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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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Adu GB, Awuku FJ, Garcia-Oliveira AL, Amegbor IK, Nelimor C, Nboyine J, Karikari B, Atosona B, Manigben KA, Aboyadana PA. DArTseq-based SNP markers reveal high genetic diversity among early generation fall armyworm tolerant maize inbred lines. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0294863. [PMID: 38630672 PMCID: PMC11023204 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0294863] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2023] [Accepted: 11/09/2023] [Indexed: 04/19/2024] Open
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Diversity analysis using molecular markers serves as a powerful tool in unravelling the intricacies of inclusivity within various populations and is an initial step in the assessment of populations and the development of inbred lines for host plant resistance in maize. This study was conducted to assess the genetic diversity and population structure of 242 newly developed S3 inbred lines using 3,305 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers and to also assess the level of homozygosity achieved in each of the inbred lines. A total of 1,184 SNP markers were found highly informative, with a mean polymorphic information content (PIC) of 0.23. Gene diversity was high among the inbred lines, ranging from 0.04 to 0.50, with an average of 0.27. The residual heterozygosity of the 242 S3 inbred lines averaged 8.8%, indicating moderately low heterozygosity levels among the inbred lines. Eighty-four percent of the 58,322 pairwise kinship coefficients among the inbred lines were near zero (0.00-0.05), with only 0.3% of them above 0.50. These results revealed that many of the inbred lines were distantly related, but none were redundant, suggesting each inbred line had a unique genetic makeup with great potential to provide novel alleles for maize improvement. The admixture-based structure analysis, principal coordinate analysis, and neighbour-joining clustering were concordant in dividing the 242 inbred lines into three subgroups based on the pedigree and selection history of the inbred lines. These findings could guide the effective use of the newly developed inbred lines and their evaluation in quantitative genetics and molecular studies to identify candidate lines for breeding locally adapted fall armyworm tolerant varieties in Ghana and other countries in West and Central Africa.
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- International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Nairobi, Kenya
- Department of Molecular Biology, College of Biotechnology, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana, India
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- CSIR-Savanna Agricultural Research Institute, Nyankpala, Ghana
- Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, Department of Plant Breeding, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
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- CSIR-Savanna Agricultural Research Institute, Nyankpala, Ghana
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- CSIR-Savanna Agricultural Research Institute, Nyankpala, Ghana
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- Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Consumer Sciences, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana
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Herbst J, Li QQ, De Veylder L. Mechanistic insights into DNA damage recognition and checkpoint control in plants. NATURE PLANTS 2024; 10:539-550. [PMID: 38503962 DOI: 10.1038/s41477-024-01652-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2023] [Accepted: 02/18/2024] [Indexed: 03/21/2024]
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The plant DNA damage response (DDR) pathway safeguards genomic integrity by rapid recognition and repair of DNA lesions that, if unrepaired, may cause genome instability. Most frequently, DNA repair goes hand in hand with a transient cell cycle arrest, which allows cells to repair the DNA lesions before engaging in a mitotic event, but consequently also affects plant growth and yield. Through the identification of DDR proteins and cell cycle regulators that react to DNA double-strand breaks or replication defects, it has become clear that these proteins and regulators form highly interconnected networks. These networks operate at both the transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels and include liquid-liquid phase separation and epigenetic mechanisms. Strikingly, whereas the upstream DDR sensors and signalling components are well conserved across eukaryotes, some of the more downstream effectors are diverged in plants, probably to suit unique lifestyle features. Additionally, DDR components display functional diversity across ancient plant species, dicots and monocots. The observed resistance of DDR mutants towards aluminium toxicity, phosphate limitation and seed ageing indicates that gaining knowledge about the plant DDR may offer solutions to combat the effects of climate change and the associated risk for food security.
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- Josephine Herbst
- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
- Center for Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Gent, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
- Center for Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Gent, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium.
- Center for Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Gent, Belgium.
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Mastrangelo AM, Hartings H, Lanzanova C, Balconi C, Locatelli S, Cassol H, Valoti P, Petruzzino G, Pecchioni N. Genetic Diversity within a Collection of Italian Maize Inbred Lines: A Resource for Maize Genomics and Breeding. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2024; 13:336. [PMID: 38337869 PMCID: PMC10857507 DOI: 10.3390/plants13030336] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2023] [Revised: 01/16/2024] [Accepted: 01/17/2024] [Indexed: 02/12/2024]
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Genetic diversity is fundamental for studying the complex architecture of the traits of agronomic importance, controlled by major and minor loci. Moreover, well-characterized germplasm collections are essential tools for dissecting and analyzing genetic and phenotypic diversity in crops. A panel of 360 entries, a subset of a larger collection maintained within the GenBank at CREA Bergamo, which includes the inbreds derived from traditional Italian maize open-pollinated (OP) varieties and advanced breeding ones (Elite Inbreds), was analyzed to identify SNP markers using the tGBS® genotyping-by-sequencing technology. A total of 797,368 SNPs were found during the initial analysis. Imputation and filtering processes were carried out based on the percentage of missing data, redundant markers, and rarest allele frequencies, resulting in a final dataset of 15,872 SNP markers for which a physical map position was identified. Using this dataset, the inbred panel was characterized for linkage disequilibrium (LD), genetic diversity, population structure, and genetic relationships. LD decay at a genome-wide level indicates that the collection is a suitable resource for association mapping. Population structure analyses, which were carried out with different clustering methods, showed stable grouping statistics for four groups, broadly corresponding to 'Insubria', 'Microsperma', and 'Scagliolino' genotypes, with a fourth group composed prevalently of elite accessions derived from Italian and US breeding programs. Based on these results, the CREA Italian maize collection, genetically characterized in this study, can be considered an important tool for the mapping and characterization of useful traits and associated loci/alleles, to be used in maize breeding programs.
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- Anna Maria Mastrangelo
- CREA-Centro di Ricerca Cerealicoltura e Colture Industriali/Research Centre for Cereal and Industrial Crops, SS 673 Metri 25200, 71122 Foggia, Italy; (G.P.); (N.P.)
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- CREA-Centro di Ricerca Cerealicoltura e Colture Industriali/Research Centre for Cereal and Industrial Crops, Via Stezzano 24, 24126 Bergamo, Italy; (H.H.); (C.L.); (C.B.); (S.L.); (H.C.); (P.V.)
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- CREA-Centro di Ricerca Cerealicoltura e Colture Industriali/Research Centre for Cereal and Industrial Crops, Via Stezzano 24, 24126 Bergamo, Italy; (H.H.); (C.L.); (C.B.); (S.L.); (H.C.); (P.V.)
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- CREA-Centro di Ricerca Cerealicoltura e Colture Industriali/Research Centre for Cereal and Industrial Crops, Via Stezzano 24, 24126 Bergamo, Italy; (H.H.); (C.L.); (C.B.); (S.L.); (H.C.); (P.V.)
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- CREA-Centro di Ricerca Cerealicoltura e Colture Industriali/Research Centre for Cereal and Industrial Crops, Via Stezzano 24, 24126 Bergamo, Italy; (H.H.); (C.L.); (C.B.); (S.L.); (H.C.); (P.V.)
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- CREA-Centro di Ricerca Cerealicoltura e Colture Industriali/Research Centre for Cereal and Industrial Crops, Via Stezzano 24, 24126 Bergamo, Italy; (H.H.); (C.L.); (C.B.); (S.L.); (H.C.); (P.V.)
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- CREA-Centro di Ricerca Cerealicoltura e Colture Industriali/Research Centre for Cereal and Industrial Crops, Via Stezzano 24, 24126 Bergamo, Italy; (H.H.); (C.L.); (C.B.); (S.L.); (H.C.); (P.V.)
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- CREA-Centro di Ricerca Cerealicoltura e Colture Industriali/Research Centre for Cereal and Industrial Crops, SS 673 Metri 25200, 71122 Foggia, Italy; (G.P.); (N.P.)
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- CREA-Centro di Ricerca Cerealicoltura e Colture Industriali/Research Centre for Cereal and Industrial Crops, SS 673 Metri 25200, 71122 Foggia, Italy; (G.P.); (N.P.)
- CREA-Centro di Ricerca Cerealicoltura e Colture Industriali/Research Centre for Cereal and Industrial Crops, Via Stezzano 24, 24126 Bergamo, Italy; (H.H.); (C.L.); (C.B.); (S.L.); (H.C.); (P.V.)
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Oggenfuss U, Croll D. Recent transposable element bursts are associated with the proximity to genes in a fungal plant pathogen. PLoS Pathog 2023; 19:e1011130. [PMID: 36787337 PMCID: PMC9970103 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1011130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2022] [Revised: 02/27/2023] [Accepted: 01/18/2023] [Indexed: 02/15/2023] Open
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The activity of transposable elements (TEs) contributes significantly to pathogen genome evolution. TEs often destabilize genome integrity but may also confer adaptive variation in pathogenicity or resistance traits. De-repression of epigenetically silenced TEs often initiates bursts of transposition activity that may be counteracted by purifying selection and genome defenses. However, how these forces interact to determine the expansion routes of TEs within a pathogen species remains largely unknown. Here, we analyzed a set of 19 telomere-to-telomere genomes of the fungal wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici. Phylogenetic reconstruction and ancestral state estimates of individual TE families revealed that TEs have undergone distinct activation and repression periods resulting in highly uneven copy numbers between genomes of the same species. Most TEs are clustered in gene poor niches, indicating strong purifying selection against insertions near coding sequences, or as a consequence of insertion site preferences. TE families with high copy numbers have low sequence divergence and strong signatures of defense mechanisms (i.e., RIP). In contrast, small non-autonomous TEs (i.e., MITEs) are less impacted by defense mechanisms and are often located in close proximity to genes. Individual TE families have experienced multiple distinct burst events that generated many nearly identical copies. We found that a Copia element burst was initiated from recent copies inserted substantially closer to genes compared to older copies. Overall, TE bursts tended to initiate from copies in GC-rich niches that escaped inactivation by genomic defenses. Our work shows how specific genomic environments features provide triggers for TE proliferation in pathogen genomes.
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- Ursula Oggenfuss
- Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics, Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics, Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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De novo transcriptome assembly from the nodal root growth zone of hydrated and water-deficit stressed maize inbred line FR697. Sci Rep 2023; 13:1960. [PMID: 36737660 PMCID: PMC9898524 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-29115-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2022] [Accepted: 01/31/2023] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Certain cultivars of maize show increased tolerance to water deficit conditions by maintenance of root growth. To better understand the molecular mechanisms related to this adaptation, nodal root growth zone samples were collected from the reference inbred line B73 and inbred line FR697, which exhibits a relatively greater ability to maintain root elongation under water deficits. Plants were grown under various water stress levels in both field and controlled environment settings. FR697-specific RNA-Seq datasets were generated and used for a de novo transcriptome assembly to characterize any genotype-specific genetic features. The assembly was aided by an Iso-Seq library of transcripts generated from various FR697 plant tissue samples. The Necklace pipeline was used to combine a Trinity de novo assembly along with a reference guided assembly and the Viridiplantae proteome to generate an annotated consensus "SuperTranscriptome" assembly of 47,915 transcripts with a N50 of 3152 bp in length. The results were compared by Blastn to maize reference genes, a Benchmarking Universal Single-Copy Orthologs (BUSCO) genome completeness report and compared with three maize reference genomes. The resultant 'SuperTranscriptome' was demonstrated to be of high-quality and will serve as an important reference for analysis of the maize nodal root transcriptomic response to environmental perturbations.
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Lup SD, Navarro-Quiles C, Micol JL. Versatile mapping-by-sequencing with Easymap v.2. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2023; 14:1042913. [PMID: 36778692 PMCID: PMC9909543 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1042913] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2022] [Accepted: 01/04/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Mapping-by-sequencing combines Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) with classical genetic mapping by linkage analysis to establish gene-to-phenotype relationships. Although numerous tools have been developed to analyze NGS datasets, only a few are available for mapping-by-sequencing. One such tool is Easymap, a versatile, easy-to-use package that performs automated mapping of point mutations and large DNA insertions. Here, we describe Easymap v.2, which also maps small insertion/deletions (InDels), and includes workflows to perform QTL-seq and variant density mapping analyses. Each mapping workflow can accommodate different experimental designs, including outcrossing and backcrossing, F2, M2, and M3 mapping populations, chemically induced mutation and natural variant mapping, input files containing single-end or paired-end reads of genomic or complementary DNA sequences, and alternative control sample files in FASTQ and VCF formats. Easymap v.2 can also be used as a variant analyzer in the absence of a mapping algorithm and includes a multi-threading option.
