascal UMR1095 Genetics, Diversity and Ecophysiology of Cereals, 5 chemin de Beaulieu, 63039 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- />INRA UMR1095 Genetics, Diversity and Ecophysiology of Cereals, 5 chemin de Beaulieu, 63039 Clermont-Ferrand, France
- />University Blaise Pascal UMR1095 Genetics, Diversity and Ecophysiology of Cereals, 5 chemin de Beaulieu, 63039 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- />INRA UMR1095 Genetics, Diversity and Ecophysiology of Cereals, 5 chemin de Beaulieu, 63039 Clermont-Ferrand, France
- />University Blaise Pascal UMR1095 Genetics, Diversity and Ecophysiology of Cereals, 5 chemin de Beaulieu, 63039 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- />INRA-URGI, Centre de Versailles, Route de Saint Cyr, 78026 Versailles, France
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- />INRA UMR1095 Genetics, Diversity and Ecophysiology of Cereals, 5 chemin de Beaulieu, 63039 Clermont-Ferrand, France
- />University Blaise Pascal UMR1095 Genetics, Diversity and Ecophysiology of Cereals, 5 chemin de Beaulieu, 63039 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- />CEA/DSV/IG/Genoscope, 2 rue Gaston Cremieux, 91000 Evry, France
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- />CEA/DSV/IG/Genoscope, 2 rue Gaston Cremieux, 91000 Evry, France
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- />CEA/DSV/IG/Genoscope, 2 rue Gaston Cremieux, 91000 Evry, France
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- />CEA/DSV/IG/Genoscope, 2 rue Gaston Cremieux, 91000 Evry, France
- />CNRS UMR 8030, 2 rue Gaston Crémieux, 91000 Evry, France
- />Université d’Evry, P5706 Evry, France
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- />INRA-URGI, Centre de Versailles, Route de Saint Cyr, 78026 Versailles, France
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- />INRA UMR1095 Genetics, Diversity and Ecophysiology of Cereals, 5 chemin de Beaulieu, 63039 Clermont-Ferrand, France
- />University Blaise Pascal UMR1095 Genetics, Diversity and Ecophysiology of Cereals, 5 chemin de Beaulieu, 63039 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- />INRA UMR1095 Genetics, Diversity and Ecophysiology of Cereals, 5 chemin de Beaulieu, 63039 Clermont-Ferrand, France
- />University Blaise Pascal UMR1095 Genetics, Diversity and Ecophysiology of Cereals, 5 chemin de Beaulieu, 63039 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Bennetzen JL, Wang H. The contributions of transposable elements to the structure, function, and evolution of plant genomes. ANNUAL REVIEW OF PLANT BIOLOGY 2014; 65:505-30. [PMID: 24579996 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-arplant-050213-035811] [Citation(s) in RCA: 304] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Transposable elements (TEs) are the key players in generating genomic novelty by a combination of the chromosome rearrangements they cause and the genes that come under their regulatory sway. Genome size, gene content, gene order, centromere function, and numerous other aspects of nuclear biology are driven by TE activity. Although the origins and attitudes of TEs have the hallmarks of selfish DNA, there are numerous cases where TE components have been co-opted by the host to create new genes or modify gene regulation. In particular, epigenetic regulation has been transformed from a process to silence invading TEs and viruses into a key strategy for regulating plant genes. Most, perhaps all, of this epigenetic regulation is derived from TE insertions near genes or TE-encoded factors that act in trans. Enormous pools of genome data and new technologies for reverse genetics will lead to a powerful new era of TE analysis in plants.
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- Jeffrey L Bennetzen
- Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan 650201, China
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Jääskeläinen M, Chang W, Moisy C, Schulman AH. Retrotransposon BARE displays strong tissue-specific differences in expression. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2013; 200:1000-8. [PMID: 24033286 DOI: 10.1111/nph.12470] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2013] [Accepted: 07/30/2013] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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The BARE retrotransposon comprises c. 10% of the barley (Hordeum vulgare) genome. It is actively transcribed, translated and forms virus-like particles (VLPs). For retrotransposons, the inheritance of new copies depends critically on where in the plant replication occurs. In order to shed light on the replication strategy of BARE in the plant, we have used immunolocalization and in situ hybridization to examine expression of the BARE capsid protein, Gag, at a tissue-specific level. Gag is expressed in provascular tissues and highly localized in companion cells surrounding the phloem sieve tubes in mature vascular tissues. BARE Gag and RNA was not seen in the shoot apical meristem of young seedlings, but appeared, following transition to flowering, in the developing floral spike. Moreover, Gag has a highly specific localization in pre-fertilization ovaries. The strong presence of Gag in the floral meristems suggests that newly replicated copies there will be passed to the next generation. BARE expression patterns are consistent with transcriptional regulation by predicted response elements in the BARE promoter, and in the ovary with release from epigenetic transcriptional silencing. To our knowledge, this is the first analysis of the expression of native retrotransposon proteins within a plant to be reported.
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- Marko Jääskeläinen
- MTT/BI Plant Genomics Laboratory, Institute of Biotechnology, Viikki Biocenter, University of Helsinki, PO Box 65, Viikinkaari 1, FIN-00014, Helsinki, Finland
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Carrier G, Huang YF, Le Cunff L, Fournier-Level A, Vialet S, Souquet JM, Cheynier V, Terrier N, This P. Selection of candidate genes for grape proanthocyanidin pathway by an integrative approach. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY : PPB 2013; 72:87-95. [PMID: 23684499 DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2013.04.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2012] [Accepted: 04/19/2013] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Proanthocyanidins (PA) play a major role in plant protection against biotic and abiotic stresses. Moreover these molecules are known to be beneficial for human health and are responsible for astringency of foods and beverages such as wine and thus have a great impact on the final quality of the product. Genes playing a role in the PA pathway are only partially known. The amount of available transcriptomic and genetic data to select candidate genes without a priori knowledge from orthologous function increases every day. However, the methods used so far generate so many candidate genes that it is impossible to validate all of them. In this study, we used an integrative strategy based on different screening methods to select a reduced list of candidate genes. We have crossed results from different screening methods including QTL mapping and three transcriptomic studies to select 20 candidate genes, located in QTL intervals and fulfilling at least two transcriptomic screenings. This list includes three glucosyltransferases, already suspected to have a role in the PA biosynthetic pathway. Among the 17 remaining genes, we selected three genes to perform further analysis by association genetic studies. For each of these genes, we found a polymorphism linked to PA variation. The three genes (VvMybC2-L1, VvGAT-like and VvCob-like), not previously known to play a role in PA synthesis, are promising candidates for further molecular physiology studies.
