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Jousson A, Naciri Y, Christe C, Marazzi B, Stauffer F. Not just females and males: Unravelling the complex sex determinism of the hemp palm, Trachycarpus fortunei. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY 2023; 110:e16257. [PMID: 38014995 DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.16257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2023] [Revised: 10/18/2023] [Accepted: 10/18/2023] [Indexed: 11/29/2023]
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PREMISE The ornamental Asian palm Trachycarpus fortunei (Arecaceae: Coryphoideae) is widely planted in temperate regions. In Europe, it has spread outside of gardens, particularly on the southern side of the Alps. Sexual expression in the species is complex, varying from dioecy to polygamy. This study investigated (1) sexual floral development and (2) genetic markers implicated in sex determinism. METHODS The morphology and anatomy of floral organs at different developmental stages were studied using SEM observations and anatomical section. Sex determinism was explored using a genome-wide association study approach, searching for correlations between 31,000 single-nucleotide polymorphisms and sex affiliation of 122 palms from 21 wild populations. RESULTS We observed that sexual differentiation appears late in floral development of T. fortunei. Morpho-anatomical characters of flowers conducive to panmixia were observed, such as well-differentiated septal nectaries that are thought to promote cross-pollination. At the molecular level, homozygous and heterozygous allelic systems with closely linked regions were found for sex determinism in individuals with female and "dominant-male" phenotypes, respectively. Through our wide sampling in the southern Alps, the closely linked genetic regions in males suggest that at least fifteen percent of wild palms are the direct offspring of "males" that can also produce fertile pistillate flowers. CONCLUSIONS Trachycarpus fortunei is a further example of unstable sexual expression found in the family Arecaceae and represents an evolutionary path towards an XY genetic system. Our structural and genetic results may explain the high species dispersal ability in the southern Alps.
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- Antoine Jousson
- PhyloLab and MorphoLab, Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques de Genève, Chemin de l'Impératrice 1, 1292, Chambésy, Geneva, Switzerland
- Departement of Plant Sciences, Université de Genève, Chemin de l'Impératrice 1, 1292, Chambésy, Geneva, Switzerland
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- PhyloLab and MorphoLab, Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques de Genève, Chemin de l'Impératrice 1, 1292, Chambésy, Geneva, Switzerland
- Departement of Plant Sciences, Université de Genève, Chemin de l'Impératrice 1, 1292, Chambésy, Geneva, Switzerland
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- PhyloLab and MorphoLab, Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques de Genève, Chemin de l'Impératrice 1, 1292, Chambésy, Geneva, Switzerland
- Departement of Plant Sciences, Université de Genève, Chemin de l'Impératrice 1, 1292, Chambésy, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Natural History Museum of Canton Ticino, Viale C. Cattaneo 4, 6900, Lugano, Switzerland
- InfoFlora C/O Natural History Museum of Canton Ticino, Viale C. Cattaneo 4, Lugano, 6900, Switzerland
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- PhyloLab and MorphoLab, Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques de Genève, Chemin de l'Impératrice 1, 1292, Chambésy, Geneva, Switzerland
- Departement of Plant Sciences, Université de Genève, Chemin de l'Impératrice 1, 1292, Chambésy, Geneva, Switzerland
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Torres MF, Mohamoud YA, Younuskunju S, Suhre K, Malek JA. Evidence of Recombination Suppression Blocks on the Y Chromosome of Date Palm ( Phoenix dactylifera). FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2021; 12:634901. [PMID: 33959137 PMCID: PMC8093805 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.634901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2020] [Accepted: 03/29/2021] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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The genus Phoenix includes the fruit producing date palm tree among 14 species that are all dioecious. Females produce the fruit that are high in sugar content and used in multiple countries ranging from North Africa to South Asia, especially from the Phoenix dactylifera, Phoenix sylvestris, and Phoenix canariensis species. While females produce the fruit, understanding of the genetic basis of sex control only began recently. Through genus-wide sequencing of males and females we recently identified three genes that are conserved in all males and absent in all females of the genus and confirmed an XY sex chromosome system. While our previous study focused on conservation of male-specific sequences at the genus-level, it would be of interest to better understand the spread of male-specific sequences away from the core conserved male genes on the Y chromosome during speciation. To this end, we enumerated male-specific 16 bp sequences using three male/female pairs from the western subpopulation of date palm and documented the density of these sequences in contigs of a phased date palm genome assembly. Here we show that male specific sequences in the date palm Y chromosome have likely spread in defined events that appear as blocks of varying density with significant changes in density between them. Collinearity of genes in these blocks with oil palm shows high synteny with chromosome 10 between megabase 15 and 23 and reveals that large sections of the date palm Y chromosome have maintained the ancestral structure even as recombination has stopped between X and Y.