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Post F, Bornberg-Bauer E, Vasseur-Cognet M, Harrison MC. More effective transposon regulation in fertile, long-lived termite queens than in sterile workers. Mol Ecol 2023; 32:369-380. [PMID: 36320186 DOI: 10.1111/mec.16753] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2022] [Revised: 10/04/2022] [Accepted: 10/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Transposable elements (TEs) are mobile genetic sequences, which can cause the accumulation of genomic damage in the lifetime of an organism. The regulation of TEs, for instance via the piRNA-pathway, is an important mechanism to protect the integrity of genomes, especially in the germ-line where mutations can be transmitted to offspring. In eusocial insects, soma and germ-line are divided among worker and reproductive castes, so one may expect caste-specific differences in TE regulation to exist. To test this, we compared whole-genome levels of repeat element transcription in the fat body of female workers, kings and five different queen stages of the higher termite, Macrotermes natalensis. In this species, queens can live over 20 years, maintaining near maximum reproductive output, while sterile workers only live weeks. We found a strong, positive correlation between TE expression and the expression of neighbouring genes in all castes. However, we found substantially higher TE activity in workers than in reproductives. Furthermore, TE expression did not increase with age in queens, despite a sevenfold increase in overall gene expression, due to a significant upregulation of the piRNA-pathway in 20-year-old queens. Our results suggest a caste- and age-specific regulation of the piRNA-pathway has evolved in higher termites that is analogous to germ-line-specific activity in solitary organisms. In the fat body of these termite queens, an important metabolic tissue for maintaining their extreme longevity and reproductive output, an efficient regulation of TEs likely protects genome integrity, thus further promoting reproductive fitness even at high age.
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- Frederik Post
- Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- UMR IRD 242, UPEC, CNRS 7618, UPMC 113, INRAE 1392, Paris 7 113, Institute of Ecology and Environmental Sciences of Paris, Bondy, France.,University of Paris-Est, Créteil, France.,INSERM, Paris, France
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- Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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Wang J, Yuan L, Tang J, Liu J, Sun C, Itgen MW, Chen G, Sessions SK, Zhang G, Mueller RL. Transposable element and host silencing activity in gigantic genomes. Front Cell Dev Biol 2023; 11:1124374. [PMID: 36910142 PMCID: PMC9998948 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2023.1124374] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2022] [Accepted: 02/09/2023] [Indexed: 02/26/2023] Open
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Transposable elements (TEs) and the silencing machinery of their hosts are engaged in a germline arms-race dynamic that shapes TE accumulation and, therefore, genome size. In animal species with extremely large genomes (>10 Gb), TE accumulation has been pushed to the extreme, prompting the question of whether TE silencing also deviates from typical conditions. To address this question, we characterize TE silencing via two pathways-the piRNA pathway and KRAB-ZFP transcriptional repression-in the male and female gonads of Ranodon sibiricus, a salamander species with a ∼21 Gb genome. We quantify 1) genomic TE diversity, 2) TE expression, and 3) small RNA expression and find a significant relationship between the expression of piRNAs and TEs they target for silencing in both ovaries and testes. We also quantified TE silencing pathway gene expression in R. sibiricus and 14 other vertebrates with genome sizes ranging from 1 to 130 Gb and find no association between pathway expression and genome size. Taken together, our results reveal that the gigantic R. sibiricus genome includes at least 19 putatively active TE superfamilies, all of which are targeted by the piRNA pathway in proportion to their expression levels, suggesting comprehensive piRNA-mediated silencing. Testes have higher TE expression than ovaries, suggesting that they may contribute more to the species' high genomic TE load. We posit that apparently conflicting interpretations of TE silencing and genomic gigantism in the literature, as well as the absence of a correlation between TE silencing pathway gene expression and genome size, can be reconciled by considering whether the TE community or the host is currently "on the attack" in the arms race dynamic.
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- Jie Wang
- CAS Key Laboratory of Mountain Ecological Restoration and Bioresource Utilization & Ecological Restoration and Biodiversity Conservation Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Xinjiang Normal University, Urumqi, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Mountain Ecological Restoration and Bioresource Utilization & Ecological Restoration and Biodiversity Conservation Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.,College of Life Sciences, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Mountain Ecological Restoration and Bioresource Utilization & Ecological Restoration and Biodiversity Conservation Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
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- College of Life Sciences, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Mountain Ecological Restoration and Bioresource Utilization & Ecological Restoration and Biodiversity Conservation Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.,College of Life Sciences, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, China
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Genomic basis of the giga-chromosomes and giga-genome of tree peony Paeonia ostii. Nat Commun 2022; 13:7328. [PMID: 36443323 PMCID: PMC9705720 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-35063-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2022] [Accepted: 11/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Tree peony (Paeonia ostii) is an economically important ornamental plant native to China. It is also notable for its seed oil, which is abundant in unsaturated fatty acids such as α-linolenic acid (ALA). Here, we report chromosome-level genome assembly (12.28 Gb) of P. ostii. In contrast to monocots with giant genomes, tree peony does not appear to have undergone lineage-specific whole-genome duplication. Instead, explosive LTR expansion in the intergenic regions within a short period (~ two million years) may have contributed to the formation of its giga-genome. In addition, expansion of five types of histone encoding genes may have helped maintain the giga-chromosomes. Further, we conduct genome-wide association studies (GWAS) on 448 accessions and show expansion and high expression of several genes in the key nodes of fatty acid biosynthetic pathway, including SAD, FAD2 and FAD3, may function in high level of ALAs synthesis in tree peony seeds. Moreover, by comparing with cultivated tree peony (P. suffruticosa), we show that ectopic expression of class A gene AP1 and reduced expression of class C gene AG may contribute to the formation of petaloid stamens. Genomic resources reported in this study will be valuable for studying chromosome/genome evolution and tree peony breeding.
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Lim AH, Low ZJ, Shingate PN, Hong JH, Chong SC, Ng CCY, Liu W, Vaser R, Šikić M, Sung WKK, Nagarajan N, Tan P, Teh BT. Genome assembly and chemogenomic profiling of National Flower of Singapore Papilionanthe Miss Joaquim ‘Agnes’ reveals metabolic pathways regulating floral traits. Commun Biol 2022; 5:967. [PMID: 36109650 PMCID: PMC9477820 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-022-03940-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2022] [Accepted: 09/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Singapore’s National Flower, Papilionanthe (Ple.) Miss Joaquim ‘Agnes’ (PMJ) is highly prized as a horticultural flower from the Orchidaceae family. A combination of short-read sequencing, single-molecule long-read sequencing and chromatin contact mapping was used to assemble the PMJ genome, spanning 2.5 Gb and 19 pseudo-chromosomal scaffolds. Genomic resources and chemical profiling provided insights towards identifying, understanding and elucidating various classes of secondary metabolite compounds synthesized by the flower. For example, presence of the anthocyanin pigments detected by chemical profiling coincides with the expression of ANTHOCYANIN SYNTHASE (ANS), an enzyme responsible for the synthesis of the former. Similarly, the presence of vandaterosides (a unique class of glycosylated organic acids with the potential to slow skin aging) discovered using chemical profiling revealed the involvement of glycosyltransferase family enzymes candidates in vandateroside biosynthesis. Interestingly, despite the unnoticeable scent of the flower, genes involved in the biosynthesis of volatile compounds and chemical profiling revealed the combination of oxygenated hydrocarbons, including traces of linalool, beta-ionone and vanillin, forming the scent profile of PMJ. In summary, by combining genomics and biochemistry, the findings expands the known biodiversity repertoire of the Orchidaceae family and insights into the genome and secondary metabolite processes of PMJ. Genome assembly and metabolomic analysis of Singapore’s national flower, Papilionanthe (Ple.) Miss Joaquim “Agnes” (PMJ), expands the known genetic repertoire of the Orchidaceae family and insights into the biochemical processes of PMJ.
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Wang D, Yu C, Zhang J, Peterson T. Excision and reinsertion of Ac macrotransposons in maize. Genetics 2022; 221:iyac067. [PMID: 35471241 PMCID: PMC9339288 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/iyac067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2022] [Accepted: 04/18/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Eukaryotic Macrotransposons (MTns) can be formed by 2 nearby elements flanking a segment of host DNA. The maize Ac transposon can form Ac::MTns, but little is known about Ac::MTn transposition activities. Here, we studied 3 Ac::MTns at the maize p1 locus, each of which is composed of a segment of maize p1 genomic DNA (up to 15 kb) bounded by a fractured Ac element (fAc, 2039 bp), and a full-length Ac element in direct orientation. The resulting Ac::MTns are of 16, 16.5, and 22 kb total length. From these 3 Ac::MTns, we identified 10 independent cases of macrotransposition, and observed similar features of transposition between Ac::MTn and standard Ac/Ds, including characteristic excision footprints and insertion target site duplications. Nine out of the 10 Ac::MTn reinsertion targets were genetically linked to the donor sites, another similarity with Ac/Ds standard transposition. We also identified a MTn-like structure in the maize B73 reference genome and 5 NAM founder lines. The MTn in diverse lines is flanked by target site duplications, confirming the historic occurrence of MTn transposition during genome evolution. Our results show that Ac::MTns are capable of mobilizing segments of DNA long enough to include a typical full-length plant gene and in theory could erode gene colinearity in syntenic regions during plant genome evolution.
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- Dafang Wang
- Division of Math and Sciences, Delta State University, Cleveland, MS 38733-0001, USA
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- The Hormel Institute, University of Minnesota, Austin, MN 55912, USA
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- Department of Horticultural Science, Mountain Horticultural Crops Research and Extension Center, North Carolina State University, Mills River, NC 28759, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011-3260, USA
- Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011-3260, USA
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Tan YC, Kumar AU, Wong YP, Ling APK. Bioinformatics approaches and applications in plant biotechnology. J Genet Eng Biotechnol 2022; 20:106. [PMID: 35838847 PMCID: PMC9287518 DOI: 10.1186/s43141-022-00394-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2021] [Accepted: 07/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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BACKGROUND In recent years, major advance in molecular biology and genomic technologies have led to an exponential growth in biological information. As the deluge of genomic information, there is a parallel growth in the demands of tools in the storage and management of data, and the development of software for analysis, visualization, modelling, and prediction of large data set. MAIN BODY Particularly in plant biotechnology, the amount of information has multiplied exponentially with a large number of databases available from many individual plant species. Efficient bioinformatics tools and methodologies are also developed to allow rapid genome sequence and the study of plant genome in the 'omics' approach. This review focuses on the various bioinformatic applications in plant biotechnology, and their advantages in improving the outcome in agriculture. The challenges or limitations faced in plant biotechnology in the aspect of bioinformatics approach that explained the low progression in plant genomics than in animal genomics are also reviewed and assessed. CONCLUSION There is a critical need for effective bioinformatic tools, which are able to provide longer reads with unbiased coverage in order to overcome the complexity of the plant's genome. The advancement in bioinformatics is not only beneficial to the field of plant biotechnology and agriculture sectors, but will also contribute enormously to the future of humanity.
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- Yung Cheng Tan
- Division of Applied Biomedical Sciences and Biotechnology, School of Health Sciences, International Medical University, 126 Jalan Jalil Perkasa 19, Bukit Jalil, 57000, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Division of Applied Biomedical Sciences and Biotechnology, School of Health Sciences, International Medical University, 126 Jalan Jalil Perkasa 19, Bukit Jalil, 57000, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.,School of Biosciences and Biotechnology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600, Bangi, Malaysia
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- Division of Applied Biomedical Sciences and Biotechnology, School of Health Sciences, International Medical University, 126 Jalan Jalil Perkasa 19, Bukit Jalil, 57000, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Division of Applied Biomedical Sciences and Biotechnology, School of Health Sciences, International Medical University, 126 Jalan Jalil Perkasa 19, Bukit Jalil, 57000, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Hasan S, Huang L, Liu Q, Perlo V, O’Keeffe A, Margarido GRA, Furtado A, Henry RJ. The Long Read Transcriptome of Rice (Oryza sativa ssp. japonica var. Nipponbare) Reveals Novel Transcripts. RICE (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2022; 15:29. [PMID: 35689714 PMCID: PMC9188635 DOI: 10.1186/s12284-022-00577-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2022] [Accepted: 05/26/2022] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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BACKGROUND High-throughput next-generation sequencing technologies offer a powerful approach to characterizing the transcriptomes of plants. Long read sequencing has been shown to support the discovery of novel isoforms of transcripts. This approach enables the generation of full-length sequences revealing splice variants that may be important in regulating gene action. Investigation of the diversity of transcripts in the rice transcriptome including splice variants was conducted using PacBio long-read sequence data to improve the annotation of the rice genome. RESULTS A cDNA library was prepared from RNA extracted from leaves, roots, seeds, inflorescences, and panicles of O. sativa ssp. japonica var Nipponbare and sequenced on a PacBio Sequel platform. This produced 346,190 non-redundant full-length non-chimeric reads (FLNC) resulting in 33,504 high-quality transcripts. Half of the transcripts were multi-exonic and entirely matched with the reference transcripts. However, 14,874 novel isoforms were also identified resulting predominantly from intron retention and at least one novel splice site. Intron retention was the prevalent alternative splicing event and exon skipping was the least observed. Of 73,659 splice junctions, 12,755 (17%) represented novel splice junctions with canonical and non-canonical intron boundaries. The complexity of the transcriptome was examined in detail for 19 starch synthesis-related genes, defining 276 spliced isoforms of which 94 splice variants were novel. CONCLUSION The data reveal the great complexity of the rice transcriptome. The novel transcripts provide new insights that may be a key input in future research to improve the annotation of the rice genome.