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- Grégory Carrier
- UMR AGAP, INRA-Montpellier SupAgro-CIRAD, 2 Place Pierre Viala, F-34060 Montpellier, France; UMT Geno-Vigne, 2 Place Viala, F-34060 Montpellier, France.
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Chang W, Jääskeläinen M, Li SP, Schulman AH. BARE retrotransposons are translated and replicated via distinct RNA pools. PLoS One 2013; 8:e72270. [PMID: 23940808 PMCID: PMC3735527 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2013] [Accepted: 07/14/2013] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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The replication of Long Terminal Repeat (LTR) retrotransposons, which can constitute over 80% of higher plant genomes, resembles that of retroviruses. A major question for retrotransposons and retroviruses is how the two conflicting roles of their transcripts, in translation and reverse transcription, are balanced. Here, we show that the BARE retrotransposon, despite its organization into just one open reading frame, produces three distinct classes of transcripts. One is capped, polyadenylated, and translated, but cannot be copied into cDNA. The second is not capped or polyadenylated, but is destined for packaging and ultimate reverse transcription. The third class is capped, polyadenylated, and spliced to favor production of a subgenomic RNA encoding only Gag, the protein forming virus-like particles. Moreover, the BARE2 subfamily, which cannot synthesize Gag and is parasitic on BARE1, does not produce the spliced sub-genomic RNA for translation but does make the replication competent transcripts, which are packaged into BARE1 particles. To our knowledge, this is first demonstration of distinct RNA pools for translation and transcription for any retrotransposon.
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- Wei Chang
- Institute of Biotechnology, Viikki Biocenter, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute of Biotechnology, Viikki Biocenter, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Genome-Scale Biology Program, University of Helsinki, Biomedicum, Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute of Biotechnology, Viikki Biocenter, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Biotechnology and Food Research, MTT Agrifood Research Finland, Jokioinen, Finland
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Liu D, Zeng SH, Chen JJ, Zhang YJ, Xiao G, Zhu LY, Wang Y. First insights into the large genome of Epimedium sagittatum (Sieb. et Zucc) Maxim, a Chinese Ttaditional medicinal plant. Int J Mol Sci 2013; 14:13559-76. [PMID: 23807511 PMCID: PMC3742203 DOI: 10.3390/ijms140713559] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2013] [Revised: 05/16/2013] [Accepted: 06/06/2013] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Epimedium sagittatum (Sieb. et Zucc) Maxim is a member of the Berberidaceae family of basal eudicot plants, widely distributed and used as a traditional medicinal plant in China for therapeutic effects on many diseases with a long history. Recent data shows that E. sagittatum has a relatively large genome, with a haploid genome size of ~4496 Mbp, divided into a small number of only 12 diploid chromosomes (2n = 2x = 12). However, little is known about Epimedium genome structure and composition. Here we present the analysis of 691 kb of high-quality genomic sequence derived from 672 randomly selected plasmid clones of E. sagittatum genomic DNA, representing ~0.0154% of the genome. The sampled sequences comprised at least 78.41% repetitive DNA elements and 2.51% confirmed annotated gene sequences, with a total GC% content of 39%. Retrotransposons represented the major class of transposable element (TE) repeats identified (65.37% of all TE repeats), particularly LTR (Long Terminal Repeat) retrotransposons (52.27% of all TE repeats). Chromosome analysis and Fluorescence in situ Hybridization of Gypsy-Ty3 retrotransposons were performed to survey the E. sagittatum genome at the cytological level. Our data provide the first insights into the composition and structure of the E. sagittatum genome, and will facilitate the functional genomic analysis of this valuable medicinal plant.
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- Di Liu
- Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, China; E-Mails: (D.L.); (J.-J.C.); (Y.-J.Z.); (G.X.)
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China; E-Mail:
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, China; E-Mails: (D.L.); (J.-J.C.); (Y.-J.Z.); (G.X.)
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, China; E-Mails: (D.L.); (J.-J.C.); (Y.-J.Z.); (G.X.)
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, China; E-Mails: (D.L.); (J.-J.C.); (Y.-J.Z.); (G.X.)
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China
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- Wuhan Vegetable Research Station, Wuhan 430065, China; E-Mail:
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, China; E-Mails: (D.L.); (J.-J.C.); (Y.-J.Z.); (G.X.)
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Estep MC, DeBarry JD, Bennetzen JL. The dynamics of LTR retrotransposon accumulation across 25 million years of panicoid grass evolution. Heredity (Edinb) 2013; 110:194-204. [PMID: 23321774 PMCID: PMC3554455 DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2012.99] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2012] [Revised: 10/22/2012] [Accepted: 10/23/2012] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Sample sequence analysis was employed to investigate the repetitive DNAs that were most responsible for the evolved variation in genome content across seven panicoid grasses with >5-fold variation in genome size and different histories of polyploidy. In all cases, the most abundant repeats were LTR retrotransposons, but the particular families that had become dominant were found to be different in the Pennisetum, Saccharum, Sorghum and Zea lineages. One element family, Huck, has been very active in all of the studied species over the last few million years. This suggests the transmittal of an active or quiescent autonomous set of Huck elements to this lineage at the founding of the panicoids. Similarly, independent recent activity of Ji and Opie elements in Zea and of Leviathan elements in Sorghum and Saccharum species suggests that members of these families with exceptional activation potential were present in the genome(s) of the founders of these lineages. In a detailed analysis of the Zea lineage, the combined action of several families of LTR retrotransposons were observed to have approximately doubled the genome size of Zea luxurians relative to Zea mays and Zea diploperennis in just the last few million years. One of the LTR retrotransposon amplification bursts in Zea may have been initiated by polyploidy, but the great majority of transposable element activations are not. Instead, the results suggest random activation of a few or many LTR retrotransposons families in particular lineages over evolutionary time, with some families especially prone to future activation and hyper-amplification.
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- M C Estep
- Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
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- Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
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- Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
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Reference genome sequence of the model plant Setaria. Nat Biotechnol 2012; 30:555-61. [PMID: 22580951 DOI: 10.1038/nbt.2196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 501] [Impact Index Per Article: 41.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2011] [Accepted: 03/29/2012] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Di Filippo M, Traini A, D'Agostino N, Frusciante L, Chiusano ML. Euchromatic and heterochromatic compositional properties emerging from the analysis of Solanum lycopersicum BAC sequences. Gene 2012; 499:176-81. [PMID: 22391094 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2012.02.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2012] [Accepted: 02/20/2012] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The consortium responsible for the sequencing of the tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) genome initially focused on the sequencing of the euchromatic regions using a BAC-by-BAC strategy. We analyzed the compositional features of the whole collection of BAC sequences publically available. This analysis highlights specific peculiarities of heterochromatic and euchromatic BACs, in particular: the whole BAC collection has i) a large variability in repeat and gene content, ii) a positive and significant correlation of LTR retrotransposons of the Gypsy class with the repeat content and iii) the preferential location of the SINEs (short interspersed nuclear elements) in BAC sequences showing a low repeat content. Our results point out a typical design of the tomato chromosomes and pave the way for further investigations on the relationship between DNA primary structure and chromatin organization in Solanaceae genomes.