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- Maria F. Torres
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Department of Physiology, Weill Cornell Medicine in Qatar, Doha, Qatar
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- Genomics Laboratory, Weill Cornell Medicine in Qatar, Doha, Qatar
- Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine in Qatar, Doha, Qatar
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Khan AL, Al-Harrasi A, Numan M, AbdulKareem NM, Mabood F, Al-Rawahi A. Spectroscopic and Molecular Methods to Differentiate Gender in Immature Date Palm ( Phoenix dactylifera L.). PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2021; 10:536. [PMID: 33809251 PMCID: PMC8001243 DOI: 10.3390/plants10030536] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2021] [Revised: 03/05/2021] [Accepted: 03/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Phoenix dactylifera (date palm) is a well-known nutritious and economically important fruit tree found in arid regions of the Middle East and North Africa. Being diploid, it has extremely high divergence in gender, where sex differentiation in immature date palms (Phoenix dactylifera L.) has remained an enigma in recent years. Herein, new robust infrared (near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) and Fourier transform infrared attenuated total reflectance (FTIR/ATR)) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy methods coupled with extensive chemometric analysis were used to identify the sex differentiation in immature date palm leaves. NIRS/FTIR reflectance and 1H-NMR profiling suggested that the signals of monosaccharides (glucose and fructose) and/or disaccharides (maltose and sucrose) play key roles in sex differentiation. The three kinds of spectroscopic data were clearly differentiated among known and unknown male and female leaves via principal component and partial least square discriminant analyses. Furthermore, sex-specific genes and molecular markers obtained from the lower halves of LG12 chromosomes showed enhanced transcript accumulation of mPdIRDP52, mPdIRDP50, and PDK101 in females compared with in males. The phylogeny showed that the mPdIRD033, mPdIRD031, and mPdCIR032 markers formed distinctive clades with more than 70% similarity in gender differentiation. The three robust analyses provide an alternative tool to differentiate sex in date palm trees, which offers a solution to the long-standing challenge of dioecism and could enhance in situ tree propagation programs.
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- Abdul Latif Khan
- Natural & Medical Sciences Research Center, University of Nizwa, Nizwa 616, Oman; (A.L.K.); (N.M.A.); (A.A.-R.)
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- Natural & Medical Sciences Research Center, University of Nizwa, Nizwa 616, Oman; (A.L.K.); (N.M.A.); (A.A.-R.)
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- Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC 27402-6170, USA;
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- Natural & Medical Sciences Research Center, University of Nizwa, Nizwa 616, Oman; (A.L.K.); (N.M.A.); (A.A.-R.)
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- Institute of Chemical Sciences, University of Swat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 19200, Pakistan
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- Natural & Medical Sciences Research Center, University of Nizwa, Nizwa 616, Oman; (A.L.K.); (N.M.A.); (A.A.-R.)
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Kiełkowska A, Dziurka M. Changes in polyamine pattern mediates sex differentiation and unisexual flower development in monoecious cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.). PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM 2021; 171:48-65. [PMID: 32840866 DOI: 10.1111/ppl.13197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2020] [Revised: 08/11/2020] [Accepted: 08/19/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Changes in the levels of polyamines are associated with fundamental physiological processes such as embryogenesis, induction of flowering, fruit development and ripening, senescence, and responses to environmental stresses, but the role of polyamines in sex differentiation and unisexual flower development has not been deeply studied. To extend the knowledge on the regulatory mechanisms of flowering in monoecious plant (producing unisexual flowers), we investigated the morphogenesis and free polyamine levels in Cucumis sativus during sex differentiation and unisexual flower development in vitro using histocytological and biochemical methods. As shown in our study, floral development in vitro was undisturbed and flowers of both sexes were produced. Sex differentiation relied on preventing the development of generative organs of the opposite sex, as we observed carpel repression in male flowers and stamen repression in female flowers. Pollen viability was negatively correlated with female flower development on the same node. Biochemical analysis revealed increased accumulation of aliphatic amines (tri, tetra-amines) in generative (flower buds and flowers) compare to vegetative (axillary buds and leaves) organs. Undifferentiated floral buds contained elevated levels of agmatine, cadaverine, spermidine and spermine. Sex differentiation was associated with significantly decreased levels of agmatine and cadaverine. Our results showed that female flowers contained higher levels of total polyamine than male flowers. The increased level of cadaverine was associated with macrogametogenesis and female flower maturation. Putrescine was important for male flower development. Such results support the hypothesis that aliphatic amines are involved in unisexual flower development.
