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June V, Song X, Chen ZJ. Imprinting but not cytonuclear interactions determines seed size heterosis in Arabidopsis hybrids. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2024; 195:1214-1228. [PMID: 38319651 PMCID: PMC11142339 DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiae061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2023] [Revised: 12/14/2023] [Accepted: 12/19/2023] [Indexed: 02/07/2024]
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The parent-of-origin effect on seeds can result from imprinting (unequal expression of paternal and maternal alleles) or combinational effects between cytoplasmic and nuclear genomes, but their relative contributions remain unknown. To discern these confounding factors, we produced cytoplasmic-nuclear substitution (CNS) lines using recurrent backcrossing in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) ecotypes Col-0 and C24. These CNS lines differed only in the nuclear genome (imprinting) or cytoplasm. The CNS reciprocal hybrids with the same cytoplasm displayed ∼20% seed size difference, whereas the seed size was similar between the reciprocal hybrids with fixed imprinting. Transcriptome analyses in the endosperm of CNS hybrids using laser-capture microdissection identified 104 maternally expressed genes (MEGs) and 90 paternally expressed genes (PEGs). These imprinted genes were involved in pectin catabolism and cell wall modification in the endosperm. Homeodomain Glabrous9 (HDG9), an epiallele and one of 11 cross-specific imprinted genes, affected seed size. In the embryo, there were a handful of imprinted genes in the CNS hybrids but only 1 was expressed at higher levels than in the endosperm. AT4G13495 was found to encode a long-noncoding RNA (lncRNA), but no obvious seed phenotype was observed in lncRNA knockout lines. Nuclear RNA Polymerase D1 (NRPD1), encoding the largest subunit of RNA Pol IV, was involved in the biogenesis of small interfering RNAs. Seed size and embryos were larger in the cross using nrpd1 as the maternal parent than in the reciprocal cross, supporting a role of the maternal NRPD1 allele in seed development. Although limited ecotypes were tested, these results suggest that imprinting and the maternal NRPD1-mediated small RNA pathway play roles in seed size heterosis in plant hybrids.
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- Viviana June
- Department of Molecular Biosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
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June V, Song X, Jeffrey Chen Z. Imprinting but not cytonuclear interactions affects parent-of-origin effect on seed size in Arabidopsis hybrids. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.09.15.557997. [PMID: 37745544 PMCID: PMC10516054 DOI: 10.1101/2023.09.15.557997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/26/2023]
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The parent-of-origin effect on seed size can result from imprinting or a combinational effect between cytoplasmic and nuclear genomes, but their relative contributions remain unknown. To discern these confounding effects, we generated cytoplasmic-nuclear substitution (CNS) lines using recurrent backcrossing in the Arabidopsis thaliana ecotypes Col-0 and C24. These CNS lines differ only in the nuclear genome (imprinting) or in the cytoplasm. The CNS reciprocal hybrids with the same cytoplasm display a ~20% seed size difference as observed in the conventional hybrids. However, seed size is similar between the reciprocal cybrids with fixed imprinting. Transcriptome analyses in the endosperm of CNS hybrids using laser-capture microdissection have identified 104 maternally expressed genes (MEGs) and 90 paternally-expressed genes (PEGs). These imprinted genes are involved in pectin catabolism and cell wall modification in the endosperm. HDG9, an epiallele and one of 11 cross-specific imprinted genes, controls seed size. In the embryo, a handful of imprinted genes is found in the CNS hybrids but only one is expressed higher in the embryo than endosperm. AT4G13495 encodes a long-noncoding RNA (lncRNA), but no obvious seed phenotype is observed in the lncRNA knockout lines. NRPD1, encoding the largest subunit of RNA Pol IV, is involved in the biogenesis of small interfering RNAs. Seed size and embryo is larger in the cross using nrpd1 as the maternal parent than in the reciprocal cross. In spite of limited ecotypes tested, these results suggest potential roles of imprinting and NRPD1-mediated small RNA pathway in seed size variation in hybrids.
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- Viviana June
- Department of Molecular Biosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
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Li Z, Li G, Li F, Zhang S, Wang X, Wu J, Sun R, Zhang S, Zhang H. Development of Ogura CMS Fertility-Restored Interspecific Hybrids for Use in Cytoplasm Replacement of Golden-Heart Materials in Brassica rapa. Genes (Basel) 2023; 14:1613. [PMID: 37628664 PMCID: PMC10454034 DOI: 10.3390/genes14081613] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2023] [Revised: 07/28/2023] [Accepted: 08/10/2023] [Indexed: 08/27/2023] Open
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Ogura cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) is one of the important methods for hybrid seed production in cruciferous crops. The lack of a restorer of fertility gene (Rfo) in Brassica rapa L. restricts the development and utilization of its germplasm resources. In this research, Brassica napus with the Rfo gene was used to restore the fertility of Ogura CMS B. rapa with the golden heart trait. Through the distant cross of two B. rapa and four B. napus, six interspecific hybrid combinations received F1 seeds. The six combinations were different in seed receiving. By morphological observation and molecular marker-assisted selection (MAS), in F1, individuals containing the Rfo gene all appeared fertile, while those without it remained male-sterile. The pollen viability of the fertile individuals was measured, and the fertile lines of the six interspecific hybrid combinations were different (40.68-80.49%). Three individuals (containing both Rfo and GOLDEN genes) with the highest pollen vitality (≥60%) were backcrossed with fertile cytoplasmic B. rapa, resulting in a total of 800 plants. Based on the MAS, a total of 144 plants with GOLDEN but no Rfo were screened (18%). Moreover, through morphological investigation, one individual with normal cytoplasm, stable fertility but without the restoring gene Rfo, the GOLDEN gene, and morphological characteristics similar to those of B. rapa was obtained. These results increased the diversity of B. rapa germplasm and provided a new method for the utilization of CMS germplasm in Brassica crops.
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- Ze Li
- Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China; (Z.L.); (G.L.); (F.L.); (S.Z.); (X.W.); (J.W.); (R.S.)
- State Key Laboratory of Vegetable Biobreeding, Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
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- Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China; (Z.L.); (G.L.); (F.L.); (S.Z.); (X.W.); (J.W.); (R.S.)
- State Key Laboratory of Vegetable Biobreeding, Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
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- Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China; (Z.L.); (G.L.); (F.L.); (S.Z.); (X.W.); (J.W.); (R.S.)
- State Key Laboratory of Vegetable Biobreeding, Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
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- Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China; (Z.L.); (G.L.); (F.L.); (S.Z.); (X.W.); (J.W.); (R.S.)
- State Key Laboratory of Vegetable Biobreeding, Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
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- Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China; (Z.L.); (G.L.); (F.L.); (S.Z.); (X.W.); (J.W.); (R.S.)
- State Key Laboratory of Vegetable Biobreeding, Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
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- Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China; (Z.L.); (G.L.); (F.L.); (S.Z.); (X.W.); (J.W.); (R.S.)
- State Key Laboratory of Vegetable Biobreeding, Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
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- Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China; (Z.L.); (G.L.); (F.L.); (S.Z.); (X.W.); (J.W.); (R.S.)
- State Key Laboratory of Vegetable Biobreeding, Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
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- Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China; (Z.L.); (G.L.); (F.L.); (S.Z.); (X.W.); (J.W.); (R.S.)
- State Key Laboratory of Vegetable Biobreeding, Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
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- Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China; (Z.L.); (G.L.); (F.L.); (S.Z.); (X.W.); (J.W.); (R.S.)
- State Key Laboratory of Vegetable Biobreeding, Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
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Ren W, Si J, Chen L, Fang Z, Zhuang M, Lv H, Wang Y, Ji J, Yu H, Zhang Y. Mechanism and Utilization of Ogura Cytoplasmic Male Sterility in Cruciferae Crops. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms23169099. [PMID: 36012365 PMCID: PMC9409259 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23169099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2022] [Revised: 08/05/2022] [Accepted: 08/09/2022] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Hybrid production using lines with cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) has become an important way to utilize heterosis in vegetables. Ogura CMS, with the advantages of complete pollen abortion, ease of transfer and a progeny sterility rate reaching 100%, is widely used in cruciferous crop breeding. The mapping, cloning, mechanism and application of Ogura CMS and fertility restorer genes in Brassica napus, Brassica rapa, Brassica oleracea and other cruciferous crops are reviewed herein, and the existing problems and future research directions in the application of Ogura CMS are discussed.
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- Wenjing Ren
- Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100081, China
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100081, China
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- Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100081, China
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100081, China
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- Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100081, China
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- Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100081, China
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- Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100081, China
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- Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100081, China
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- Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100081, China
- Correspondence: (H.Y.); (Y.Z.)
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- Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100081, China
- Correspondence: (H.Y.); (Y.Z.)
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Sanetomo R, Akai K, Nashiki A. Discovery of a novel mitochondrial DNA molecule associated with tetrad pollen sterility in potato. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2022; 22:302. [PMID: 35725378 PMCID: PMC9210639 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-022-03669-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2022] [Accepted: 05/31/2022] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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BACKGROUND Tetrad sterility in potato is caused by a specific cytoplasm, called TSCsto, derived from the Mexican wild tetraploid species Solanum stoloniferum. Different S. stoloniferum accessions crossed as females with S. tuberosum resulted in 12 fertile hybrids and 27 sterile hybrids exhibiting tetrad sterility. RESULTS Whole-mitochondrial-genome sequencing was performed for two fertile hybrids and three hybrids exhibiting tetrad sterility. Two to seven contigs, with the total assembly lengths ranging from 462,716 to 535,375 bp, were assembled for each hybrid. Unlike for the reference mitochondrial genome (cv. Désirée), two different recombinant-type contigs (RC-I and RC-II) were identified. RC-I featured by the rpl5-ψrps14 gene joined to the nad6 gene, generating a novel intergenic region. Using a PCR marker (P-3), we found that this intergenic region occurred exclusively in interspecific hybrids exhibiting tetrad sterility and in their parental S. stoloniferum accessions. A part of this intergenic sequence was expressed in the pollen. From a large survey in which P-3 was applied to 129 accessions of 27 mostly Mexican wild species, RC-I was found in diploid S. verrucosum and polyploid species. From eight accessions of S. verrucosum used as females, 92 interspecific hybrids were generated, in which only those carrying RC-I exhibited tetrad sterility. CONCLUSIONS RC-I was clearly associated with tetrad sterility, and the RC-I-specific intergenic region likely contains a causal factor of tetrad sterility.
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- Rena Sanetomo
- Potato Germplasm Enhancement Laboratory, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, Hokkaido, 080-8555, Japan.