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- Sharmin Hasan
- Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4072 Australia
- Department of Botany, Jagannath University, Dhaka, 1100 Bangladesh
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- College of Agriculture, Yangzhou University, Jiangsu, 225009 China
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- College of Agriculture, Yangzhou University, Jiangsu, 225009 China
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- Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4072 Australia
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- Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4072 Australia
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- Departamento de Genética, Escola Superior de Agricultura “Luiz de Queiroz”, Universidade de São Paulo, Piracicaba, São Paulo 13418-900 Brazil
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- Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4072 Australia
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- Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4072 Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4072 Australia
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Brazier-Hicks M, Franco-Ortega S, Watson P, Rougemont B, Cohn J, Dale R, Hawkes TR, Goldberg-Cavalleri A, Onkokesung N, Edwards R. Characterization of Cytochrome P450s with Key Roles in Determining Herbicide Selectivity in Maize. ACS OMEGA 2022; 7:17416-17431. [PMID: 35647462 PMCID: PMC9134415 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.2c01705] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2022] [Accepted: 04/27/2022] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Safeners such as metcamifen and benoxacor are widely used in maize to enhance the selectivity of herbicides through the induction of key detoxifying enzymes, notably cytochrome P450 monooxygenases (CYPs). Using a combination of transcriptomics, proteomics, and functional assays, the safener-inducible CYPs responsible for herbicide metabolism in this globally important crop have been identified. A total of 18 CYPs belonging to clans 71, 72, 74, and 86 were safener-induced, with the respective enzymes expressed in yeast and screened for activity toward thiadiazine (bentazon), sulfonylurea (nicosulfuron), and triketone (mesotrione and tembotrione) chemistries. Herbicide metabolism was largely restricted to family CYP81A members from clan 71, notably CYP81A9, CYP81A16, and CYP81A2. Quantitative transcriptomics and proteomics showed that CYP81A9/CYP81A16 were dominant enzymes in safener-treated field maize, whereas only CYP81A9 was determined in sweet corn. The relationship between CYP81A sequence and activities were investigated by splicing CYP81A2 and CP81A9 together as a series of recombinant chimeras. CYP81A9 showed wide ranging activities toward the three herbicide chemistries, while CYP81A2 uniquely hydroxylated bentazon in multiple positions. The plasticity in substrate specificity of CYP81A9 toward multiple herbicides resided in the second quartile of its N terminal half. Further phylogenetic analysis of CYP81A9 showed that the maize enzyme was related to other CYP81As linked to agrochemical metabolism in cereals and wild grasses, suggesting this clan 71 CYP has a unique function in determining herbicide selectivity in arable crops.
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- Melissa Brazier-Hicks
- Agriculture,
School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle
upon Tyne NE1 7RU, U.K.
- Syngenta,
Jealott’s Hill, Bracknell, Berkshire RG42 6EY, U.K.
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- Agriculture,
School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle
upon Tyne NE1 7RU, U.K.
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- Agriculture,
School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle
upon Tyne NE1 7RU, U.K.
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- Syngenta
Crop Protection, LLC, 9 Davis Drive, Research Triangle Park, Durham, North Carolina 27709-2257, United States
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- Syngenta,
Jealott’s Hill, Bracknell, Berkshire RG42 6EY, U.K.
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- Syngenta,
Jealott’s Hill, Bracknell, Berkshire RG42 6EY, U.K.
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- Agriculture,
School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle
upon Tyne NE1 7RU, U.K.
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- Agriculture,
School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle
upon Tyne NE1 7RU, U.K.
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- Agriculture,
School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle
upon Tyne NE1 7RU, U.K.
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Zhang J, Panthee DR. Next-generation sequencing-based bulked segregant analysis without sequencing the parental genomes. G3 GENES|GENOMES|GENETICS 2022; 12:6449447. [PMID: 34864988 PMCID: PMC9210294 DOI: 10.1093/g3journal/jkab400] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2021] [Accepted: 11/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Genomic regions that control traits of interest can be rapidly identified using BSA-Seq, a technology in which next-generation sequencing is applied to bulked segregant analysis (BSA). We recently developed the significant structural variant method for BSA-Seq data analysis that exhibits higher detection power than standard BSA-Seq analysis methods. Our original algorithm was developed to analyze BSA-Seq data in which genome sequences of one parent served as the reference sequences in genotype calling and, thus, required the availability of high-quality assembled parental genome sequences. Here, we modified the original script to effectively detect the genomic region–trait associations using only bulk genome sequences. We analyzed two public BSA-Seq datasets using our modified method and the standard allele frequency and G-statistic methods with and without the aid of the parental genome sequences. Our results demonstrate that the genomic region(s) associated with the trait of interest could be reliably identified via the significant structural variant method without using the parental genome sequences.
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- Jianbo Zhang
- Department of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University, Mountain Horticultural Crops Research and Extension Center, Mills River, NC 28759, USA
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- Department of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University, Mountain Horticultural Crops Research and Extension Center, Mills River, NC 28759, USA
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Pedroza-Garcia JA, Eekhout T, Achon I, Nisa MU, Coussens G, Vercauteren I, Van den Daele H, Pauwels L, Van Lijsebettens M, Raynaud C, De Veylder L. Maize ATR safeguards genome stability during kernel development to prevent early endosperm endocycle onset and cell death. THE PLANT CELL 2021; 33:2662-2684. [PMID: 34086963 PMCID: PMC8408457 DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koab158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2020] [Accepted: 05/31/2021] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
Abstract
The ataxia-telangiectasia mutated (ATM) and ATM and Rad3-related (ATR) kinases coordinate the DNA damage response. The roles described for Arabidopsis thaliana ATR and ATM are assumed to be conserved over other plant species, but molecular evidence is scarce. Here, we demonstrate that the functions of ATR and ATM are only partially conserved between Arabidopsis and maize (Zea mays). In both species, ATR and ATM play a key role in DNA repair and cell cycle checkpoint activation, but whereas Arabidopsis plants do not suffer from the absence of ATR under control growth conditions, maize mutant plants accumulate replication defects, likely due to their large genome size. Moreover, contrarily to Arabidopsis, maize ATM deficiency does not trigger meiotic defects, whereas the ATR kinase appears to be crucial for the maternal fertility. Strikingly, ATR is required to repress premature endocycle onset and cell death in the maize endosperm. Its absence results in a reduction of kernel size, protein and starch content, and a stochastic death of kernels, a process being counteracted by ATM. Additionally, while Arabidopsis atr atm double mutants are viable, no such mutants could be obtained for maize. Therefore, our data highlight that the mechanisms maintaining genome integrity may be more important for vegetative and reproductive development than previously anticipated.
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- Jose Antonio Pedroza-Garcia
- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent B-9052, Belgium
- Center for Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Ghent B-9052, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent B-9052, Belgium
- Center for Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Ghent B-9052, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent B-9052, Belgium
- Center for Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Ghent B-9052, Belgium
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- Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2), CNRS, INRA, University Paris-Sud, University of Evry, Paris University, Sorbonne Paris-Cite, University of Paris-Saclay, 91405, Orsay, France
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent B-9052, Belgium
- Center for Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Ghent B-9052, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent B-9052, Belgium
- Center for Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Ghent B-9052, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent B-9052, Belgium
- Center for Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Ghent B-9052, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent B-9052, Belgium
- Center for Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Ghent B-9052, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent B-9052, Belgium
- Center for Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Ghent B-9052, Belgium
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- Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2), CNRS, INRA, University Paris-Sud, University of Evry, Paris University, Sorbonne Paris-Cite, University of Paris-Saclay, 91405, Orsay, France
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Thielen PM, Pendleton AL, Player RA, Bowden KV, Lawton TJ, Wisecaver JH. Reference Genome for the Highly Transformable Setaria viridis ME034V. G3 (BETHESDA, MD.) 2020; 10:3467-3478. [PMID: 32694197 PMCID: PMC7534418 DOI: 10.1534/g3.120.401345] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2020] [Accepted: 07/16/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
Abstract
Setaria viridis (green foxtail) is an important model system for improving cereal crops due to its diploid genome, ease of cultivation, and use of C4 photosynthesis. The S. viridis accession ME034V is exceptionally transformable, but the lack of a sequenced genome for this accession has limited its utility. We present a 397 Mb highly contiguous de novo assembly of ME034V using ultra-long nanopore sequencing technology (read N50 = 41kb). We estimate that this genome is largely complete based on our updated k-mer based genome size estimate of 401 Mb for S. viridis Genome annotation identified 37,908 protein-coding genes and >300k repetitive elements comprising 46% of the genome. We compared the ME034V assembly with two other previously sequenced Setaria genomes as well as to a diversity panel of 235 S. viridis accessions. We found the genome assemblies to be largely syntenic, but numerous unique polymorphic structural variants were discovered. Several ME034V deletions may be associated with recent retrotransposition of copia and gypsy LTR repeat families, as evidenced by their low genotype frequencies in the sampled population. Lastly, we performed a phylogenomic analysis to identify gene families that have expanded in Setaria, including those involved in specialized metabolism and plant defense response. The high continuity of the ME034V genome assembly validates the utility of ultra-long DNA sequencing to improve genetic resources for emerging model organisms. Structural variation present in Setaria illustrates the importance of obtaining the proper genome reference for genetic experiments. Thus, we anticipate that the ME034V genome will be of significant utility for the Setaria research community.
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- Peter M Thielen
- Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland 20723
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- Department of Biochemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
- Purdue Center for Plant Biology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
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- Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland 20723
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- Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland 20723
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- Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland 20723
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- Department of Biochemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
- Purdue Center for Plant Biology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
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Linsmith G, Rombauts S, Montanari S, Deng CH, Celton JM, Guérif P, Liu C, Lohaus R, Zurn JD, Cestaro A, Bassil NV, Bakker LV, Schijlen E, Gardiner SE, Lespinasse Y, Durel CE, Velasco R, Neale DB, Chagné D, Van de Peer Y, Troggio M, Bianco L. Pseudo-chromosome-length genome assembly of a double haploid "Bartlett" pear (Pyrus communis L.). Gigascience 2019; 8:giz138. [PMID: 31816089 PMCID: PMC6901071 DOI: 10.1093/gigascience/giz138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2019] [Revised: 10/18/2019] [Accepted: 10/30/2019] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND We report an improved assembly and scaffolding of the European pear (Pyrus communis L.) genome (referred to as BartlettDHv2.0), obtained using a combination of Pacific Biosciences RSII long-read sequencing, Bionano optical mapping, chromatin interaction capture (Hi-C), and genetic mapping. The sample selected for sequencing is a double haploid derived from the same "Bartlett" reference pear that was previously sequenced. Sequencing of di-haploid plants makes assembly more tractable in highly heterozygous species such as P. communis. FINDINGS A total of 496.9 Mb corresponding to 97% of the estimated genome size were assembled into 494 scaffolds. Hi-C data and a high-density genetic map allowed us to anchor and orient 87% of the sequence on the 17 pear chromosomes. Approximately 50% (247 Mb) of the genome consists of repetitive sequences. Gene annotation confirmed the presence of 37,445 protein-coding genes, which is 13% fewer than previously predicted. CONCLUSIONS We showed that the use of a doubled-haploid plant is an effective solution to the problems presented by high levels of heterozygosity and duplication for the generation of high-quality genome assemblies. We present a high-quality chromosome-scale assembly of the European pear Pyrus communis and demostrate its high degree of synteny with the genomes of Malus x Domestica and Pyrus x bretschneideri.
