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Fresnedo-Ramírez J, Anderson ES, D'Amico-Willman K, Gradziel TM. A review of plant epigenetics through the lens of almond. THE PLANT GENOME 2023; 16:e20367. [PMID: 37434488 DOI: 10.1002/tpg2.20367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2023] [Revised: 06/08/2023] [Accepted: 06/15/2023] [Indexed: 07/13/2023]
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While genomes were originally seen as static entities that stably held and organized genetic information, recent advances in sequencing have uncovered the dynamic nature of the genome. New conceptualizations of the genome include complex relationships between the environment and gene expression that must be maintained, regulated, and sometimes even transmitted over generations. The discovery of epigenetic mechanisms has allowed researchers to understand how traits like phenology, plasticity, and fitness can be altered without changing the underlying deoxyribonucleic acid sequence. While many discoveries were first made in animal systems, plants provide a particularly complex set of epigenetic mechanisms due to unique aspects of their biology and interactions with human selective breeding and cultivation. In the plant kingdom, annual plants have received the most attention; however, perennial plants endure and respond to their environment and human management in distinct ways. Perennials include crops such as almond, for which epigenetic effects have long been linked to phenomena and even considered relevant for breeding. Recent discoveries have elucidated epigenetic phenomena that influence traits such as dormancy and self-compatibility, as well as disorders like noninfectious bud failure, which are known to be triggered by the environment and influenced by inherent aspects of the plant. Thus, epigenetics represents fertile ground to further understand almond biology and production and optimize its breeding. Here, we provide our current understanding of epigenetic regulation in plants and use almond as an example of how advances in epigenetics research can be used to understand biological fitness and agricultural performance in crop plants.
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- Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, The Ohio State University, Wooster, OH, USA
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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Singh D, Chaudhary P, Taunk J, Kumar Singh C, Sharma S, Singh VJ, Singh D, Chinnusamy V, Yadav R, Pal M. Plant epigenomics for extenuation of abiotic stresses: challenges and future perspectives. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2021; 72:6836-6855. [PMID: 34302734 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erab337] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2021] [Accepted: 07/23/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Climate change has escalated abiotic stresses, leading to adverse effects on plant growth and development, eventually having deleterious consequences on crop productivity. Environmental stresses induce epigenetic changes, namely cytosine DNA methylation and histone post-translational modifications, thus altering chromatin structure and gene expression. Stable epigenetic changes are inheritable across generations and this enables plants to adapt to environmental changes (epipriming). Hence, epigenomes serve as a good source of additional tier of variability for development of climate-smart crops. Epigenetic resources such as epialleles, epigenetic recombinant inbred lines (epiRILs), epigenetic quantitative trait loci (epiQTLs), and epigenetic hybrids (epihybrids) can be utilized in epibreeding for improving stress tolerance of crops. Epigenome engineering is also gaining momentum for developing sustainable epimarks associated with important agronomic traits. Different epigenome editing tools are available for creating, erasing, and reading such epigenetic codes in plant genomes. However, epigenome editing is still understudied in plants due to its complex nature. Epigenetic interventions such as epi-fingerprinting can be exploited in the near future for health and quality assessment of crops under stress conditions. Keeping in view the challenges and opportunities associated with this important technology, the present review intends to enhance understanding of stress-induced epigenetic changes in plants and its prospects for development of climate-ready crops.
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- Dharmendra Singh
- Division of Genetics, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi,India
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- Division of Genetics, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi,India
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- Division of Plant Physiology, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India
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- Division of Genetics, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi,India
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- Division of Genetics, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi,India
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- Division of Genetics, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi,India
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- Department of Botany, Meerut College, Meerut, India
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- Division of Plant Physiology, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India
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- Division of Genetics, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi,India
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- Division of Plant Physiology, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India
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Royer‐Tardif S, Boisvert‐Marsh L, Godbout J, Isabel N, Aubin I. Finding common ground: Toward comparable indicators of adaptive capacity of tree species to a changing climate. Ecol Evol 2021; 11:13081-13100. [PMID: 34646454 PMCID: PMC8495821 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.8024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2020] [Accepted: 07/26/2021] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Adaptive capacity, one of the three determinants of vulnerability to climate change, is defined as the capacity of species to persist in their current location by coping with novel environmental conditions through acclimation and/or evolution. Although studies have identified indicators of adaptive capacity, few have assessed this capacity in a quantitative way that is comparable across tree species. Yet, such multispecies assessments are needed by forest management and conservation programs to refine vulnerability assessments and to guide the choice of adaptation measures. In this paper, we propose a framework to quantitatively evaluate five key components of tree adaptive capacity to climate change: individual adaptation through phenotypic plasticity, population phenotypic diversity as influenced by genetic diversity, genetic exchange within populations, genetic exchange between populations, and genetic exchange between species. For each component, we define the main mechanisms that underlie adaptive capacity and present associated metrics that can be used as indices. To illustrate the use of this framework, we evaluate the relative adaptive capacity of 26 northeastern North American tree species using values reported in the literature. Our results show adaptive capacity to be highly variable among species and between components of adaptive capacity, such that no one species ranks consistently across all components. On average, the conifer Picea glauca and the broadleaves Acer rubrum and A. saccharinum show the greatest adaptive capacity among the 26 species we documented, whereas the conifers Picea rubens and Thuja occidentalis, and the broadleaf Ostrya virginiana possess the lowest. We discuss limitations that arise when comparing adaptive capacity among species, including poor data availability and comparability issues in metrics derived from different methods or studies. The breadth of data required for such an assessment exemplifies the multidisciplinary nature of adaptive capacity and the necessity of continued cross-collaboration to better anticipate the impacts of a changing climate.
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- Samuel Royer‐Tardif
- Natural Resources CanadaCanadian Forest ServiceGreat Lakes Forestry CentreSault Sainte MarieONCanada
- Centre d'enseignement et de recherche en foresterie de Sainte‐Foy inc. (CERFO)QuébecQCCanada
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- Natural Resources CanadaCanadian Forest ServiceGreat Lakes Forestry CentreSault Sainte MarieONCanada
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- Ministère des Forêts de la Faune et des Parcs du QuébecDirection de la recherche forestièreQuébecQCCanada
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- Natural Resources CanadaCanadian Forest ServiceLaurentian Forestry CentreQuébecQCCanada
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- Natural Resources CanadaCanadian Forest ServiceGreat Lakes Forestry CentreSault Sainte MarieONCanada
- Centre for Forest ResearchUniversité du Québec à MontréalMontréalQCCanada
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Steiner KC, Graboski LE, Berkebile JL, Fei S, Leites LP. Uncertainty in the modelled mortality of two tree species (
Fraxinus
) under novel climatic regimes. DIVERS DISTRIB 2021. [DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13293] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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- Kim C. Steiner
- Department of Ecosystem Science and Management The Pennsylvania State University University Park PA USA
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- Department of Ecosystem Science and Management The Pennsylvania State University University Park PA USA
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- Department of Ecosystem Science and Management The Pennsylvania State University University Park PA USA
- Pennsylvania Certified Organic Spring Mills PA USA
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- Department of Forestry and Natural Resources Purdue University West Lafayette IN USA
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- Department of Ecosystem Science and Management The Pennsylvania State University University Park PA USA
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Dalakouras A, Vlachostergios D. Epigenetic approaches to crop breeding: current status and perspectives. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2021; 72:5356-5371. [PMID: 34017985 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erab227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2021] [Accepted: 05/18/2021] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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In order to tackle the cumulative adverse effects of global climate change, reduced farmland, and heightened needs of an ever-increasing world population, modern agriculture is in urgent search of solutions that can ensure world food security and sustainable development. Classical crop breeding is still a powerful method to obtain crops with valued agronomical traits, but its potential is gradually being compromised by the menacing decline of genetic variation. Resorting to the epigenome as a source of variation could serve as a promising alternative. Here, we discuss current status of epigenetics-mediated crop breeding (epibreeding), highlight its advances and limitations, outline currently available methodologies, and propose novel RNA-based strategies to modify the epigenome in a gene-specific and transgene-free manner.
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- Athanasios Dalakouras
- Institute of Industrial and Forage Crops, HAO-DEMETER, 41335 Larissa, Greece
- Institute of Plant Breeding and Genetic Resources, HAO-DEMETER, 57001 Thessaloniki, Greece
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Ravelonandro M, Briard P, Scorza R, Callahan A, Zagrai I, Kundu JK, Dardick C. Robust Response to Plum pox virus Infection via Plant Biotechnology. Genes (Basel) 2021; 12:genes12060816. [PMID: 34071769 PMCID: PMC8227089 DOI: 10.3390/genes12060816] [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: 03/29/2021] [Revised: 05/20/2021] [Accepted: 05/25/2021] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Our goal was to target silencing of the Plum pox virus coat protein (PPV CP) gene independently expressed in plants. Clone C-2 is a transgenic plum expressing CP. We introduced and verified, in planta, the effects of the inverse repeat of CP sequence split by a hairpin (IRSH) that was characterized in the HoneySweet plum. The IRSH construct was driven by two CaMV35S promoter sequences flanking the CP sequence and had been introduced into C1738 plum. To determine if this structure was enough to induce silencing, cross-hybridization was made with the C1738 clone and the CP expressing but PPV-susceptible C2 clone. In total, 4 out of 63 clones were silenced. While introduction of the IRSH is reduced due to the heterozygous character in C1738 plum, the silencing induced by the IRSH PPV CP is robust. Extensive studies, in greenhouse containment, demonstrated that the genetic resource of C1738 clone can silence the CP production. In addition, these were verified through the virus transgene pyramiding in the BO70146 BlueByrd cv. plum that successfully produced resistant BlueByrd BO70146 × C1738 (HybC1738) hybrid plums.