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- National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Hokkaido Agricultural Research Center, Memuro, Hokkaido, 082-0081, Japan
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- Potato Germplasm Enhancement Laboratory, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, Hokkaido, 080-8555, Japan
- Graduate School of Science and Technology, The University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8572, Japan
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Chen L, Ren W, Zhang B, Chen W, Fang Z, Yang L, Zhuang M, Lv H, Wang Y, Ji J, Zhang Y. Organelle Comparative Genome Analysis Reveals Novel Alloplasmic Male Sterility with orf112 in Brassica oleracea L. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:ijms222413230. [PMID: 34948024 PMCID: PMC8703919 DOI: 10.3390/ijms222413230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [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: 11/12/2021] [Revised: 12/04/2021] [Accepted: 12/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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B. oleracea Ogura CMS is an alloplasmic male-sterile line introduced from radish by interspecific hybridization and protoplast fusion. The introduction of alien cytoplasm resulted in many undesirable traits, which affected the yield of hybrids. Therefore, it is necessary to identify the composition and reduce the content of alien cytoplasm in B. oleracea Ogura CMS. In the present study, we sequenced, assembled, and compared the organelle genomes of Ogura CMS cabbage and its maintainer line. The chloroplast genome of Ogura-type cabbage was completely derived from normal-type cabbage, whereas the mitochondrial genome was recombined from normal-type cabbage and Ogura-type radish. Nine unique regions derived from radish were identified in the mitochondrial genome of Ogura-type cabbage, and the total length of these nine regions was 35,618 bp, accounting for 13.84% of the mitochondrial genome. Using 32 alloplasmic markers designed according to the sequences of these nine regions, one novel sterile source with less alien cytoplasm was discovered among 305 materials and named Bel CMS. The size of the alien cytoplasm in Bel CMS was 21,587 bp, accounting for 8.93% of its mtDNA, which was much less than that in Ogura CMS. Most importantly, the sterility gene orf138 was replaced by orf112, which had a 78-bp deletion, in Bel CMS. Interestingly, Bel CMS cabbage also maintained 100% sterility, although orf112 had 26 fewer amino acids than orf138. Field phenotypic observation showed that Bel CMS was an excellent sterile source with stable 100% sterility and no withered buds at the early flowering stage, which could replace Ogura CMS in cabbage heterosis utilization.
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- Li Chen
- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops, Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100081, China; (L.C.); (W.R.); (B.Z.); (W.C.); (Z.F.); (L.Y.); (M.Z.); (H.L.); (Y.W.); (J.J.)
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops, Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100081, China; (L.C.); (W.R.); (B.Z.); (W.C.); (Z.F.); (L.Y.); (M.Z.); (H.L.); (Y.W.); (J.J.)
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops, Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100081, China; (L.C.); (W.R.); (B.Z.); (W.C.); (Z.F.); (L.Y.); (M.Z.); (H.L.); (Y.W.); (J.J.)
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops, Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100081, China; (L.C.); (W.R.); (B.Z.); (W.C.); (Z.F.); (L.Y.); (M.Z.); (H.L.); (Y.W.); (J.J.)
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops, Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100081, China; (L.C.); (W.R.); (B.Z.); (W.C.); (Z.F.); (L.Y.); (M.Z.); (H.L.); (Y.W.); (J.J.)
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops, Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100081, China; (L.C.); (W.R.); (B.Z.); (W.C.); (Z.F.); (L.Y.); (M.Z.); (H.L.); (Y.W.); (J.J.)
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops, Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100081, China; (L.C.); (W.R.); (B.Z.); (W.C.); (Z.F.); (L.Y.); (M.Z.); (H.L.); (Y.W.); (J.J.)
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops, Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100081, China; (L.C.); (W.R.); (B.Z.); (W.C.); (Z.F.); (L.Y.); (M.Z.); (H.L.); (Y.W.); (J.J.)
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops, Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100081, China; (L.C.); (W.R.); (B.Z.); (W.C.); (Z.F.); (L.Y.); (M.Z.); (H.L.); (Y.W.); (J.J.)
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops, Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100081, China; (L.C.); (W.R.); (B.Z.); (W.C.); (Z.F.); (L.Y.); (M.Z.); (H.L.); (Y.W.); (J.J.)
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops, Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100081, China; (L.C.); (W.R.); (B.Z.); (W.C.); (Z.F.); (L.Y.); (M.Z.); (H.L.); (Y.W.); (J.J.)
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Han Y, Gao Y, Zhou H, Zhai X, Ding Q, Ma L. Mitochondrial genes are involved in the fertility transformation of the thermosensitive male-sterile line YS3038 in wheat. MOLECULAR BREEDING : NEW STRATEGIES IN PLANT IMPROVEMENT 2021; 41:61. [PMID: 37309316 PMCID: PMC10236089 DOI: 10.1007/s11032-021-01252-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2020] [Accepted: 09/05/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Heterosis can improve the stress resistance, quality, and yield of crops, and the male sterility of wheat can be utilized to accelerate the breeding process of hybrid. To determine whether mitochondrial genes are involved in the fertility of K-type cytoplasmic male-sterile (CMS) line and the YS-type thermosensitive male-sterile (TMS) line in wheat, we sequenced and assembled the mitochondrial genomes of K519A, 519B, and YS3038 by next-generation sequencing (NGS). The non-synonymous mutations were analyzed, and the first-generation sequencing was conducted to verify the non-synonymous mutation sites. Furthermore, the expression patterns of genes with non-synonymous mutations were analyzed. Finally, the candidate genes were silenced by barley stripe mosaic virus-induced gene silencing (BSMV-VIGS) to test the functions of the candidate genes. The results revealed that the mitochondrial genomes of K519A, 519B, and YS3038 were 420,543, 433,560, and 452,567 bp in length, respectively. Besides, 33, 31, and 37 protein-coding genes were identified in K519A, 519B, and YS3038, respectively. There were 14 protein-coding genes and 83 open reading frame (ORF) sequences that differed between K519A and 519B and 10 protein-coding genes and 122 ORF sequences that differed between K519A and YS3038. At the binucleate stage, seven genes (nad6, ORF256, ORF216, ORF138, atp6, nad3, and cox1) were downregulated in K519A compared with 519B, and 10 genes (nad6, atp6, cox3, atp8, nad3, cox1, rps3, ORF216, ORF138, and ORF224) were downregulated in YS3038 compared with K519A. Besides, six genes (nad6, ORF138, cox3, cox1, rps3, and ORF224) were downregulated under fertile conditions relative to sterile conditions in YS3038. Gene silencing analysis showed that the silencing of cox1 significantly reduced the seed setting rate of YS3038, indicating that the cox1 gene may be involved in the fertility transformation of YS3038. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11032-021-01252-x.
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- Yucui Han
- College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang, 712100 Yangling, Shaanxi China
- College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Hebei Normal University of Science and Technology, Qinhuangdao, 066004 Hebei China
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- College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang, 712100 Yangling, Shaanxi China
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- College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang, 712100 Yangling, Shaanxi China
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- College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang, 712100 Yangling, Shaanxi China
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang, 712100 Yangling, Shaanxi China
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- College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang, 712100 Yangling, Shaanxi China
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The radish Ogura fertility restorer impedes translation elongation along its cognate CMS-causing mRNA. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2021; 118:2105274118. [PMID: 34433671 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2105274118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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The control of messenger RNA (mRNA) translation has been increasingly recognized as a key regulatory step for gene control, but clear examples in eukaryotes are still scarce. Nucleo-cytoplasmic male sterilities (CMS) represent ideal genetic models to dissect genetic interactions between the mitochondria and the nucleus in plants. This trait is determined by specific mitochondrial genes and is associated with a pollen sterility phenotype that can be suppressed by nuclear genes known as restorer-of-fertility (Rf). In this study, we focused on the Ogura CMS system in rapeseed and showed that reversion to male sterility by the PPR-B fertility restorer (also called Rfo) occurs through a specific translation inhibition of the mitochondria-encoded CMS-causing mRNA orf138 We also demonstrate that PPR-B binds within the coding sequence of orf138 and acts as a ribosome blocker to specifically impede translation elongation along the orf138 mRNA. Rfo is the first recognized fertility restorer shown to act this way. These observations will certainly facilitate the development of synthetic fertility restorers for CMS systems in which efficient natural Rfs are lacking.
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Yang Q, Nong X, Xu J, Huang F, Wang F, Wu J, Zhang C, Liu C. Unraveling the Genetic Basis of Fertility Restoration for Cytoplasmic Male Sterile Line WNJ01A Originated From Brassica juncea in Brassica napus. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2021; 12:721980. [PMID: 34531887 PMCID: PMC8438535 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.721980] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2021] [Accepted: 08/05/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Crosses that lead to heterosis have been widely used in the rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) industry. Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS)/restorer-of-fertility (Rf) systems represent one of the most useful tools for rapeseed production. Several CMS types and their restorer lines have been identified in rapeseed, but there are few studies on the mechanisms underlying fertility restoration. Here, we performed morphological observation, map-based cloning, and transcriptomic analysis of the F2 population developed by crossing the CMS line WNJ01A with its restorer line Hui01. Paraffin-embedded sections showed that the sporogenous cell stage was the critical pollen degeneration period, with major sporogenous cells displaying loose and irregular arrangement in sterile anthers. Most mitochondrial electron transport chain (mtETC) complex genes were upregulated in fertile compared to sterile buds. Using bulked segregant analysis (BSA)-seq to analyze mixed DNA pools from sterile and fertile F2 buds, respectively, we identified a 6.25 Mb candidate interval where Rfw is located. Using map-based cloning experiments combined with bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) clone sequencing, the candidate interval was reduced to 99.75 kb and two pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) genes were found among 28 predicted genes in this interval. Transcriptome sequencing showed that there were 1679 DEGs (1023 upregulated and 656 downregulated) in fertile compared to sterile F2 buds. The upregulated differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were enriched in the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) lysine degradation pathway and phenylalanine metabolism, and the downregulated DEGs were enriched in cutin, suberine, and wax biosynthesis. Furthermore, 44 DEGs were involved in pollen and anther development, such as tapetum, microspores, and pollen wall development. All of them were upregulated except a few such as POE1 genes (which encode Pollen Ole e I allergen and extensin family proteins). There were 261 specifically expressed DEGs (9 and 252 in sterile and fertile buds, respectively). Regarding the fertile bud-specific upregulated DEGs, the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway was enriched. The top four hub genes in the protein-protein interaction network (BnaA09g56400D, BnaA10g18210D, BnaA10g18220D, and BnaC09g41740D) encode RAD23d proteins, which deliver ubiquitinated substrates to the 26S proteasome. These findings provide evidence on the pathways regulated by Rfw and improve our understanding of fertility restoration.
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Vasupalli N, Kumar V, Bhattacharya R, Bhat SR. Analysis of mitochondrial recombination in the male sterile Brassica juncea cybrid Og1 and identification of the molecular basis of fertility reversion. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2021; 106:109-122. [PMID: 33638768 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-021-01132-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2020] [Accepted: 02/12/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Recombinations between the parental genomes produced a novel mitochondrial genome in the cytoplasmic male sterile Brassica juncea cybrid Og1. A mitochondrial stoichiometric shift greatly reduced the molecule containing male-sterility-inducing orf138 gene leading to reversion to male fertility. An improved, chlorosis-corrected, cytoplasmic male sterile Brassica juncea cybrid Og1 derived from Ogura cytoplasm shows frequent reversion to male fertility. To determine the nature of mitochondrial recombination in the cybrid and to uncover the molecular mechanism of male fertility reversion, we sequenced the mitochondrial genomes of Og1, its isonuclear parental lines (OgRLM and Brassica juncea RLM198) and the revertant line (Og1-rt). Assembly of Og1 mitochondrial genome gave two circular molecules, Og1a (250.999 kbp) and Og1b (96.185 kbp) sharing two large direct repeat regions capable of recombining to form a single circular molecule. Og1a contains all essential mitochondrial genes, but the male-sterility-causing orf138 was uniquely present in Og1b along with 16 other complete or partial genes already represented in Og1a. Eleven and four recombinations between the parental mitochondrial genomes produced the Og1a and the Og1b molecules, respectively. Five genes were duplicated within Og1a, of which trnfM was inherited from both the parents while the other four genes, atp4, cox1 nad4L and trnM, were inherited from RLM198. RFLP analysis revealed that orf138-containing molecules were less abundant than Og1a in the male-sterile plants while og1b bearing molecules were undetectable in the revertant line. However, orf138 transcripts were amplified in RT-PCR and were also detected in northern blots revealing that Og1b molecules are not completely lost in the revertant plants. This is the first report where the mitochondrial genome of a cybrid is compared with its actual parents. The findings are discussed in the light of previous reports on mitochondrial genome recombination in cybrids.