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- Gareth Linsmith
- Center for Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Technologiepark 71, 9052, Gent, Belgium
- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Technologiepark 71, 9052 Gent, Belgium
- Fondazione Edmund Mach, via E. Mach 1, 38010, San Michele all'Adige (TN), Italy
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- Center for Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Technologiepark 71, 9052, Gent, Belgium
- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Technologiepark 71, 9052 Gent, Belgium
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- University of California Davis, Department of Plant Sciences, One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Limited (PFR), Mt Albert Research Centre,120 Mt Albert Road, Sandringham, Auckland, 1025, New Zealand
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- IRHS, INRA, Agrocampus-Ouest, Université d'Angers, SFR 4207 Quasav, 42 rue Georges Morel, F-49071 Beaucouzé, France
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- IRHS, INRA, Agrocampus-Ouest, Université d'Angers, SFR 4207 Quasav, 42 rue Georges Morel, F-49071 Beaucouzé, France
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- ZMBP, Allgemeine Genetik, Universität Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 32, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany
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- Center for Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Technologiepark 71, 9052, Gent, Belgium
- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Technologiepark 71, 9052 Gent, Belgium
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- USDA-ARS National Clonal Germplasm Repository, 33447 Peoria Road, Corvallis, OR 97333, USA
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- Fondazione Edmund Mach, via E. Mach 1, 38010, San Michele all'Adige (TN), Italy
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- USDA-ARS National Clonal Germplasm Repository, 33447 Peoria Road, Corvallis, OR 97333, USA
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- Wageningen UR – Bioscience P.O. Box 16, 6700AA, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Wageningen UR – Bioscience P.O. Box 16, 6700AA, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Limited (PFR), Palmerston North Research Centre, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- IRHS, INRA, Agrocampus-Ouest, Université d'Angers, SFR 4207 Quasav, 42 rue Georges Morel, F-49071 Beaucouzé, France
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- IRHS, INRA, Agrocampus-Ouest, Université d'Angers, SFR 4207 Quasav, 42 rue Georges Morel, F-49071 Beaucouzé, France
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- CREA Research Centre for Viticulture and Enology, Via XXVIII Aprile 26, 31015 Conegliano (TV), Italy
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- University of California Davis, Department of Plant Sciences, One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Limited (PFR), Palmerston North Research Centre, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- Center for Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Technologiepark 71, 9052, Gent, Belgium
- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Technologiepark 71, 9052 Gent, Belgium
- Center for Microbial Ecology and Genomics, Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, University of Pretoria, Roper street, Pretoria 0028, South Africa
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- Fondazione Edmund Mach, via E. Mach 1, 38010, San Michele all'Adige (TN), Italy
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- Fondazione Edmund Mach, via E. Mach 1, 38010, San Michele all'Adige (TN), Italy
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Zhao Y, Su C. Mapping quantitative trait loci for yield-related traits and predicting candidate genes for grain weight in maize. Sci Rep 2019; 9:16112. [PMID: 31695075 PMCID: PMC6834572 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-52222-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2019] [Accepted: 10/15/2019] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Quantitative trait loci (QTLs) mapped in different genetic populations are of great significance for marker-assisted breeding. In this study, an F2:3 population were developed from the crossing of two maize inbred lines SG-5 and SG-7 and applied to QTL mapping for seven yield-related traits. The seven traits included 100-kernel weight, ear length, ear diameter, cob diameter, kernel row number, ear weight, and grain weight per plant. Based on an ultra-high density linkage map, a total of thirty-three QTLs were detected for the seven studied traits with composite interval mapping (CIM) method, and fifty-four QTLs were indentified with genome-wide composite interval mapping (GCIM) methods. For these QTLs, Fourteen were both detected by CIM and GCIM methods. Besides, eight of the thirty QTLs detected by CIM were identical to those previously mapped using a F2 population (generating from the same cross as the mapping population in this study), and fifteen were identical to the reported QTLs in other recent studies. For the fifty-four QTLs detected by GCIM, five of them were consistent with the QTLs mapped in the F2 population of SG-5 × SG-7, and twenty one had been reported in other recent studies. The stable QTLs associated with grain weight were located on maize chromosomes 2, 5, 7, and 9. In addition, differentially expressed genes (DEGs) between SG-5 and SG-7 were obtained from the transcriptomic profiling of grain at different developmental stages and overlaid onto the stable QTLs intervals to predict candidate genes for grain weight in maize. In the physical intervals of confirmed QTLs qKW-7, qEW-9, qEW-10, qGWP-6, qGWP-8, qGWP-10, qGWP-11 and qGWP-12, there were 213 DEGs in total. Finally, eight genes were predicted as candidate genes for grain size/weight. In summary, the stable QTLs would be reliable and the candidate genes predicted would be benefit for maker assisted breeding or cloning.
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- Yanming Zhao
- College of Agronomy, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, 266109, P.R. China
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- College of Agronomy, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, 266109, P.R. China.
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Rogers RL, Zhou L, Chu C, Márquez R, Corl A, Linderoth T, Freeborn L, MacManes MD, Xiong Z, Zheng J, Guo C, Xun X, Kronforst MR, Summers K, Wu Y, Yang H, Richards-Zawacki CL, Zhang G, Nielsen R. Genomic Takeover by Transposable Elements in the Strawberry Poison Frog. Mol Biol Evol 2019; 35:2913-2927. [PMID: 30517748 PMCID: PMC6278860 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msy185] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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We sequenced the genome of the strawberry poison frog, Oophaga pumilio, at a depth of 127.5× using variable insert size libraries. The total genome size is estimated to be 6.76 Gb, of which 4.76 Gb are from high copy number repetitive elements with low differentiation across copies. These repeats encompass DNA transposons, RNA transposons, and LTR retrotransposons, including at least 0.4 and 1.0 Gb of Mariner/Tc1 and Gypsy elements, respectively. Expression data indicate high levels of gypsy and Mariner/Tc1 expression in ova of O. pumilio compared with Xenopus laevis. We further observe phylogenetic evidence for horizontal transfer (HT) of Mariner elements, possibly between fish and frogs. The elements affected by HT are present in high copy number and are highly expressed, suggesting ongoing proliferation after HT. Our results suggest that the large amphibian genome sizes, at least partially, can be explained by a process of repeated invasion of new transposable elements that are not yet suppressed in the germline. We also find changes in the spliceosome that we hypothesize are related to permissiveness of O. pumilio to increases in intron length due to transposon proliferation. Finally, we identify the complement of ion channels in the first genomic sequenced poison frog and discuss its relation to the evolution of autoresistance to toxins sequestered in the skin.
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- Rebekah L Rogers
- Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China.,China National Genebank, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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- Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Department of Molecular Cellular and Biomedical Sciences, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH.,Hubbard Center for Genomic Studies, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
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- Department of Biology, Eastern Carolina University, Greenville, NC
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China.,James D. Watson Institute of Genome Sciences, Hangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China.,China National Genebank, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.,Department of Biology, Centre for Social Evolution, Universitetsparken 15, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
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Sanchez F, Geffroy S, Norest M, Yau S, Moreau H, Grimsley N. Simplified Transformation of Ostreococcus tauri Using Polyethylene Glycol. Genes (Basel) 2019; 10:E399. [PMID: 31130696 PMCID: PMC6562926 DOI: 10.3390/genes10050399] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2019] [Revised: 05/16/2019] [Accepted: 05/21/2019] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Ostreococcustauri is an easily cultured representative of unicellular algae (class Mamiellophyceae) that abound in oceans worldwide. Eight complete 13-22 Mb genomes of phylogenetically divergent species within this class are available, and their DNA sequences are nearly always present in metagenomic data produced from marine samples. Here we describe a simplified and robust transformation protocol for the smallest of these algae (O. tauri). Polyethylene glycol (PEG) treatment was much more efficient than the previously described electroporation protocol. Short (2 min or less) incubation times in PEG gave >104 transformants per microgram DNA. The time of cell recovery after transformation could be reduced to a few hours, permitting the experiment to be done in a day rather than overnight as used in previous protocols. DNA was randomly inserted in the O. tauri genome. In our hands PEG was 20-40-fold more efficient than electroporation for the transformation of O. tauri, and this improvement will facilitate mutagenesis of all of the dispensable genes present in the tiny O. tauri genome.
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- Frédéric Sanchez
- CNRS UMR7232 BIOM (Biologie Intégrative des Organismes Marin) Sorbonne University, 66650 Banyuls sur Mer, France.
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- IFREMER, Centre Atlantique, 44331 Nantes CEDEX 03, France.
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- CNRS UMR7232 BIOM (Biologie Intégrative des Organismes Marin) Sorbonne University, 66650 Banyuls sur Mer, France.
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- CNRS UMR7232 BIOM (Biologie Intégrative des Organismes Marin) Sorbonne University, 66650 Banyuls sur Mer, France.
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- CNRS UMR7232 BIOM (Biologie Intégrative des Organismes Marin) Sorbonne University, 66650 Banyuls sur Mer, France.
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- CNRS UMR7232 BIOM (Biologie Intégrative des Organismes Marin) Sorbonne University, 66650 Banyuls sur Mer, France.
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Okagaki RJ, Dukowic-Schulze S, Eggleston WB, Muehlbauer GJ. A Critical Assessment of 60 Years of Maize Intragenic Recombination. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2018; 9:1560. [PMID: 30420864 PMCID: PMC6215864 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2018.01560] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2018] [Accepted: 10/04/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Until the mid-1950s, it was believed that genetic crossovers did not occur within genes. Crossovers occurred between genes, the "beads on a string" model. Then in 1956, Seymour Benzer published his classic paper describing crossing over within a gene, intragenic recombination. This result from a bacteriophage gene prompted Oliver Nelson to study intragenic recombination in the maize Waxy locus. His studies along with subsequent work by others working with maize and other organisms described the outcomes of intragenic recombination and provided some of the earliest evidence that genes, not intergenic regions, were recombination hotspots. High-throughput genotyping approaches have since replaced single gene intragenic studies for characterizing the outcomes of recombination. These large-scale studies confirm that genes, or more generally genic regions, are the most active recombinogenic regions, and suggested a pattern of crossovers similar to the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. In S. cerevisiae recombination is initiated by double-strand breaks (DSBs) near transcription start sites (TSSs) of genes producing a polarity gradient where crossovers preferentially resolve at the 5' end of genes. Intragenic studies in maize yielded less evidence for either polarity or for DSBs near TSSs initiating recombination and in certain respects resembled Schizosaccharomyces pombe or mouse. These different perspectives highlight the need to draw upon the strengths of different approaches and caution against relying on a single model system or approach for understanding recombination.
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- Ron J. Okagaki
- Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, United States
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- Department of Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University, St. Paul, MN, United States
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- Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, United States
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, United States
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Garcia N, Messing J. TTT and PIKK Complex Genes Reverted to Single Copy Following Polyploidization and Retain Function Despite Massive Retrotransposition in Maize. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2017; 8:1723. [PMID: 29163555 PMCID: PMC5681926 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.01723] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2017] [Accepted: 09/20/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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The TEL2, TTI1, and TTI2 proteins are co-chaperones for heat shock protein 90 (HSP90) to regulate the protein folding and maturation of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase-related kinases (PIKKs). Referred to as the TTT complex, the genes that encode them are highly conserved from man to maize. TTT complex and PIKK genes exist mostly as single copy genes in organisms where they have been characterized. Members of this interacting protein network in maize were identified and synteny analyses were performed to study their evolution. Similar to other species, there is only one copy of each of these genes in maize which was due to a loss of the duplicated copy created by ancient allotetraploidy. Moreover, the retained copies of the TTT complex and the PIKK genes tolerated extensive retrotransposon insertion in their introns that resulted in increased gene lengths and gene body methylation, without apparent effect in normal gene expression and function. The results raise an interesting question on whether the reversion to single copy was due to selection against deleterious unbalanced gene duplications between members of the complex as predicted by the gene balance hypothesis, or due to neutral loss of extra copies. Uneven alteration of dosage either by adding extra copies or modulating gene expression of complex members is being proposed as a means to investigate whether the data supports the gene balance hypothesis or not.
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Chalivendra SC, DeRobertis C, Chang PK, Damann KE. Cyclopiazonic Acid Is a Pathogenicity Factor for Aspergillus flavus and a Promising Target for Screening Germplasm for Ear Rot Resistance. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2017; 30:361-373. [PMID: 28447887 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-02-17-0026-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Aspergillus flavus, an opportunistic pathogen, contaminates maize and other key crops with carcinogenic aflatoxins (AFs). Besides AFs, A. flavus makes many more secondary metabolites (SMs) whose toxicity in insects or vertebrates has been studied. However, the role of SMs in the invasion of plant hosts by A. flavus remains to be investigated. Cyclopiazonic acid (CPA), a neurotoxic SM made by A. flavus, is a nanomolar inhibitor of endoplasmic reticulum calcium ATPases (ECAs) and a potent inducer of cell death in plants. We hypothesized that CPA, by virtue of its cytotoxicity, may serve as a key pathogenicity factor that kills plant cells and supports the saprophytic life style of the fungus while compromising the host defense response. This proposal was tested by two complementary approaches. A comparison of CPA levels among A. flavus isolates indicated that CPA may be a determinant of niche adaptation, i.e., isolates that colonize maize make more CPA than those restricted only to the soil. Further, mutants in the CPA biosynthetic pathway are less virulent in causing ear rot than their wild-type parent in field inoculation assays. Additionally, genes encoding ECAs are expressed in developing maize seeds and are induced by A. flavus infection. Building on these results, we developed a seedling assay in which maize roots were exposed to CPA, and cell death was measured as Evans Blue uptake. Among >40 maize inbreds screened for CPA tolerance, inbreds with proven susceptibility to ear rot were also highly CPA sensitive. The publicly available data on resistance to silk colonization or AF contamination for many of the lines was also broadly correlated with their CPA sensitivity. In summary, our studies show that i) CPA serves as a key pathogenicity factor that enables the saprophytic life style of A. flavus and ii) maize inbreds are diverse in their tolerance to CPA. Taking advantage of this natural variation, we are currently pursuing both genome-wide and candidate gene approaches to identify novel components of maize resistance to Aspergillus ear rot.