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- Michel Ravelonandro
- UMR-BFP-1332, INRAE-Bordeaux, Bordeaux-UniversityII, 71 Avenue Bourleaux, 33883 Villenave d’Ornon, France;
- Correspondence:
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- UMR-BFP-1332, INRAE-Bordeaux, Bordeaux-UniversityII, 71 Avenue Bourleaux, 33883 Villenave d’Ornon, France;
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- USDA-ARS Fruit Station, 2217 Wiltshire Road, Kearneysville, WV 25430, USA; (R.S.); (A.C.); (C.D.)
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- USDA-ARS Fruit Station, 2217 Wiltshire Road, Kearneysville, WV 25430, USA; (R.S.); (A.C.); (C.D.)
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- Fruit Research and Development Station Bistrita, Drumul Dumitrei Nou street, 420127 Bistrita, Romania;
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- Crop Research Institute, Drnovska 507/73, 161 06 Praha, Czech Republic;
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- USDA-ARS Fruit Station, 2217 Wiltshire Road, Kearneysville, WV 25430, USA; (R.S.); (A.C.); (C.D.)
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Roy Choudhury S. Genome-wide alterations of epigenomic landscape in plants by engineered nanomaterial toxicants. COMPREHENSIVE ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/bs.coac.2019.04.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Herrera CM, Alonso C, Medrano M, Pérez R, Bazaga P. Transgenerational epigenetics: Inheritance of global cytosine methylation and methylation-related epigenetic markers in the shrub Lavandula latifolia. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY 2018; 105:741-748. [PMID: 29727470 DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.1074] [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: 08/16/2017] [Accepted: 01/22/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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PREMISE OF THE STUDY The ecological and evolutionary significance of natural epigenetic variation (i.e., not based on DNA sequence variants) variation will depend critically on whether epigenetic states are transmitted from parents to offspring, but little is known on epigenetic inheritance in nonmodel plants. METHODS We present a quantitative analysis of transgenerational transmission of global DNA cytosine methylation (= proportion of all genomic cytosines that are methylated) and individual epigenetic markers (= methylation status of anonymous MSAP markers) in the shrub Lavandula latifolia. Methods based on parent-offspring correlations and parental variance component estimation were applied to epigenetic features of field-growing plants ('maternal parents') and greenhouse-grown progenies. Transmission of genetic markers (AFLP) was also assessed for reference. KEY RESULTS Maternal parents differed significantly in global DNA cytosine methylation (range = 21.7-36.7%). Greenhouse-grown maternal families differed significantly in global methylation, and their differences were significantly related to maternal origin. Methylation-sensitive amplified polymorphism (MSAP) markers exhibited significant transgenerational transmission, as denoted by significant maternal variance component of marker scores in greenhouse families and significant mother-offspring correlations of marker scores. CONCLUSIONS Although transmission-related measurements for global methylation and MSAP markers were quantitatively lower than those for AFLP markers taken as reference, this study has revealed extensive transgenerational transmission of genome-wide global cytosine methylation and anonymous epigenetic markers in L. latifolia. Similarity of results for global cytosine methylation and epigenetic markers lends robustness to this conclusion, and stresses the value of considering both types of information in epigenetic studies of nonmodel plants.
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- Carlos M Herrera
- Estación Biológica de Doñana, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Avenida Américo Vespucio 26, 41092, Sevilla, Spain
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- Estación Biológica de Doñana, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Avenida Américo Vespucio 26, 41092, Sevilla, Spain
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- Estación Biológica de Doñana, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Avenida Américo Vespucio 26, 41092, Sevilla, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Químicas, Centro de Investigaciones Científicas Isla de La Cartuja, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)-Universidad de, Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
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- Estación Biológica de Doñana, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Avenida Américo Vespucio 26, 41092, Sevilla, Spain
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Alonso C, Pérez R, Bazaga P, Medrano M, Herrera CM. Within-plant variation in seed size and inflorescence fecundity is associated with epigenetic mosaicism in the shrub Lavandula latifolia (Lamiaceae). ANNALS OF BOTANY 2018; 121:153-160. [PMID: 29186299 PMCID: PMC5786237 DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcx140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2017] [Accepted: 11/02/2017] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS Sub-individual variation in traits of homologous structures has multiple ecological consequences for individuals and populations. Assessing the evolutionary significance of such effects requires an improved knowledge of the mechanisms underlying within-plant phenotypic heterogeneity. The hypothesis that continuous within-plant variation in some phenotypic traits can be associated with epigenetic mosaicism was examined. METHODS Fifteen individuals of the long-lived, evergreen Mediterranean shrub Lavandula latifolia were studied. Five widely spaced 'modules', each consisting of a single inflorescence plus all its subtending basal leaves, were collected from each shrub. Genomic DNA was extracted from leaf samples and genome-wide cytosine methylation determined by reversed phase high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with spectrofluorimetric detection. The number and mean mass of seeds produced were determined for each inflorescence. An assessment was made of whether (1) leaves from different modules in the same plant differed significantly in global DNA cytosine methylation, and (2) mosaicism in cytosine methylation contributed to explain variation across modules in number and size of seeds. KEY RESULTS Leaves from different modules in the same plant differed in global DNA cytosine methylation. The magnitude of epigenetic mosaicism was substantial, as the variance in DNA methylation among modules of the same shrub was greater than the variance between individuals. Number and mean mass of seeds produced by individual inflorescences varied within plants and were quadratically related to cytosine methylation of subtending leaves, with an optimum at an intermediate methylation level (approx. 25 %). CONCLUSIONS The results support a causal link between global cytosine methylation of leaves in a module and the size and numbers of seeds produced by the associated inflorescence. It is proposed that variation in global DNA methylation within L. latifolia shrubs may result from the concerted action of plant sectoriality and differential exposure of different plant parts to some environmental factor(s) with a capacity to induce durable epigenetic changes.
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- Conchita Alonso
- Estación Biológica de Doñana, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Avda. Américo Vespucio, Sevilla, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Químicas, Centro de Investigaciones Científicas Isla de La Cartuja, CSIC-US, Avda. Américo Vespucio, Sevilla, Spain
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- Estación Biológica de Doñana, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Avda. Américo Vespucio, Sevilla, Spain
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- Estación Biológica de Doñana, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Avda. Américo Vespucio, Sevilla, Spain
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- Estación Biológica de Doñana, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Avda. Américo Vespucio, Sevilla, Spain
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Rendina González AP, Preite V, Verhoeven KJF, Latzel V. Transgenerational Effects and Epigenetic Memory in the Clonal Plant Trifolium repens. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2018; 9:1677. [PMID: 30524458 PMCID: PMC6256281 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2018.01677] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2018] [Accepted: 10/29/2018] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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Transgenerational effects (TGE) can modify phenotypes of offspring generations playing thus a potentially important role in ecology and evolution of many plant species. These effects have been studied mostly across generations of sexually reproducing species. A substantial proportion of plant species are however reproducing asexually, for instance via clonal growth. TGE are thought to be enabled by heritable epigenetic modification of DNA, although unambiguous evidence is still scarce. On the clonal herb white clover (Trifolium repens), we tested the generality of clonal TGE across five genotypes and five parental environments including soil contamination and above-ground competition. Moreover, by genome wide-methylation variation analysis we explored the role of drought, one of the parental environments that triggered the strongest TGE. We tested the induction of epigenetic changes in offspring generations using several intensities and durations of drought stress. We found that TGE of different environments were highly genotype specific and all tested environments triggered TGE at least in some genotypes. In addition, parental drought stresses triggered epigenetic change in T. repens and most of the induced epigenetic change was maintained across several clonal offspring generations. We conclude that TGE are common and genotype specific in clonal plant T. repens and potentially under epigenetic control.
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- Molecular Genetics and Physiology of Plants, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany
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- Department of Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice, Czechia
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Tissue-Specific Response to Experimental Demethylation at Seed Germination in the Non-Model Herb Erodium cicutarium. EPIGENOMES 2017. [DOI: 10.3390/epigenomes1030016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Kaur A, Pati PK, Pati AM, Nagpal AK. In-silico analysis of cis-acting regulatory elements of pathogenesis-related proteins of Arabidopsis thaliana and Oryza sativa. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0184523. [PMID: 28910327 PMCID: PMC5598985 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0184523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2017] [Accepted: 08/27/2017] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Pathogenesis related (PR) proteins are low molecular weight family of proteins induced in plants under various biotic and abiotic stresses. They play an important role in plant-defense mechanism. PRs have wide range of functions, acting as hydrolases, peroxidases, chitinases, anti-fungal, protease inhibitors etc. In the present study, an attempt has been made to analyze promoter regions of PR1, PR2, PR5, PR9, PR10 and PR12 of Arabidopsis thaliana and Oryza sativa. Analysis of cis-element distribution revealed the functional multiplicity of PRs and provides insight into the gene regulation. CpG islands are observed only in rice PRs, which indicates that monocot genome contains more GC rich motifs than dicots. Tandem repeats were also observed in 5' UTR of PR genes. Thus, the present study provides an understanding of regulation of PR genes and their versatile roles in plants.
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- Amritpreet Kaur
- Department of Botanical and Environmental sciences, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Punjab, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Punjab, India
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- Planning Project Monitoring and Evaluation Cell, CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Palampur, Himachal Pradesh, India
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- Department of Botanical and Environmental sciences, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Punjab, India
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Alonso C, Balao F, Bazaga P, Pérez R. Epigenetic contribution to successful polyploidizations: variation in global cytosine methylation along an extensive ploidy series in Dianthus broteri (Caryophyllaceae). THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2016; 212:571-576. [PMID: 27483440 DOI: 10.1111/nph.14138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2016] [Accepted: 07/11/2016] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Polyploidization is a significant evolutionary force in plants which involves major genomic and genetic changes, frequently regulated by epigenetic factors. We explored whether natural polyploidization in Dianthus broteri complex resulted in substantial changes in global DNA cytosine methylation associated to ploidy. Global cytosine methylation was estimated by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) in 12 monocytotypic populations with different ploidies (2×, 4×, 6×, 12×) broadly distributed within D. broteri distribution range. The effects of ploidy level and local variation on methylation were assessed by generalized linear mixed models (GLMMs). Dianthus broteri exhibited a higher methylation percent (˜33%) than expected by its monoploid genome size and a large variation among study populations (range: 29.3-35.3%). Global methylation tended to increase with ploidy but did not significantly differ across levels due to increased variation within the highest-order polyploidy categories. Methylation varied more among hexaploid and dodecaploid populations, despite such cytotypes showing more restricted geographic location and increased genetic relatedness than diploids and tetraploids. In this study, we demonstrate the usefulness of an HPLC method in providing precise and genome reference-free global measure of DNA cytosine methylation, suitable to advance current knowledge of the roles of this epigenetic mechanism in polyploidization processes.