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- Agnieszka Kiełkowska
- Department of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Horticulture, University of Agriculture in Krakow, Krakow, 31-425, Poland
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- Polish Academy of Sciences, The Franciszek Górski Institute of Plant Physiology, Krakow, 30-239, Poland
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Hernández-Cruz R, Silva-Martínez J, García-Campusano F, Cruz-García F, Orozco-Arroyo G, Alfaro I, Vázquez-Santana S. Comparative development of staminate and pistillate flowers in the dioecious cactus Opuntia robusta. PLANT REPRODUCTION 2019; 32:257-273. [PMID: 30852671 DOI: 10.1007/s00497-019-00365-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2018] [Accepted: 02/05/2019] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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PCD role in unisexual flowers. The developmental processes underlying the transition from hermaphroditism to unisexuality are key to understanding variation and evolution of floral structure and function. A detailed examination of the cytological and histological patterns involved in pollen and ovule development of staminate and pistillate flowers in the dioecious Opuntia robusta was undertaken, and the potential involvement of programmed cell death in the abortion of the sex whorls was explored. Flowers initiated development as hermaphrodites and became functionally unisexual by anthesis. Female individuals have pistillate flowers with a conspicuous stigma, functional ovary, collapsed stamens and no pollen grains. Male individuals have staminate flowers, with large yellow anthers, abundant pollen grains, underdeveloped stigma, style and an ovary that rarely produced ovules. In pistillate flowers, anther abortion resulted from the premature degradation of the tapetum by PCD, followed by irregular deposition of callose wall around the microsporocytes, and finally by microspore degradation. In staminate flowers, the stigma could support pollen germination; however, the ovaries were reduced, with evidence of placental arrest and ovule abortion through PCD, when ovules were present. We demonstrate that PCD is recruited in both pistillate and staminate flower development; however, it occurs at different times of floral development. This study contributes to the understanding of the nature of the O. robusta breeding system and identifies developmental landmarks that contribute to sexual determination in Cactaceae.
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- Rocío Hernández-Cruz
- Laboratorio de Desarrollo en Plantas, Departamento de Biología Comparada, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, 04510, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Desarrollo en Plantas, Departamento de Biología Comparada, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, 04510, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agrícolas y Pecuarias, CENID-COMEF, 04010, Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Departamento de Bioquímica, Facultad de Química, UNAM, Conjunto E, 04510, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Desarrollo en Plantas, Departamento de Biología Comparada, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, 04510, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Desarrollo en Plantas, Departamento de Biología Comparada, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, 04510, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Desarrollo en Plantas, Departamento de Biología Comparada, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, 04510, Mexico City, Mexico.
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Masmoudi-Allouche F, Kriaa W, Drira N. Staminodes evolution and in vitro development innovation in date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.). C R Biol 2019; 342:220-229. [PMID: 31400945 DOI: 10.1016/j.crvi.2019.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2019] [Revised: 05/24/2019] [Accepted: 06/01/2019] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The in vitro cultivation of date palm staminodes (vestigial stamens) at different stages of female floral ontogenesis confirms the persistence at an immature state of such organs at all the floral differentiation stages. This is evidenced even in fully mature female flowers. Our study revealed the advanced developmental patterns of these rudimentary structures, which bear diverse morphogenetic potentialities. In vitro cultivation of staminodes provides new opportunities for in vitro regeneration of date palm. Such developmental processes were found to be modulated by the stage of floral differentiation, which closely reflected the level of staminode maturity. Development was also impacted by the composition and concentration in plant growth regulators (NAA, BAP and 2,4-D) of the culture media. The large morphogenetic plasticity of the staminodes disposed them to evolutionary variations of the date palm reproduction system. The practical benefits (micropropagation) and the fundamental interests (evolutionary process) of our investigation are discussed.
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- Faïza Masmoudi-Allouche
- Laboratory of Plant Biotechnology, Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Sciences of Sfax, University of Sfax, BP 1171, Sfax 3000, Tunisia.
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- Environmental Science Center, Qatar University, P.O. Box: 2713, Doha, Qatar
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- Laboratory of Plant Biotechnology, Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Sciences of Sfax, University of Sfax, BP 1171, Sfax 3000, Tunisia
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Genus-wide sequencing supports a two-locus model for sex-determination in Phoenix. Nat Commun 2018; 9:3969. [PMID: 30266991 PMCID: PMC6162277 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-06375-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2017] [Accepted: 09/03/2018] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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The date palm tree is a commercially important member of the genus Phoenix whose 14 species are dioecious with separate male and female individuals. To identify sex determining genes we sequenced the genomes of 15 female and 13 male Phoenix trees representing all 14 species. We identified male-specific sequences and extended them using phased single-molecule sequencing or BAC clones. We observed that only four genes contained sequences conserved in all analyzed Phoenix males. Most of these sequences showed similarity to a single genomic locus in the closely related monoecious oil palm. CYP703 and GPAT3, two single copy genes present in males and critical for male flower development in other monocots, were absent in females. A LOG-like gene appears translocated into the Y-linked region and is suggested to play a role in suppressing female flowers. Our data are consistent with a two-mutation model for the evolution of dioecy in Phoenix. The origin and evolution of separate sexes in plants are long-standing questions. Here, the authors use genus-wide sequencing to identify sex determining candidate genes in the genus Phoenix and demonstrate the consistence with the previously proposed two-mutation model.