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- 2 USDA-Southern Region Research Center, New Orleans, LA 70124, U.S.A
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- 1 Louisiana State University Ag Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, U.S.A.; and
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Gardner CM, Gunsch CK. Adsorption capacity of multiple DNA sources to clay minerals and environmental soil matrices less than previously estimated. CHEMOSPHERE 2017; 175:45-51. [PMID: 28211334 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2017.02.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2016] [Revised: 12/15/2016] [Accepted: 02/04/2017] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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The cultivation and consumption of transgenic crops continues to be a widely debated topic, as the potential ecological impacts are not fully understood. In particular, because antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) have historically been used as selectable markers in the genetic engineering of transgenic crops, it is important to determine if the genetic constructs found in decomposing transgenic crops persist long enough in the environment and if they can be transferred horizontally to indigenous microorganisms. In the present study, we address the question of persistence. Others have also estimated the DNA adsorption capacity of various clays, but have done so by manipulating the surface charge and size of particles tested which may overestimate sorption and underestimate the DNA available for horizontal transfer. In the present study, isotherms were generated using model Calf Thymus DNA and transgenic maize DNA without surface modification. Montmorillonite, kaolinite, and 3 soil mixtures with varying clay content were used in this study. The adsorption capacity of pure montmorillonite and kaolinite minerals was found to be one to two orders of magnitude less than previously estimated likely due to the distribution of clay particle sizes and heteroionic particle surface charge. However, it appears that a substantial amount of DNA is still able to adsorb onto these matrices (up to 200 mg DNA per gram of clay) suggesting the potential availability of free transgenic DNA in the environment may still be significant. Future studies should be conducted to determine the fate of these genes in agricultural soils.
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- Courtney M Gardner
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA.
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Findley SD, Birchler JA, Stacey G. Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization for Glycine max Metaphase Chromosomes. CURRENT PROTOCOLS IN PLANT BIOLOGY 2017; 2:89-107. [PMID: 31725974 DOI: 10.1002/cppb.20045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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This article presents protocols for fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) in the cultivated soybean, Glycine max. The protocols represent soybean-optimized versions developed for maize. We describe the use of two different probes types: genomic-repeat-based fluorescently-tagged oligonucleotides and bacterial artificial chromosomes (BACs). The two probe types can be used either individually or together, depending on the experimental questions. The article also includes starting points for executing FISH in additional legume species. © 2017 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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- Seth D Findley
- University of Missouri, Division of Plant Sciences, Columbia, Missouri
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- University of Missouri, Division of Biological Sciences, Columbia, Missouri
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- University of Missouri, Division of Plant Sciences, Columbia, Missouri
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Marcon C, Paschold A, Malik WA, Lithio A, Baldauf JA, Altrogge L, Opitz N, Lanz C, Schoof H, Nettleton D, Piepho HP, Hochholdinger F. Stability of Single-Parent Gene Expression Complementation in Maize Hybrids upon Water Deficit Stress. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2017; 173:1247-1257. [PMID: 27999083 PMCID: PMC5291719 DOI: 10.1104/pp.16.01045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2016] [Accepted: 12/18/2016] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Heterosis is the superior performance of F1 hybrids compared with their homozygous, genetically distinct parents. In this study, we monitored the transcriptomic divergence of the maize (Zea mays) inbred lines B73 and Mo17 and their reciprocal F1 hybrid progeny in primary roots under control and water deficit conditions simulated by polyethylene glycol treatment. Single-parent expression (SPE) of genes is an extreme instance of gene expression complementation, in which genes are active in only one of two parents but are expressed in both reciprocal hybrids. In this study, 1,997 genes only expressed in B73 and 2,024 genes only expressed in Mo17 displayed SPE complementation under control and water deficit conditions. As a consequence, the number of active genes in hybrids exceeded the number of active genes in the parental inbred lines significantly independent of treatment. SPE patterns were substantially more stable to expression changes by water deficit treatment than other genotype-specific expression profiles. While, on average, 75% of all SPE patterns were not altered in response to polyethylene glycol treatment, only 17% of the remaining genotype-specific expression patterns were not changed by water deficit. Nonsyntenic genes that lack syntenic orthologs in other grass species, and thus evolved late in the grass lineage, were significantly overrepresented among SPE genes. Hence, the significant overrepresentation of nonsyntenic genes among SPE patterns and their stability under water limitation might suggest a function of these genes during the early developmental manifestation of heterosis under fluctuating environmental conditions in hybrid progeny of the inbred lines B73 and Mo17.
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- Caroline Marcon
- Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, Crop Functional Genomics (C.M., A.P., J.A.B., N.O., F.H.) and Crop Bioinformatics (L.A., H.S.), University of Bonn, 53113 Bonn, Germany
- Institute for Crop Science, Biostatistics Unit, University of Hohenheim, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany (W.A.M., H.-P.P.)
- Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-1210 (A.L., D.N.); and
- Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany (C.L.)
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- Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, Crop Functional Genomics (C.M., A.P., J.A.B., N.O., F.H.) and Crop Bioinformatics (L.A., H.S.), University of Bonn, 53113 Bonn, Germany
- Institute for Crop Science, Biostatistics Unit, University of Hohenheim, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany (W.A.M., H.-P.P.)
- Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-1210 (A.L., D.N.); and
- Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany (C.L.)
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- Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, Crop Functional Genomics (C.M., A.P., J.A.B., N.O., F.H.) and Crop Bioinformatics (L.A., H.S.), University of Bonn, 53113 Bonn, Germany
- Institute for Crop Science, Biostatistics Unit, University of Hohenheim, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany (W.A.M., H.-P.P.)
- Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-1210 (A.L., D.N.); and
- Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany (C.L.)
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- Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, Crop Functional Genomics (C.M., A.P., J.A.B., N.O., F.H.) and Crop Bioinformatics (L.A., H.S.), University of Bonn, 53113 Bonn, Germany
- Institute for Crop Science, Biostatistics Unit, University of Hohenheim, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany (W.A.M., H.-P.P.)
- Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-1210 (A.L., D.N.); and
- Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany (C.L.)
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- Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, Crop Functional Genomics (C.M., A.P., J.A.B., N.O., F.H.) and Crop Bioinformatics (L.A., H.S.), University of Bonn, 53113 Bonn, Germany
- Institute for Crop Science, Biostatistics Unit, University of Hohenheim, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany (W.A.M., H.-P.P.)
- Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-1210 (A.L., D.N.); and
- Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany (C.L.)
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- Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, Crop Functional Genomics (C.M., A.P., J.A.B., N.O., F.H.) and Crop Bioinformatics (L.A., H.S.), University of Bonn, 53113 Bonn, Germany
- Institute for Crop Science, Biostatistics Unit, University of Hohenheim, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany (W.A.M., H.-P.P.)
- Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-1210 (A.L., D.N.); and
- Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany (C.L.)
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- Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, Crop Functional Genomics (C.M., A.P., J.A.B., N.O., F.H.) and Crop Bioinformatics (L.A., H.S.), University of Bonn, 53113 Bonn, Germany
- Institute for Crop Science, Biostatistics Unit, University of Hohenheim, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany (W.A.M., H.-P.P.)
- Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-1210 (A.L., D.N.); and
- Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany (C.L.)
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- Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, Crop Functional Genomics (C.M., A.P., J.A.B., N.O., F.H.) and Crop Bioinformatics (L.A., H.S.), University of Bonn, 53113 Bonn, Germany
- Institute for Crop Science, Biostatistics Unit, University of Hohenheim, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany (W.A.M., H.-P.P.)
- Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-1210 (A.L., D.N.); and
- Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany (C.L.)
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- Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, Crop Functional Genomics (C.M., A.P., J.A.B., N.O., F.H.) and Crop Bioinformatics (L.A., H.S.), University of Bonn, 53113 Bonn, Germany
- Institute for Crop Science, Biostatistics Unit, University of Hohenheim, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany (W.A.M., H.-P.P.)
- Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-1210 (A.L., D.N.); and
- Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany (C.L.)
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- Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, Crop Functional Genomics (C.M., A.P., J.A.B., N.O., F.H.) and Crop Bioinformatics (L.A., H.S.), University of Bonn, 53113 Bonn, Germany
- Institute for Crop Science, Biostatistics Unit, University of Hohenheim, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany (W.A.M., H.-P.P.)
- Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-1210 (A.L., D.N.); and
- Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany (C.L.)
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- Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, Crop Functional Genomics (C.M., A.P., J.A.B., N.O., F.H.) and Crop Bioinformatics (L.A., H.S.), University of Bonn, 53113 Bonn, Germany
- Institute for Crop Science, Biostatistics Unit, University of Hohenheim, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany (W.A.M., H.-P.P.)
- Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-1210 (A.L., D.N.); and
- Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany (C.L.)
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- Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, Crop Functional Genomics (C.M., A.P., J.A.B., N.O., F.H.) and Crop Bioinformatics (L.A., H.S.), University of Bonn, 53113 Bonn, Germany;
- Institute for Crop Science, Biostatistics Unit, University of Hohenheim, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany (W.A.M., H.-P.P.);
- Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-1210 (A.L., D.N.); and
- Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany (C.L.)
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Li W, Lu J, Lu K, Yuan J, Huang J, Du H, Li J. Cloning and Phylogenetic Analysis of Brassica napus L. Caffeic Acid O-Methyltransferase 1 Gene Family and Its Expression Pattern under Drought Stress. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0165975. [PMID: 27832102 PMCID: PMC5104432 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0165975] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2016] [Accepted: 10/20/2016] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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For many plants, regulating lignin content and composition to improve lodging resistance is a crucial issue. Caffeic acid O-methyltransferase (COMT) is a lignin monomer-specific enzyme that controls S subunit synthesis in plant vascular cell walls. Here, we identified 12 BnCOMT1 gene homologues, namely BnCOMT1-1 to BnCOMT1-12. Ten of 12 genes were composed of four highly conserved exons and three weakly conserved introns. The length of intron I, in particular, showed enormous diversification. Intron I of homologous BnCOMT1 genes showed high identity with counterpart genes in Brassica rapa and Brassica oleracea, and intron I from positional close genes in the same chromosome were relatively highly conserved. A phylogenetic analysis suggested that COMT genes experience considerable diversification and conservation in Brassicaceae species, and some COMT1 genes are unique in the Brassica genus. Our expression studies indicated that BnCOMT1 genes were differentially expressed in different tissues, with BnCOMT1-4, BnCOMT1-5, BnCOMT1-8, and BnCOMT1-10 exhibiting stem specificity. These four BnCOMT1 genes were expressed at all developmental periods (the bud, early flowering, late flowering and mature stages) and their expression level peaked in the early flowering stage in the stem. Drought stress augmented and accelerated lignin accumulation in high-lignin plants but delayed it in low-lignin plants. The expression levels of BnCOMT1s were generally reduced in water deficit condition. The desynchrony of the accumulation processes of total lignin and BnCOMT1s transcripts in most growth stages indicated that BnCOMT1s could be responsible for the synthesis of a specific subunit of lignin or that they participate in other pathways such as the melatonin biosynthesis pathway.
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- Wei Li
- Chongqing Engineering Research Centre for Rapeseed, College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, PR China
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Plants Environment Adaption, College of Life Sciences, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing, 401331, PR China
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- Chongqing Engineering Research Centre for Rapeseed, College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, PR China
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- Chongqing Engineering Research Centre for Rapeseed, College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, PR China
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- Chongqing Engineering Research Centre for Rapeseed, College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, PR China
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- Chongqing Engineering Research Centre for Rapeseed, College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, PR China
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- Chongqing Engineering Research Centre for Rapeseed, College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, PR China
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Baldauf JA, Marcon C, Paschold A, Hochholdinger F. Nonsyntenic Genes Drive Tissue-Specific Dynamics of Differential, Nonadditive, and Allelic Expression Patterns in Maize Hybrids. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2016; 171:1144-55. [PMID: 27208302 PMCID: PMC4902609 DOI: 10.1104/pp.16.00262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2016] [Accepted: 04/18/2016] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Distantly related maize (Zea mays) inbred lines display an exceptional degree of genomic diversity. F1 progeny of such inbred lines are often more vigorous than their parents, a phenomenon known as heterosis. In this study, we investigated how the genetic divergence of the maize inbred lines B73 and Mo17 and their F1 hybrid progeny is reflected in differential, nonadditive, and allelic expression patterns in primary root tissues. In pairwise comparisons of the four genotypes, the number of differentially expressed genes between the two parental inbred lines significantly exceeded those of parent versus hybrid comparisons in all four tissues under analysis. No differentially expressed genes were detected between reciprocal hybrids, which share the same nuclear genome. Moreover, hundreds of nonadditive and allelic expression ratios that were different from the expression ratios of the parents were observed in the reciprocal hybrids. The overlap of both nonadditive and allelic expression patterns in the reciprocal hybrids significantly exceeded the expected values. For all studied types of expression - differential, nonadditive, and allelic - substantial tissue-specific plasticity was observed. Significantly, nonsyntenic genes that evolved after the last whole genome duplication of a maize progenitor from genes with synteny to sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) were highly overrepresented among differential, nonadditive, and allelic expression patterns compared with the fraction of these genes among all expressed genes. This observation underscores the role of nonsyntenic genes in shaping the transcriptomic landscape of maize hybrids during the early developmental manifestation of heterosis in root tissues of maize hybrids.