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- Conchita Alonso
- Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC, Avenida Américo Vespucio s/n, 41092, Sevilla, Spain.
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- Departamento de Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Universidad de Sevilla, Apdo. 1095, 41080, Sevilla, Spain
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- Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC, Avenida Américo Vespucio s/n, 41092, Sevilla, Spain
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- Centro de Investigaciones Científicas Isla de La Cartuja, Instituto de Investigaciones Químicas, CSIC-US, Avenida Américo Vespucio 49, 41092, Sevilla, Spain
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Montagnoli A, Terzaghi M, Fulgaro N, Stoew B, Wipenmyr J, Ilver D, Rusu C, Scippa GS, Chiatante D. Non-destructive Phenotypic Analysis of Early Stage Tree Seedling Growth Using an Automated Stereovision Imaging Method. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2016; 7:1644. [PMID: 27840632 PMCID: PMC5083884 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01644] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2016] [Accepted: 10/18/2016] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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A plant phenotyping approach was applied to evaluate growth rate of containerized tree seedlings during the precultivation phase following seed germination. A simple and affordable stereo optical system was used to collect stereoscopic red-green-blue (RGB) images of seedlings at regular intervals of time. Comparative analysis of these images by means of a newly developed software enabled us to calculate (a) the increments of seedlings height and (b) the percentage greenness of seedling leaves. Comparison of these parameters with destructive biomass measurements showed that the height traits can be used to estimate seedling growth for needle-leaved plant species whereas the greenness trait can be used for broad-leaved plant species. Despite the need to adjust for plant type, growth stage and light conditions this new, cheap, rapid, and sustainable phenotyping approach can be used to study large-scale phenome variations due to genome variability and interaction with environmental factors.
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- Antonio Montagnoli
- Laboratory of Environmental and Applied Botany, Department of Biotechnology and Life Science, University of InsubriaVarese, Italy
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- Laboratory of Environmental and Applied Botany, Department of Biotechnology and Life Science, University of InsubriaVarese, Italy
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- Laboratory of Environmental and Applied Botany, Department of Biotechnology and Life Science, University of InsubriaVarese, Italy
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- Sensor Systems Department, Acreo Swedish ICTGothenburg, Sweden
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- Sensor Systems Department, Acreo Swedish ICTGothenburg, Sweden
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- Sensor Systems Department, Acreo Swedish ICTGothenburg, Sweden
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- Sensor Systems Department, Acreo Swedish ICTGothenburg, Sweden
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- Laboratory of Environmental and Applied Botany, Department of Biotechnology and Life Science, University of InsubriaVarese, Italy
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Vianello A, Passamonti S. Biochemistry and physiology within the framework of the extended synthesis of evolutionary biology. Biol Direct 2016; 11:7. [PMID: 26861860 PMCID: PMC4748562 DOI: 10.1186/s13062-016-0109-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2015] [Accepted: 02/01/2016] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Functional biologists, like Claude Bernard, ask "How?", meaning that they investigate the mechanisms underlying the emergence of biological functions (proximal causes), while evolutionary biologists, like Charles Darwin, asks "Why?", meaning that they search the causes of adaptation, survival and evolution (remote causes). Are these divergent views on what is life? The epistemological role of functional biology (molecular biology, but also biochemistry, physiology, cell biology and so forth) appears essential, for its capacity to identify several mechanisms of natural selection of new characters, individuals and populations. Nevertheless, several issues remain unsolved, such as orphan metabolic activities, i.e., adaptive functions still missing the identification of the underlying genes and proteins, and orphan genes, i.e., genes that bear no signature of evolutionary history, yet provide an organism with improved adaptation to environmental changes. In the framework of the Extended Synthesis, we suggest that the adaptive roles of any known function/structure are reappraised in terms of their capacity to warrant constancy of the internal environment (homeostasis), a concept that encompasses both proximal and remote causes.
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- Angelo Vianello
- Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie e Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Udine, 33100, Udine, Italy.
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università degli Studi di Trieste, 34100, Trieste, Italy.
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Rathore MS, Jha B. DNA Methylation and Methylation Polymorphism in Genetically Stable In vitro Regenerates of Jatropha curcas L. Using Methylation-Sensitive AFLP Markers. Appl Biochem Biotechnol 2015; 178:1002-14. [PMID: 26588922 DOI: 10.1007/s12010-015-1924-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2015] [Accepted: 11/09/2015] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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The present investigation aimed to evaluate the degree and pattern of DNA methylation using methylation-sensitive AFLP (MS-AFLP) markers in genetically stable in vitro regenerates of Jatropha curcas L.. The genetically stable in vitro regenerates were raised through direct organogenesis via enhanced axillary shoot bud proliferation (Protocol-1) and in vitro-derived leaf regeneration (Protocol-2). Ten selective combinations of MS-AFLP primers produced 462 and 477 MS-AFLP bands in Protocol-1 (P-1) and Protocol-2 (P-2) regenerates, respectively. In P-1 regenerates, 15.8-31.17 % DNA was found methylated with an average of 25.24 %. In P-2 regenerates, 15.93-32.7 % DNA was found methylated with an average of 24.11 %. Using MS-AFLP in P-1 and P-2 regenerates, 11.52-25.53 % and 13.33-25.47 % polymorphism in methylated DNA was reported, respectively. Compared to the mother plant, P-1 regenerates showed hyper-methylation while P-2 showed hypo-methylation. The results clearly indicated alternation in degree and pattern of DNA methylation; hence, epigenetic instability in the genetically stable in vitro regenerates of J. curcas, developed so far using two different regeneration systems and explants of two different origins. The homologous nucleotide fragments in genomes of P-1 and P-2 regenerates showing methylation re-patterning might be involved in immediate adaptive responses and developmental processes through differential regulation of transcriptome under in vitro conditions.
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- Mangal S Rathore
- CSIR-Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute (CSIR-CSMCRI), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), G.B. Marg, Bhavnagar, 364 002, Gujarat, India.
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- CSIR-Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute (CSIR-CSMCRI), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), G.B. Marg, Bhavnagar, 364 002, Gujarat, India.
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Liu S, Sun K, Jiang T, Feng J. Natural epigenetic variation in bats and its role in evolution. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2015; 218:100-6. [PMID: 25568456 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.107243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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When facing the challenges of environmental change, such as habitat fragmentation, organisms have to adjust their phenotype to adapt to various environmental stresses. Recent studies show that epigenetic modifications could mediate environmentally induced phenotypic variation, and this epigenetic variance could be inherited by future generations, indicating that epigenetic processes have potential evolutionary effects. Bats living in diverse environments show geographic variations in phenotype, and the females usually have natal philopatry, presenting an opportunity to explore how environments shape epigenetic marks on the genome and the evolutionary potential of epigenetic variance in bat populations for adaptation. We have explored the natural epigenetic diversity and structure of female populations of the great roundleaf bat (Hipposideros armiger), the least horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus pusillus) and the eastern bent-winged bat (Miniopterus fuliginosus) using a methylation-sensitive amplified polymorphism technique. We have also estimated the effects of genetic variance and ecological variables on epigenetic diversification. All three bat species have a low level of genomic DNA methylation and extensive epigenetic diversity that exceeds the corresponding genetic variance. DNA sequence divergence, epigenetic drift and environmental variables contribute to the epigenetic diversities of each species. Environment-induced epigenetic variation may be inherited as a result of both mitosis and meiosis, and their potential roles in evolution for bat populations are also discussed in this review.
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- Sen Liu
- Jilin Key Laboratory of Animal Resource Conservation and Utilization, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, Jilin, China Institute of Resources and Environment, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo 454000, Henan, China
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- Jilin Key Laboratory of Animal Resource Conservation and Utilization, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, Jilin, China
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- Jilin Key Laboratory of Animal Resource Conservation and Utilization, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, Jilin, China
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- Jilin Key Laboratory of Animal Resource Conservation and Utilization, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, Jilin, China
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Alonso C, Pérez R, Bazaga P, Medrano M, Herrera CM. MSAP markers and global cytosine methylation in plants: a literature survey and comparative analysis for a wild-growing species. Mol Ecol Resour 2015; 16:80-90. [PMID: 25944158 DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12426] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2014] [Revised: 04/21/2015] [Accepted: 04/22/2015] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Methylation of DNA cytosines affects whether transposons are silenced and genes are expressed, and is a major epigenetic mechanism whereby plants respond to environmental change. Analyses of methylation-sensitive amplification polymorphism (MS-AFLP or MSAP) have been often used to assess methyl-cytosine changes in response to stress treatments and, more recently, in ecological studies of wild plant populations. MSAP technique does not require a sequenced reference genome and provides many anonymous loci randomly distributed over the genome for which the methylation status can be ascertained. Scoring of MSAP data, however, is not straightforward, and efforts are still required to standardize this step to make use of the potential to distinguish between methylation at different nucleotide contexts. Furthermore, it is not known how accurately MSAP infers genome-wide cytosine methylation levels in plants. Here, we analyse the relationship between MSAP results and the percentage of global cytosine methylation in genomic DNA obtained by HPLC analysis. A screening of literature revealed that methylation of cytosines at cleavage sites assayed by MSAP was greater than genome-wide estimates obtained by HPLC, and percentages of methylation at different nucleotide contexts varied within and across species. Concurrent HPLC and MSAP analyses of DNA from 200 individuals of the perennial herb Helleborus foetidus confirmed that methyl-cytosine was more frequent in CCGG contexts than in the genome as a whole. In this species, global methylation was unrelated to methylation at the inner CG site. We suggest that global HPLC and context-specific MSAP methylation estimates provide complementary information whose combination can improve our current understanding of methylation-based epigenetic processes in nonmodel plants.