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- Naresh Vasupalli
- ICAR-National Institute for Plant Biotechnology, Pusa Campus, New Delhi, 110012, India
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- ICAR-National Institute for Plant Biotechnology, Pusa Campus, New Delhi, 110012, India
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- ICAR-National Institute for Plant Biotechnology, Pusa Campus, New Delhi, 110012, India.
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Yamagishi H, Jikuya M, Okushiro K, Hashimoto A, Fukunaga A, Takenaka M, Terachi T. A single nucleotide substitution in the coding region of Ogura male sterile gene, orf138, determines effectiveness of a fertility restorer gene, Rfo, in radish. Mol Genet Genomics 2021; 296:705-717. [PMID: 33772345 PMCID: PMC8144145 DOI: 10.1007/s00438-021-01777-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2021] [Accepted: 03/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) observed in many plants leads defect in the production of functional pollen, while the expression of CMS is suppressed by a fertility restorer gene in the nuclear genome. Ogura CMS of radish is induced by a mitochondrial orf138, and a fertility restorer gene, Rfo, encodes a P-type PPR protein, ORF687, acting at the translational level. But, the exact function of ORF687 is still unclear. We found a Japanese variety showing male sterility even in the presence of Rfo. We examined the pollen fertility, Rfo expression, and orf138 mRNA in progenies of this variety. The progeny with Type H orf138 and Rfo showed male sterility when their orf138 mRNA was unprocessed within the coding region. By contrast, all progeny with Type A orf138 were fertile though orf138 mRNA remained unprocessed in the coding region, demonstrating that ORF687 functions on Type A but not on Type H. In silico analysis suggested a specific binding site of ORF687 in the coding region, not the 5′ untranslated region estimated previously, of Type A. A single nucleotide substitution in the putative binding site diminishes affinity of ORF687 in Type H and is most likely the cause of the ineffectiveness of ORF687. Furthermore, fertility restoration by RNA processing at a novel site in some progeny plants indicated a new and the third fertility restorer gene, Rfs, for orf138. This study clarified that direct ORF687 binding to the coding region of orf138 is essential for fertility restoration by Rfo.
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- Hiroshi Yamagishi
- Faculty of Life Sciences, Kyoto Sangyo University, Kamigamo, Kita, Kyoto, 603-8555, Japan.
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- Faculty of Life Sciences, Kyoto Sangyo University, Kamigamo, Kita, Kyoto, 603-8555, Japan
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- Faculty of Life Sciences, Kyoto Sangyo University, Kamigamo, Kita, Kyoto, 603-8555, Japan
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- Research Center of Botany, Kyoto Sangyo University, Kamigamo, Kita , Kyoto, 603-8555, Japan
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- Faculty of Life Sciences, Kyoto Sangyo University, Kamigamo, Kita, Kyoto, 603-8555, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-Oiwakecho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan
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- Faculty of Life Sciences, Kyoto Sangyo University, Kamigamo, Kita, Kyoto, 603-8555, Japan
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Melonek J, Duarte J, Martin J, Beuf L, Murigneux A, Varenne P, Comadran J, Specel S, Levadoux S, Bernath-Levin K, Torney F, Pichon JP, Perez P, Small I. The genetic basis of cytoplasmic male sterility and fertility restoration in wheat. Nat Commun 2021; 12:1036. [PMID: 33589621 PMCID: PMC7884431 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-21225-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2019] [Accepted: 01/15/2021] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Hybrid wheat varieties give higher yields than conventional lines but are difficult to produce due to a lack of effective control of male fertility in breeding lines. One promising system involves the Rf1 and Rf3 genes that restore fertility of wheat plants carrying Triticum timopheevii-type cytoplasmic male sterility (T-CMS). Here, by genetic mapping and comparative sequence analyses, we identify Rf1 and Rf3 candidates that can restore normal pollen production in transgenic wheat plants carrying T-CMS. We show that Rf1 and Rf3 bind to the mitochondrial orf279 transcript and induce cleavage, preventing expression of the CMS trait. The identification of restorer genes in wheat is an important step towards the development of hybrid wheat varieties based on a CMS-Rf system. The characterisation of their mode of action brings insights into the molecular basis of CMS and fertility restoration in plants.
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- Joanna Melonek
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Molecular Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia
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- Groupe Limagrain, Centre de Recherche, Route d'Ennezat, Chappes, France
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- Groupe Limagrain, Centre de Recherche, Route d'Ennezat, Chappes, France
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- Groupe Limagrain, Centre de Recherche, Route d'Ennezat, Chappes, France
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- Groupe Limagrain, Centre de Recherche, Route d'Ennezat, Chappes, France
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- Groupe Limagrain, Centre de Recherche, Route d'Ennezat, Chappes, France
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- Groupe Limagrain, Centre de Recherche, Route d'Ennezat, Chappes, France
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- Groupe Limagrain, Centre de Recherche, Route d'Ennezat, Chappes, France
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- Groupe Limagrain, Centre de Recherche, Route d'Ennezat, Chappes, France
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- ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Molecular Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia
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- Groupe Limagrain, Centre de Recherche, Route d'Ennezat, Chappes, France
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- Groupe Limagrain, Centre de Recherche, Route d'Ennezat, Chappes, France
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- ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Molecular Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia.
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Brassica oleracea is an important vegetable species which belongs to the genus Brassica and the mustard family Brassicaceae Burnett. Strong heterosis in B. oleracea is displayed in yield, quality, disease resistance, and stress tolerance. Heterosis breeding is the main way to improve B. oleracea varieties. Male sterile mutants play an important role in the utilization of heterosis and the study of development and regulation in plant reproduction. In this paper, advances in the research and application of male sterility in B. oleracea were reviewed, including aspects of the genetics, cytological characteristics, discovery of genes related to male sterility, and application of male sterility in B. oleracea. Moreover, the main existing problems and prospect of male sterility application in B. oleracea were addressed and a new hybrids’ production strategy with recessive genic male sterility is introduced.
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Gudi S, Atri C, Goyal A, Kaur N, Akhtar J, Mittal M, Kaur K, Kaur G, Banga SS. Physical mapping of introgressed chromosome fragment carrying the fertility restoring (Rfo) gene for Ogura CMS in Brassica juncea L. Czern & Coss. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2020; 133:2949-2959. [PMID: 32661588 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-020-03648-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2020] [Accepted: 07/01/2020] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Rfo is located on a radish chromosome fragment (~ 108 Kb), which is seated in the middle of a pretty large C genome translocation at the distal region of chromosome A09 of B. juncea. Ogura cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) is used to produce hybrids in Indian mustard (Brassica juncea L.). Fertility restorers for this CMS were developed by cross-hybridizing B. juncea (AABB; 2n = 36) with B. napus (AACC; 2n = 38) carrying radish Rfo gene. This hybrid production system is normally stable, but many commercial mustard hybrids show male sterile contaminants. We aimed to identify linkage drag associated with Rfo by comparing hybridity levels of 295 handmade CMS x Rfo crosses. Although Rfo was stably inherited, hybridity was < 85 percent in several combinations. Genome re-sequencing of five fertility restorers, mapping sequencing reads to B. juncea reference and synteny analysis with Raphanus sativus D81Rfo genomic region (AJ550021.2) helped to detect ~ 108 Kb of radish chromosome (R) fragment substitution in all fertility restorers. This radish segment substitution was itself located amidst a large C genome translocation on the terminal region of chromosome A09 of B. juncea. The size of alien segment substitution varied from 11.3 (NTCN-R9) to 22.0 Mb (NAJR-102B-R). We also developed an in silico SSR map for chromosome A09 and identified many homoeologous A to the C genome exchanges in the introgressed region. A to the R genome exchanges were rare. Annotation of the substituted fragment showed the gain of many novel genes from R and C genomes and the loss of B. juncea genes from the corresponding region. We have developed a KASPar marker for marker-aided transfer of Rfo and testing hybridity levels in seed production lots.
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- Santosh Gudi
- Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India
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- Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India
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- Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India
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- Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India
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- Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India
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- Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India
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- Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India
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- Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India
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- Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India.
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Mitochondrial Genome Sequencing Reveals orf463a May Induce Male Sterility in NWB Cytoplasm of Radish. Genes (Basel) 2020; 11:genes11010074. [PMID: 31936663 PMCID: PMC7017215 DOI: 10.3390/genes11010074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2019] [Revised: 01/07/2020] [Accepted: 01/08/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Radish (Raphanus sativus L.) is an important root vegetable worldwide. The development of F1 hybrids, which are extensively used for commercial radish production, relies on cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS). To identify candidate genes responsible for CMS in NWB cytoplasm, we sequenced the normal and NWB CMS radish mitochondrial genomes via next-generation sequencing. A comparative analysis revealed 18 syntenic blocks and 11 unique regions in the NWB CMS mitogenome. A detailed examination indicated that orf463a was the most likely causal factor for male sterility in NWB cytoplasm. Interestingly, orf463a was identical to orf463, which is responsible for CMS in Dongbu cytoplasmic and genic male sterility (DCGMS) radish. Moreover, only structural variations were detected between the NWB CMS and DCGMS mitochondrial genomes, with no nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) or meaningful indels. Further analyses revealed these two mitochondrial genomes are coexisting isomeric forms belonging to the same mitotype. orf463a was more highly expressed in flower buds than in vegetative organs and its expression was differentially regulated in the presence of restorer of fertility (Rf) genes. orf463a was confirmed to originate from Raphanus raphanistrum. In this study, we identified a candidate gene responsible for the CMS in NWB cytoplasm and clarified the relationship between NWB CMS and DCGMS.
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Singh S, Dey SS, Bhatia R, Kumar R, Behera TK. Current understanding of male sterility systems in vegetable Brassicas and their exploitation in hybrid breeding. PLANT REPRODUCTION 2019; 32:231-256. [PMID: 31053901 DOI: 10.1007/s00497-019-00371-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2018] [Accepted: 04/25/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Overview of the current status of GMS and CMS systems available in Brassica vegetables, their molecular mechanism, wild sources of sterile cytoplasm and exploitation of male sterility in hybrid breeding. The predominantly herbaceous family Brassicaceae (crucifers or mustard family) encompasses over 3700 species, and many of them are scientifically and economically important. The genus Brassica is an economically important genus within the tribe Brassicaceae that comprises important vegetable, oilseed and fodder crops. Brassica vegetables display strong hybrid vigor, and heterosis breeding is the integral part in their improvement. Commercial production of F1 hybrid seeds in Brassica vegetables requires an effective male sterility system. Among the available male sterility systems, cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) is the most widely exploited in Brassica vegetables. This system is maternally inherited and studied intensively. A limited number of reports about the genic male sterility (GMS) are available in Brassica vegetables. The GMS system is reported to be dominant, recessive and trirecessive in nature in different species. In this review, we discuss the available male sterility systems in Brassica vegetables and their potential use in hybrid breeding. The molecular mechanism of mt-CMS and causal mitochondrial genes of CMS has been discussed in detail. Finally, the exploitation of male sterility system in heterosis breeding of Brassica vegetables, future prospects and need for further understanding of these systems are highlighted.
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- Saurabh Singh
- Division of Vegetable Science, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi, 110012, India
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- Division of Vegetable Science, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi, 110012, India.