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- Jutta A Baldauf
- Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, Crop Functional Genomics, University of Bonn, 53113 Bonn, Germany
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- Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, Crop Functional Genomics, University of Bonn, 53113 Bonn, Germany
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- Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, Crop Functional Genomics, University of Bonn, 53113 Bonn, Germany
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- Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, Crop Functional Genomics, University of Bonn, 53113 Bonn, Germany
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Leach KA, McSteen PC, Braun DM. Genomic DNA Isolation from Maize (
Zea mays
) Leaves Using a Simple, High‐Throughput Protocol. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2016; 1:15-27. [DOI: 10.1002/cppb.20000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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- Kristen A. Leach
- Division of Biological Sciences, Interdisciplinary Plant Group, Missouri Maize Center, University of Missouri Columbia Missouri
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- Division of Biological Sciences, Interdisciplinary Plant Group, Missouri Maize Center, University of Missouri Columbia Missouri
- Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri Columbia Missouri
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- Division of Biological Sciences, Interdisciplinary Plant Group, Missouri Maize Center, University of Missouri Columbia Missouri
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Fu YB, Peterson GW, Dong Y. Increasing Genome Sampling and Improving SNP Genotyping for Genotyping-by-Sequencing with New Combinations of Restriction Enzymes. G3 (BETHESDA, MD.) 2016; 6:845-56. [PMID: 26818077 PMCID: PMC4825655 DOI: 10.1534/g3.115.025775] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2015] [Accepted: 01/22/2016] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) has emerged as a useful genomic approach for exploring genome-wide genetic variation. However, GBS commonly samples a genome unevenly and can generate a substantial amount of missing data. These technical features would limit the power of various GBS-based genetic and genomic analyses. Here we present software called IgCoverage for in silico evaluation of genomic coverage through GBS with an individual or pair of restriction enzymes on one sequenced genome, and report a new set of 21 restriction enzyme combinations that can be applied to enhance GBS applications. These enzyme combinations were developed through an application of IgCoverage on 22 plant, animal, and fungus species with sequenced genomes, and some of them were empirically evaluated with different runs of Illumina MiSeq sequencing in 12 plant species. The in silico analysis of 22 organisms revealed up to eight times more genome coverage for the new combinations consisted of pairing four- or five-cutter restriction enzymes than the commonly used enzyme combination PstI + MspI. The empirical evaluation of the new enzyme combination (HinfI + HpyCH4IV) in 12 plant species showed 1.7-6 times more genome coverage than PstI + MspI, and 2.3 times more genome coverage in dicots than monocots. Also, the SNP genotyping in 12 Arabidopsis and 12 rice plants revealed that HinfI + HpyCH4IV generated 7 and 1.3 times more SNPs (with 0-16.7% missing observations) than PstI + MspI, respectively. These findings demonstrate that these novel enzyme combinations can be utilized to increase genome sampling and improve SNP genotyping in various GBS applications.
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- Yong-Bi Fu
- Plant Gene Resources of Canada, Saskatoon Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 0X2, Canada
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- Plant Gene Resources of Canada, Saskatoon Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 0X2, Canada
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- Plant Gene Resources of Canada, Saskatoon Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 0X2, Canada
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Zhu G, Wu A, Xu XJ, Xiao PP, Lu L, Liu J, Cao Y, Chen L, Wu J, Zhao XM. PPIM: A Protein-Protein Interaction Database for Maize. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2016; 170:618-26. [PMID: 26620522 PMCID: PMC4734591 DOI: 10.1104/pp.15.01821] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2015] [Accepted: 11/25/2015] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Maize (Zea mays) is one of the most important crops worldwide. To understand the biological processes underlying various traits of the crop (e.g. yield and response to stress), a detailed protein-protein interaction (PPI) network is highly demanded. Unfortunately, there are very few such PPIs available in the literature. Therefore, in this work, we present the Protein-Protein Interaction Database for Maize (PPIM), which covers 2,762,560 interactions among 14,000 proteins. The PPIM contains not only accurately predicted PPIs but also those molecular interactions collected from the literature. The database is freely available at http://comp-sysbio.org/ppim with a user-friendly powerful interface. We believe that the PPIM resource can help biologists better understand the maize crop.
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- Guanghui Zhu
- Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China (G.Z., P.-P.X., J.W., X.-M.Z.);Key Laboratory of Food Safety Research, Institute for Nutritional Sciences (A.W.), and Key Laboratory of Systems Biology (L.C.), Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China;Department of Mathematics, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China (X.-J.X.); andMonsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri 63167 (L.L., J.L., Y.C.)
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- Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China (G.Z., P.-P.X., J.W., X.-M.Z.);Key Laboratory of Food Safety Research, Institute for Nutritional Sciences (A.W.), and Key Laboratory of Systems Biology (L.C.), Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China;Department of Mathematics, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China (X.-J.X.); andMonsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri 63167 (L.L., J.L., Y.C.)
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- Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China (G.Z., P.-P.X., J.W., X.-M.Z.);Key Laboratory of Food Safety Research, Institute for Nutritional Sciences (A.W.), and Key Laboratory of Systems Biology (L.C.), Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China;Department of Mathematics, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China (X.-J.X.); andMonsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri 63167 (L.L., J.L., Y.C.)
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- Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China (G.Z., P.-P.X., J.W., X.-M.Z.);Key Laboratory of Food Safety Research, Institute for Nutritional Sciences (A.W.), and Key Laboratory of Systems Biology (L.C.), Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China;Department of Mathematics, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China (X.-J.X.); andMonsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri 63167 (L.L., J.L., Y.C.)
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- Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China (G.Z., P.-P.X., J.W., X.-M.Z.);Key Laboratory of Food Safety Research, Institute for Nutritional Sciences (A.W.), and Key Laboratory of Systems Biology (L.C.), Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China;Department of Mathematics, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China (X.-J.X.); andMonsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri 63167 (L.L., J.L., Y.C.)
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- Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China (G.Z., P.-P.X., J.W., X.-M.Z.);Key Laboratory of Food Safety Research, Institute for Nutritional Sciences (A.W.), and Key Laboratory of Systems Biology (L.C.), Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China;Department of Mathematics, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China (X.-J.X.); andMonsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri 63167 (L.L., J.L., Y.C.)
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- Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China (G.Z., P.-P.X., J.W., X.-M.Z.);Key Laboratory of Food Safety Research, Institute for Nutritional Sciences (A.W.), and Key Laboratory of Systems Biology (L.C.), Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China;Department of Mathematics, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China (X.-J.X.); andMonsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri 63167 (L.L., J.L., Y.C.)
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- Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China (G.Z., P.-P.X., J.W., X.-M.Z.);Key Laboratory of Food Safety Research, Institute for Nutritional Sciences (A.W.), and Key Laboratory of Systems Biology (L.C.), Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China;Department of Mathematics, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China (X.-J.X.); andMonsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri 63167 (L.L., J.L., Y.C.)
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- Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China (G.Z., P.-P.X., J.W., X.-M.Z.);Key Laboratory of Food Safety Research, Institute for Nutritional Sciences (A.W.), and Key Laboratory of Systems Biology (L.C.), Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China;Department of Mathematics, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China (X.-J.X.); andMonsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri 63167 (L.L., J.L., Y.C.)
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- Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China (G.Z., P.-P.X., J.W., X.-M.Z.);Key Laboratory of Food Safety Research, Institute for Nutritional Sciences (A.W.), and Key Laboratory of Systems Biology (L.C.), Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China;Department of Mathematics, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China (X.-J.X.); andMonsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri 63167 (L.L., J.L., Y.C.)
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Barrière Y, Courtial A, Chateigner-Boutin AL, Denoue D, Grima-Pettenati J. Breeding maize for silage and biofuel production, an illustration of a step forward with the genome sequence. PLANT SCIENCE : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PLANT BIOLOGY 2016; 242:310-329. [PMID: 26566848 DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2015.08.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2015] [Revised: 08/04/2015] [Accepted: 08/13/2015] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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The knowledge of the gene families mostly impacting cell wall digestibility variations would significantly increase the efficiency of marker-assisted selection when breeding maize and grass varieties with improved silage feeding value and/or with better straw fermentability into alcohol or methane. The maize genome sequence of the B73 inbred line was released at the end of 2009, opening up new avenues to identify the genetic determinants of quantitative traits. Colocalizations between a large set of candidate genes putatively involved in secondary cell wall assembly and QTLs for cell wall digestibility (IVNDFD) were then investigated, considering physical positions of both genes and QTLs. Based on available data from six RIL progenies, 59 QTLs corresponding to 38 non-overlapping positions were matched up with a list of 442 genes distributed all over the genome. Altogether, 176 genes colocalized with IVNDFD QTLs and most often, several candidate genes colocalized at each QTL position. Frequent QTL colocalizations were found firstly with genes encoding ZmMYB and ZmNAC transcription factors, and secondly with genes encoding zinc finger, bHLH, and xylogen regulation factors. In contrast, close colocalizations were less frequent with genes involved in monolignol biosynthesis, and found only with the C4H2, CCoAOMT5, and CCR1 genes. Close colocalizations were also infrequent with genes involved in cell wall feruloylation and cross-linkages. Altogether, investigated colocalizations between candidate genes and cell wall digestibility QTLs suggested a prevalent role of regulation factors over constitutive cell wall genes on digestibility variations.
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- Yves Barrière
- INRA, UR889, Unité de Génétique et d'Amélioration des Plantes Fourragères, 86600 Lusignan, France.
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- LRSV, Laboratoire de Recherche en Sciences Végétales, UMR5546, Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III / CNRS, Auzeville, BP 42617, 31326 Castanet-Tolosan, France; INRA, US1258, Centre National de Ressources Génomiques Végétales, CS 52627, 31326 Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- INRA, UR889, Unité de Génétique et d'Amélioration des Plantes Fourragères, 86600 Lusignan, France
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- LRSV, Laboratoire de Recherche en Sciences Végétales, UMR5546, Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III / CNRS, Auzeville, BP 42617, 31326 Castanet-Tolosan, France
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Alternative Transposition Generates New Chimeric Genes and Segmental Duplications at the Maize p1 Locus. Genetics 2015; 201:925-35. [PMID: 26434719 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.115.178210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2015] [Accepted: 09/06/2015] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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The maize Ac/Ds transposon family was the first transposable element system identified and characterized by Barbara McClintock. Ac/Ds transposons belong to the hAT family of class II DNA transposons. We and others have shown that Ac/Ds elements can undergo a process of alternative transposition in which the Ac/Ds transposase acts on the termini of two separate, nearby transposons. Because these termini are present in different elements, alternative transposition can generate a variety of genome alterations such as inversions, duplications, deletions, and translocations. Moreover, Ac/Ds elements transpose preferentially into genic regions, suggesting that structural changes arising from alternative transposition may potentially generate chimeric genes at the rearrangement breakpoints. Here we identified and characterized 11 independent cases of gene fusion induced by Ac alternative transposition. In each case, a functional chimeric gene was created by fusion of two linked, paralogous genes; moreover, each event was associated with duplication of the ∼70-kb segment located between the two paralogs. An extant gene in the maize B73 genome that contains an internal duplication apparently generated by an alternative transposition event was also identified. Our study demonstrates that alternative transposition-induced duplications may be a source for spontaneous creation of diverse genome structures and novel genes in maize.
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Chuang TJ, Yang MY, Lin CC, Hsieh PH, Hung LY. Comparative genomics of grass EST libraries reveals previously uncharacterized splicing events in crop plants. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2015; 15:39. [PMID: 25652661 PMCID: PMC4323234 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-015-0431-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2014] [Accepted: 01/20/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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BACKGROUND Crop plants such as rice, maize and sorghum play economically-important roles as main sources of food, fuel, and animal feed. However, current genome annotations of crop plants still suffer false-positive predictions; a more comprehensive registry of alternative splicing (AS) events is also in demand. Comparative genomics of crop plants is largely unexplored. RESULTS We performed a large-scale comparative analysis (ExonFinder) of the expressed sequence tag (EST) library from nine grass plants against three crop genomes (rice, maize, and sorghum) and identified 2,879 previously-unannotated exons (i.e., novel exons) in the three crops. We validated 81% of the tested exons by RT-PCR-sequencing, supporting the effectiveness of our in silico strategy. Evolutionary analysis reveals that the novel exons, comparing with their flanking annotated ones, are generally under weaker selection pressure at the protein level, but under stronger pressure at the RNA level, suggesting that most of the novel exons also represent novel alternatively spliced variants (ASVs). However, we also observed the consistency of evolutionary rates between certain novel exons and their flanking exons, which provided further evidence of their co-occurrence in the transcripts, suggesting that previously-annotated isoforms might be subject to erroneous predictions. Our validation showed that 54% of the tested genes expressed the newly-identified isoforms that contained the novel exons, rather than the previously-annotated isoforms that excluded them. The consistent results were steadily observed across cultivated (Oryza sativa and O. glaberrima) and wild (O. rufipogon and O. nivara) rice species, asserting the necessity of our curation of the crop genome annotations. Our comparative analyses also inferred the common ancestral transcriptome of grass plants and gain- and loss-of-ASV events. CONCLUSIONS We have reannotated the rice, maize, and sorghum genomes, and showed that evolutionary rates might serve as an indicator for determining whether the identified exons were alternatively spliced. This study not only presents an effective in silico strategy for the improvement of plant annotations, but also provides further insights into the role of AS events in the evolution and domestication of crop plants. ExonFinder and the novel exons/ASVs identified are publicly accessible at http://exonfinder.sourceforge.net/ .