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- Conchita Alonso
- Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC, Avenida Américo Vespucio s/n, Sevilla, 41092, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Químicas, Centro de Investigaciones Científicas Isla de La Cartuja, CSIC-US, Avenida Américo Vespucio s/n, Sevilla, 41092, Spain
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- Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC, Avenida Américo Vespucio s/n, Sevilla, 41092, Spain
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- Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC, Avenida Américo Vespucio s/n, Sevilla, 41092, Spain
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- Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC, Avenida Américo Vespucio s/n, Sevilla, 41092, Spain
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Valledor L, Pascual J, Meijón M, Escandón M, Cañal MJ. Conserved Epigenetic Mechanisms Could Play a Key Role in Regulation of Photosynthesis and Development-Related Genes during Needle Development of Pinus radiata. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0126405. [PMID: 25965766 PMCID: PMC4429063 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0126405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2015] [Accepted: 04/01/2015] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Needle maturation is a complex process that involves cell growth, differentiation and tissue remodelling towards the acquisition of full physiological competence. Leaf induction mechanisms are well known; however, those underlying the acquisition of physiological competence are still poorly understood, especially in conifers. We studied the specific epigenetic regulation of genes defining organ function (PrRBCS and PrRBCA) and competence and stress response (PrCSDP2 and PrSHMT4) during three stages of needle development and one de-differentiated control. Gene-specific changes in DNA methylation and histone were analysed by bisulfite sequencing and chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP). The expression of PrRBCA and PrRBCS increased during needle maturation and was associated with the progressive loss of H3K9me3, H3K27me3 and the increase in AcH4. The maturation-related silencing of PrSHMT4 was correlated with increased H3K9me3 levels, and the repression of PrCSDP2, to the interplay between AcH4, H3K27me3, H3K9me3 and specific DNA methylation. The employ of HAT and HDAC inhibitors led to a further determination of the role of histone acetylation in the regulation of our target genes. The integration of these results with high-throughput analyses in Arabidopsis thaliana and Populus trichocarpa suggests that the specific epigenetic mechanisms that regulate photosynthetic genes are conserved between the analysed species.
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- Luis Valledor
- Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Oviedo, Cat. Rodrígo Uría s/n, E-33071, Oviedo, Spain
- Department of Biology and CESAM, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitario de Santiago, P-3810-193, Aveiro, Portugal
- * E-mail: (LV); (MJC)
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- Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Oviedo, Cat. Rodrígo Uría s/n, E-33071, Oviedo, Spain
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- Regional Institute for Research and Agro-Food Development (SERIDA), Finca Experimental La Mata s/n, E-33825, Grado, Spain
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- Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Oviedo, Cat. Rodrígo Uría s/n, E-33071, Oviedo, Spain
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- Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Oviedo, Cat. Rodrígo Uría s/n, E-33071, Oviedo, Spain
- * E-mail: (LV); (MJC)
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Elkonin LA, Gerashchenkov GA, Domanina IV, Rozhnova NA. Inheritance of reversions to male fertility in male-sterile sorghum hybrids with 9E male-sterile cytoplasm induced by environmental conditions. RUSS J GENET+ 2015. [DOI: 10.1134/s1022795415030035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Šiukšta R, Vaitkūnienė V, Kaselytė G, Okockytė V, Žukauskaitė J, Žvingila D, Rančelis V. Inherited phenotype instability of inflorescence and floral organ development in homeotic barley double mutants and its specific modification by auxin inhibitors and 2,4-D. ANNALS OF BOTANY 2015; 115:651-63. [PMID: 25660346 PMCID: PMC4343296 DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcu263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS Barley (Hordeum vulgare) double mutants Hv-Hd/tw2, formed by hybridization, are characterized by inherited phenotypic instability and by several new features, such as bract/leaf-like structures, long naked gaps in the spike, and a wide spectrum of variations in the basic and ectopic flowers, which are absent in single mutants. Several of these features resemble those of mutations in auxin distribution, and thus the aim of this study was to determine whether auxin imbalances are related to phenotypic variations and instability. The effects of auxin inhibitors and 2,4-D (2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid) on variation in basic and ectopic flowers were therefore examined, together with the effects of 2,4-D on spike structure. METHODS The character of phenotypic instability and the effects of auxin inhibitors and 2,4-D were compared in callus cultures and intact plants of single homeotic Hv-tw2 and Hv-Hooded/Kap (in the BKn3 gene) mutants and alternative double mutant lines: offspring from individual plants in distal hybrid generations (F9-F10) that all had the same BKn3 allele as determined by DNA sequencing. For intact plants, two auxin inhibitors, 9-hydroxyfluorene-9-carboxylic acid (HFCA) and p-chlorophenoxyisobutyric acid (PCIB), were used. KEY RESULTS Callus growth and flower/spike structures of the Hv-tw2 mutant differed in their responses to HFCA and PCIB. An increase in normal basic flowers after exposure to auxin inhibitors and a decrease in their frequencies caused by 2,4-D were observed, and there were also modifications in the spectra of ectopic flowers, especially those with sexual organs, but the effects depended on the genotype. Exposure to 2,4-D decreased the frequency of short gaps and lodicule transformations in Hv-tw2 and of long naked gaps in double mutants. CONCLUSIONS The effects of auxin inhibitors and 2,4-D suggest that ectopic auxin maxima or deficiencies arise in various regions of the inflorescence/flower primordia. Based on the phenotypic instability observed, definite trends in the development of ectopic flower structures may be detected, from insignificant outgrowths on awns to flowers with sterile organs. Phenotypically unstable barley double mutants provide a highly promising genetic system for the investigation of gene expression modules and trend orders.
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- Raimondas Šiukšta
- Department of Botany and Genetics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Vilnius University, M. K. Čiurlionis Str. 21/27, LT-03101 Vilnius, Lithuania and Botanical Garden of Vilnius University, Kairėnai Str. 43, LT-10239 Vilnius, Lithuania Department of Botany and Genetics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Vilnius University, M. K. Čiurlionis Str. 21/27, LT-03101 Vilnius, Lithuania and Botanical Garden of Vilnius University, Kairėnai Str. 43, LT-10239 Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Department of Botany and Genetics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Vilnius University, M. K. Čiurlionis Str. 21/27, LT-03101 Vilnius, Lithuania and Botanical Garden of Vilnius University, Kairėnai Str. 43, LT-10239 Vilnius, Lithuania Department of Botany and Genetics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Vilnius University, M. K. Čiurlionis Str. 21/27, LT-03101 Vilnius, Lithuania and Botanical Garden of Vilnius University, Kairėnai Str. 43, LT-10239 Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Department of Botany and Genetics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Vilnius University, M. K. Čiurlionis Str. 21/27, LT-03101 Vilnius, Lithuania and Botanical Garden of Vilnius University, Kairėnai Str. 43, LT-10239 Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Department of Botany and Genetics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Vilnius University, M. K. Čiurlionis Str. 21/27, LT-03101 Vilnius, Lithuania and Botanical Garden of Vilnius University, Kairėnai Str. 43, LT-10239 Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Department of Botany and Genetics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Vilnius University, M. K. Čiurlionis Str. 21/27, LT-03101 Vilnius, Lithuania and Botanical Garden of Vilnius University, Kairėnai Str. 43, LT-10239 Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Department of Botany and Genetics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Vilnius University, M. K. Čiurlionis Str. 21/27, LT-03101 Vilnius, Lithuania and Botanical Garden of Vilnius University, Kairėnai Str. 43, LT-10239 Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Department of Botany and Genetics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Vilnius University, M. K. Čiurlionis Str. 21/27, LT-03101 Vilnius, Lithuania and Botanical Garden of Vilnius University, Kairėnai Str. 43, LT-10239 Vilnius, Lithuania
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Li Z, Chen X, Li S, Wang Z. Effect of nickel chloride on Arabidopsis genomic DNA and methylation of 18S rDNA. ELECTRON J BIOTECHN 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejbt.2014.12.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Tricker PJ. Transgenerational inheritance or resetting of stress-induced epigenetic modifications: two sides of the same coin. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2015; 6:699. [PMID: 26442015 PMCID: PMC4561384 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2015] [Accepted: 08/21/2015] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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The transgenerational inheritance of stress-induced epigenetic modifications is still controversial. Despite several examples of defense "priming" and induced genetic rearrangements, the involvement and persistence of transgenerational epigenetic modifications is not known to be general. Here I argue that non-transmission of epigenetic marks through meiosis may be regarded as an epigenetic modification in itself, and that we should understand the implications for plant evolution in the context of both selection for and selection against transgenerational epigenetic memory. Recent data suggest that both epigenetic inheritance and resetting are mechanistically directed and targeted. Stress-induced epigenetic modifications may buffer against DNA sequence-based evolution to maintain plasticity, or may form part of plasticity's adaptive potential. To date we have tended to concentrate on the question of whether and for how long epigenetic memory persists. I argue that we should now re-direct our question to investigate the differences between where it persists and where it does not, to understand the higher order evolutionary methods in play and their contribution.