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Awan FS, Jaskani MJ, Sadia B. Gender Identification in Date Palm Using Molecular Markers. Methods Mol Biol 2017; 1638:209-225. [PMID: 28755226 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-7159-6_18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/22/2023]
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Breeding of date palm is complicated because of its long life cycle and heterozygous nature. Sexual propagation of date palm does not produce true-to-type plants. Sex of date palms cannot be identified until the first flowering stage. Molecular markers such as random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD), sequence-characterized amplified regions (SCAR), and simple sequence repeats (SSR) have successfully been used to identify the sex-linked loci in the plant genome and to isolate the corresponding genes. This chapter highlights the use of three molecular markers including RAPD, SCAR, and SSR to identify the gender of date palm seedlings.
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- Faisal Saeed Awan
- Center of Agricultural Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, 3804, Pakistan.
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- Institute of Horticultural Sciences, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, 38040, Pakistan
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- U.S.-Pakistan Center for Advanced Studies in Agriculture and Food Security (USPCAS-AFS), University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan
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Mao Y, Liu W, Chen X, Xu Y, Lu W, Hou J, Ni J, Wang Y, Wu L. Flower Development and Sex Determination between Male and Female Flowers in Vernicia fordii. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2017; 8:1291. [PMID: 28775735 PMCID: PMC5517574 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.01291] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2017] [Accepted: 07/07/2017] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Vernicia fordii is a monoecious and diclinous species with male and female flowers on the same inflorescence. Low female to male flower ratio is one of the main reasons for low yield in this species. However, little is known of its floral development and sex determination. Here, according to the results of scanning electron microscopy and histological analysis, the floral development of V. fordii was divided into 12 stages and the first morphological divergence between the male and female flowers was found to occur at stage 7. The male flowers are always unisexual, but the female flowers present bisexual characteristics, with sterile stamen (staminode) restricted to pre-meiosis of mother sporogenous cells and cell death occurring at later development stages. To further elucidate the molecular mechanism underling sex determination at the divergence stage for male and female flowers, comparative transcriptome analysis was performed. In total, 56,065 unigenes were generated and 608 genes were differentially expressed between male and female flowers, among which 310 and 298 DEGs (differentially expressed genes) showed high expression levels in males and females, respectively. The transcriptome data showed that the sexual dimorphism of female flowers was affected by jasmonic acid, transcription factors, and some genes related to the floral meristem activity. Ten candidate genes showed consistent expression in the qRT-PCR validation and DEGs data. In this study, we provide developmental characterization and transcriptomic information for better understanding of the development of unisexual flowers and the regulatory networks underlying the mechanism of sex determination in V. fordii, which would be helpful in the molecular breeding of V. fordii to improve the yield output.
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- Yingji Mao
- Key Laboratory of Ion Beam Bioengineering, Institute of Technical biology and Agriculture Engineering, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of SciencesHefei, China
- School of Life Science, University of Science and Technology of ChinaHefei, China
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- Key Laboratory of Ion Beam Bioengineering, Institute of Technical biology and Agriculture Engineering, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of SciencesHefei, China
- School of Life Science, University of Science and Technology of ChinaHefei, China
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- Key Laboratory of Ion Beam Bioengineering, Institute of Technical biology and Agriculture Engineering, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of SciencesHefei, China
- School of Life Science, University of Science and Technology of ChinaHefei, China
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- Biotechnology Center, Anhui Agriculture UniversityHefei, China
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- Key Laboratory of Ion Beam Bioengineering, Institute of Technical biology and Agriculture Engineering, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of SciencesHefei, China
- School of Life Science, University of Science and Technology of ChinaHefei, China
- School of Pharmacy, Anhui Medical UniversityHefei, China
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- Key Laboratory of Ion Beam Bioengineering, Institute of Technical biology and Agriculture Engineering, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of SciencesHefei, China
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- Key Laboratory of Ion Beam Bioengineering, Institute of Technical biology and Agriculture Engineering, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of SciencesHefei, China
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- Key Laboratory of Ion Beam Bioengineering, Institute of Technical biology and Agriculture Engineering, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of SciencesHefei, China
- School of Life Science, University of Science and Technology of ChinaHefei, China
- The Sericultural Research Institute, Anhui Academy of Agricultural ScienceHefei, China
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- Key Laboratory of Ion Beam Bioengineering, Institute of Technical biology and Agriculture Engineering, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of SciencesHefei, China
- School of Life Science, University of Science and Technology of ChinaHefei, China