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- Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan.
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- Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan.
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- Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan.
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- Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan.
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Alonso C, Pérez R, Bazaga P, Herrera CM. Global DNA cytosine methylation as an evolving trait: phylogenetic signal and correlated evolution with genome size in angiosperms. Front Genet 2015; 6:4. [PMID: 25688257 PMCID: PMC4310347 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2015.00004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2014] [Accepted: 01/07/2015] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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DNA cytosine methylation is a widespread epigenetic mechanism in eukaryotes, and plant genomes commonly are densely methylated. Genomic methylation can be associated with functional consequences such as mutational events, genomic instability or altered gene expression, but little is known on interspecific variation in global cytosine methylation in plants. In this paper, we compare global cytosine methylation estimates obtained by HPLC and use a phylogenetically-informed analytical approach to test for significance of evolutionary signatures of this trait across 54 angiosperm species in 25 families. We evaluate whether interspecific variation in global cytosine methylation is statistically related to phylogenetic distance and also whether it is evolutionarily correlated with genome size (C-value). Global cytosine methylation varied widely between species, ranging between 5.3% (Arabidopsis) and 39.2% (Narcissus). Differences between species were related to their evolutionary trajectories, as denoted by the strong phylogenetic signal underlying interspecific variation. Global cytosine methylation and genome size were evolutionarily correlated, as revealed by the significant relationship between the corresponding phylogenetically independent contrasts. On average, a ten-fold increase in genome size entailed an increase of about 10% in global cytosine methylation. Results show that global cytosine methylation is an evolving trait in angiosperms whose evolutionary trajectory is significantly linked to changes in genome size, and suggest that the evolutionary implications of epigenetic mechanisms are likely to vary between plant lineages.
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Químicas, Centro de Investigaciones Científicas Isla de La Cartuja, CSIC-US Sevilla, Spain
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- Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC Sevilla, Spain
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Seaver SMD, Bradbury LMT, Frelin O, Zarecki R, Ruppin E, Hanson AD, Henry CS. Improved evidence-based genome-scale metabolic models for maize leaf, embryo, and endosperm. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2015; 6:142. [PMID: 25806041 PMCID: PMC4354304 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2014] [Accepted: 02/22/2015] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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There is a growing demand for genome-scale metabolic reconstructions for plants, fueled by the need to understand the metabolic basis of crop yield and by progress in genome and transcriptome sequencing. Methods are also required to enable the interpretation of plant transcriptome data to study how cellular metabolic activity varies under different growth conditions or even within different organs, tissues, and developmental stages. Such methods depend extensively on the accuracy with which genes have been mapped to the biochemical reactions in the plant metabolic pathways. Errors in these mappings lead to metabolic reconstructions with an inflated number of reactions and possible generation of unreliable metabolic phenotype predictions. Here we introduce a new evidence-based genome-scale metabolic reconstruction of maize, with significant improvements in the quality of the gene-reaction associations included within our model. We also present a new approach for applying our model to predict active metabolic genes based on transcriptome data. This method includes a minimal set of reactions associated with low expression genes to enable activity of a maximum number of reactions associated with high expression genes. We apply this method to construct an organ-specific model for the maize leaf, and tissue specific models for maize embryo and endosperm cells. We validate our models using fluxomics data for the endosperm and embryo, demonstrating an improved capacity of our models to fit the available fluxomics data. All models are publicly available via the DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase and PlantSEED, and our new method is generally applicable for analysis transcript profiles from any plant, paving the way for further in silico studies with a wide variety of plant genomes.
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- Samuel M. D. Seaver
- Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National LaboratoryArgonne, IL, USA
- Computation Institute, The University of ChicagoChicago, IL, USA
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- Horticultural Sciences Department, University of FloridaGainesville, FL, USA
- Department of Biology, York College, City University of New YorkNew York, NY, USA
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- Horticultural Sciences Department, University of FloridaGainesville, FL, USA
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- Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv UniversityTel Aviv, Israel
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- Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv UniversityTel Aviv, Israel
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- Horticultural Sciences Department, University of FloridaGainesville, FL, USA
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- Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National LaboratoryArgonne, IL, USA
- Computation Institute, The University of ChicagoChicago, IL, USA
- *Correspondence: Christopher S. Henry, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439, USA
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Stival Sena J, Giguère I, Boyle B, Rigault P, Birol I, Zuccolo A, Ritland K, Ritland C, Bohlmann J, Jones S, Bousquet J, Mackay J. Evolution of gene structure in the conifer Picea glauca: a comparative analysis of the impact of intron size. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2014; 14:95. [PMID: 24734980 PMCID: PMC4108047 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-14-95] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2013] [Accepted: 04/09/2014] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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BACKGROUND A positive relationship between genome size and intron length is observed across eukaryotes including Angiosperms plants, indicating a co-evolution of genome size and gene structure. Conifers have very large genomes and longer introns on average than most plants, but impacts of their large genome and longer introns on gene structure has not be described. RESULTS Gene structure was analyzed for 35 genes of Picea glauca obtained from BAC sequencing and genome assembly, including comparisons with A. thaliana, P. trichocarpa and Z. mays. We aimed to develop an understanding of impact of long introns on the structure of individual genes. The number and length of exons was well conserved among the species compared but on average, P. glauca introns were longer and genes had four times more intronic sequence than Arabidopsis, and 2 times more than poplar and maize. However, pairwise comparisons of individual genes gave variable results and not all contrasts were statistically significant. Genes generally accumulated one or a few longer introns in species with larger genomes but the position of long introns was variable between plant lineages. In P. glauca, highly expressed genes generally had more intronic sequence than tissue preferential genes. Comparisons with the Pinus taeda BACs and genome scaffolds showed a high conservation for position of long introns and for sequence of short introns. A survey of 1836 P. glauca genes obtained by sequence capture mostly containing introns <1 Kbp showed that repeated sequences were 10× more abundant in introns than in exons. CONCLUSION Conifers have large amounts of intronic sequence per gene for seed plants due to the presence of few long introns and repetitive element sequences are ubiquitous in their introns. Results indicate a complex landscape of intron sizes and distribution across taxa and between genes with different expression profiles.
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- Juliana Stival Sena
- Center for Forest Research and Institute for Systems and Integrative Biology, 1030 rue de la Médecine, Université Laval, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada
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- Center for Forest Research and Institute for Systems and Integrative Biology, 1030 rue de la Médecine, Université Laval, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada
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- Center for Forest Research and Institute for Systems and Integrative Biology, 1030 rue de la Médecine, Université Laval, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada
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- Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
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- Applied Genomics Institute, Udine 33100, Italy
- Institute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa 56127, Italy
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- Department of Forest Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
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- Department of Forest Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
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- Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
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- Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
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- Center for Forest Research and Institute for Systems and Integrative Biology, 1030 rue de la Médecine, Université Laval, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada
- Canada Research Chair in Forest Genomics, Université Laval, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada
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- Center for Forest Research and Institute for Systems and Integrative Biology, 1030 rue de la Médecine, Université Laval, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada
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Kuhn BC, López-Ribera I, da Silva Machado MDFP, Vicient CM. Genetic diversity of maize germplasm assessed by retrotransposon-based markers. Electrophoresis 2014; 35:1921-7. [PMID: 24634146 DOI: 10.1002/elps.201400038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2013] [Revised: 02/28/2014] [Accepted: 03/07/2014] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Maize is one of the most important crops and also a model for grass genome research. Transposable elements comprise over 78% of the maize genome and their ability to generate new copies makes them good potential markers. Interretrotransposon-amplified polymorphism (IRAP) and retrotransposon microsatellite amplified polymorphism (REMAP) protocols were used for the first time in maize to study the genetic variability between maize cultivars. Ten PCR primers were selected based on a systematic analysis of the sequence conservation in the extremities of different high copy number transposable elements, whereas one primer was chosen based on a microsatellite sequence. Of the 16 primer combinations tested, 14 produced polymorphic bands. These markers were used to identify genetic similarity among 20 maize cultivars selected by their different kernel oil content. Genetic similarity analysis was performed based on the polymorphic band profiles and dendrograms were developed by the unweighted pair-group method with arithmetic averages. Clustering technique revealed that samples were grouped into three clusters that differed in their kernel oil content and size, and in their relative embryo size. In the current investigation, there is evidence that IRAP/REMAP may be useful as markers in maize.
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- Betty Cristiane Kuhn
- CAPES Scholarship, CAPES Foundation, Brasília, Brazil; Postgraduate Program in Genetics and Breeding, State University of Maringá, Maringá, PR, Brazil
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Istvánek J, Jaros M, Krenek A, Řepková J. Genome assembly and annotation for red clover (Trifolium pratense; Fabaceae). AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY 2014; 101:327-37. [PMID: 24500806 DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1300340] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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PREMISE OF THE STUDY Red clover (Trifolium pratense) is an important forage plant from the legume family with great importance in agronomy and livestock nourishment. Nevertheless, assembling its medium-sized genome presents a challenge, given current hardware and software possibilities. Next-generation sequencing technologies enable us to generate large amounts of sequence data at low cost. In this study, the genome assembly and red clover genome features are presented. METHODS First, assembly software was assessed using data sets from a closely related species to find the best possible combination of assembler plus error correction program to assemble the red clover genome. The newly sequenced genome was characterized by repetitive content, number of protein-coding and nonprotein-coding genes, and gene families and functions. Genome features were also compared with those of other sequenced plant species. KEY RESULTS Abyss with Echo correction was used for de novo assembly of the red clover genome. The presented assembly comprises ∼314.6 Mbp. In contrast to leguminous species with comparable genome sizes, the genome of T. pratense contains a larger repetitive portion and more abundant retrotransposons and DNA transposons. Overall, 47 398 protein-coding genes were annotated from 64 761 predicted genes. Comparative analysis revealed several gene families that are characteristic for T. pratense. Resistance genes, leghemoglobins, and nodule-specific cystein-rich peptides were identified and compared with other sequenced species. CONCLUSIONS The presented red clover genomic data constitute a resource for improvement through molecular breeding and for comparison to other sequenced plant species.
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- Jan Istvánek
- Department of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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Comparative transcriptomics of early meiosis in Arabidopsis and maize. J Genet Genomics 2013; 41:139-52. [PMID: 24656234 DOI: 10.1016/j.jgg.2013.11.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2013] [Revised: 10/31/2013] [Accepted: 11/07/2013] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Though sexually reproductive plants share the same principle and most processes in meiosis, there are distinct features detectable. To address the similarities and differences of early meiosis transcriptomes from the dicot model system Arabidopsis and monocot model system maize, we performed comparative analyses of RNA-seq data of isolated meiocytes, anthers and seedlings from both species separately and via orthologous genes. Overall gene expression showed similarities, such as an increased number of reads mapping to unannotated features, and differences, such as the amount of differentially expressed genes. We detected major similarities and differences in functional annotations of genes up-regulated in meiocytes, which point to conserved features as well as unique features. Transcriptional regulation seems to be quite similar in Arabidopsis and maize, and we could reveal known and novel transcription factors and cis-regulatory elements acting in early meiosis. Taken together, meiosis between Arabidopsis and maize is conserved in many ways, but displays key distinctions that lie in the patterns of gene expression.
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Waminal NE, Ryu KH, Choi SH, Kim HH. Randomly detected genetically modified (GM) maize (Zea mays L.) near a transport route revealed a fragile 45S rDNA phenotype. PLoS One 2013; 8:e74060. [PMID: 24040165 PMCID: PMC3767626 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0074060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2013] [Accepted: 07/29/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Monitoring of genetically modified (GM) crops has been emphasized to prevent their potential effects on the environment and human health. Monitoring of the inadvertent dispersal of transgenic maize in several fields and transport routes in Korea was carried out by qualitative multiplex PCR, and molecular analyses were conducted to identify the events of the collected GM maize. Cytogenetic investigations through fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) of the GM maize were performed to check for possible changes in the 45S rDNA cluster because this cluster was reported to be sensitive to replication and transcription stress. Three GM maize kernels were collected from a transport route near Incheon port, Korea, and each was found to contain NK603, stacked MON863 x NK603, and stacked NK603 x MON810 inserts, respectively. Cytogenetic analysis of the GM maize containing the stacked NK603 x MON810 insert revealed two normal compact 5S rDNA signals, but the 45S rDNA showed a fragile phenotype, demonstrating a “beads-on-a-string” fragmentation pattern, which seems to be a consequence of genetic modification. Implications of the 45S rDNA cluster fragility in GM maize are also discussed.