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- Penny J. Tricker
- *Correspondence: Penny J. Tricker, Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics, School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, University of Adelaide, Waite Campus, Hartley Grove, Urrbrae, SA 5064, Australia,
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Medrano M, Herrera CM, Bazaga P. Epigenetic variation predicts regional and local intraspecific functional diversity in a perennial herb. Mol Ecol 2014; 23:4926-38. [DOI: 10.1111/mec.12911] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2014] [Revised: 08/19/2014] [Accepted: 09/04/2014] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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- Mónica Medrano
- Estación Biológica de Doñana; Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC); Avenida Américo Vespucio s/n Isla de La Cartuja Sevilla 41092 Spain
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- Estación Biológica de Doñana; Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC); Avenida Américo Vespucio s/n Isla de La Cartuja Sevilla 41092 Spain
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- Estación Biológica de Doñana; Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC); Avenida Américo Vespucio s/n Isla de La Cartuja Sevilla 41092 Spain
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Wang H, Jiang J, Chen S, Qi X, Fang W, Guan Z, Teng N, Liao Y, Chen F. Rapid genetic and epigenetic alterations under intergeneric genomic shock in newly synthesized Chrysanthemum morifolium x Leucanthemum paludosum hybrids (Asteraceae). Genome Biol Evol 2014; 6:247-59. [PMID: 24407856 PMCID: PMC3914698 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evu008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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The Asteraceae family is at the forefront of the evolution due to frequent hybridization. Hybridization is associated with the induction of widespread genetic and epigenetic changes and has played an important role in the evolution of many plant taxa. We attempted the intergeneric cross Chrysanthemum morifolium × Leucanthemum paludosum. To obtain the success in cross, we have to turn to ovule rescue. DNA profiling of the amphihaploid and amphidiploid was investigated using amplified fragment length polymorphism, sequence-related amplified polymorphism, start codon targeted polymorphism, and methylation-sensitive amplification polymorphism (MSAP). Hybridization induced rapid changes at the genetic and the epigenetic levels. The genetic changes mainly involved loss of parental fragments and gaining of novel fragments, and some eliminated sequences possibly from the noncoding region of L. paludosum. The MSAP analysis indicated that the level of DNA methylation was lower in the amphiploid (∼45%) than in the parental lines (51.5-50.6%), whereas it increased after amphidiploid formation. Events associated with intergeneric genomic shock were a feature of C. morifolium × L. paludosum hybrid, given that the genetic relationship between the parental species is relatively distant. Our results provide genetic and epigenetic evidence for understanding genomic shock in wide crosses between species in Asteraceae and suggest a need to expand our current evolutionary framework to encompass a genetic/epigenetic dimension when seeking to understand wide crosses.
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- Haibin Wang
- College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, China
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González-Sánchez M, Heredia V, Diez M, Puertas MJ. Rye B chromosomes influence the dynamics of histone H3 methylation during microgametogenesis. Cytogenet Genome Res 2014; 143:189-99. [PMID: 25096176 DOI: 10.1159/000365422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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We have studied the trimethylation dynamics of lysines 4 and 27 of histone H3 in rye with and without B chromosomes (Bs) in root tip mitosis, meiosis, and pollen grain mitosis by immunostaining. In root meristems, H3K4me3 immunolabeling was homogeneous along the chromosome arms of the normal complement (As), with the exception of the pericentromeric and subtelomeric regions which were unlabeled. On the contrary, a signal was observed on the long arm of the B chromosome, in the region where most of the B-specific repeats are located. H3K27me3 immunosignals were observed on the subtelomeric heterochromatic region of the As and the Bs and some interstitial bands of the As. Thus, the terminal region of the Bs showed both signals, whereas the subtelomeric region of the As showed H3K27me3 immunosignals only. During meiosis and first pollen grain mitosis, the immunosignals were observed distributed as in the root tip mitosis in plants with or without Bs. However, we observed remarkable changes in the immunolabeling patterns during the second pollen grain mitosis between 0B and +B plants. In 0B plants, H3K4me3 immunosignals were similarly distributed in the vegetative and generative nuclei. In B-carrying plants, the vegetative nucleus showed a lighter signal than the generative one. In 0B plants, all nuclei of the microgametophyte showed H3K27me3 immunosignals. In B-carrying plants, the generative nucleus and, correspondingly, the second metaphase, anaphase, and sperm nuclei did not show any signal. When the Bs were lost as micronuclei, they did not show any H3K4me3 or H3K27me3 signal. Most remarkably, Bs are able to change the pattern of H3 methylation on K4 and K27 during the second pollen mitosis, resulting in differently labeled sperm nuclei in 0 and +B plants.
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Norouzitallab P, Baruah K, Vandegehuchte M, Van Stappen G, Catania F, Bussche JV, Vanhaecke L, Sorgeloos P, Bossier P. Environmental heat stress induces epigenetic transgenerational inheritance of robustness in parthenogenetic
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model. FASEB J 2014; 28:3552-63. [DOI: 10.1096/fj.14-252049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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- Parisa Norouzitallab
- Laboratory of AquacultureGhent UniversityGhentBelgium
- Artemia Reference CenterGhent UniversityGhentBelgium
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- Laboratory of AquacultureGhent UniversityGhentBelgium
- Artemia Reference CenterGhent UniversityGhentBelgium
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- Laboratory of Environmental Toxicology and Aquatic EcologyGhent UniversityGhentBelgium
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- Laboratory of AquacultureGhent UniversityGhentBelgium
- Artemia Reference CenterGhent UniversityGhentBelgium
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- Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity, University of MünsterMünsterGermany
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- Laboratory of Chemical AnalysisGhent UniversityMerelbekeBelgium
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- Laboratory of AquacultureGhent UniversityGhentBelgium
- Artemia Reference CenterGhent UniversityGhentBelgium
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- Laboratory of AquacultureGhent UniversityGhentBelgium
- Artemia Reference CenterGhent UniversityGhentBelgium
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McKeown PC, Spillane C. Landscaping plant epigenetics. Methods Mol Biol 2014; 1112:1-24. [PMID: 24478004 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-773-0_1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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The understanding of epigenetic mechanisms is necessary for assessing the potential impacts of epigenetics on plant growth, development and reproduction, and ultimately for the response of these factors to evolutionary pressures and crop breeding programs. This volume highlights the latest in laboratory and bioinformatic techniques used for the investigation of epigenetic phenomena in plants. Such techniques now allow genome-wide analyses of epigenetic regulation and help to advance our understanding of how epigenetic regulatory mechanisms affect cellular and genome function. To set the scene, we begin with a short background of how the field of epigenetics has evolved, with a particular focus on plant epigenetics. We consider what has historically been understood by the term "epigenetics" before turning to the advances in biochemistry, molecular biology, and genetics which have led to current-day definitions of the term. Following this, we pay attention to key discoveries in the field of epigenetics that have emerged from the study of unusual and enigmatic phenomena in plants. Many of these phenomena have involved cases of non-Mendelian inheritance and have often been dismissed as mere curiosities prior to the elucidation of their molecular mechanisms. In the penultimate section, consideration is given to how advances in molecular techniques are opening the doors to a more comprehensive understanding of epigenetic phenomena in plants. We conclude by assessing some opportunities, challenges, and techniques for epigenetic research in both model and non-model plants, in particular for advancing understanding of the regulation of genome function by epigenetic mechanisms.
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- Peter C McKeown
- Genetics & Biotechnology Lab, Plant & Agribiosciences Centre (PABC), School of Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI Galway), Ireland
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Migicovsky Z, Yao Y, Kovalchuk I. Transgenerational phenotypic and epigenetic changes in response to heat stress in Arabidopsis thaliana. PLANT SIGNALING & BEHAVIOR 2014; 9:e27971. [PMID: 24513700 PMCID: PMC4091214 DOI: 10.4161/psb.27971] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2013] [Revised: 01/22/2014] [Accepted: 01/23/2014] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Exposure to heat stress causes physiological and epigenetic changes in plants, which may also be altered in the progeny. We compared the progeny of stressed and control Arabidopsis thaliana wild type and Dicer-like mutant dcl2, dcl3, and dcl4 plants for variations in physiology and molecular profile, including global genome methylation, mRNA levels, and histone modifications in the subset of differentially expressed genes at normal conditions and in response to heat stress. We found that the immediate progeny of heat-stressed plants had fewer, but larger leaves, and tended to bolt earlier. Transposon expression was elevated in the progeny of heat-stressed plants, and heat stress in the same generation tended to decrease global genome methylation. Progeny of stressed plants had increased expression of HSFA2, and reduction in MSH2, ROS1, and several SUVH genes. Gene expression positively correlated with permissive histone marks and negatively correlated with repressive marks. Overall, the progeny of heat stressed plants varied in both their physiology and epigenome and dcl2 and dcl3 mutants were partially deficient for these changes.
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Brown R. Rethinking Behavioral Evolution. HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY OF THE LIFE SCIENCES 2014. [DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-7067-6_12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Variation of cytosine methylation in response to water availability in two contrasting growth types of an amphibious plant Alternanthera philoxeroides. BIOCHEM SYST ECOL 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bse.2013.03.053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Adaptation or malignant transformation: the two faces of epigenetically mediated response to stress. BIOMED RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2013; 2013:954060. [PMID: 24187667 PMCID: PMC3803131 DOI: 10.1155/2013/954060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2013] [Revised: 08/26/2013] [Accepted: 08/29/2013] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Adaptive response to stress is a fundamental property of living systems. At the cellular level, many different types of stress elicit an essentially limited repertoire of adaptive responses. Epigenetic changes are the main mechanism for medium- to long-term adaptation to accumulated (intense, long-term, or repeated) stress. We propose the adaptive deregulation of the epigenome in response to stress (ADERS) hypothesis which assumes that the unspecific adaptive stress response grows stronger with the increasing stress level, epigenetically activating response gene clusters while progressively deregulating other cellular processes. The balance between the unspecific adaptive response and the general epigenetic deregulation is critical because a strong response can lead to pathology, particularly to malignant transformation. The main idea of our hypothesis is the continuum traversed by a cell subjected to accumulated stress, which lies between an unspecific adaptive response and pathological deregulation--the two extremes sharing the same underlying cause, which is a manifestation of a unified epigenetically mediated adaptive response to stress. The evolutionary potential of epigenetic regulation in multigenerational adaptation is speculatively discussed in the light of neo-Lamarckism. Finally, an approach to testing the proposed hypothesis is presented, relying on either the publicly available datasets or on conducting new experiments.