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The Discovery of Wild Date Palms in Oman Reveals a Complex Domestication History Involving Centers in the Middle East and Africa. Curr Biol 2017; 27:2211-2218.e8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.06.045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2017] [Revised: 05/10/2017] [Accepted: 06/19/2017] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Li W, Zhang L, Ding Z, Wang G, Zhang Y, Gong H, Chang T, Zhang Y. De novo sequencing and comparative transcriptome analysis of the male and hermaphroditic flowers provide insights into the regulation of flower formation in andromonoecious taihangia rupestris. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2017; 17:54. [PMID: 28241786 PMCID: PMC5329940 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-017-0990-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2016] [Accepted: 01/31/2017] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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BACKGROUND Taihangia rupestris, an andromonoecious plant species, bears both male and hermaphroditic flowers within the same individual. However, the establishment and development of male and hermaphroditic flowers in andromonoecious Taihangia remain poorly understood, due to the limited genetic and sequence information. To investigate the potential molecular mechanism in the regulation of Taihangia flower formation, we used de novo RNA sequencing to compare the transcriptome profiles of male and hermaphroditic flowers at early and late developmental stages. RESULTS Four cDNA libraries, including male floral bud, hermaphroditic floral bud, male flower, and hermaphroditic flower, were constructed and sequenced by using the Illumina RNA-Seq method. Totally, 84,596,426 qualified Illumina reads were obtained and then assembled into 59,064 unigenes, of which 24,753 unigenes were annotated in the NCBI non-redundant protein database. In addition, 12,214, 7,153, and 8,115 unigenes were assigned into 53 Gene Ontology (GO) functional groups, 25 Clusters of Orthologous Group (COG) categories, and 126 Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathways, respectively. By pairwise comparison of unigene abundance between the samples, we identified 1,668 differential expressed genes (DEGs), including 176 transcription factors (TFs) between the male and hermaphroditic flowers. At the early developmental stage, we found 263 up-regulated genes and 436 down-regulated genes expressed in hermaphroditic floral buds, while 844 up-regulated genes and 314 down-regulated genes were detected in hermaphroditic flowers at the late developmental stage. GO and KEGG enrichment analyses showed that a large number of DEGs were associated with a wide range of functions, including cell cycle, epigenetic processes, flower development, and biosynthesis of unsaturated fatty acid pathway. Finally, real-time quantitative PCR was conducted to validate the DEGs identified in the present study. CONCLUSION In this study, transcriptome data of this rare andromonoecious Taihangia were reported for the first time. Comparative transcriptome analysis revealed the significant differences in gene expression profiles between male and hermaphroditic flowers at early and late developmental stages. The transcriptome data of Taihangia would be helpful to improve the understanding of the underlying molecular mechanisms in regulation of flower formation and unisexual flower establishment in andromonoecious plants.
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- Weiguo Li
- College of Life Science, Changchun Normal University, Changchun, 130032 Jilin China
- College of Resource and Environment, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo, 454000 Henan China
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- College of Life Science, Changchun Normal University, Changchun, 130032 Jilin China
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- College of Resource and Environment, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo, 454000 Henan China
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- College of Resource and Environment, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo, 454000 Henan China
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- College of Resource and Environment, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo, 454000 Henan China
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- College of Resource and Environment, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo, 454000 Henan China
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- College of Resource and Environment, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo, 454000 Henan China
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- College of Life Science, Changchun Normal University, Changchun, 130032 Jilin China
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Kawamoto H, Yamanaka K, Koizumi A, Hirata A, Kawano S. Cell Death and Cell Cycle Arrest of Silene latifolia Stamens and Pistils After Microbotryum lychnidis-dioicae Infection. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2017; 58:320-328. [PMID: 28011871 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcw193] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2016] [Accepted: 11/04/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Mechanisms of suppression of pistil primordia in male flowers and of stamen primordia in female flowers differ in diclinous plants. In this study, we investigated how cell death and cell cycle arrest are related to flower organ formation in Silene latifolia. Using in situ hybridization and a TUNEL (terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase dUTP nick end labeling) assay, we detected both cell cycle arrest and cell death in suppressed stamens of female flowers and suppressed pistils of male flowers in S. latifolia. In female flowers infected with Microbotryum lychnidis-dioicae, developmental suppression of stamens is released, and cell cycle arrest and cell death do not occur. Smut spores are formed in S. latifolia anthers infected with M. lychnidis-dioicae, followed by cell death in the endothelium, middle layer, tapetal cells and pollen mother cells. Cell death is difficult to detect using a fluorescein isothiocyanate-labeled TUNEL assay due to strong autofluorescence in the anther. We therefore combined a TUNEL assay in an infrared region with transmission electron microscopy to detect cell death in anthers. We show that following infection by M. lychnidis-dioicae, a TUNEL signal was not detected in the endothelium, middle layer or pollen mother cells, and cell death with outflow of cell contents, including the nucleoplast, was observed in tapetal cells.