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- Nomar Espinosa Waminal
- Plant Biotechnology Institute, Department of Life Science, Sahmyook University, Seoul, Korea
- Department of Plant Science, Plant Genomics and Breeding Institute and Research Institute for Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Horticulture, Biotechnology and Landscape Architecture, Seoul Women’s University, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Horticulture, Biotechnology and Landscape Architecture, Seoul Women’s University, Seoul, Korea
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- Plant Biotechnology Institute, Department of Life Science, Sahmyook University, Seoul, Korea
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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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Sampath P, Lee SC, Lee J, Izzah NK, Choi BS, Jin M, Park BS, Yang TJ. Characterization of a new high copy Stowaway family MITE, BRAMI-1 in Brassica genome. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2013; 13:56. [PMID: 23547712 PMCID: PMC3626606 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-13-56] [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: 09/12/2012] [Accepted: 03/18/2013] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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BACKGROUND Miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements (MITEs) are expected to play important roles in evolution of genes and genome in plants, especially in the highly duplicated plant genomes. Various MITE families and their roles in plants have been characterized. However, there have been fewer studies of MITE families and their potential roles in evolution of the recently triplicated Brassica genome. RESULTS We identified a new MITE family, BRAMI-1, belonging to the Stowaway super-family in the Brassica genome. In silico mapping revealed that 697 members are dispersed throughout the euchromatic regions of the B. rapa pseudo-chromosomes. Among them, 548 members (78.6%) are located in gene-rich regions, less than 3 kb from genes. In addition, we identified 516 and 15 members in the 470 Mb and 15 Mb genomic shotgun sequences currently available for B. oleracea and B. napus, respectively. The resulting estimated copy numbers for the entire genomes were 1440, 1464 and 2490 in B. rapa, B. oleracea and B. napus, respectively. Concurrently, only 70 members of the related Arabidopsis ATTIRTA-1 MITE family were identified in the Arabidopsis genome. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that BRAMI-1 elements proliferated in the Brassica genus after divergence from the Arabidopsis lineage. MITE insertion polymorphism (MIP) was inspected for 50 BRAMI-1 members, revealing high levels of insertion polymorphism between and within species of Brassica that clarify BRAMI-1 activation periods up to the present. Comparative analysis of the 71 genes harbouring the BRAMI-1 elements with their non-insertion paralogs (NIPs) showed that the BRAMI-1 insertions mainly reside in non-coding sequences and that the expression levels of genes with the elements differ from those of their NIPs. CONCLUSION A Stowaway family MITE, named as BRAMI-1, was gradually amplified and remained present in over than 1400 copies in each of three Brassica species. Overall, 78% of the members were identified in gene-rich regions, and it is assumed that they may contribute to the evolution of duplicated genes in the highly duplicated Brassica genome. The resulting MIPs can serve as a good source of DNA markers for Brassica crops because the insertions are highly dispersed in the gene-rich euchromatin region and are polymorphic between or within species.
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- Perumal Sampath
- Dept. of Plant Science, Plant Genomics and Breeding Institute, and Research Institute for Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-921, Republic of Korea
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- Dept. of Plant Science, Plant Genomics and Breeding Institute, and Research Institute for Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-921, Republic of Korea
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- Dept. of Plant Science, Plant Genomics and Breeding Institute, and Research Institute for Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-921, Republic of Korea
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- Dept. of Plant Science, Plant Genomics and Breeding Institute, and Research Institute for Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-921, Republic of Korea
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- National Instrumentation Center for Environmental Management, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-921, Republic of Korea
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- National Academy of Agricultural Science, Rural Development Administration, 150 Suinro, Suwon, 441-707, Republic of Korea
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- National Academy of Agricultural Science, Rural Development Administration, 150 Suinro, Suwon, 441-707, Republic of Korea
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- Dept. of Plant Science, Plant Genomics and Breeding Institute, and Research Institute for Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-921, Republic of Korea
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Popova OV, Dinh HQ, Aufsatz W, Jonak C. The RdDM pathway is required for basal heat tolerance in Arabidopsis. MOLECULAR PLANT 2013; 6:396-410. [PMID: 23376771 PMCID: PMC3603006 DOI: 10.1093/mp/sst023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 122] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2012] [Accepted: 01/20/2013] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Heat stress affects epigenetic gene silencing in Arabidopsis. To test for a mechanistic involvement of epigenetic regulation in heat-stress responses, we analyzed the heat tolerance of mutants defective in DNA methylation, histone modifications, chromatin-remodeling, or siRNA-based silencing pathways. Plants deficient in NRPD2, the common second-largest subunit of RNA polymerases IV and V, and in the Rpd3-type histone deacetylase HDA6 were hypersensitive to heat exposure. Microarray analysis demonstrated that NRPD2 and HDA6 have independent roles in transcriptional reprogramming in response to temperature stress. The misexpression of protein-coding genes in nrpd2 mutants recovering from heat correlated with defective epigenetic regulation of adjacent transposon remnants which involved the loss of control of heat-stress-induced read-through transcription. We provide evidence that the transcriptional response to temperature stress, at least partially, relies on the integrity of the RNA-dependent DNA methylation pathway.
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- To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail , tel. +43 1 790449850, fax +43 1 790449001
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Yu C, Han F, Zhang J, Birchler J, Peterson T. A transgenic system for generation of transposon Ac/Ds-induced chromosome rearrangements in rice. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2012; 125:1449-62. [PMID: 22798058 PMCID: PMC3470690 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-012-1925-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2012] [Accepted: 06/16/2012] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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The maize Activator (Ac)/Dissociation (Ds) transposable element system has been used in a variety of plants for insertional mutagenesis. Ac/Ds elements can also generate genome rearrangements via alternative transposition reactions which involve the termini of closely linked transposons. Here, we introduced a transgene containing reverse-oriented Ac/Ds termini together with an Ac transposase gene into rice (Oryza sativa ssp. japonica cv. Nipponbare). Among the transgenic progeny, we identified and characterized 25 independent genome rearrangements at three different chromosomal loci. The rearrangements include chromosomal deletions and inversions and one translocation. Most of the deletions occurred within the T-DNA region, but two cases showed the loss of 72 kilobase pairs (kb) and 79 kb of rice genomic DNA flanking the transgene. In addition to deletions, we obtained chromosomal inversions ranging in size from less than 10 kb (within the transgene DNA) to over 1 million base pairs (Mb). For 11 inversions, we cloned and sequenced both inversion breakpoints; in all 11 cases, the inversion junctions contained the typical 8 base pairs (bp) Ac/Ds target site duplications, confirming their origin as transposition products. Together, our results indicate that alternative Ac/Ds transposition can be an efficient tool for functional genomics and chromosomal manipulation in rice.
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- Chuanhe Yu
- Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011 USA
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- Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211 USA
- State Key Lab of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101 Beijing, China
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- Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011 USA
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- Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211 USA
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- Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011 USA
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Montiel EE, Cabrero J, Camacho JPM, López-León MD. Gypsy, RTE and Mariner transposable elements populate Eyprepocnemis plorans genome. Genetica 2012; 140:365-74. [PMID: 23073915 DOI: 10.1007/s10709-012-9686-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2012] [Accepted: 10/08/2012] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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We analyze here the presence and abundance of three types of transposable elements (TEs), i.e. Gypsy, RTE and Mariner, in the genome of the grasshopper Eyprepocnemis plorans. PCR experiments allowed amplification, cloning and sequencing of these elements (EploGypI, EploRTE5, EploMar20) from the E. plorans genome. Fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) showed that all three elements are restricted to euchromatic regions, thus being absent from the pericentromeric region of all A chromosomes, which contain a satellite DNA (satDNA) and ribosomal DNA (rDNA), and being very scarce in B chromosomes mostly made up of these two types of repetitive DNA. FISH suggested that EploGypI is the most abundant and EploMar20 is the least abundant, with EploRTE5 showing intermediate abundance. An estimation of copy number, by means of quantitative PCR, showed that EploGypI is, by far, the most abundant element, followed by EploRTE5 and EploMar20, in consistency with FISH results. RNA isolation and PCR experiments on complementary DNA (cDNA) showed the presence of transcripts for the three TE elements. The implications of the preferential location of these TE elements into euchromatin, the significance of TE abundance in the giant genome of this species, and a possible relationship between TEs and B chromosome mutability, are discussed.
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- Eugenia E Montiel
- Departamento de Genética, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
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Chénais B, Caruso A, Hiard S, Casse N. The impact of transposable elements on eukaryotic genomes: from genome size increase to genetic adaptation to stressful environments. Gene 2012; 509:7-15. [PMID: 22921893 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2012.07.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 195] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2012] [Revised: 07/16/2012] [Accepted: 07/25/2012] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Transposable elements (TEs) are present in roughly all genomes. These mobile DNA sequences are able to invade genomes and their impact on genome evolution is substantial. The mobility of TEs can induce the appearance of deleterious mutations, gene disruption and chromosome rearrangements, but transposition activity also has positive aspects and the mutational activities of TEs contribute to the genetic diversity of organisms. This short review aims to give a brief overview of the impact TEs may have on animal and plant genome structure and expression, and the relationship between TEs and the stress response of organisms, including insecticide resistance.
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- Benoît Chénais
- Université du Maine, EA2160 Mer Molécules Santé, UFR Sciences et Techniques, Avenue Olivier Messiaen, F-72085 Le Mans, France.
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Sehgal SK, Li W, Rabinowicz PD, Chan A, Šimková H, Doležel J, Gill BS. Chromosome arm-specific BAC end sequences permit comparative analysis of homoeologous chromosomes and genomes of polyploid wheat. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2012; 12:64. [PMID: 22559868 PMCID: PMC3438119 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-12-64] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2011] [Accepted: 04/09/2012] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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BACKGROUND Bread wheat, one of the world's staple food crops, has the largest, highly repetitive and polyploid genome among the cereal crops. The wheat genome holds the key to crop genetic improvement against challenges such as climate change, environmental degradation, and water scarcity. To unravel the complex wheat genome, the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium (IWGSC) is pursuing a chromosome- and chromosome arm-based approach to physical mapping and sequencing. Here we report on the use of a BAC library made from flow-sorted telosomic chromosome 3A short arm (t3AS) for marker development and analysis of sequence composition and comparative evolution of homoeologous genomes of hexaploid wheat. RESULTS The end-sequencing of 9,984 random BACs from a chromosome arm 3AS-specific library (TaaCsp3AShA) generated 11,014,359 bp of high quality sequence from 17,591 BAC-ends with an average length of 626 bp. The sequence represents 3.2% of t3AS with an average DNA sequence read every 19 kb. Overall, 79% of the sequence consisted of repetitive elements, 1.38% as coding regions (estimated 2,850 genes) and another 19% of unknown origin. Comparative sequence analysis suggested that 70-77% of the genes present in both 3A and 3B were syntenic with model species. Among the transposable elements, gypsy/sabrina (12.4%) was the most abundant repeat and was significantly more frequent in 3A compared to homoeologous chromosome 3B. Twenty novel repetitive sequences were also identified using de novo repeat identification. BESs were screened to identify simple sequence repeats (SSR) and transposable element junctions. A total of 1,057 SSRs were identified with a density of one per 10.4 kb, and 7,928 junctions between transposable elements (TE) and other sequences were identified with a density of one per 1.39 kb. With the objective of enhancing the marker density of chromosome 3AS, oligonucleotide primers were successfully designed from 758 SSRs and 695 Insertion Site Based Polymorphisms (ISBPs). Of the 96 ISBP primer pairs tested, 28 (29%) were 3A-specific and compared to 17 (18%) for 96 SSRs. CONCLUSION This work reports on the use of wheat chromosome arm 3AS-specific BAC library for the targeted generation of sequence data from a particular region of the huge genome of wheat. A large quantity of sequences were generated from the A genome of hexaploid wheat for comparative genome analysis with homoeologous B and D genomes and other model grass genomes. Hundreds of molecular markers were developed from the 3AS arm-specific sequences; these and other sequences will be useful in gene discovery and physical mapping.
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- Sunish K Sehgal
- Wheat Genetic and Genomic Resources Center, Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
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- Department of Biology and Microbiology, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD 57007, USA
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- Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
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- The J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
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- Institute of Experimental Botany, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Sokolovska 6, Olomouc CZ-77200, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Experimental Botany, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Sokolovska 6, Olomouc CZ-77200, Czech Republic
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- Wheat Genetic and Genomic Resources Center, Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
- Faculty of Science, Genomics and Biotechnology Section, Department of Biological Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia
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