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She W, Grimanelli D, Rutowicz K, Whitehead MWJ, Puzio M, Kotlinski M, Jerzmanowski A, Baroux C. Chromatin reprogramming during the somatic-to-reproductive cell fate transition in plants. Development 2013; 140:4008-19. [PMID: 24004947 DOI: 10.1242/dev.095034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The life cycle of flowering plants is marked by several post-embryonic developmental transitions during which novel cell fates are established. Notably, the reproductive lineages are first formed during flower development. The differentiation of spore mother cells, which are destined for meiosis, marks the somatic-to-reproductive fate transition. Meiosis entails the formation of the haploid multicellular gametophytes, from which the gametes are derived, and during which epigenetic reprogramming takes place. Here we show that in the Arabidopsis female megaspore mother cell (MMC), cell fate transition is accompanied by large-scale chromatin reprogramming that is likely to establish an epigenetic and transcriptional status distinct from that of the surrounding somatic niche. Reprogramming is characterized by chromatin decondensation, reduction in heterochromatin, depletion of linker histones, changes in core histone variants and in histone modification landscapes. From the analysis of mutants in which the gametophyte fate is either expressed ectopically or compromised, we infer that chromatin reprogramming in the MMC is likely to contribute to establishing postmeiotic competence to the development of the pluripotent gametophyte. Thus, as in primordial germ cells of animals, the somatic-to-reproductive cell fate transition in plants entails large-scale epigenetic reprogramming.
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- Wenjing She
- Institute of Plant Biology and Zürich-Basel Plant Science Center, University of Zürich, Zollikerstrasse 107, 8008 Zürich, Switzerland
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Perrin C, Lepesant JMJ, Roger E, Duval D, Fneich S, Thuillier V, Alliene JF, Mitta G, Grunau C, Cosseau C. Schistosoma mansoni mucin gene (SmPoMuc) expression: epigenetic control to shape adaptation to a new host. PLoS Pathog 2013; 9:e1003571. [PMID: 24009504 PMCID: PMC3757033 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2013] [Accepted: 06/27/2013] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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The digenetic trematode Schistosoma mansoni is a human parasite that uses the mollusc Biomphalaria glabrata as intermediate host. Specific S. mansoni strains can infect efficiently only certain B. glabrata strains (compatible strain) while others are incompatible. Strain-specific differences in transcription of a conserved family of polymorphic mucins (SmPoMucs) in S. mansoni are the principle determinants for this compatibility. In the present study, we investigated the bases of the control of SmPoMuc expression that evolved to evade B. glabrata diversified antigen recognition molecules. We compared the DNA sequences and chromatin structure of SmPoMuc promoters of two S. mansoni strains that are either compatible (C) or incompatible (IC) with a reference snail host. We reveal that although sequence differences are observed between active promoter regions of SmPoMuc genes, the sequences of the promoters are not diverse and are conserved between IC and C strains, suggesting that genetics alone cannot explain the evolution of compatibility polymorphism. In contrast, promoters carry epigenetic marks that are significantly different between the C and IC strains. Moreover, we show that modifications of the structure of the chromatin of the parasite modify transcription of SmPoMuc in the IC strain compared to the C strain and correlate with the presence of additional combinations of SmPoMuc transcripts only observed in the IC phenotype. Our results indicate that transcription polymorphism of a gene family that is responsible for an important adaptive trait of the parasite is epigenetically encoded. These strain-specific epigenetic marks are heritable, but can change while the underlying genetic information remains stable. This suggests that epigenetic changes may be important for the early steps in the adaptation of pathogens to new hosts, and might be an initial step in adaptive evolution in general. Schistosoma mansoni is a parasitic worm and agent of a disease that causes a considerable economic burden in African and South American countries. The propagation of the parasite requires passage through a freshwater snail of Biomphalaria genus. In the field, actually very few snails are infected. This is due to the fact that specific strains of the parasite can infect only specific strains of the snail. Comparative studies have shown that this so-called compatibility is based on the expression of a family of genes that are called SmPoMucs. We have shown previously that all parasites strains possess the repertoire of all SmPoMuc genes but every strain and even every individual parasite expresses only a subset. These differences could be due to DNA sequence differences in the regions that control gene expression, but here we show that these regions are nearly identical. Instead, the chromatin structure shows strain-specific characteristics. This means that the parasite can adapt to different snail strains simply by changing its chromatin structure and not necessarily the DNA sequence. If this holds true for other parasites, then we have to rethink the way parasite evolution is currently imagined but this also provides a new potential entry point to control the spread of diseases.
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- Cecile Perrin
- Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Perpignan, France
- CNRS, UMR 5244, Ecologie et Evolution des Interactions (2EI), Perpignan, France
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- Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Perpignan, France
- CNRS, UMR 5244, Ecologie et Evolution des Interactions (2EI), Perpignan, France
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- Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille, Inserm U1019, CNRS UMR 8204, Institut Pasteur de Lille, University Lille Nord de France, Lille, France
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- Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Perpignan, France
- CNRS, UMR 5244, Ecologie et Evolution des Interactions (2EI), Perpignan, France
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- Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Perpignan, France
- CNRS, UMR 5244, Ecologie et Evolution des Interactions (2EI), Perpignan, France
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- Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Perpignan, France
- CNRS, UMR 5244, Ecologie et Evolution des Interactions (2EI), Perpignan, France
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- Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Perpignan, France
- CNRS, UMR 5244, Ecologie et Evolution des Interactions (2EI), Perpignan, France
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- Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Perpignan, France
- CNRS, UMR 5244, Ecologie et Evolution des Interactions (2EI), Perpignan, France
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- Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Perpignan, France
- CNRS, UMR 5244, Ecologie et Evolution des Interactions (2EI), Perpignan, France
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- Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Perpignan, France
- CNRS, UMR 5244, Ecologie et Evolution des Interactions (2EI), Perpignan, France
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Schulz B, Eckstein RL, Durka W. Scoring and analysis of methylation-sensitive amplification polymorphisms for epigenetic population studies. Mol Ecol Resour 2013; 13:642-53. [PMID: 23617735 DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2012] [Revised: 03/05/2013] [Accepted: 03/06/2013] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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DNA methylation is an important, heritable epigenetic modification in most eukaryotic organisms that is connected with numerous biological processes. To study the impact of natural epigenetic variation in an ecological or evolutionary context, epigenetic studies are increasingly using methylation-sensitive amplification polymorphism (MSAP) for surveys at the population or species level. However, no consensus exists on how to interpret and score the multistate information obtained from the MSAP banding patterns. Here, we review the previously used scoring approaches for population epigenetic studies and develop new alternatives. To assess effects of the different approaches on parameters of epigenetic diversity and differentiation, we applied eight scoring schemes to a case study of three populations of the plant species Viola elatior. For a total number of 168 detected polymorphic MSAP fragments, the number of ultimately scored polymorphic epiloci ranged between 78 and 286 depending on the particular scoring scheme. Both, estimates of epigenetic diversity and differentiation varied strongly between scoring approaches. However, linear regression and PCoA revealed qualitatively similar patterns, suggesting that the scoring approaches are largely consistent. For single-locus analyses of MSAP data, for example the search for loci under selection, we advocate a new scoring approach that separately takes into account different methylation types and thus seems appropriate for drawing more detailed conclusions in ecological or evolutionary contexts. An R script (MSAP_score.r) for scoring and basic data analysis is provided.
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- Benjamin Schulz
- Institute of Landscape Ecology and Resource Management, Research Centre for BioSystems, Land Use and Nutrition (IFZ), Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany.
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Flores KB, Wolschin F, Amdam GV. The role of methylation of DNA in environmental adaptation. Integr Comp Biol 2013; 53:359-72. [PMID: 23620251 DOI: 10.1093/icb/ict019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Methylation of DNA is an epigenetic mechanism that influences patterns of gene expression. DNA methylation marks contribute to adaptive phenotypic variation but are erased during development. The role of DNA methylation in adaptive evolution is therefore unclear. We propose that environmentally-induced DNA methylation causes phenotypic heterogeneity that provides a substrate for selection via forces that act on the epigenetic machinery. For example, selection can alter environmentally-induced methylation of DNA by acting on the molecular mechanisms used for the genomic targeting of DNA methylation. Another possibility is that specific methylation marks that are environmentally-induced, yet non-heritable, could influence preferential survival and lead to consistent methylation of the same genomic regions over time. As methylation of DNA is known to increase the likelihood of cytosine-to-thymine transitions, non-heritable adaptive methylation marks can drive an increased likelihood of mutations targeted to regions that are consistently marked across several generations. Some of these mutations could capture, genetically, the phenotypic advantage of the epigenetic mark. Thereby, selectively favored transitory alterations in the genome invoked by DNA methylation could ultimately become selectable genetic variation through mutation. We provide evidence for these concepts using examples from different taxa, but focus on experimental data on large-scale DNA sequencing that expose between-group genetic variation after bidirectional selection on honeybees, Apis mellifera.
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- Kevin B Flores
- School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, PO Box 874501, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA.