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- Hiroki Kawamoto
- Department of Integrated Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
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- Bioscience and Biotechnology Center, Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya, Japan
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- Department of Health and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Yoshida Konoe, Sakyo, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Geriatric Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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- Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Yaeyama Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Promotion Center, Maezato, Ishigaki, Okinawa, Japan
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Li Q, Liu B. Genetic regulation of maize flower development and sex determination. PLANTA 2017; 245:1-14. [PMID: 27770199 DOI: 10.1007/s00425-016-2607-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2016] [Accepted: 10/14/2016] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The determining process of pistil fate are central to maize sex determination, mainly regulated by a genetic network in which the sex-determining genes SILKLESS 1 , TASSEL SEED 1 , TASSEL SEED 2 and the paramutagenic locus Required to maintain repression 6 play pivotal roles. Maize silks, which emerge from the ear shoot and derived from the pistil, are the functional stigmas of female flowers and play a pivotal role in pollination. Previous studies on sex-related mutants have revealed that sex-determining genes and phytohormones play an important role in the regulation of flower organogenesis. The processes determining pistil fate are central to flower development, where a silk identified gene SILKLESS 1 (SK1) is required to protect pistil primordia from a cell death signal produced by two commonly known genes, TASSEL SEED 1 (TS1) and TASSEL SEED 2 (TS2). In this review, maize flower developmental process is presented together with a focus on important sex-determining mutants and hormonal signaling affecting pistil development. The role of sex-determining genes, microRNAs, phytohormones, and the paramutagenic locus Required to maintain repression 6 (Rmr6), in forming a regulatory network that determines pistil fate, is discussed. Cloning SK1 and clarifying its function were crucial in understanding the regulation network of sex determination. The signaling mechanisms of phytohormones in sex determination are also an important research focus.
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- Qinglin Li
- College of Agronomy/State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, Shandong Agricultural University, Daizong Road No. 61, Taian, 271018, Shandong, China.
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- College of Agronomy/State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, Shandong Agricultural University, Daizong Road No. 61, Taian, 271018, Shandong, China.
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Maryam, Jaskani MJ, Awan FS, Ahmad S, Khan IA. Development of molecular method for sex identification in date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) plantlets using novel sex-linked microsatellite markers. 3 Biotech 2016; 6:22. [PMID: 28330092 PMCID: PMC4706835 DOI: 10.1007/s13205-015-0321-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2015] [Accepted: 06/13/2015] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Microsatellite markers containing simple sequence repeats (SSRs) are a valuable tool for genetic analysis. Date palm is a dioecious and slow flowering and is very difficult to identify the gender of the trees until it reaches the reproductive age (5–10 years). A total of 12 microsatellite primers were used with 30 date palm samples, 14 parents (8 male + 6 females) and 16 progeny (developed from parents breeding) which showed that microsatellites were highly polymorphic, having a great number of alleles. A total of 124 alleles were characterized in 12 SSR loci. On average, there are 9.08 alleles per locus, with a range from 5 to 16 alleles, for primers mpdCIR15 and mpdCIR57, respectively. These primers produced 15 polymorphic loci specifically in male date palm samples and the seedlings harboring the unique fragments were further characterized as male plants. Increasingly, 38.46 % of these loci were scored as homozygous alleles while 61.53 % heterozygous allelic loci were determined. Primer mpdCIR48 produced a specific locus (250/250) in all male samples whereas the same locus was absent in female samples. Similarly, a locus of 300/310 bp reoccurred in 5 date palm male samples using marker DP-168 which indicated that these are the promising candidate marker to detect the sex in date palm seedlings at early stage. The data resulted from combination of 12 primers enabled the 16 seedling samples progeny (developed from parents breeding) of date palm cultivars to divide into two groups i.e., male and female regarding their sex expression comparative to the parents (male + female) using the principle coordinate analysis.