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- Miriam Di Filippo
- University of Naples Federico II, Dept. of Soil, Plant, Environmental and Animal Production Sciences, Via Università 100, 80055 Portici, Italy.
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Bousios A, Kourmpetis YAI, Pavlidis P, Minga E, Tsaftaris A, Darzentas N. The turbulent life of Sirevirus retrotransposons and the evolution of the maize genome: more than ten thousand elements tell the story. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2012; 69:475-88. [PMID: 21967390 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2011.04806.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Sireviruses are one of the three genera of Copia long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposons, exclusive to and highly abundant in plants, and with a unique, among retrotransposons, genome structure. Yet, perhaps due to the few references to the Sirevirus origin of some families, compounded by the difficulty in correctly assigning retrotransposon families into genera, Sireviruses have hardly featured in recent research. As a result, analysis at this key level of classification and details of their colonization and impact on plant genomes are currently lacking. Recently, however, it became possible to accurately assign elements from diverse families to this genus in one step, based on highly conserved sequence motifs. Hence, Sirevirus dynamics in the relatively obese maize genome can now be comprehensively studied. Overall, we identified >10 600 intact and approximately 28 000 degenerate Sirevirus elements from a plethora of families, some brought into the genus for the first time. Sireviruses make up approximately 90% of the Copia population and it is the only genus that has successfully infiltrated the genome, possibly by experiencing intense amplification during the last 600 000 years, while being constantly recycled by host mechanisms. They accumulate in chromosome-distal gene-rich areas, where they insert in between gene islands, mainly in preferred zones within their own genomes. Sirevirus LTRs are heavily methylated, while there is evidence for a palindromic consensus target sequence. This work brings Sireviruses in the spotlight, elucidating their lifestyle and history, and suggesting their crucial role in the current genomic make-up of maize, and possibly other plant hosts.
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- Alexandros Bousios
- Institute of Agrobiotechnology, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki 57001, Greece.
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Kalendar R, Antonius K, Smýkal P, Schulman AH. iPBS: a universal method for DNA fingerprinting and retrotransposon isolation. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2010; 121:1419-1430. [PMID: 20623102 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-010-1398-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2010] [Accepted: 06/19/2010] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Molecular markers are essential in plant and animal breeding and biodiversity applications, in human forensics, and for map-based cloning of genes. The long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposons are well suited as molecular markers. As dispersed and ubiquitous transposable elements, their "copy and paste" life cycle of replicative transposition leads to new genome insertions without excision of the original element. Both the overall structure of retrotransposons and the domains responsible for the various phases of their replication are highly conserved in all eukaryotes. Nevertheless, up to a year has been required to develop a retrotransposon marker system in a new species, involving cloning and sequencing steps as well as the development of custom primers. Here, we describe a novel PCR-based method useful both as a marker system in its own right and for the rapid isolation of retrotransposon termini and full-length elements, making it ideal for "orphan crops" and other species with underdeveloped marker systems. The method, iPBS amplification, is based on the virtually universal presence of a tRNA complement as a reverse transcriptase primer binding site (PBS) in LTR retrotransposons. The method differs from earlier retrotransposon isolation methods because it is applicable not only to endogenous retroviruses and retroviruses, but also to both Gypsy and Copia LTR retrotransposons, as well as to non-autonomous LARD and TRIM elements, throughout the plant kingdom and to animals. Furthermore, the inter-PBS amplification technique as such has proved to be a powerful DNA fingerprinting technology without the need for prior sequence knowledge.
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- Ruslan Kalendar
- MTT/BI Plant Genomics Laboratory, Institute of Biotechnology, Viikki Biocenter, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 65, Helsinki, Finland
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Choulet F, Wicker T, Rustenholz C, Paux E, Salse J, Leroy P, Schlub S, Le Paslier MC, Magdelenat G, Gonthier C, Couloux A, Budak H, Breen J, Pumphrey M, Liu S, Kong X, Jia J, Gut M, Brunel D, Anderson JA, Gill BS, Appels R, Keller B, Feuillet C. Megabase level sequencing reveals contrasted organization and evolution patterns of the wheat gene and transposable element spaces. THE PLANT CELL 2010; 22:1686-701. [PMID: 20581307 PMCID: PMC2910976 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.110.074187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 199] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2010] [Revised: 05/26/2010] [Accepted: 06/08/2010] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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To improve our understanding of the organization and evolution of the wheat (Triticum aestivum) genome, we sequenced and annotated 13-Mb contigs (18.2 Mb) originating from different regions of its largest chromosome, 3B (1 Gb), and produced a 2x chromosome survey by shotgun Illumina/Solexa sequencing. All regions carried genes irrespective of their chromosomal location. However, gene distribution was not random, with 75% of them clustered into small islands containing three genes on average. A twofold increase of gene density was observed toward the telomeres likely due to high tandem and interchromosomal duplication events. A total of 3222 transposable elements were identified, including 800 new families. Most of them are complete but showed a highly nested structure spread over distances as large as 200 kb. A succession of amplification waves involving different transposable element families led to contrasted sequence compositions between the proximal and distal regions. Finally, with an estimate of 50,000 genes per diploid genome, our data suggest that wheat may have a higher gene number than other cereals. Indeed, comparisons with rice (Oryza sativa) and Brachypodium revealed that a high number of additional noncollinear genes are interspersed within a highly conserved ancestral grass gene backbone, supporting the idea of an accelerated evolution in the Triticeae lineages.
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- Frédéric Choulet
- Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Université Blaise Pascal, Unité Mixte de Recherche 1095 Genetics Diversity and Ecophysiology of Cereals, F-63100 Clermont-Ferrand, France.
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Ingvardsen CR, Xing Y, Frei UK, Lübberstedt T. Genetic and physical fine mapping of Scmv2, a potyvirus resistance gene in maize. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2010; 120:1621-34. [PMID: 20155410 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-010-1281-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2009] [Accepted: 01/24/2010] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Sugarcane mosaic virus (SCMV) is an important virus pathogen both in European and Chinese maize production, causing serious losses in grain and forage yield in susceptible cultivars. Two major resistance loci confer resistance to SCMV, one located on chromosome 3 (Scmv2) and one on chromosome 6 (Scmv1). We developed a large isogenic mapping population segregating in the Scmv2, but not the Scmv1 region, to minimize genetic variation potentially affecting expression of SCMV resistance. We fine mapped Scmv2 to a region of 0.28 cM, covering a physical distance of 1.3426 Mb, and developed six new polymorphic SSR markers based on publicly available BAC sequences within this region. At present, we still have three recombinants left between Scmv2 and the nearest polymorphic marker on either side of the Scmv2 locus. The region showed synteny to a 1.6 Mb long sequence on chromosome 12 in rice. Analysis of the public B73 BAC library as well as the syntenic rice region did not reveal any similarity to known resistance genes. However, four new candidate genes with a possible involvement in movement of virus were detected.