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- Division of Floriculture and Landscaping, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi, 110012, India
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- Division of Vegetable Science, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi, 110012, India
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- Division of Vegetable Science, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi, 110012, India
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Kazama T, Okuno M, Watari Y, Yanase S, Koizuka C, Tsuruta Y, Sugaya H, Toyoda A, Itoh T, Tsutsumi N, Toriyama K, Koizuka N, Arimura SI. Curing cytoplasmic male sterility via TALEN-mediated mitochondrial genome editing. NATURE PLANTS 2019; 5:722-730. [PMID: 31285556 DOI: 10.1038/s41477-019-0459-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2018] [Accepted: 05/23/2019] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Sequence-specific nucleases are commonly used to modify the nuclear genome of plants. However, targeted modification of the mitochondrial genome of land plants has not yet been achieved. In plants, a type of male sterility called cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) has been attributed to certain mitochondrial genes, but none of these genes has been validated by direct mitochondrial gene-targeted modification. Here, we knocked out CMS-associated genes (orf79 and orf125) of CMS varieties of rice and rapeseed, respectively, using transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs) with mitochondria localization signals (mitoTALENs). We demonstrate that knocking out these genes cures male sterility, strongly suggesting that these genes are causes of CMS. Sequencing revealed that double-strand breaks induced by mitoTALENs were repaired by homologous recombination, and that during this process, the target genes and surrounding sequences were deleted. Our results show that mitoTALENs can be used to stably and heritably modify the mitochondrial genome in plants.
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- Tomohiko Kazama
- Laboratory of Environmental Biotechnology, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
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- School of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
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- Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- College of Agriculture, Tamagawa University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Comparative Genomics Laboratory, National Institute of Genetics, Shizuoka, Japan
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- School of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
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- Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Laboratory of Environmental Biotechnology, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- College of Agriculture, Tamagawa University, Tokyo, Japan.
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- Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
- PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Saitama, Japan.
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Garcia LE, Zubko MK, Zubko EI, Sanchez-Puerta MV. Elucidating genomic patterns and recombination events in plant cybrid mitochondria. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2019; 100:433-450. [PMID: 30968307 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-019-00869-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2019] [Accepted: 04/01/2019] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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KEY MESSAGE Cybrid plant mitochondria undergo homologous recombination, mainly BIR, keep a single allele for each gene, and maintain exclusive sequences of each parent and a single copy of the homologous regions. The maintenance of a dynamic equilibrium between the mitochondrial and nuclear genomes requires continuous communication and a high level of compatibility between them, so that alterations in one genetic compartment need adjustments in the other. The co-evolution of nuclear and mitochondrial genomes has been poorly studied, even though the consequences and effects of this interaction are highly relevant for human health, as well as for crop improvement programs and for genetic engineering. The mitochondria of plants represent an excellent system to understand the mechanisms of genomic rearrangements, chimeric gene formation, incompatibility between nucleus and cytoplasm, and horizontal gene transfer. We carried out detailed analyses of the mtDNA of a repeated cybrid between the solanaceae Nicotiana tabacum and Hyoscyamus niger. The mtDNA of the cybrid was intermediate between the size of the parental mtDNAs and the sum of them. Noticeably, most of the homologous sequences inherited from both parents were lost. In contrast, the majority of the sequences exclusive of a single parent were maintained. The mitochondrial gene content included a majority of N. tabacum derived genes, but also chimeric, two-parent derived, and H. niger-derived genes in a tobacco nuclear background. Any of these alterations in the gene content could be the cause of CMS in the cybrid. The parental mtDNAs interacted through 28 homologous recombination events and a single case of illegitimate recombination. Three main homologous recombination mechanisms were recognized in the cybrid mitochondria. Break induced replication (BIR) pathway was the most frequent. We propose that BIR could be one of the mechanisms responsible for the loss of the majority of the repeated regions derived from H. niger.
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- Laura E Garcia
- Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, IBAM, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, CONICET, Almirante Brown 500, M5528AHB, Chacras de Coria, Argentina.
- Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, 5500, Mendoza, Argentina.
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- Centre for Bioscience, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, M1 5GD, UK
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- Centre for Bioscience, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, M1 5GD, UK
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- Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, IBAM, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, CONICET, Almirante Brown 500, M5528AHB, Chacras de Coria, Argentina
- Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, 5500, Mendoza, Argentina
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Kim B, Yang TJ, Kim S. Identification of a gene responsible for cytoplasmic male-sterility in onions (Allium cepa L.) using comparative analysis of mitochondrial genome sequences of two recently diverged cytoplasms. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2019; 132:313-322. [PMID: 30374528 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-018-3218-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2018] [Accepted: 10/20/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Almost identical mitochondrial genome sequences of two recently diverged male-fertile normal and male-sterile CMS-T-like cytoplasms were obtained in onions. A chimeric gene, orf725 , was found to be a CMS-inducing gene. In onions (Allium cepa L.), cytoplasmic male-sterility (CMS) has been widely used in hybrid seed production. Two types of CMS (CMS-S and CMS-T) have been reported in onions. A complete mitochondrial genome sequence of the CMS-S cytoplasm has been reported in our previous study. Draft mitochondrial genome sequences of male-fertile normal and CMS-T-like cytoplasms are reported in this study. Raw reads obtained from normal and CMS-T-like cytoplasms were assembled into eight and nine almost identical contigs, respectively. After connection and reorganization of contigs by PCR amplification and genome walking, four scaffold sequences with total length of 339 and 180 bp were produced for the normal cytoplasm. A mitochondrial genome sequence of the CMS-T-like cytoplasm was obtained by mapping trimmed reads of CMS-T onto scaffold sequences of the normal cytoplasm. Compared with the CMS-S mitochondrial genome, the normal mitochondrial genome was highly rearranged with 31 syntenic blocks. A total of 499 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) or insertions/deletions were identified in these syntenic regions. On the other hand, normal and CMS-T-like mitochondrial genome sequences were almost identical except for orf725, a chimeric gene consisting of cox1 with other sequences. Only three SNPs were identified between normal and CMS-T-like syntenic sequences. These results indicate that orf725 is likely to be the casual gene for CMS induction in onions and that CMS-T-like cytoplasm has recently diverged from the normal cytoplasm by introduction of orf725.
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- Bongju Kim
- Department of Plant Biotechnology, Biotechnology Research Institute, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, 500-757, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Plant Science, Plant Genomics and Breeding Institute, and Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-921, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology, Biotechnology Research Institute, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, 500-757, Republic of Korea.
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Candidate Gene Selection for Cytoplasmic Male Sterility in Pepper ( Capsicum annuum L.) through Whole Mitochondrial Genome Sequencing. Int J Mol Sci 2019; 20:ijms20030578. [PMID: 30699994 PMCID: PMC6386957 DOI: 10.3390/ijms20030578] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2019] [Revised: 01/18/2019] [Accepted: 01/22/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS), which is controlled by mitochondrial genes, is an important trait for commercial hybrid seed production. So far, genes controlling this trait are still not clear in pepper. In this study, complete mitochondrial genomes were sequenced and assembled for the CMS line 138A and its maintainer line 138B. The genome size of 138A is 504,210 bp, which is 8618 bp shorter than that of 138B. Meanwhile, more than 214 and 215 open reading frames longer than 100 amino acids (aas) were identified in 138A and 138B, respectively. Mitochondrial genome structure of 138A was quite different from that of 138B, indicating the existence of recombination and rearrangement events. Based on the mitochondrial genome sequence and structure variations, mitochondrion of 138A and FS4401, a Korean origin CMS line, may have inherited from a common female ancestor, but their CMS traits did originate separately. Candidate gene selection was performed according to the published characteristics of the CMS genes, including the presence SNPs and InDels, located in unique regions, their chimeric structure, co-transcription, and transmembrane domain. A total of 35 ORFs were considered as potential candidate genes and 14 of these were selected, with orf300a and 0rf314a as strong candidates. A new marker, orf300a, was developed which did co-segregate with the CMS trait.
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Han F, Zhang X, Yang L, Zhuang M, Zhang Y, Li Z, Fang Z, Lv H. iTRAQ-Based Proteomic Analysis of Ogura-CMS Cabbage and Its Maintainer Line. Int J Mol Sci 2018; 19:E3180. [PMID: 30326665 PMCID: PMC6214076 DOI: 10.3390/ijms19103180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2018] [Revised: 10/08/2018] [Accepted: 10/08/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Ogura cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) contributes considerably to hybrid seed production in Brassica crops. To detect the key protein species and pathways involved in Ogura-CMS, we analysed the proteome of the cabbage Ogura-CMS line CMS01-20 and its corresponding maintainer line F01-20 using the isobaric tags for the relative and absolute quantitation (iTRAQ) approach. In total, 162 differential abundance protein species (DAPs) were identified between the two lines, of which 92 were down-accumulated and 70 were up-accumulated in CMS01-20. For energy metabolism in the mitochondrion, eight DAPs involved in oxidative phosphorylation were down-accumulated in CMS01-20, whereas in the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle, five DAPs were up-accumulated, which may compensate for the decreased respiration capacity and may be associated with the elevated O2 consumption rate in Ogura-CMS plants. Other key protein species and pathways involved in pollen wall assembly and programmed cell death (PCD) were also identified as being male-sterility related. Transcriptome profiling revealed 3247 differentially expressed genes between the CMS line and the fertile line. In a conjoint analysis of the proteome and transcriptome data, 30 and 9 protein species/genes showed the same and opposite accumulation patterns, respectively. Nine noteworthy genes involved in sporopollenin synthesis, callose wall degeneration, and oxidative phosphorylation were presumably associated with the processes leading to male sterility, and their expression levels were validated by qRT-PCR analysis. This study will improve our understanding of the protein species involved in pollen development and the molecular mechanisms underlying Ogura-CMS.
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- Fengqing Han
- Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Biologyand Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100081, China.
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- Tianjin Kernel Vegetable Research Institute, The National Key Laboratory of Vegetable GermplasmInnovation, The Enterprise key Laboratory of Tianjin Vegetable Genetics and Breeding, Jinjing Road,Xiqing District, Tianjin 300384, China.
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- Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Biologyand Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100081, China.
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- Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Biologyand Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100081, China.
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- Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Biologyand Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100081, China.
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- Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Biologyand Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100081, China.
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- Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Biologyand Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100081, China.
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- Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Biologyand Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100081, China.
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Zheng Y, Liu Z, Sun Y, Liu G, Yang A, Li F. Characterization of genes specific to sua-CMS in Nicotiana tabacum. PLANT CELL REPORTS 2018; 37:1245-1255. [PMID: 29959457 DOI: 10.1007/s00299-018-2309-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2018] [Accepted: 06/01/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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KEY MESSAGE Six unique ORFs were characterized in tobacco plants with sua-CMS sterile cytoplasm, identifying the mtDNA basis for pollen sterility. sua-CMS (cytoplasmic male sterility), the most widely used sterile system in tobacco hybrids, is the only CMS type identified as having no negative effects on agronomic or quality traits in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) and as being fully male sterile. CMS is often associated with alterations of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), including novel chimeric open reading frames (ORFs), which result from rearrangement and recombination. Here, we obtained 34 mitochondrial ORFs in the sua-CMS line msZhongyan100 (sZY) by BLAST analysis. When we amplified these mitochondrial ORFs in seven tobacco CMS lines including sua-, glu-, rep-, rus-, tab1-, tab2-, and tab3-CMS types and in fertile tobacco, we found that six ORFs-orf82, orf103, orf115a, orf91, orf115b, and orf100-were located in three small regions (m-sr) of the mitochondrial genome of sZY and were unique to the sua-CMS line. We further amplified the m-sr fragments in three different backcross populations of the seven types of CMS, three F1 hybrids with sua-CMS sterile cytoplasm, two sua-CMS lines, and 284 fertile tobacco accessions. The ORFs were specific to plants with the sua-CMS background. All six unique ORFs were chimeric and had no homology with the mitochondrial genomes of fertile tobacco. Transcript analysis revealed that the ORFs were highly expressed in the anthers and floral buds of sZY. These six ORFs were specific to sua-CMS and could be used as molecular markers to identify sua-CMS lines, which is useful for improving breeding for heterosis in tobacco.