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Cherif E, Zehdi-Azouzi S, Crabos A, Castillo K, Chabrillange N, Pintaud JC, Salhi-Hannachi A, Glémin S, Aberlenc-Bertossi F. Evolution of sex chromosomes prior to speciation in the dioecious Phoenix
species. J Evol Biol 2016; 29:1513-22. [DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12887] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2015] [Accepted: 04/18/2016] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- E. Cherif
- IRD/CIRAD F2F-palm group; UMR DIADE; Centre IRD; Montpellier France
- Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire, Immunologie et Biotechnologie; Faculté des sciences de Tunis; Université Tunis El Manar; El Manar Tunisia
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- Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire, Immunologie et Biotechnologie; Faculté des sciences de Tunis; Université Tunis El Manar; El Manar Tunisia
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- IRD/CIRAD F2F-palm group; UMR DIADE; Centre IRD; Montpellier France
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- IRD/CIRAD F2F-palm group; UMR DIADE; Centre IRD; Montpellier France
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- IRD/CIRAD F2F-palm group; UMR DIADE; Centre IRD; Montpellier France
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- Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire, Immunologie et Biotechnologie; Faculté des sciences de Tunis; Université Tunis El Manar; El Manar Tunisia
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- Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier; Unité Mixte de Recherche 5554 (Université de Montpellier-CNRS-IRD-EPHE); Montpellier France
- Department of Ecology and Genetics; Evolutionary Biology Centre; Uppsala University; Uppsala Sweden
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Castaño F, Stauffer F, Marquinez X, Crèvecoeur M, Collin M, Pintaud JC, Tregear J. Floral structure and development in the monoecious palm Gaussia attenuata (Arecaceae; Arecoideae). ANNALS OF BOTANY 2014; 114:1483-95. [PMID: 25006179 PMCID: PMC4204787 DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcu133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2014] [Accepted: 05/13/2014] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS Sexual dimorphism, at both the flower and plant level, is widespread in the palm family (Arecaceae), in contrast to the situation in angiosperms as a whole. The tribe Chamaedoreeae is of special interest for studies of the evolution of sexual expression since dioecy appears to have evolved independently twice in this group from a monoecious ancestor. In order to understand the underlying evolutionary pathways, it is important to obtain detailed information on flower structure and development in each of the main clades. METHODS Dissection and light and scanning electron microscopy were performed on developing flowers of Gaussia attenuata, a neotropical species belonging to one of the three monoecious genera of the tribe. KEY RESULTS Like species of the other monoecious genera of the Chamaedoreeae (namely Hyophorbe and Synechanthus), G. attenuata produces a bisexual flower cluster known as an acervulus, consisting of a row of male flowers with a basal female flower. Whereas the sterile androecium of female flowers terminated its development at an early stage of floral ontogeny, the pistillode of male flowers was large in size but with no recognizable ovule, developing for a longer period of time. Conspicuous nectary differentiation in the pistillode suggested a possible role in pollinator attraction. CONCLUSIONS Gaussia attenuata displays a number of floral characters that are likely to be ancestral to the tribe, notably the acervulus flower cluster, which is conserved in the other monoecious genera and also (albeit in a unisexual male form) in the dioecious genera (Wendlandiella and a few species of Chamaedorea). Comparison with earlier data from other genera suggests that large nectariferous pistillodes and early arrest in staminode development might also be regarded as ancestral characters in this tribe.
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- Felipe Castaño
- UMR DIADE, Palm Developmental Biology Group, Centre IRD Montpellier, BP 64501, 911, avenue Agropolis, 34394 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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- Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques de la Ville de Genève, Université de Genève, laboratoire de systématique végétale et biodiversité, CP 60, CH-1292 Chambésy/GE, Switzerland
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- Departamento de Biología, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede Bogotá, Carrera 30 45-03, Edificio 421, Colombia
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- Université de Genève, Faculté des Sciences, Département de Botanique et Biologie Végétale, quai Ernest Ansermet 30, 1211 Genève 4, Switzerland
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- UMR DIADE, Palm Developmental Biology Group, Centre IRD Montpellier, BP 64501, 911, avenue Agropolis, 34394 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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- Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), UMR DIADE/DYNADIV, BP 64501, 34394 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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- UMR DIADE, Palm Developmental Biology Group, Centre IRD Montpellier, BP 64501, 911, avenue Agropolis, 34394 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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Cherif E, Zehdi S, Castillo K, Chabrillange N, Abdoulkader S, Pintaud JC, Santoni S, Salhi-Hannachi A, Glémin S, Aberlenc-Bertossi F. Male-specific DNA markers provide genetic evidence of an XY chromosome system, a recombination arrest and allow the tracing of paternal lineages in date palm. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2013; 197:409-415. [PMID: 23231423 DOI: 10.1111/nph.12069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2012] [Accepted: 10/23/2012] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Whether sex chromosomes are differentiated is an important aspect of our knowledge of dioecious plants, such as date palm (Phoenix dactylifera). In this crop plant, the female individuals produce dates, and are thus the more valuable sex. However, there is no way to identify the sex of date palm plants before reproductive age, and the sex-determining mechanism is still unclear. To identify sex-linked microsatellite markers, we surveyed a set of 52 male and 55 female genotypes representing the geographical diversity of the species. We found three genetically linked loci that are heterozygous only in males. Male-specific alleles allowed us to identify the gender in 100% of individuals. These results confirm the existence of an XY chromosomal system with a nonrecombining XY-like region in the date palm genome. The distribution of Y haplotypes in western and eastern haplogroups allowed us to trace two male ancestral paternal lineages that account for all known Y diversity in date palm. The very low diversity associated with Y haplotypes is consistent with clonal paternal transmission of a nonrecombining male-determining region. Our results establish the date palm as a biological model with one of the most ancient sex chromosomes in flowering plants.