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- Christina Roenn Ingvardsen
- Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Aarhus, Forsøgsvej 1, 4200, Slagelse, Denmark.
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MOTIVATION A large part of the maize B73 genome sequence is now available and emerging sequencing technologies will offer cheap and easy ways to sequence areas of interest from many other maize genotypes. One of the steps required to turn these sequences into valuable information is gene content prediction. To date, there is no publicly available gene predictor specifically trained for maize sequences. To this end, we have chosen to train the EuGène software that can combine several sources of evidence into a consolidated gene model prediction. AVAILABILITY http://genome.jouy.inra.fr/eugene/cgi-bin/eugene_form.pl.
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- Pierre Montalent
- INRA, UMR 0320 / UMR 8120 Génétique Végétale, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Yang L, Bennetzen JL. Distribution, diversity, evolution, and survival of Helitrons in the maize genome. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2009; 106:19922-7. [PMID: 19926865 PMCID: PMC2785268 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0908008106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2009] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Homology and structure-based approaches were used to identify Helitrons in the genome of maize inbred B73. A total of 1,930 intact Helitrons from eight families (62 subfamilies) and >20,000 Helitron fragments were identified, accounting for approximately 2.2% of the B73 genome. Transposition of at least one of these families is ongoing, but the most prominent burst of amplification activity was approximately 250,000 years ago. Sixty percent of maize Helitrons were found to have captured fragments of nuclear genes ( approximately 840 different fragment acquisitions, with tens of thousands of predicted gene fragments inside Helitrons within the B73 assembly). Most acquired gene fragments are undergoing random drift, but 4% were calculated to be under purifying selection, whereas another 4% exhibit apparent adaptive selection, suggesting beneficial effects for the host or Helitron transposition/retention. Gene fragment capture is frequent in some Helitron subfamilies, with as many as 10 unlinked genes providing DNA inserts within a single element. Gene fragment acquisition appears to positively influence element survival and/or ability of the Helitron to acquire additional gene fragments. Helitrons with gene fragment captures in the antisense orientation have a lesser chance of survival. Helitron distribution in maize exhibits severe biases, including preferential accumulation in relatively gene-rich regions. Insertions, however, are not usually found inside genes. Rather, Helitrons preferentially insert near (but not into) other Helitrons. This biased accumulation is not caused by a preference for cis or nearby transposition, suggesting a specific association between Helitron integration functions and unknown chromatin characteristics that specifically mark Helitrons.
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- Lixing Yang
- Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602
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Baucom RS, Estill JC, Chaparro C, Upshaw N, Jogi A, Deragon JM, Westerman RP, SanMiguel PJ, Bennetzen JL. Exceptional diversity, non-random distribution, and rapid evolution of retroelements in the B73 maize genome. PLoS Genet 2009; 5:e1000732. [PMID: 19936065 PMCID: PMC2774510 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000732] [Citation(s) in RCA: 245] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2009] [Accepted: 10/19/2009] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Recent comprehensive sequence analysis of the maize genome now permits detailed discovery and description of all transposable elements (TEs) in this complex nuclear environment. Reiteratively optimized structural and homology criteria were used in the computer-assisted search for retroelements, TEs that transpose by reverse transcription of an RNA intermediate, with the final results verified by manual inspection. Retroelements were found to occupy the majority (>75%) of the nuclear genome in maize inbred B73. Unprecedented genetic diversity was discovered in the long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposon class of retroelements, with >400 families (>350 newly discovered) contributing >31,000 intact elements. The two other classes of retroelements, SINEs (four families) and LINEs (at least 30 families), were observed to contribute 1,991 and ∼35,000 copies, respectively, or a combined ∼1% of the B73 nuclear genome. With regard to fully intact elements, median copy numbers for all retroelement families in maize was 2 because >250 LTR retrotransposon families contained only one or two intact members that could be detected in the B73 draft sequence. The majority, perhaps all, of the investigated retroelement families exhibited non-random dispersal across the maize genome, with LINEs, SINEs, and many low-copy-number LTR retrotransposons exhibiting a bias for accumulation in gene-rich regions. In contrast, most (but not all) medium- and high-copy-number LTR retrotransposons were found to preferentially accumulate in gene-poor regions like pericentromeric heterochromatin, while a few high-copy-number families exhibited the opposite bias. Regions of the genome with the highest LTR retrotransposon density contained the lowest LTR retrotransposon diversity. These results indicate that the maize genome provides a great number of different niches for the survival and procreation of a great variety of retroelements that have evolved to differentially occupy and exploit this genomic diversity. Although TEs are a major component of all studied plant genomes, and are the most significant contributors to genome structure and evolution in almost all eukaryotes that have been investigated, their properties and reasons for existence are not well understood in any eukaryotic genome. In order to begin a comprehensive study of TE contributions to the structure, function, and evolution of both genes and genomes, we first identified all of the TEs in maize and then investigated whether there were non-random patterns in their dispersal. We used homology and TE structure criteria in an effort to discover all of the retroelements in the recently sequenced genome from maize inbred B73. We found that the retroelements are incredibly diverse in maize, with many hundreds of families that show different insertion and/or retention specificities across the maize chromosomes. Most of these element families are present in low copy numbers and had been missed by previous searches that relied on a high-copy-number criterion. Different element families exhibited very different biases for accumulation across the chromosomes, indicating that they can detect and utilize many different chromatin environments.