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Rodriguez-Enriquez MJ, Grant-Downton RT. A new day dawning: Hemerocallis (daylily) as a future model organism. AOB PLANTS 2013; 5:pls055. [PMID: 23440613 PMCID: PMC3580041 DOI: 10.1093/aobpla/pls055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2012] [Accepted: 12/21/2012] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Genetic model organisms have revolutionized science, and today, with the rapid advances in technology, there is significant potential to launch many more plant species towards model status. However, these new model organisms will have to be carefully selected. Here, we argue that Hemerocallis (daylily) satisfies multiple criteria for selection and deserves serious consideration as a subject of intensive biological investigation. Several attributes of the genus are of great biological interest. These include the strict control of flower opening and, within a short period, the precisely regulated floral death by a programmed cell death system. The self-incompatibility system in Hemerocallis is also noteworthy and deserves more attention. Importantly, the genus is widely cultivated for food, medicinal value and ornamental interest. Hemerocallis has considerable potential as a 'nutraceutical' food plant and the source of new compounds with biomedical activity. The genus has also been embraced by ornamental plant breeders and the extraordinary morphological diversity of hybrid cultivars, produced within a relatively short time by amateur enthusiasts, is an exceptional resource for botanical and genetic studies. We explore these points in detail, explaining the reasons why this genus has considerable value-both academic and socio-economic-and deserves new resources devoted to its exploration as a model. Its impact as a future model will be enhanced by its amenability to cultivation in laboratory and field conditions. In addition, established methods for various tissue and cell culture systems as well as transformation will permit maximum exploitation of this genus by science.
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- M. J. Rodriguez-Enriquez
- Instituto de Bioorgánica Antonio González (IUBO), University of La Laguna; Avenida Astrofísico Francisco Sánchez, 38206 La Laguna Tenerife, Spain
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3RB, UK
- Corresponding author's e-mail address:
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Valledor L, Cañal MJ, Pascual J, Rodríguez R, Meijón M. Early induced protein 1 (PrELIP1) and other photosynthetic, stress and epigenetic regulation genes are involved in Pinus radiata D. don UV-B radiation response. PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM 2012; 146:308-20. [PMID: 22471584 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.2012.01629.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The continuous atmospheric and environmental deterioration is likely to increase, among others, the influx of ultraviolet B (UV-B) radiation. The plants have photoprotective responses, which are complex mechanisms involving different physiological responses, to avoid the damages caused by this radiation that may lead to plant death. We have studied the adaptive responses to UV-B in Pinus radiata, given the importance of this species in conifer forests and reforestation programs. We analyzed the photosynthetic activity, pigments content, and gene expression of candidate genes related to photosynthesis, stress and gene regulation in needles exposed to UV-B during a 96 h time course. The results reveal a clear increase of pigments under UV-B stress while photosynthetic activity decreased. The expression levels of the studied genes drastically changed after UV-B exposure, were stress related genes were upregulated while photosynthesis (RBCA and RBCS) and epigenetic regulation were downregulated (MSI1, CSDP2, SHM4). The novel gene PrELIP1, fully sequenced for this work, was upregulated and expressed mainly in the palisade parenchyma of needles. This gene has conserved domains related to the dissipation of the UV-B radiation that give to this protein a key role during photoprotection response of the needles in Pinus radiata.
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- Luis Valledor
- Área de Fisiología Vegetal, Dpto. B.O.S., Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Oviedo, C/ Cat. Rodrigo Uria s/n, E-33071, Oviedo, Asturias, Spain
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Heritable phenotypic differences caused by epigenetic modifications, rather than DNA sequence mutations, pose a challenge to our understanding of natural variation. Here, we review what is known about plant epialleles and the role of epigenetics in evolution.
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Russell SD, Gou X, Wong CE, Wang X, Yuan T, Wei X, Bhalla PL, Singh MB. Genomic profiling of rice sperm cell transcripts reveals conserved and distinct elements in the flowering plant male germ lineage. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2012; 195:560-573. [PMID: 22716952 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2012.04199.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Genomic assay of sperm cell RNA provides insight into functional control, modes of regulation, and contributions of male gametes to double fertilization. Sperm cells of rice (Oryza sativa) were isolated from field-grown, disease-free plants and RNA was processed for use with the full-genome Affymetrix microarray. Comparison with Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) reference arrays confirmed expressionally distinct gene profiles. A total of 10,732 distinct gene sequences were detected in sperm cells, of which 1668 were not expressed in pollen or seedlings. Pathways enriched in male germ cells included ubiquitin-mediated pathways, pathways involved in chromatin modeling including histones, histone modification and nonhistone epigenetic modification, and pathways related to RNAi and gene silencing. Genome-wide expression patterns in angiosperm sperm cells indicate common and divergent themes in the male germline that appear to be largely self-regulating through highly up-regulated chromatin modification pathways. A core of highly conserved genes appear common to all sperm cells, but evidence is still emerging that another class of genes have diverged in expression between monocots and dicots since their divergence. Sperm cell transcripts present at fusion may be transmitted through plasmogamy during double fertilization to effect immediate post-fertilization expression of early embryo and (or) endosperm development.
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- Scott D Russell
- Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA
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- Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Laboratory, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Integrative Legume Research, Melbourne School of Land and Environment, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia
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- Higuchi Biosciences Center, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66047, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA
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- Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Laboratory, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Integrative Legume Research, Melbourne School of Land and Environment, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia
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- Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Laboratory, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Integrative Legume Research, Melbourne School of Land and Environment, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia
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Viejo M, Santamaría ME, Rodríguez JL, Valledor L, Meijón M, Pérez M, Pascual J, Hasbún R, Fernández Fraga M, Berdasco M, Toorop PE, Cañal MJ, Rodríguez Fernández R. Epigenetics, the role of DNA methylation in tree development. Methods Mol Biol 2012; 877:277-301. [PMID: 22610636 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-818-4_22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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During development of multicellular organisms, cells become differentiated by modulating different programs of gene expression. Cells have their own epigenetic signature which reflects genotype, developmental history, and environmental influences, and it is ultimately reflected in the phenotype of the cells and the organism. However, in normal development or disease situations, such as adaptation to climate change or during in vitro culture, some cells undergo major epigenetic reprogramming involving the removal of epigenetic marks in the nuclei followed by the establishment of a different new set of marks. Compared with animal cells, biotech-mediated achievements are reduced in plants despite the presence of cell polypotency. In forestry, any sustainable developments using biotech tools remain restricted to the lab, without progressing to the field for application. Such barriers in the translation between development and implementation need to be addressed by organizations that have the power to integrate these two fields. However, a lack of understanding of gene regulation is also to blame for this barrier. In recent years, great progress has been made in unraveling the control of gene expression. These advances are discussed in this chapter, including the possibility of applying this knowledge in forestry practice.
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- Marcos Viejo
- Área de Fisiología Vegetal, Departamento BOS, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain.
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Elkonin LA, Tsvetova MI. Heritable Effect of Plant Water Availability Conditions on Restoration of Male Fertility in the "9E" CMS-Inducing Cytoplasm of Sorghum. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2012; 3:91. [PMID: 22639674 PMCID: PMC3355589 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2012.00091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2011] [Accepted: 04/21/2012] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Heritable changes of phenotype arising in plant ontogenesis by the influence of environmental factors belong to the most intriguing genetic phenomena. An unusual inheritance pattern was detected during examination of male fertility restoration in the CMS-inducing "9E" type cytoplasm of sorghum: Rf-genes were functional in self-pollinated progeny of F(1) hybrids yet were either not expressed or poorly expressed in backcrosses of these hybrids to CMS-lines with the same cytoplasm type. In experiments on parallel growing of the same F(1) hybrid combinations in the "dry plot" and in the "irrigated plot," it was found that high level of plant water availability during panicle and pollen developmental stages significantly increased male fertility of F(1) and test-cross hybrid populations, in which fertility-restoring genes were in heterozygote state, whereas in F(2) populations the influences of water availability conditions cause less pronounce effects. Similarly, male-sterile F(1) plants, being transferred from the "dry plot" to greenhouse, produced male-fertile panicles. In addition, male-sterile plants from F(2) families, which segregated-out as recessives, being transferred to greenhouse also produced male-fertile panicles. In the progenies of these revertants that were grown in field conditions and in the "dry plot," stable inheritance of male fertility for three cycles of self-pollination was observed, and a number of stable fertile lines in the "9E" cytoplasm were obtained. However, in test-crosses of these fertile lines to CMS-lines with the "9E" cytoplasm restoration of male fertility was not observed, except the progeny of one revertant that behaved as fertility-restorer line. These data suggest that the functional state of fertility-restoring genes for the "9E" sorghum cytoplasm is epigenetically regulated trait established by the influence of environmental factors and is transmitted to sexual generations.
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- L. A. Elkonin
- Department of Biotechnology, Agricultural Research Institute for South-East RegionSaratov, Russia
- *Correspondence: L. A. Elkonin, Department of Biotechnology, Agricultural Research Institute for South-East Region, Tulaikova street, 7, Saratov, 410010, Russia e-mail:
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- Department of Biotechnology, Agricultural Research Institute for South-East RegionSaratov, Russia
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Herman JJ, Sultan SE. Adaptive transgenerational plasticity in plants: case studies, mechanisms, and implications for natural populations. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2011; 2:102. [PMID: 22639624 PMCID: PMC3355592 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2011.00102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 209] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2011] [Accepted: 12/07/2011] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Plants respond to environmental conditions not only by plastic changes to their own development and physiology, but also by altering the phenotypes expressed by their offspring. This transgenerational plasticity was initially considered to entail only negative effects of stressful parental environments, such as production of smaller seeds by resource- or temperature-stressed parent plants, and was therefore viewed as environmental noise. Recent evolutionary ecology studies have shown that in some cases, these inherited environmental effects can include specific growth adjustments that are functionally adaptive to the parental conditions that induced them, which can range from contrasting states of controlled laboratory environments to the complex habitat variation encountered by natural plant populations. Preliminary findings suggest that adaptive transgenerational effects can be transmitted by means of diverse mechanisms including changes to seed provisioning and biochemistry, and epigenetic modifications such as DNA methylation that can persist across multiple generations. These non-genetically inherited adaptations can influence the ecological breadth and evolutionary dynamics of plant taxa and promote the spread of invasive plants. Interdisciplinary studies that join mechanistic and evolutionary ecology approaches will be an important source of future insights.