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- Yeqiang Zheng
- Tobacco Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Qingdao, 266101, China
- Department of Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Beijing, 100081, China
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- Tobacco Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Qingdao, 266101, China
- Department of Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Beijing, 100081, China
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- Tobacco Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Qingdao, 266101, China
- Department of Key Laboratory for Tobacco Gene Resources, State Tobacco Monopoly Administration, Qingdao, 266101, China
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- Tobacco Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Qingdao, 266101, China
- Department of Key Laboratory for Tobacco Gene Resources, State Tobacco Monopoly Administration, Qingdao, 266101, China
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- Tobacco Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Qingdao, 266101, China.
- Department of Key Laboratory for Tobacco Gene Resources, State Tobacco Monopoly Administration, Qingdao, 266101, China.
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- Tobacco Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Qingdao, 266101, China.
- Department of Key Laboratory for Tobacco Gene Resources, State Tobacco Monopoly Administration, Qingdao, 266101, China.
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Bhatnagar-Mathur P, Gupta R, Reddy PS, Reddy BP, Reddy DS, Sameerkumar CV, Saxena RK, Sharma KK. A novel mitochondrial orf147 causes cytoplasmic male sterility in pigeonpea by modulating aberrant anther dehiscence. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2018; 97:131-147. [PMID: 29667000 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-018-0728-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2017] [Accepted: 04/06/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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KEY MESSAGE A novel open reading frame (ORF) identified and cloned from the A4 cytoplasm of Cajanus cajanifolius induced partial to complete male sterility when introduced into Arabidopsis and tobacco. Pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan L. Millsp.) is the only legume known to have commercial hybrid seed technology based on cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS). We identified a novel ORF (orf147) from the A4 cytoplasm of C. cajanifolius that was created via rearrangements in the CMS line and co-transcribes with the known and unknown sequences. The bi/poly-cistronic transcripts cause gain-of-function variants in the mitochondrial genome of CMS pigeonpea lines having distinct processing mechanisms and transcription start sites. In presence of orf147, significant repression of Escherichia coli growth indicated its toxicity to the host cells and induced partial to complete male sterility in transgenic progenies of Arabidopsis thaliana and Nicotiana tabacum where phenotype co-segregated with the transgene. The male sterile plants showed aberrant floral development and reduced lignin content in the anthers. Gene expression studies in male sterile pigeonpea, Arabidopsis and tobacco plants confirmed down-regulation of several anther biogenesis genes and key genes involved in monolignol biosynthesis, indicative of regulation of retrograde signaling. Besides providing evidence for the involvement of orf147 in pigeonpea CMS, this study provides valuable insights into its function. Cytotoxicity and aberrant programmed cell death induced by orf147 could be important for mechanism underlying male sterility that offers opportunities for possible translation for these findings for exploiting hybrid vigor in other recalcitrant crops as well.
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- Pooja Bhatnagar-Mathur
- International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, Hyderabad, Telangana, 502324, India.
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- International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, Hyderabad, Telangana, 502324, India
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- International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, Hyderabad, Telangana, 502324, India
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- International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, Hyderabad, Telangana, 502324, India
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- International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, Hyderabad, Telangana, 502324, India
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- International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, Hyderabad, Telangana, 502324, India
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- International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, Hyderabad, Telangana, 502324, India
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- International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, Hyderabad, Telangana, 502324, India.
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Heng S, Liu S, Xia C, Tang H, Xie F, Fu T, Wan Z. Morphological and genetic characterization of a new cytoplasmic male sterility system (oxa CMS) in stem mustard (Brassica juncea). TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2018; 131:59-66. [PMID: 28948310 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-017-2985-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2017] [Accepted: 09/14/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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KEY MESSAGE: oxa CMS is a new cytoplasmic male sterility type in Brassica juncea. oxa CMS is a cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) line that has been widely used in the production and cultivation of stem mustard in the southwestern China. In this study, different CMS-type specific mitochondrial markers were used to confirm that oxa CMS is distinct from the pol CMS, ogu CMS, nap CMS, hau CMS, tour CMS, Moricandia arvensis CMS, orf220-type CMS, etc., that have been previously reported in Brassica crops. Pollen grains of the oxa CMS line are sterile with a self-fertility rate of almost 0% and the sterility strain rate and sterility degree of oxa CMS is 100% due to a specific flower structure and flowering habit. Scanning electron microscopy revealed that most pollen grains in mature anthers of the oxa CMS line are empty, flat and deflated. Semi-thin section further showed that the abortive stage of anther development in oxa CMS is initiated at the late uninucleate stage. Abnormally vacuolated microspores caused male sterility in the oxa CMS line. This cytological study combined with marker-assisted selection showed that oxa CMS is a novel CMS type in stem mustard (Brassica juncea). Interestingly, the abortive stage of oxa CMS is later than those in other CMS types reported in Brassica crops, and there is no negative effect on the oxa CMS line growth period. This study demonstrated that this novel oxa CMS has a unique flower structure with sterile pollen grains at the late uninucleate stage. Our results may help to uncover the mechanism of oxa CMS in Brassica juncea.
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- Shuangping Heng
- College of Life Science, Institute for Conservation and Utilization of Agro-bioresources in Dabie Mountains, Xinyang Normal University, Xinyang, 464000, People's Republic of China
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- College of Horticulture and Forestry, Huazhong Agricultural University, Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education, Wuhan, 430070, People's Republic of China
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- College of Horticulture and Forestry, Huazhong Agricultural University, Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education, Wuhan, 430070, People's Republic of China
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- College of Horticulture and Forestry, Huazhong Agricultural University, Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education, Wuhan, 430070, People's Republic of China
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- College of Horticulture and Forestry, Huazhong Agricultural University, Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education, Wuhan, 430070, People's Republic of China
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- College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, People's Republic of China
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- College of Horticulture and Forestry, Huazhong Agricultural University, Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education, Wuhan, 430070, People's Republic of China.
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Kang L, Li P, Wang A, Ge X, Li Z. A Novel Cytoplasmic Male Sterility in Brassica napus (inap CMS) with Carpelloid Stamens via Protoplast Fusion with Chinese Woad. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2017; 8:529. [PMID: 28428799 PMCID: PMC5382163 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00529] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2017] [Accepted: 03/24/2017] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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A novel cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) in Brassica napus (inap CMS) was selected from the somatic hybrid with Isatis indigotica (Chinese woad) by recurrent backcrossing. The male sterility was caused by the conversion of tetradynamous stamens into carpelloid structures with stigmatoid tissues at their tips and ovule-like tissues in the margins, and the two shorter stamens into filaments without anthers. The feminized development of the stamens resulted in the complete lack of pollen grains, which was stable in different years and environments. The pistils of inap CMS displayed normal morphology and good seed-set after pollinated by B. napus. Histological sections showed that the developmental alteration of the stamens initiated at the stage of stamen primordium differentiation. AFLP analysis of the nuclear genomic composition with 23 pairs of selective primers detected no woad DNA bands in inap CMS. Twenty out of 25 mitochondrial genes originated from I. indigotica, except for cox2-2 which was the recombinant between cox2 from woad and cox2-2 from rapeseed. The novel cox2-2 was transcribed in flower buds of inap CMS weakly and comparatively with the fertile B. napus addition line Me harboring one particular woad chromosome. The restorers of other autoplasmic and alloplasmic CMS systems in rapeseed failed to restore the fertility of inap CMS and the screening of B. napus wide resources found no fertility restoration variety, showing its distinct origin and the related mechanism of sterility. The reasons for the mitochondrial rearrangements and the breeding of the restorer for the novel CMS system were discussed.
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Ma Z, Jiang J, Hu Z, Lyu T, Yang Y, Jiang J, Cao J. Over-expression of miR158 causes pollen abortion in Brassica campestris ssp. chinensis. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2017; 93:313-326. [PMID: 27909970 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-016-0563-7] [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: 03/22/2016] [Accepted: 11/12/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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We identified and cloned the two precursors of miR158 and its target gene in Brassica campestris ssp. chinensis, which both had high relative expression in the inflorescences. Further study revealed that over-expression of miR158 caused reduced pollen varbility, which was caused by the degradation of pollen contents from the binucleate microspore stage. These results first suggest the role of miR158 in pollen development of Brassica campestris ssp. chinensis. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play crucial roles in many important growth and development processes both in plants and animals by regulating the expression of their target genes via mRNA cleavage or translational repression. In this study, miR158, a Brassicaceae specific miRNA, was functionally characterized with regard to its role in pollen development of non-heading Chinese cabbage (Brassica campestris ssp. chinensis). Two family members of miR158 in B. campestris, namely bra-miR158a1 and bra-miR158a2, and their target gene bra027656, which encodes a pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) containing protein, were identified. Then, qRT-PCR analysis and GUS-reporter system revealed that both bra-miR158 and its target gene had relatively high expression levels in the inflorescences. Further study revealed that over-expression of miR158 caused reduced pollen varbility and pollen germination ratio, and the degradation of pollen contents from the binucleate microspore stage was also found in those deformed pollen grains, which led to pollen shrinking and collapse in later pollen development stage. These results first shed light on the importance of miR158 in pollen development of Brassica campestris ssp. chinensis.
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- Zhiming Ma
- Lab of Cell and Molecular Biology, Institute of Vegetable Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- Lab of Cell and Molecular Biology, Institute of Vegetable Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- Lab of Cell and Molecular Biology, Institute of Vegetable Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- Lab of Cell and Molecular Biology, Institute of Vegetable Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- Lab of Cell and Molecular Biology, Institute of Vegetable Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- State Key Lab of Agrobiotechnology, Shenzhen Base, Shenzhen Research Institute, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, 518057, China
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- Lab of Cell and Molecular Biology, Institute of Vegetable Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China.
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Yu HL, Fang ZY, Liu YM, Yang LM, Zhuang M, Lv HH, Li ZS, Han FQ, Liu XP, Zhang YY. Development of a novel allele-specific Rfo marker and creation of Ogura CMS fertility-restored interspecific hybrids in Brassica oleracea. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2016; 129:1625-1637. [PMID: 27206841 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-016-2728-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2015] [Accepted: 05/07/2016] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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A novel allele-specific Rfo marker was developed and proved to be effective for MAS of Rfo gene in B. oleracea background and six Ogu-CMS fertility-restored interspecific hybrids were created for the first time. Ogura cytoplasmic male sterility (Ogu-CMS) has been extensively used for Brassica oleracea hybrid production. However, because of maternal inheritance, all the hybrids produced by CMS lines are male sterile and cannot be self-pollinated, which prohibits germplasm maintenance and innovation. This problem can be overcome by using the Ogu-CMS restorer line, but restorer material is absent in B. oleracea crops. Here, Rfo, a fertility-restored gene of Ogu-CMS, was transferred from rapeseed restorer lines into a Chinese kale Ogu-CMS line using interspecific hybridization combined with embryo rescue. Nine interspecific, triploid plant progenies were identified at morphological and ploidy level, with phenotypes intermediate between those of rapeseed and Chinese kale. Because the Rfo marker (Hu et al., Mol Breeding 22:663-674, 2008) cannot distinguish the Rfo and its homologies under a B. oleracea background, a novel allele-specific Rfo marker was developed based on the BLAST analysis of highly homologous Rfo sequences in B. oleracea. Screening using the novel Rfo marker found that six interspecific hybrids carrying Rfo were also fertile, although fertility varied during different flowering periods. Furthermore, BC1 offsprings with the Rfo gene were selected with the allele-specific Rfo marker and showed restored fertility. These results indicated that the novel allele-specific marker could be used for the MAS of Rfo gene in B. oleracea, and this study lays the foundation for the development of Ogu-CMS restorer material in cabbage and its related other subspecies.