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- Regina S. Baucom
- Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
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- Université de Perpignan, Via Domitia, CNRS UMR5096 LGDP, Perpignan, France
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- Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
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- Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
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- Université de Perpignan, Via Domitia, CNRS UMR5096 LGDP, Perpignan, France
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- Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America
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- Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America
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- Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
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Wei F, Stein JC, Liang C, Zhang J, Fulton RS, Baucom RS, De Paoli E, Zhou S, Yang L, Han Y, Pasternak S, Narechania A, Zhang L, Yeh CT, Ying K, Nagel DH, Collura K, Kudrna D, Currie J, Lin J, Kim H, Angelova A, Scara G, Wissotski M, Golser W, Courtney L, Kruchowski S, Graves TA, Rock SM, Adams S, Fulton LA, Fronick C, Courtney W, Kramer M, Spiegel L, Nascimento L, Kalyanaraman A, Chaparro C, Deragon JM, Miguel PS, Jiang N, Wessler SR, Green PJ, Yu Y, Schwartz DC, Meyers BC, Bennetzen JL, Martienssen RA, McCombie WR, Aluru S, Clifton SW, Schnable PS, Ware D, Wilson RK, Wing RA. Detailed analysis of a contiguous 22-Mb region of the maize genome. PLoS Genet 2009; 5:e1000728. [PMID: 19936048 PMCID: PMC2773423 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000728] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2009] [Accepted: 10/16/2009] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Most of our understanding of plant genome structure and evolution has come from the careful annotation of small (e.g., 100 kb) sequenced genomic regions or from automated annotation of complete genome sequences. Here, we sequenced and carefully annotated a contiguous 22 Mb region of maize chromosome 4 using an improved pseudomolecule for annotation. The sequence segment was comprehensively ordered, oriented, and confirmed using the maize optical map. Nearly 84% of the sequence is composed of transposable elements (TEs) that are mostly nested within each other, of which most families are low-copy. We identified 544 gene models using multiple levels of evidence, as well as five miRNA genes. Gene fragments, many captured by TEs, are prevalent within this region. Elimination of gene redundancy from a tetraploid maize ancestor that originated a few million years ago is responsible in this region for most disruptions of synteny with sorghum and rice. Consistent with other sub-genomic analyses in maize, small RNA mapping showed that many small RNAs match TEs and that most TEs match small RNAs. These results, performed on approximately 1% of the maize genome, demonstrate the feasibility of refining the B73 RefGen_v1 genome assembly by incorporating optical map, high-resolution genetic map, and comparative genomic data sets. Such improvements, along with those of gene and repeat annotation, will serve to promote future functional genomic and phylogenomic research in maize and other grasses.
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- Fusheng Wei
- Arizona Genomics Institute, School of Plant Sciences and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, BIO5 Institute for Collaborative Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America
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- Arizona Genomics Institute, School of Plant Sciences and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, BIO5 Institute for Collaborative Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
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- The Genome Center and Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
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- Department of Plant and Soil Sciences and Delaware Biotechnology Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, United States of America
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- Laboratory for Molecular and Computational Genomics, Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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- Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Agronomy and Center for Plant Genomics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America
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- Department of Agronomy and Center for Plant Genomics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
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- Arizona Genomics Institute, School of Plant Sciences and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, BIO5 Institute for Collaborative Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
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- Arizona Genomics Institute, School of Plant Sciences and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, BIO5 Institute for Collaborative Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
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- Arizona Genomics Institute, School of Plant Sciences and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, BIO5 Institute for Collaborative Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
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- Arizona Genomics Institute, School of Plant Sciences and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, BIO5 Institute for Collaborative Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
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- Arizona Genomics Institute, School of Plant Sciences and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, BIO5 Institute for Collaborative Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
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- Arizona Genomics Institute, School of Plant Sciences and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, BIO5 Institute for Collaborative Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
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- Arizona Genomics Institute, School of Plant Sciences and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, BIO5 Institute for Collaborative Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
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- Arizona Genomics Institute, School of Plant Sciences and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, BIO5 Institute for Collaborative Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
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- Arizona Genomics Institute, School of Plant Sciences and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, BIO5 Institute for Collaborative Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
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- The Genome Center and Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- The Genome Center and Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- The Genome Center and Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- The Genome Center and Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- The Genome Center and Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- The Genome Center and Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- The Genome Center and Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- The Genome Center and Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America
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- School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America
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- Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, CNRS UMR 5096, Perpignan, France
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- Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, CNRS UMR 5096, Perpignan, France
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- Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America
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- Department of Horticulture, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
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- Department of Plant and Soil Sciences and Delaware Biotechnology Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, United States of America
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- Arizona Genomics Institute, School of Plant Sciences and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, BIO5 Institute for Collaborative Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
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- Laboratory for Molecular and Computational Genomics, Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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- Department of Plant and Soil Sciences and Delaware Biotechnology Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, United States of America
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- Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America
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- The Genome Center and Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- Department of Agronomy and Center for Plant Genomics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America
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- The Genome Center and Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- Arizona Genomics Institute, School of Plant Sciences and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, BIO5 Institute for Collaborative Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
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Zou J, Gong H, Yang TJ, Meng J. Retrotransposons - a major driving force in plant genome evolution and a useful tool for genome analysis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2009. [DOI: 10.1007/s12892-009-0070-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Hale CJ, Erhard KF, Lisch D, Hollick JB. Production and processing of siRNA precursor transcripts from the highly repetitive maize genome. PLoS Genet 2009; 5:e1000598. [PMID: 19680464 PMCID: PMC2725412 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2009] [Accepted: 07/14/2009] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Mutations affecting the maintenance of heritable epigenetic states in maize identify multiple RNA–directed DNA methylation (RdDM) factors including RMR1, a novel member of a plant-specific clade of Snf2-related proteins. Here we show that RMR1 is necessary for the accumulation of a majority of 24 nt small RNAs, including those derived from Long-Terminal Repeat (LTR) retrotransposons, the most common repetitive feature in the maize genome. A genetic analysis of DNA transposon repression indicates that RMR1 acts upstream of the RNA–dependent RNA polymerase, RDR2 (MOP1). Surprisingly, we show that non-polyadenylated transcripts from a sampling of LTR retrotransposons are lost in both rmr1 and rdr2 mutants. In contrast, plants deficient for RNA Polymerase IV (Pol IV) function show an increase in polyadenylated LTR RNA transcripts. These findings support a model in which Pol IV functions independently of the small RNA accumulation facilitated by RMR1 and RDR2 and support that a loss of Pol IV leads to RNA Polymerase II–based transcription. Additionally, the lack of changes in general genome homeostasis in rmr1 mutants, despite the global loss of 24 nt small RNAs, challenges the perceived roles of siRNAs in maintaining functional heterochromatin in the genomes of outcrossing grass species. Most eukaryotic genomes are divided into two functional classes of regulation: the euchromatic and the heterochromatic. Heterochromatic regions, often composed of potentially deleterious transposons and retrotransposons, are typically viewed as “silent” or not transcribed. Paradoxically, evidence from multiple organisms indicates that heterochromatic regions must be transcribed to maintain a heterochromatic character. In plants, specialized RNA polymerase complexes are thought to specifically process repetitive regions of the genome into small RNA molecules that facilitate maintenance of a heterochromatic environment. We investigated the role of this specialized polymerase pathway in maintaining maize genome homeostasis with particular focus on RMR1, a novel protein related to a family of DNA repair proteins, whose function in modifying repetitive regions of the genome is unknown. We find most small RNA generation is dependent on RMR1, which appears to function downstream of the specialized polymerase, RNA polymerase IV. However, we provide evidence that the function of RNA polymerase IV is not disrupted by the absence of small RNA generation. Our results suggest the division of the plant genome into euchromatin and heterochromatin is maintained by template competition between the specialized plant polymerases and canonical RNA polymerase II, and not by the subsequent generation of small RNA molecules.