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Kou HP, Li Y, Song XX, Ou XF, Xing SC, Ma J, Von Wettstein D, Liu B. Heritable alteration in DNA methylation induced by nitrogen-deficiency stress accompanies enhanced tolerance by progenies to the stress in rice (Oryza sativa L.). JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2011; 168:1685-93. [PMID: 21665325 DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2011.03.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 115] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2010] [Revised: 03/26/2011] [Accepted: 03/29/2011] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Cytosine methylation is responsive to various biotic- and abiotic-stresses, which may produce heritable epialleles. Nitrogen (N)-deficiency is an abiotic stress being repeatedly experienced by plants. To address possible epigenetic consequences of N-deficiency-stress, we investigated the stability of cytosine methylation in rice (Oryza sativa L.) subsequent to a chronic (a whole-generation) N-deficiency at two levels, moderate (20mg/L) and severe (10mg/L), under hydroponic culture. MSAP analysis revealed that locus-specific methylation alteration occurred in leaf-tissue of the stressed plants (S(0)) experiencing either level of N-deficiency, which was validated by gel-blotting. Analysis on three non-stressed self-fed progenies (S(1), S(2) and S(3)) by gel-blotting indicated that ca. 50% of the altered methylation patterns in somatic cells (leaf) of the stressed S(0) plants were recaptured in S(1), which were then stably inherited to S(2) and S(3). Bisulfite sequencing of two variant MSAP loci with homology to low-copy retrotransposons on one stressed plant (S(0)) and its non-stressed progenies (S(1) and S(2)) showed that whereas one locus exhibited limited and non-heritable CHH methylation alteration, the other locus manifested dramatic heritable hypermethylation at nearly all cytosine sites within the assayed region. Intriguingly, when two groups of S(2) plants descended from the same N-deficiency-stressed S(0) plant were re-subjected to the stress, the group inheriting the modified methylation patterns showed enhanced tolerance to the N-deficiency-stress compared with the group bearing the original patterns. Our results thus demonstrate heritability of an acquired adaptive trait in rice, which was accompanied by epigenetic inheritance of modified cytosine methylation patterns, implicating an epigenetic basis underlying the inheritance of an acquired trait in plants.
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- H P Kou
- Key Laboratory of Molecular Epigenetics of MOE and Institute of Genetics & Cytology, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China
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Kim ED, Chen ZJ. Unstable transcripts in Arabidopsis allotetraploids are associated with nonadditive gene expression in response to abiotic and biotic stresses. PLoS One 2011; 6:e24251. [PMID: 21897874 PMCID: PMC3163679 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024251] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2011] [Accepted: 08/05/2011] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Genome-wide analysis has documented differential gene expression between closely related species in plants and animals and nonadditive gene expression in hybrids and allopolyploids compared to the parents. In Arabidopsis, 15–43% of genes are expressed differently between the related species, Arabidopsis thaliana and Arabidopsis arenosa, the majority of which are nonadditively expressed (differently from mid-parent value) in allotetraploids. Nonadditive gene expression can be caused by transcriptional regulation through chromatin modifications, but the role of posttranscriptional regulation in nonadditive gene expression is largely unknown. Here we reported genome-wide analysis of mRNA decay in resynthesized Arabidopsis allotetraploids. Among ∼26,000 annotated genes, over 1% of gene transcripts showed rapid decay with an estimated half-life of less than 60 minutes, and they are called allotetraploid genes with unstable transcripts (AlloGUTs). Remarkably, 30% of alloGUTs matched the nonadditively expressed genes, and their expression levels were negatively correlated with the decay rate. Compared to all genes, these nonadditively expressed alloGUTs were overrepresented 2-6-fold in the Gene Ontology (GOSlim) classifications in response to abiotic and biotic stresses, signal transduction, and transcription. Interestingly, the AlloGUTs include transcription factor genes that are highly inducible under stress conditions and circadian clock regulators that regulate growth in A. thaliana. These data suggest a role of mRNA stability in homoeologous gene expression in Arabidopsis allopolyploids. The enrichment of nonadditively expressed genes in stress-related pathways were commonly observed in Arabidopsis and other allopolyploids such as wheat and cotton, which may suggest a role for stress-mediated growth vigor in hybrids and allopolyploids.
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- Eun-Deok Kim
- Section of Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, and Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America
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Hauser MT, Aufsatz W, Jonak C, Luschnig C. Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance in plants. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2011. [PMID: 21515434 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2011.03.007.transgenerational] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/22/2023]
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Interest in transgenerational epigenetic inheritance has intensified with the boosting of knowledge on epigenetic mechanisms regulating gene expression during development and in response to internal and external signals such as biotic and abiotic stresses. Starting with an historical background of scantily documented anecdotes and their consequences, we recapitulate the information gathered during the last 60 years on naturally occurring and induced epialleles and paramutations in plants. We present the major players of epigenetic regulation and their importance in controlling stress responses. The effect of diverse stressors on the epigenetic status and its transgenerational inheritance is summarized from a mechanistic viewpoint. The consequences of transgenerational epigenetic inheritance are presented, focusing on the knowledge about its stability, and in relation to genetically fixed mutations, recombination, and genomic rearrangement. We conclude with an outlook on the importance of transgenerational inheritance for adaptation to changing environments and for practical applications. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled "Epigenetic control of cellular and developmental processes in plants".
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- Marie-Theres Hauser
- Department of Applied Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Muthgasse 18, Austria
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Hauser MT, Aufsatz W, Jonak C, Luschnig C. Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance in plants. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-GENE REGULATORY MECHANISMS 2011; 1809:459-68. [PMID: 21515434 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2011.03.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 185] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2011] [Revised: 03/25/2011] [Accepted: 03/31/2011] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Interest in transgenerational epigenetic inheritance has intensified with the boosting of knowledge on epigenetic mechanisms regulating gene expression during development and in response to internal and external signals such as biotic and abiotic stresses. Starting with an historical background of scantily documented anecdotes and their consequences, we recapitulate the information gathered during the last 60 years on naturally occurring and induced epialleles and paramutations in plants. We present the major players of epigenetic regulation and their importance in controlling stress responses. The effect of diverse stressors on the epigenetic status and its transgenerational inheritance is summarized from a mechanistic viewpoint. The consequences of transgenerational epigenetic inheritance are presented, focusing on the knowledge about its stability, and in relation to genetically fixed mutations, recombination, and genomic rearrangement. We conclude with an outlook on the importance of transgenerational inheritance for adaptation to changing environments and for practical applications. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled "Epigenetic control of cellular and developmental processes in plants".
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- Marie-Theres Hauser
- Department of Applied Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Muthgasse 18, Austria
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Phenotypic and genetic differences in a perennial herb across a natural gradient of CO2 concentration. Oecologia 2011; 165:809-18. [DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1900-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2010] [Accepted: 12/23/2010] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Yakovlev IA, Asante DKA, Fossdal CG, Junttila O, Johnsen Ø. Differential gene expression related to an epigenetic memory affecting climatic adaptation in Norway spruce. PLANT SCIENCE : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PLANT BIOLOGY 2011; 180:132-9. [PMID: 21421355 DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2010.07.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2010] [Revised: 06/24/2010] [Accepted: 07/06/2010] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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In Norway spruce, the temperature during zygotic embryogenesis appears to adjust an adaptive epigenetic memory in the progeny that may regulate bud phenology and cold acclimation. Conditions colder than normal advance the timing whilst temperatures above normal delay the onset of these processes and altered performance is long lasting in progeny with identical genetic background. As a step toward unraveling the molecular mechanism behind an epigenetic memory, transcriptional analysis was performed on seedlings from seeds of six full-sib families produced at different embryogenesis temperature-cold (CE) vs warm (WE) under long and short day conditions. We prepared two suppressive subtracted cDNA libraries, forward and reverse, representing genes predominantly expressed in plants from seeds obtained after CE and WE embryogenesis following short day treatment (inducing bud set). Sequencing and annotation revealed considerable differences in the transcriptome of WE versus CE originated plants. By using qRT-PCR we studied the expression patterns of 32 selected candidate genes chosen from subtractive cDNA libraries analysis and nine siRNA pathways genes by a direct candidate approach. Eight genes, two transposons related genes, three with no match to Databases sequences and three genes from siRNA pathways (PaDCL1 and 2, PaSGS3) showed differential expression in progeny from CE and WE correlated with the family phenotypic differences. These findings may contribute to our understanding of the epigenetic mechanisms underlying adaptive changes acquired during embryogenesis.
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- Igor A Yakovlev
- Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute, Hogskoleveien 8, P.O. Box 115, N-1431 Ås, Norway.
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Gao L, Geng Y, Li B, Chen J, Yang J. Genome-wide DNA methylation alterations of Alternanthera philoxeroides in natural and manipulated habitats: implications for epigenetic regulation of rapid responses to environmental fluctuation and phenotypic variation. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2010; 33:1820-7. [PMID: 20545886 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2010.02186.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Alternanthera philoxeroides (alligator weed) is an invasive weed that can colonize both aquatic and terrestrial habitats. Individuals growing in different habitats exhibit extensive phenotypic variation but little genetic differentiation in its introduced range. The mechanisms underpinning the wide range of phenotypic variation and rapid adaptation to novel and changing environments remain uncharacterized. In this study, we examined the epigenetic variation and its correlation with phenotypic variation in plants exposed to natural and manipulated environmental variability. Genome-wide methylation profiling using methylation-sensitive amplified fragment length polymorphism (MSAP) revealed considerable DNA methylation polymorphisms within and between natural populations. Plants of different source populations not only underwent significant morphological changes in common garden environments, but also underwent a genome-wide epigenetic reprogramming in response to different treatments. Methylation alterations associated with response to different water availability were detected in 78.2% (169/216) of common garden induced polymorphic sites, demonstrating the environmental sensitivity and flexibility of the epigenetic regulatory system. These data provide evidence of the correlation between epigenetic reprogramming and the reversible phenotypic response of alligator weed to particular environmental factors.
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- Lexuan Gao
- Center for Evolutionary Biology and Institute of Biodiversity Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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