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- Hai-Long Yu
- Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, No. 12 ZhongGuanCun South St., Beijing, 100081, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, No. 12 ZhongGuanCun South St., Beijing, 100081, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, No. 12 ZhongGuanCun South St., Beijing, 100081, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, No. 12 ZhongGuanCun South St., Beijing, 100081, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, No. 12 ZhongGuanCun South St., Beijing, 100081, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, No. 12 ZhongGuanCun South St., Beijing, 100081, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, No. 12 ZhongGuanCun South St., Beijing, 100081, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, No. 12 ZhongGuanCun South St., Beijing, 100081, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, No. 12 ZhongGuanCun South St., Beijing, 100081, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, No. 12 ZhongGuanCun South St., Beijing, 100081, People's Republic of China.
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Nothnagel T, Klocke E, Schrader O, Linke B, Budahn H. Development of male sterile Eruca sativa carrying a Raphanus sativus/Brassica oleracea cybrid cytoplasm. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2016; 129:331-44. [PMID: 26602232 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-015-2630-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2015] [Accepted: 10/24/2015] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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KEY MESSAGE Alloplasmic male sterile breeding lines of Eruca sativa were developed by intergeneric hybridization with CMS- Brassica oleracea, followed by recurrent backcrosses and determination of the breeding value. ABSTRACT Male sterile breeding lines of rocket salad (Eruca sativa) were developed by intergeneric hybridization with cytoplasmic male sterile (CMS) cauliflower (Brassica oleracea) followed by recurrent backcrosses. Five amphidiploid F1 plants (2n = 2x = 20, CE), achieved by manual crosses and embryo rescue, showed an intermediate habit. The plants were completely male sterile and lacked seed set after pollination with the Eruca parent. Allotetraploid F1-hybrid plants (4n = 4x = 40, CCEE) obtained after colchicine treatment were backcrossed six times with pollen of the Eruca parent to select alloplasmic diploid E. sativa lines. The hybrid status and the nucleo-cytoplasmic constellation were continuously controlled by RAPD and Southern analysis during subsequent backcrosses. The ploidy level was investigated by flow cytometry and chromosome analysis. Premeiotic (sporophytic) and postmeiotic (pollen abortive) defects during the anther development were observed in the alloplasmic E. sativus plants in comparison to the CMS-cauliflower donor. No further incompatibilities were noticed between the CMS-inducing cybrid cytoplasm and the E. sativa nuclear genome. The final alloplasmic E. sativa lines were diploid with 2n = 2x = 22 chromosomes and revealed complete male sterility and restored female fertility. Plant vigor and yield potential of the CMS-E. sativa BC5 lines were comparable to the parental E. sativus line. In conclusion, the employed cybrid-cytoplasm has been proven as a vital source of CMS for E. sativa. The developed lines are directly applicable for hybrid breeding of rocket salad.
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- Thomas Nothnagel
- Institute for Breeding Research on Horticultural Crops, Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI), Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Erwin-Baur-Strasse 27, 06484, Quedlinburg, Germany.
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- Institute for Breeding Research on Horticultural Crops, Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI), Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Erwin-Baur-Strasse 27, 06484, Quedlinburg, Germany
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- Institute for Breeding Research on Horticultural Crops, Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI), Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Erwin-Baur-Strasse 27, 06484, Quedlinburg, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Humboldt-University Berlin, Invalidenstrasse 42, 10115, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute for Breeding Research on Horticultural Crops, Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI), Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Erwin-Baur-Strasse 27, 06484, Quedlinburg, Germany
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Gaborieau L, Brown GG, Mireau H. The Propensity of Pentatricopeptide Repeat Genes to Evolve into Restorers of Cytoplasmic Male Sterility. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2016; 7:1816. [PMID: 27999582 PMCID: PMC5138203 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01816] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2016] [Accepted: 11/17/2016] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) is a widespread phenotype in plants, which present a defect in the production of functional pollen. The male sterilizing factors usually consist of unusual genes or open reading frames encoded by the mitochondrial genome. CMS can be suppressed by specific nuclear genes called restorers of fertility (Rfs). In the majority of cases, Rf genes produce proteins that act directly on the CMS conferring mitochondrial transcripts by binding them specifically and promoting processing events. In this review, we explore the wide array of mechanisms guiding fertility restoration. PPR proteins represent the most frequent protein class among identified Rfs and they exhibit ideal characteristics to evolve into restorer of fertility when the mechanism of restoration implies a post-transcriptional action. Here, we review the literature that highlights those characteristics and help explain why PPR proteins are ideal for the roles they play as restorers of fertility.
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- Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRA, AgroParisTech, CNRS, Université Paris-SaclayVersailles, France
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Shu J, Liu Y, Li Z, Zhang L, Fang Z, Yang L, Zhuang M, Zhang Y, Lv H. Detection of the Diversity of Cytoplasmic Male Sterility Sources in Broccoli (Brassica Oleracea var. Italica) Using Mitochondrial Markers. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2016; 7:927. [PMID: 27446156 PMCID: PMC4919338 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.00927] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2015] [Accepted: 06/10/2016] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Broccoli (Brassica oleracea var. italica) is an important commercial vegetable crop. As part of an efficient pollination system, cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) has been widely used for broccoli hybrid production. Identifying the original sources of CMS in broccoli accessions has become an important part of broccoli breeding. In this study, the diversity of the CMS sources of 39 broccoli accessions, including 19 CMS lines and 20 hybrids, were analyzed using mitochondrial markers. All CMS accessions contained the ogu orf138-related DNA fragment and the key genes of nap CMS, pol CMS, and tour CMS were not detected. The 39 CMS accessions were divided into five groups using six orf138-related and two simple sequence repeat markers. We observed that ogu CMS R3 constituted 79.49% of the CMS sources. CMS6 and CMS26 were differentiated from the other accessions using a specific primer. CMS32 was distinguished from the other accessions based on a 78-nucleotide deletion at the same locus as the orf138-related sequence. When the coefficient was about 0.90, five CMS accessions (13CMS6, 13CMS23, 13CMS24, 13CMS37, and 13CMS39) exhibiting abnormal floral organs with poor seed setting were grouped together. The polymerase chain reaction amplification profiles for these five accessions differed from those of the other accessions. We identified eight useful molecular markers that can be used to detect CMS types during broccoli breeding. Our data also provide important information relevant to future studies on the possible origins and molecular mechanisms of CMS in broccoli.
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Heng S, Shi D, Hu Z, Huang T, Li J, Liu L, Xia C, Yuan Z, Xu Y, Fu T, Wan Z. Characterization and classification of one new cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) line based on morphological, cytological and molecular markers in non-heading Chinese cabbage (Brassica rapa L.). PLANT CELL REPORTS 2015; 34:1529-1537. [PMID: 25972263 DOI: 10.1007/s00299-015-1804-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2015] [Revised: 04/15/2015] [Accepted: 05/06/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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A new non-heading Chinese cabbage CMS line M119A was characterized and specific molecular markers were developed to classify different CMS types. One new non-heading Chinese cabbage (Brassica rapa L.) cytoplasmic male sterile (CMS) line M119A was obtained by interspecific crosses between the recently discovered hau CMS line of Brassica juncea and B. rapa. Furthermore, the line was characterized and compared with other five isonuclear-alloplasmic CMS lines. The M119A line produced six stamens without pollen and only two stamen fused together in fewer flowers. Tissue section indicated that anther abortion in M119A may have occurred during differentiation of the archesporial cells without pollen sac. All the six CMS lines were grouped into three types based on the presence of three PCR fragments of 825, 465 and 772 bp amplified with different mitochondrial genes specific primers. The 825-bp fragment was amplified both in 09-10A and H201A using the specific primer pair P-orf224-atp6, and showed 100 % identity with the mitochondrial gene of pol CMS. The 465-bp fragment was amplified in 30A and 105A using the primer pair P-orf138 and shared 100 % identity with the mitochondrial gene of ogu CMS. The 772-bp fragment was amplified in M119A and H203A using the primer pair P-orf288 and showed 100 % identity with the mitochondrial gene of hau CMS. Therefore, these markers could efficiently distinguish different types of isonuclear-alloplasmic CMS lines of non-heading Chinese cabbage, which were useful for improving the efficiency of cross-breeding and heterosis utilization in cruciferous vegetables.
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- Shuangping Heng
- College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
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Yamagishi H, Bhat SR. Cytoplasmic male sterility in Brassicaceae crops. BREEDING SCIENCE 2014; 64:38-47. [PMID: 24987289 PMCID: PMC4031109 DOI: 10.1270/jsbbs.64.38] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2013] [Accepted: 12/05/2013] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Brassicaceae crops display strong hybrid vigor, and have long been subject to F1 hybrid breeding. Because the most reliable system of F1 seed production is based on cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS), various types of CMS have been developed and adopted in practice to breed Brassicaceae oil seed and vegetable crops. CMS is a maternally inherited trait encoded in the mitochondrial genome, and the male sterile phenotype arises as a result of interaction of a mitochondrial CMS gene and a nuclear fertility restoring (Rf) gene. Therefore, CMS has been intensively investigated for gaining basic insights into molecular aspects of nuclear-mitochondrial genome interactions and for practical applications in plant breeding. Several CMS genes have been identified by molecular genetic studies, including Ogura CMS from Japanese radish, which is the most extensively studied and most widely used. In this review, we discuss Ogura CMS, and other CMS systems, and the causal mitochondrial genes for CMS. Studies on nuclear Rf genes and the cytoplasmic effects of alien cytoplasm on general crop performance are also reviewed. Finally, some of the unresolved questions about CMS are highlighted.
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- Hiroshi Yamagishi
- Faculty of Life Sciences, Kyoto Sangyo University,
Kamigamo, Kita, Kyoto 603-8555,
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- National Research Centre of Plant Biotechnology,
New Delhi 10012,
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Mitochondrion role in molecular basis of cytoplasmic male sterility. Mitochondrion 2014; 19 Pt B:198-205. [PMID: 24732436 DOI: 10.1016/j.mito.2014.04.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2013] [Revised: 03/31/2014] [Accepted: 04/04/2014] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Cytoplasmic male sterility and its fertility restoration via nuclear genes offer the possibility to understand the role of mitochondria during microsporogenesis. In most cases rearrangements in the mitochondrial DNA involving known mitochondrial genes as well as unknown sequences result in the creation of new chimeric open reading frames, which encode proteins containing transmembrane domains. So far, most of the CMS systems have been characterized via restriction fragment polymorphisms followed by transcript analysis. However, whole mitochondrial genome sequence analyses comparing male sterile and fertile cytoplasm open options for deeper insights into mitochondrial genome rearrangements. We more and more start to unravel how mitochondria are involved in triggering death of the male reproductive organs. Reduced levels of ATP accompanied by increased concentrations of reactive oxygen species, which are produced more under conditions of mitochondrial dysfunction, seem to play a major role in the fate of pollen production. Nuclear genes, so called restorer-of-fertility are able to restore the male fertility. Fertility restoration can occur via pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins or via different mechanisms involving non-PPR proteins.