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- Christopher J. Hale
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America
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Quantification and organization of WIS2-1A and BARE-1 retrotransposons in different genomes of Triticum and Aegilops species. Mol Genet Genomics 2009; 282:245-55. [PMID: 19543749 DOI: 10.1007/s00438-009-0462-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2008] [Accepted: 05/21/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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A real-time PCR approach was adopted and optimized to estimate and compare, through a relative quantification, the copy number of WIS2-1A and BARE-1 retrotransposons. The aim of this approach was to identify and quantify the presence of these retrotransposons in Triticum and Aegilops species, and to understand better the genome organization of these retroelements. The species were selected to assess and compare the evolution of the different types of genomes between the more recent species such as the diploid Triticum monococcum, tetraploid T. dicoccon and hexaploid T. spelta, and the corresponding genome donors of the ancient diploids Aegilops (Ae. speltoides, Ae. tauschii, Ae. sharonensis and Ae. bicornis) and T. urartu. The results of this study indicated the presence of great variation in copy number both within and among species, and the existence of a non-linear relationship between retrotransposon copy number and ploidy level. For WIS2-1A, as expected, T. monococcum showed the lowest copy number which instead was similar in T. dicoccon and T. spelta; also T. urartu (AA), Ae. speltoides (BB) and Ae. tauschii (DD) showed a higher WIS2-1A copy number. Similar results were observed for BARE-1 retroelements except for Ae. tauschii which as in T. monococcum showed lower retroelements content; a similar content for T. dicoccon and T. urartu, whereas a higher number was found in T. spelta and Ae. speltoides. The results presented here are in accord with previous studies and contribute to unravelling the structure and evolution of polyploidy and repetitive genomes.
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Peters SA, Datema E, Szinay D, van Staveren MJ, Schijlen EGWM, van Haarst JC, Hesselink T, Abma-Henkens MHC, Bai Y, de Jong H, Stiekema WJ, Klein Lankhorst RM, van Ham RCHJ. Solanum lycopersicum cv. Heinz 1706 chromosome 6: distribution and abundance of genes and retrotransposable elements. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2009; 58:857-69. [PMID: 19207213 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2009.03822.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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We studied the physical and genetic organization of chromosome 6 of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) cv. Heinz 1706 by combining bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) sequence analysis, high-information-content fingerprinting, genetic analysis, and BAC-fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) mapping data. The chromosome positions of 81 anchored seed and extension BACs corresponded in most cases with the linear marker order on the high-density EXPEN 2000 linkage map. We assembled 25 BAC contigs and eight singleton BACs spanning 2.0 Mb of the short-arm euchromatin, 1.8 Mb of the pericentromeric heterochromatin and 6.9 Mb of the long-arm euchromatin. Sequence data were combined with their corresponding genetic and pachytene chromosome positions into an integrated map that covers approximately a third of the chromosome 6 euchromatin and a small part of the pericentromeric heterochromatin. We then compared physical length (Mb), genetic (cM) and chromosome distances (microm) for determining gap sizes between contigs, revealing relative hot and cold spots of recombination. Through sequence annotation we identified several clusters of functionally related genes and an uneven distribution of both gene and repeat sequences between heterochromatin and euchromatin domains. Although a greater number of the non-transposon genes were located in the euchromatin, the highly repetitive (22.4%) pericentromeric heterochromatin displayed an unexpectedly high gene content of one gene per 36.7 kb. Surprisingly, the short-arm euchromatin was relatively rich in repeats as well, with a repeat content of 13.4%, yet the ratio of Ty3/Gypsy and Ty1/Copia retrotransposable elements across the chromosome clearly distinguished euchromatin (2:3) from heterochromatin (3:2).
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- Sander A Peters
- Wageningen University Centre for Biosystems Genomics, Droevendaalsesteeg 1 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands.
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Morse AM, Peterson DG, Islam-Faridi MN, Smith KE, Magbanua Z, Garcia SA, Kubisiak TL, Amerson HV, Carlson JE, Nelson CD, Davis JM. Evolution of genome size and complexity in Pinus. PLoS One 2009; 4:e4332. [PMID: 19194510 PMCID: PMC2633040 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 137] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2008] [Accepted: 12/24/2008] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Genome evolution in the gymnosperm lineage of seed plants has given rise to many of the most complex and largest plant genomes, however the elements involved are poorly understood. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Gymny is a previously undescribed retrotransposon family in Pinus that is related to Athila elements in Arabidopsis. Gymny elements are dispersed throughout the modern Pinus genome and occupy a physical space at least the size of the Arabidopsis thaliana genome. In contrast to previously described retroelements in Pinus, the Gymny family was amplified or introduced after the divergence of pine and spruce (Picea). If retrotransposon expansions are responsible for genome size differences within the Pinaceae, as they are in angiosperms, then they have yet to be identified. In contrast, molecular divergence of Gymny retrotransposons together with other families of retrotransposons can account for the large genome complexity of pines along with protein-coding genic DNA, as revealed by massively parallel DNA sequence analysis of Cot fractionated genomic DNA. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE Most of the enormous genome complexity of pines can be explained by divergence of retrotransposons, however the elements responsible for genome size variation are yet to be identified. Genomic resources for Pinus including those reported here should assist in further defining whether and how the roles of retrotransposons differ in the evolution of angiosperm and gymnosperm genomes.
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- Alison M. Morse
- School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
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- Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi, United States of America
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- Southern Institute of Forest Genetics, USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station, Saucier, Mississippi, United States of America
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- Southern Institute of Forest Genetics, USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station, Saucier, Mississippi, United States of America
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- Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi, United States of America
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- Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Southern Institute of Forest Genetics, USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station, Saucier, Mississippi, United States of America
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- Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
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- School of Forest Resources, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Southern Institute of Forest Genetics, USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station, Saucier, Mississippi, United States of America
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- School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
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The evolution of plant genomes: scaling up from a population perspective. Curr Opin Genet Dev 2009; 18:565-70. [PMID: 19131240 DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2008.11.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2008] [Revised: 11/14/2008] [Accepted: 11/18/2008] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Plant genomes exhibit tremendous diversity in both their size and structure, with genome sizes across land plants ranging over two to three orders of magnitude and significant variation in structural organization was observed across species (EA Kellogg, JL Bennetzen, The evolution of nuclear genome structure in seed plants, Am J Bot 2004, 91:1709-1725). Five plant genomes are now either completely sequenced or in the draft stage; the grape (O Jaillon et al., The grapevine genome sequence suggests ancestral hexaploidization in major angiosperm phyla, Nature 2007, 449:463-467) and papaya (R Ming et al., The draft genome of the transgenic tropical fruit tree papaya (Carica papaya Linnaeus), Nature 2008, 452:991-997) whole genome sequences were reported most recently. Moreover, sequencing of 41 additional genomes is in progress. There is now an emerging consensus that understanding genome evolution requires consideration of the population genetics of genome diversification, and that description of evolutionary forces at the level of populations and within species can help identify the features that led to plant genome diversity (M Lynch, JS Conery, The origins of genome complexity, Science 2003, 302:1401-1404). In this review we focus on advances in our understanding of the mechanisms that drive the diversification of genomes. In particular, we look at the extent to which demographic features such as effective population size changes within species can drive genome evolution, discuss population genetic models of genome diversification associated with transposable element (TE) mobilization, and describe recent studies on the evolution of gene families.
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Nelson W, Luo M, Ma J, Estep M, Estill J, He R, Talag J, Sisneros N, Kudrna D, Kim H, Ammiraju JSS, Collura K, Bharti AK, Messing J, Wing RA, SanMiguel P, Bennetzen JL, Soderlund C. Methylation-sensitive linking libraries enhance gene-enriched sequencing of complex genomes and map DNA methylation domains. BMC Genomics 2008; 9:621. [PMID: 19099592 PMCID: PMC2628917 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-9-621] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2008] [Accepted: 12/19/2008] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Background Many plant genomes are resistant to whole-genome assembly due to an abundance of repetitive sequence, leading to the development of gene-rich sequencing techniques. Two such techniques are hypomethylated partial restriction (HMPR) and methylation spanning linker libraries (MSLL). These libraries differ from other gene-rich datasets in having larger insert sizes, and the MSLL clones are designed to provide reads localized to "epigenetic boundaries" where methylation begins or ends. Results A large-scale study in maize generated 40,299 HMPR sequences and 80,723 MSLL sequences, including MSLL clones exceeding 100 kb. The paired end reads of MSLL and HMPR clones were shown to be effective in linking existing gene-rich sequences into scaffolds. In addition, it was shown that the MSLL clones can be used for anchoring these scaffolds to a BAC-based physical map. The MSLL end reads effectively identified epigenetic boundaries, as indicated by their preferential alignment to regions upstream and downstream from annotated genes. The ability to precisely map long stretches of fully methylated DNA sequence is a unique outcome of MSLL analysis, and was also shown to provide evidence for errors in gene identification. MSLL clones were observed to be significantly more repeat-rich in their interiors than in their end reads, confirming the correlation between methylation and retroelement content. Both MSLL and HMPR reads were found to be substantially gene-enriched, with the SalI MSLL libraries being the most highly enriched (31% align to an EST contig), while the HMPR clones exhibited exceptional depletion of repetitive DNA (to ~11%). These two techniques were compared with other gene-enrichment methods, and shown to be complementary. Conclusion MSLL technology provides an unparalleled approach for mapping the epigenetic status of repetitive blocks and for identifying sequences mis-identified as genes. Although the types and natures of epigenetic boundaries are barely understood at this time, MSLL technology flags both approximate boundaries and methylated genes that deserve additional investigation. MSLL and HMPR sequences provide a valuable resource for maize genome annotation, and are a uniquely valuable complement to any plant genome sequencing project. In order to make these results fully accessible to the community, a web display was developed that shows the alignment of MSLL, HMPR, and other gene-rich sequences to the BACs; this display is continually updated with the latest ESTs and BAC sequences.
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- William Nelson
- Arizona Genomics Computational Laboratory, BIO5 Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
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Epigenetic Phenomena and Epigenomics in Maize. Epigenomics 2008. [DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9187-2_8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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Xu X, Zhu D, Zhao Q, Ao G, Ma C, Yu J. RNA silencing mediated by direct repeats in maize: a potential tool for functional genomics. Mol Biotechnol 2008; 41:213-23. [PMID: 19031013 DOI: 10.1007/s12033-008-9124-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2008] [Accepted: 10/29/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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It has been shown in tobacco and Arabidopsis that transgenes with multiple direct repeats induce RNA silencing at high frequency. In this study, we tried to establish a direct repeat-induced RNA silencing system in maize and evaluate whether it can be developed as a high throughput tool for functional genomics. Our results showed that the construct phC4, which carries four direct repeats of a chloramphenicol acetyl-transferase (CAT) gene, was able to induce silencing of itself with high efficiency in maize. Using a transient expression system, we further demonstrated that construct phC3G with a beta-glucuronidase (GUS) gene located downstream of three direct repeats of CAT gene silenced not only itself in maize calli but also an "endogenous" GUS gene, which was stably expressed in maize calli. Most importantly, when constructs with the maize iojap (ij) gene inserted in either sense or antisense orientation into the downstream of four direct repeats of CAT gene were transformed into maize plants, co-suppression of endogenous and transgenic ij genes was detected in majority of transgenic maize plants. Our co-suppression results suggest that with improvements, this new approach has the potential to become an efficient research tool for high throughput functional genomics.
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- Xiuping Xu
- State Key Laboratory for Agro-biotechnology, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, No. 2 Yuanmingyuan West Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100094, People's Republic of China
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Novikova O, Mayorov V, Smyshlyaev G, Fursov M, Adkison L, Pisarenko O, Blinov A. Novel clades of chromodomain-containing Gypsy LTR retrotransposons from mosses (Bryophyta). THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2008; 56:562-574. [PMID: 18643967 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2008.03621.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Retrotransposons are the major component of plant genomes. Chromodomain-containing Gypsy long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposons are widely distributed in eukaryotes. Four distinct clades of chromodomain-containing Gypsy retroelements are known from the vascular plants: Reina, CRM, Galadriel and Tekay. At the same time, almost nothing is known about the repertoire of LTR retrotransposons in bryophyte genomes. We have combined a search of chromodomain-containing Gypsy retroelements in Physcomitrella genomic sequences and an experimental investigation of diverse moss species. The computer-based mining of the chromodomain-containing LTR retrotransposons allowed us to describe four different elements from Physcomitrella. Four novel clades were identified that are evolutionarily distinct from the chromodomain-containing Gypsy LTR retrotransposons of other plants.
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- Olga Novikova
- Laboratory of Molecular Evolution, Institute of Cytology and Genetics SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia.