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Kang J, Guo Y, Chen Y, Li H, Zhang L, Liu H. Upregulation of the AT-hook DNA binding gene BoMF2 in OguCMS anthers of Brassica oleracea suggests that it encodes a transcriptional regulatory factor for anther development. Mol Biol Rep 2014; 41:2005-14. [PMID: 24443226 DOI: 10.1007/s11033-014-3048-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2013] [Accepted: 01/04/2014] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Ogura cytoplasmic male sterility (OguCMS) is the most important CMS system used for F1 hybrid cabbage production worldwide. The anther abortion and defective pollen development exhibited in OguCMS are coordinately regulated by the mitochondrial male sterile gene orf138 and many nuclear transcriptional regulatory factors. AT-hook DNA binding proteins regulate cell-specific gene expression. In this study, we cloned the gene encoding the AT-hook DNA binding protein BoMF2 using the cDNA-AFLP TDF sequence, which was upregulated in OguCMS cabbage flower buds, as a querying probe. BoMF2 contains a 783-nt continuous complete open reading frame encoding a 260 amino-acid polypeptide. In vivo transient expression assays using GFP fusions showed that BoMF2 protein was located in the nucleus. BoMF2 was preferentially expressed in cabbage stamens, with a short expression window at anther development stage 7-8. However, in OguCMS flowers, BoMF2 expression continued into the mature pollen stage and was concomitant with the continued proliferation of tapetum cells exhibited in this mutant. Arabidopsis plants overexpressing BoMF2 showed significantly shorter siliques than the wild type, as well as decrease of pollen viability. These results suggest that BoMF2, a transcriptional regulatory factor, might regulate tapetum proliferation during anther development.
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- Jungen Kang
- Beijing Vegetable Research Center, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing, 100097, China,
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In plants, male sterility can be caused either by mitochondrial genes with coupled nuclear genes or by nuclear genes alone; the resulting conditions are known as cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) and genic male sterility (GMS), respectively. CMS and GMS facilitate hybrid seed production for many crops and thus allow breeders to harness yield gains associated with hybrid vigor (heterosis). In CMS, layers of interaction between mitochondrial and nuclear genes control its male specificity, occurrence, and restoration of fertility. Environment-sensitive GMS (EGMS) mutants may involve epigenetic control by noncoding RNAs and can revert to fertility under different growth conditions, making them useful breeding materials in the hybrid seed industry. Here, we review recent research on CMS and EGMS systems in crops, summarize general models of male sterility and fertility restoration, and discuss the evolutionary significance of these reproductive systems.
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- Letian Chen
- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-Bioresources
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Surrogate mutants for studying mitochondrially encoded functions. Biochimie 2013; 100:234-42. [PMID: 23994752 DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2013.08.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2013] [Accepted: 08/18/2013] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Although chloroplast transformation is possible in some plant species, it is extremely difficult to create or select mutations in plant mitochondrial genomes, explaining why few genetic studies of mitochondrially encoded functions exist. In recent years it has become clear that many nuclear genes encode factors with key functions in organelle gene expression, and that often their action is restricted to a single organelle gene or transcript. Mutations in one of these nuclear genes thus leads to a specific primary defect in expression of a single organelle gene, and the nuclear mutation can be used as a surrogate for a phenotypically equivalent mutation in the organelle genome. These surrogate mutations often result in defective assembly of respiratory complexes, and lead to severe phenotypes including reduced growth and fertility, or even embryo-lethality. A wide collection of such mutants is now available, and this review summarises the progress in basic knowledge of mitochondrial biogenesis they have contributed to and points out areas where this resource has not been exploited yet.
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Dahan J, Mireau H. The Rf and Rf-like PPR in higher plants, a fast-evolving subclass of PPR genes. RNA Biol 2013; 10:1469-76. [PMID: 23872480 DOI: 10.4161/rna.25568] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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In the last years, a number of nuclear genes restoring cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) have been cloned in various crop species. The majority of these genes have been shown to encode pentatricopeptide repeat proteins (PPR) that act by specifically suppressing the expression of sterility-causing mitochondrial transcripts. Functional analysis of these proteins has indicated that the inhibitory effects of restoring PPR (Rf-PPR) proteins involve various mechanisms, including RNA cleavage, RNA destabilization, or translation inhibition. Cross-species sequence comparison of PPR protein complements revealed that most plant genomes encode 10-30 Rf-like (RFL) proteins sharing high-sequence similarity with the identified Rf-PPRs from crops. Evolutionary analyses further showed that they constitute a monophyletic group apart in the PPR family, with peculiar evolution dynamic and constraints. Here we review recent data on RF-PPRs and present the latest discoveries on the RFL family, with prospects on the functionality and evolution of this peculiar subclass of PPR.
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- Jennifer Dahan
- INRA; UMR1318; Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin; RD10; Versailles, France; AgroParisTech; Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin; RD10; Versailles, France
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- INRA; UMR1318; Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin; RD10; Versailles, France; AgroParisTech; Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin; RD10; Versailles, France
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Park JY, Lee YP, Lee J, Choi BS, Kim S, Yang TJ. Complete mitochondrial genome sequence and identification of a candidate gene responsible for cytoplasmic male sterility in radish (Raphanus sativus L.) containing DCGMS cytoplasm. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2013; 126:1763-74. [PMID: 23539087 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-013-2090-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2012] [Accepted: 03/19/2013] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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A novel cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) conferred by Dongbu cytoplasmic and genic male-sterility (DCGMS) cytoplasm and its restorer-of-fertility gene (Rfd1) was previously reported in radish (Raphanus sativus L.). Its inheritance of fertility restoration and profiles of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)-based molecular markers were reported to be different from those of Ogura CMS, the first reported CMS in radish. The complete mitochondrial genome sequence (239,186 bp; GenBank accession No. KC193578) of DCGMS mitotype is reported in this study. Thirty-four protein-coding genes and three ribosomal RNA genes were identified. Comparative analysis of a mitochondrial genome sequence of DCGMS and previously reported complete sequences of normal and Ogura CMS mitotypes revealed various recombined structures of seventeen syntenic sequence blocks. Short-repeat sequences were identified in almost all junctions between syntenic sequence blocks. Phylogenetic analysis of three radish mitotypes showed that DCGMS was more closely related to the normal mitotype than to the Ogura mitotype. A single 1,551-bp unique region was identified in DCGMS mtDNA sequences and a novel chimeric gene, designated orf463, consisting of 128-bp partial sequences of cox1 gene and 1,261-bp unidentified sequences were found in the unique region. No other genes with a chimeric structure, a major feature of most characterized CMS-associated genes in other plant species, were found in rearranged junctions of syntenic sequence blocks. Like other known CMS-associated mitochondrial genes, the predicted gene product of orf463 contained 12 transmembrane domains. Thus, this gene product might be integrated into the mitochondrial membrane. In total, the results indicate that orf463 is likely to be a casual factor for CMS induction in radish containing the DCGMS cytoplasm.
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- Jee Young Park
- 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 151-921, Republic of Korea
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Wang ZW, Wang C, Gao L, Mei SY, Zhou Y, Xiang CP, Wang T. Heterozygous alleles restore male fertility to cytoplasmic male-sterile radish (Raphanus sativus L.): a case of overdominance. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2013; 64:2041-2048. [PMID: 23630327 PMCID: PMC3638831 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ert065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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The practice of hybridization has greatly contributed to the increase in crop productivity. A major component that exploits heterosis in crops is the cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS)/nucleus-controlled fertility restoration (Rf) system. Through positional cloning, it is shown that heterozygous alleles (RsRf3-1/RsRf3-2) encoding pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins are responsible for restoring fertility to cytoplasmic male-sterile radish (Raphanus sativus L.). Furthermore, it was found that heterozygous alleles (RsRf3-1/RsRf3-2) show higher expression and RNA polymerase II occupancy in the CMS cytoplasmic background compared with their homozygous alleles (RsRf3-1/RsRf3-1 or RsRf3-2/RsRf3-2). These data provide new insights into the molecular mechanism of fertility restoration to cytoplasmic male-sterile plants and illustrate a case of overdominance.
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- Zhi Wei Wang
- CAS Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, PR China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, PR China
- Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, PR China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, PR China
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- Hubei Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan 430064, PR China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Horticultural Plant Biology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, PR China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, PR China
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Dong X, Kim WK, Lim YP, Kim YK, Hur Y. Ogura-CMS in Chinese cabbage (Brassica rapa ssp. pekinensis) causes delayed expression of many nuclear genes. PLANT SCIENCE : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PLANT BIOLOGY 2013; 199-200:7-17. [PMID: 23265314 DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2012.11.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/29/2012] [Revised: 11/02/2012] [Accepted: 11/03/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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We investigated the mechanism regulating cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) in Brassica rapa ssp. pekinensis using floral bud transcriptome analyses of Ogura-CMS Chinese cabbage and its maintainer line in B. rapa 300-K oligomeric probe (Br300K) microarrays. Ogura-CMS Chinese cabbage produced few and infertile pollen grains on indehiscent anthers. Compared to the maintainer line, CMS plants had shorter filaments and plant growth, and delayed flowering and pollen development. In microarray analysis, 4646 genes showed different expression, depending on floral bud size, between Ogura-CMS and its maintainer line. We found 108 and 62 genes specifically expressed in Ogura-CMS and its maintainer line, respectively. Ogura-CMS line-specific genes included stress-related, redox-related, and B. rapa novel genes. In the maintainer line, genes related to pollen coat and germination were specifically expressed in floral buds longer than 3mm, suggesting insufficient expression of these genes in Ogura-CMS is directly related to dysfunctional pollen. In addition, many nuclear genes associated with auxin response, ATP synthesis, pollen development and stress response had delayed expression in Ogura-CMS plants compared to the maintainer line, which is consistent with the delay in growth and development of Ogura-CMS plants. Delayed expression may reduce pollen grain production and/or cause sterility, implying that mitochondrial, retrograde signaling delays nuclear gene expression.