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Dynamics and differential proliferation of transposable elements during the evolution of the B and A genomes of wheat. Genetics 2008; 180:1071-86. [PMID: 18780739 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.108.092304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Transposable elements (TEs) constitute >80% of the wheat genome but their dynamics and contribution to size variation and evolution of wheat genomes (Triticum and Aegilops species) remain unexplored. In this study, 10 genomic regions have been sequenced from wheat chromosome 3B and used to constitute, along with all publicly available genomic sequences of wheat, 1.98 Mb of sequence (from 13 BAC clones) of the wheat B genome and 3.63 Mb of sequence (from 19 BAC clones) of the wheat A genome. Analysis of TE sequence proportions (as percentages), ratios of complete to truncated copies, and estimation of insertion dates of class I retrotransposons showed that specific types of TEs have undergone waves of differential proliferation in the B and A genomes of wheat. While both genomes show similar rates and relatively ancient proliferation periods for the Athila retrotransposons, the Copia retrotransposons proliferated more recently in the A genome whereas Gypsy retrotransposon proliferation is more recent in the B genome. It was possible to estimate for the first time the proliferation periods of the abundant CACTA class II DNA transposons, relative to that of the three main retrotransposon superfamilies. Proliferation of these TEs started prior to and overlapped with that of the Athila retrotransposons in both genomes. However, they also proliferated during the same periods as Gypsy and Copia retrotransposons in the A genome, but not in the B genome. As estimated from their insertion dates and confirmed by PCR-based tracing analysis, the majority of differential proliferation of TEs in B and A genomes of wheat (87 and 83%, respectively), leading to rapid sequence divergence, occurred prior to the allotetraploidization event that brought them together in Triticum turgidum and Triticum aestivum, <0.5 million years ago. More importantly, the allotetraploidization event appears to have neither enhanced nor repressed retrotranspositions. We discuss the apparent proliferation of TEs as resulting from their insertion, removal, and/or combinations of both evolutionary forces.
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Guo W, Cai C, Wang C, Zhao L, Wang L, Zhang T. A preliminary analysis of genome structure and composition in Gossypium hirsutum. BMC Genomics 2008; 9:314. [PMID: 18590573 PMCID: PMC2481271 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-9-314] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2008] [Accepted: 07/01/2008] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Background Upland cotton has the highest yield, and accounts for > 95% of world cotton production. Decoding upland cotton genomes will undoubtedly provide the ultimate reference and resource for structural, functional, and evolutionary studies of the species. Here, we employed GeneTrek and BAC tagging information approaches to predict the general composition and structure of the allotetraploid cotton genome. Results 142 BAC sequences from Gossypium hirsutum cv. Maxxa were downloaded and confirmed. These BAC sequence analysis revealed that the tetraploid cotton genome contains over 70,000 candidate genes with duplicated gene copies in homoeologous A- and D-subgenome regions. Gene distribution is uneven, with gene-rich and gene-free regions of the genome. Twenty-one percent of the 142 BACs lacked genes. BAC gene density ranged from 0 to 33.2 per 100 kb, whereas most gene islands contained only one gene with an average of 1.5 genes per island. Retro-elements were found to be a major component, first an enriched LTR/gypsy and second LTR/copia. Most LTR retrotransposons were truncated and in nested structures. In addition, 166 polymorphic loci amplified with SSRs developed from 70 BAC clones were tagged on our backbone genetic map. Seventy-five percent (125/166) of the polymorphic loci were tagged on the D-subgenome. By comprehensively analyzing the molecular size of amplified products among tetraploid G. hirsutum cv. Maxxa, acc. TM-1, and G. barbadense cv. Hai7124, and diploid G. herbaceum var. africanum and G. raimondii, 37 BACs, 12 from the A- and 25 from the D-subgenome, were further anchored to their corresponding subgenome chromosomes. After a large amount of genes sequence comparison from different subgenome BACs, the result showed that introns might have no contribution to different subgenome size in Gossypium. Conclusion This study provides us with the first glimpse of cotton genome complexity and serves as a foundation for tetraploid cotton whole genomesequencing in the future.
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- Wangzhen Guo
- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics & Germplasm Enhancement, Cotton Research Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, PR China.
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We report a group of TRIMs (terminal-repeat retrotransposons in miniature), which are small nonautonomous retrotransposons. These elements, named Cassandra, universally carry conserved 5S RNA sequences and associated RNA polymerase (pol) III promoters and terminators in their long terminal repeats (LTRs). They were found in all vascular plants investigated. Uniquely for LTR retrotransposons, Cassandra produces noncapped, polyadenylated transcripts from the 5S pol III promoter. Capped, read-through transcripts containing Cassandra sequences can also be detected in RNA and in EST databases. The predicted Cassandra RNA 5S secondary structures resemble those for cellular 5S rRNA, with high information content specifically in the pol III promoter region. Genic integration sites are common for Cassandra, an unusual feature for abundant retrotransposons. The 5S in each LTR produces a tandem 5S arrangement with an inter-5S spacing resembling that of cellular 5S. The distribution of 5S genes is very variable in flowering plants and may be partially explained by Cassandra activity. Cassandra thus appears both to have adapted a ubiquitous cellular gene for ribosomal RNA for use as a promoter and to parasitize an as-yet-unidentified group of retrotransposons for the proteins needed in its lifecycle.
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A transgenomic cytogenetic sorghum (Sorghum propinquum) bacterial artificial chromosome fluorescence in situ hybridization map of maize (Zea mays L.) pachytene chromosome 9, evidence for regions of genome hyperexpansion. Genetics 2007; 177:1509-26. [PMID: 17947405 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.107.080846] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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A cytogenetic FISH map of maize pachytene-stage chromosome 9 was produced with 32 maize marker-selected sorghum BACs as probes. The genetically mapped markers used are distributed along the linkage maps at an average spacing of 5 cM. Each locus was mapped by means of multicolor direct FISH with a fluorescently labeled probe mix containing a whole-chromosome paint, a single sorghum BAC clone, and the centromeric sequence, CentC. A maize-chromosome-addition line of oat was used for bright unambiguous identification of the maize 9 fiber within pachytene chromosome spreads. The locations of the sorghum BAC-FISH signals were determined, and each new cytogenetic locus was assigned a centiMcClintock position on the short (9S) or long (9L) arm. Nearly all of the markers appeared in the same order on linkage and cytogenetic maps but at different relative positions on the two. The CentC FISH signal was localized between cdo17 (at 9L.03) and tda66 (at 9S.03). Several regions of genome hyperexpansion on maize chromosome 9 were found by comparative analysis of relative marker spacing in maize and sorghum. This transgenomic cytogenetic FISH map creates anchors between various maps of maize and sorghum and creates additional tools and information for understanding the structure and evolution of the maize genome.
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