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- Xiangshu Dong
- Department of Biology, College of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
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Kazama T, Yagi Y, Toriyama K, Nakamura T. Heterogeneity of the 5'-end in plant mRNA may be involved in mitochondrial translation. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2013; 4:517. [PMID: 24381580 PMCID: PMC3865367 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2013.00517] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2013] [Accepted: 12/02/2013] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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- Tomohiko Kazama
- Laboratory of Environmental Biotechnology, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku UniversitySendai, Japan
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- Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu UniversityFukuoka, Japan
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- Laboratory of Environmental Biotechnology, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku UniversitySendai, Japan
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- Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu UniversityFukuoka, Japan
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Wang J, Jiang J, Li X, Li A, Zhang Y, Guan R, Wang Y. Complete sequence of heterogenous-composition mitochondrial genome (Brassica napus) and its exogenous source. BMC Genomics 2012. [PMID: 23190559 PMCID: PMC3561098 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-675] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Unlike maternal inheritance of mitochondria in sexual reproduction, somatic hybrids follow no obvious pattern. The introgressed segment orf138 from the mitochondrial genome of radish (Raphanus sativus) to its counterpart in rapeseed (Brassica napus) demonstrates that this inheritance mode derives from the cytoplasm of both parents. Sequencing of the complete mitochondrial genome of five species from Brassica family allowed the prediction of other extraneous sources of the cybrids from the radish parent, and the determination of their mitochondrial rearrangement. RESULTS We obtained the complete mitochondrial genome of Ogura-cms-cybrid (oguC) rapeseed. To date, this is the first time that a heterogeneously composed mitochondrial genome was sequenced. The 258,473 bp master circle constituted of 33 protein-coding genes, 3 rRNA sequences, and 23 tRNA sequences. This mitotype noticeably holds two copies of atp9 and is devoid of cox2-2. Relative to nap mitochondrial genome, 40 point mutations were scattered in the 23 protein-coding genes. atp6 even has an abnormal start locus whereas tatC has an abnormal end locus. The rearrangement of the 22 syntenic regions that comprised 80.11% of the genome was influenced by short repeats. A pair of large repeats (9731 bp) was responsible for the multipartite structure. Nine unique regions were detected when compared with other published Brassica mitochondrial genome sequences. We also found six homologous chloroplast segments (Brassica napus). CONCLUSIONS The mitochondrial genome of oguC is quite divergent from nap and pol, which are more similar with each other. We analyzed the unique regions of every genome of the Brassica family, and found that very few segments were specific for these six mitotypes, especially cam, jun, and ole, which have no specific segments at all. Therefore, we conclude that the most specific regions of oguC possibly came from radish. Compared with the chloroplast genome, six identical regions were found in the seven mitochondrial genomes, which show that the Brassica family has a stable chloroplast-derived source.
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- Juan Wang
- Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, 225009, China.
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Niemelä T, Seppänen M, Badakshi F, Rokka VM, Heslop-Harrison JSP. Size and location of radish chromosome regions carrying the fertility restorer Rfk1 gene in spring turnip rape. Chromosome Res 2012; 20:353-61. [PMID: 22476396 DOI: 10.1007/s10577-012-9280-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2011] [Revised: 02/29/2012] [Accepted: 03/08/2012] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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In spring turnip rape (Brassica rapa L. spp. oleifera), the most promising F1 hybrid system would be the Ogu-INRA CMS/Rf system. A Kosena fertility restorer gene Rfk1, homolog of the Ogura restorer gene Rfo, was successfully transferred from oilseed rape into turnip rape and that restored the fertility in female lines carrying Ogura cms. The trait was, however, unstable in subsequent generations. The physical localization of the radish chromosomal region carrying the Rfk1 gene was investigated using genomic in situ hybridization (GISH) and bacterial artificial chromosome-fluorescence in situ hybridization (BAC-FISH) methods. The metaphase chromosomes were hybridized using radish DNA as the genomic probe and BAC64 probe, which is linked with Rfo gene. Both probes showed a signal in the chromosome spreads of the restorer line 4021-2 Rfk of turnip rape but not in the negative control line 4021B. The GISH analyses clearly showed that the turnip rape restorer plants were either monosomic (2n=2x=20+1R) or disomic (2n=2x=20+2R) addition lines with one or two copies of a single alien chromosome region originating from radish. In the BAC-FISH analysis, double dot signals were detected in subterminal parts of the radish chromosome arms showing that the fertility restorer gene Rfk1 was located in this additional radish chromosome. Detected disomic addition lines were found to be unstable for turnip rape hybrid production. Using the BAC-FISH analysis, weak signals were sometimes visible in two chromosomes of turnip rape and a homologous region of Rfk1 in chromosome 9 of the B. rapa A genome was verified with BLAST analysis. In the future, this homologous area in A genome could be substituted with radish chromosome area carrying the Rfk1 gene.
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- Tarja Niemelä
- Department of Agriculture, University of Helsinki, PO Box 27, FI-00014, Helsinki, Finland.
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Jing B, Heng S, Tong D, Wan Z, Fu T, Tu J, Ma C, Yi B, Wen J, Shen J. A male sterility-associated cytotoxic protein ORF288 in Brassica juncea causes aborted pollen development. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2012; 63:1285-95. [PMID: 22090439 PMCID: PMC3276091 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/err355] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2011] [Revised: 10/02/2011] [Accepted: 10/11/2011] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) is a widespread phenomenon in higher plants, and several studies have established that this maternally inherited defect is often associated with a mitochondrial mutant. Approximately 10 chimeric genes have been identified as being associated with corresponding CMS systems in the family Brassicaceae, but there is little direct evidence that these genes cause male sterility. In this study, a novel chimeric gene (named orf288) was found to be located downstream of the atp6 gene and co-transcribed with this gene in the hau CMS sterile line. Western blotting analysis showed that this predicted open reading frame (ORF) was translated in the mitochondria of male-sterile plants. Furthermore, the growth of Escherichia coli was significantly repressed in the presence of ORF288, which indicated that this protein is toxic to the E. coli host cells. To confirm further the function of orf288 in male sterility, the gene was fused to a mitochondrial-targeting pre-sequence under the control of the Arabidopsis APETALA3 promoter and introduced into Arabidopsis thaliana. Almost 80% of transgenic plants with orf288 failed to develop anthers. It was also found that the independent expression of orf288 caused male sterility in transgenic plants, even without the transit pre-sequence. Furthermore, transient expression of orf288 and green fluorescent protein (GFP) as a fused protein in A. thaliana protoplasts showed that ORF288 was able to anchor to mitochondria even without the external mitochondrial-targeting peptide. These observations provide important evidence that orf288 is responsible for the male sterility of hau CMS in Brassica juncea.
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Engelke T, Hirsche J, Roitsch T. Metabolically engineered male sterility in rapeseed (Brassica napus L.). TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2011; 122:163-174. [PMID: 20821307 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-010-1432-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2010] [Accepted: 08/09/2010] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Male sterility is of special interest as a mechanism allowing hybrid breeding, especially in important crops such as rapeseed (Brassica napus). Male sterile plants are also suggested to be used as a biological safety method to prevent the spread of transgenes, a risk that is high in the case of rapeseed due to the mode of pollination, out-crossing by wind or insects, and the presence of related, cross-pollinating species in the surrounding ecosystem in Europe. Different natural occurring male sterilities and alloplasmic forms have been tried to be used in rapeseed with more or less success. Due to the difficulties and limitations with these systems, we present a biotechnological alternative: a metabolically engineered male sterility caused by interference with anther-specific cell wall-bound invertase. This is an essential enzyme for carbohydrate supply of the symplastically isolated pollen. The activity of this enzyme is reduced either by antisense interference or by expressing an invertase inhibitor under control of the anther-specific promoter of the invertase with the consequence of a strong decrease of pollen germination ability.
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- Thomas Engelke
- Lehrstuhl für Pharmazeutische Biologie, Julius von Sachs Institut, Universität Würzburg, Julius von Sachs Platz 2, 97082, Würzburg, Germany.
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Zhao HX, Li ZJ, Hu SW, Sun GL, Chang JJ, Zhang ZH. Identification of cytoplasm types in rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) accessions by a multiplex PCR assay. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2010; 121:643-650. [PMID: 20401459 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-010-1336-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2010] [Accepted: 03/31/2010] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) has widely been used as an efficient pollination control system in rapeseed hybrid production. Identification of cytoplasm type of rapeseed accessions is becoming the most important basic work for hybrid-rapeseed breeding. In this study, we report a simple multiplex PCR method to distinguish the existing common cytoplasm resources, Pol, Nap, Cam, Ogu and Ogu-NWSUAF cytoplasm, in rapeseed. Cytoplasm type of 35 F(1) hybrids and 140 rapeseed open pollinated varieties or breeding lines in our rapeseed breeding programme were tested by this method. The results indicated that 10 of 35 F(1) hybrids are the Nap, and 25 the Pol cytoplasm type, which is consistent with the information provided by the breeders. Out of 140 accessions tested, 100 (71.4%), 21 (15%) and 19 (13.6%) accessions possess Nap, Cam and Pol cytoplasm, respectively. All 19 accessions with Pol cytoplasm are from China. Pedigree analysis indicated that these accessions with Pol cytoplasm were either restorers for Pol CMS, including Shaan 2C, Huiyehui, 220, etc. or derived from hybrids with Pol CMS as female parent. Our molecular results are consistent with those of the classical testcross, suggesting the reliability of this method. The multiplex PCR assay method can be applied to CMS "three-line" breeding, selection and validation of hybrid rapeseed.
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- H X Zhao
- College of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China
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Yasumoto K, Terachi T, Yamagishi H. A novel Rf gene controlling fertility restoration of Ogura male sterility by RNA processing of orf138 found in Japanese wild radish and its STS markers. Genome 2009; 52:495-504. [PMID: 19483769 DOI: 10.1139/g09-026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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To reveal the molecular and genetic mechanism of fertility restoration in Ogura male sterility in Japanese wild radish (Raphanus sativus var. hortensis f. raphanistroides), we investigated fertility restoration of a plant that lacks the dominant type of orf687, a previously identified fertility restorer gene. A total of 100 F2 plants were made from the cross between a male-sterile strain with the Ogura cytoplasm, 'MS-Gensuke', and a Japanese wild radish plant. Segregation of pollen fertility in the F2 plants led us to assume that 2 dominant complementary genes controlled the fertility restoration of the plants. However, the fertility of 27 of 59 male-fertile plants was not completely restored, resulting in a group of plants with partial male fertility. Northern blot analysis of the CMS-associated gene orf138 indicated that one restorer allele (termed Rft) was involved in the processing of orf138 RNA. Rapid amplification of cDNA ends (RACE) and subsequent Northern blot analysis confirmed that the orf138 transcript lost a 5' part of the coding region of the orf138 gene in the restored plants. The accumulation of ORF138 protein was significantly reduced by Rft, but trace amounts of the protein were recognized in both partially male-fertile and male-sterile plants with Rft. The relationship of pollen fertility and segregation of co-dominant sequence tagged site (STS) markers in the F2 generation suggested that the penetrance of Rft was so low that Rft needs suitable conditions to function sufficiently for the complete restoration of fertility.
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- Keita Yasumoto
- Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto Sangyo University, Motoyama, Kamigamo, Kita-ku, Kyoto 603-8555, Japan
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Miyake K, Miyake T, Terachi T, Yahara T. Relative fitness of females and hermaphrodites in a natural gynodioecious population of wild radish, Raphanus sativus L. (Brassicaceae): comparison based on molecular genotyping. J Evol Biol 2009; 22:2012-9. [PMID: 19678867 DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009.01808.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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In many gynodioecious species, sex determination involves both cytoplasmic male-sterility (CMS) genes and nuclear genes that restore male function. Differences in fitness among genotypes affect the dynamics of those genes, and thus that of gynodioecy. We used a molecular marker to discriminate between hermaphrodites with and without a CMS gene in gynodioecious Raphanus sativus. We compared fitness through female function among the three genotypes: females, hermaphrodites with the CMS gene and those without it. Although there was no significant difference among the genotypes in seed size, hermaphrodites without the CMS gene produced significantly more seeds, and seeds with a higher germination rate than the other genotypes, suggesting no fitness advantage for females and no benefit to bearing the CMS gene. Despite the lack of fitness advantage for females in the parameter values we estimated, a theoretical model of gynodioecy shows it can be maintained if restorer genes impose a cost paid in pollen production. In addition, we found that females invest more resources into female reproduction than hermaphrodites when they become larger. If environmental conditions enable females to grow larger this would facilitate the dynamics of CMS genes.
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- K Miyake
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
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Guo J, Liu Y. The genetic and molecular basis of cytoplasmic male sterility and fertility restoration in rice. CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN-CHINESE 2009. [DOI: 10.1007/s11434-009-0322-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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