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- Emira Cherif
- IRD/CIRAD Palm Developmental Biology Group, UMR DIADE, Centre IRD, 911 avenue Agropolis, 34394, Montpellier, France
- Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire, Immunologie et Biotechnologie, Faculté des sciences de Tunis, Université Tunis El Manar, Campus Universitaire, 2092, El Manar, Tunisia
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- Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire, Immunologie et Biotechnologie, Faculté des sciences de Tunis, Université Tunis El Manar, Campus Universitaire, 2092, El Manar, Tunisia
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- IRD/CIRAD Palm Developmental Biology Group, UMR DIADE, Centre IRD, 911 avenue Agropolis, 34394, Montpellier, France
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- IRD/CIRAD Palm Developmental Biology Group, UMR DIADE, Centre IRD, 911 avenue Agropolis, 34394, Montpellier, France
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- INRA, UMR 1334 Amélioration Génétique et Adaptation des Plantes (AGAP), 34398, Montpellier, France
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- Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire, Immunologie et Biotechnologie, Faculté des sciences de Tunis, Université Tunis El Manar, Campus Universitaire, 2092, El Manar, Tunisia
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- Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5554, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Montpellier 2, 34095, Montpellier, France
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- IRD/CIRAD Palm Developmental Biology Group, UMR DIADE, Centre IRD, 911 avenue Agropolis, 34394, Montpellier, France
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Multiple developmental processes underlie sex differentiation in angiosperms. Trends Genet 2012; 27:368-76. [PMID: 21962972 DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2011.05.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2011] [Revised: 05/03/2011] [Accepted: 05/04/2011] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The production of unisexual flowers has evolved numerous times in dioecious and monoecious plant taxa. Based on repeated evolutionary origins, a great variety of developmental and genetic mechanisms underlying unisexual flower development is predicted. Here, we comprehensively review the modes of development of unisexual flowers, test potential correlations with sexual system, and end with a synthesis of the genetics and hormonal regulation of plant sex determination. We find that the stage of organ abortion in male and female flowers is temporally correlated within species and also confirm that the arrest of development does not tend to occur preferentially at a particular stage, or via a common process.
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De novo genome sequencing and comparative genomics of date palm (Phoenix dactylifera). Nat Biotechnol 2011; 29:521-7. [PMID: 21623354 DOI: 10.1038/nbt.1860] [Citation(s) in RCA: 192] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2011] [Accepted: 03/29/2011] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Date palm is one of the most economically important woody crops cultivated in the Middle East and North Africa and is a good candidate for improving agricultural yields in arid environments. Nonetheless, long generation times (5-8 years) and dioecy (separate male and female trees) have complicated its cultivation and genetic analysis. To address these issues, we assembled a draft genome for a Khalas variety female date palm, the first publicly available resource of its type for a member of the order Arecales. The ∼380 Mb sequence, spanning mainly gene-rich regions, includes >25,000 gene models and is predicted to cover ∼90% of genes and ∼60% of the genome. Sequencing of eight other cultivars, including females of the Deglet Noor and Medjool varieties and their backcrossed males, identified >3.5 million polymorphic sites, including >10,000 genic copy number variations. A small subset of these polymorphisms can distinguish multiple varieties. We identified a region of the genome linked to gender and found evidence that date palm employs an XY system of gender inheritance.
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Adam H, Marguerettaz M, Qadri R, Adroher B, Richaud F, Collin M, Thuillet AC, Vigouroux Y, Laufs P, Tregear JW, Jouannic S. Divergent expression patterns of miR164 and CUP-SHAPED COTYLEDON genes in palms and other monocots: implication for the evolution of meristem function in angiosperms. Mol Biol Evol 2010; 28:1439-54. [PMID: 21135149 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msq328] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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In order to understand how the morphology of plant species has diversified over time, it is necessary to decipher how the underlying developmental programs have evolved. The regulatory network controlling shoot meristem activity is likely to have played an important role in morphological diversification and useful insights can be gained by comparing monocots and eudicots. These two distinct monophyletic groups of angiosperms diverged 130 Ma and are characterized by important differences in their morphology. Several studies of eudicot species have revealed a conserved role for NAM and CUC3 genes in meristem functioning and pattern formation through the definition of morphogenetic boundaries during development. In this study, we show that NAM- and CUC3-related genes are conserved in palms and grasses, their diversification having predated the radiation of monocots and eudicots. Moreover, the NAM-miR164 posttranscriptional regulatory module is also conserved in palm species. However, in contrast to the CUC3-related genes, which share a similar expression pattern between the two angiosperm groups, the expression domain of the NAM-miR164 module differs between monocot and eudicot species. In our studies of spatial expression patterns, we compared existing eudicot data with novel results from our work using two palm species (date palm and oil palm) and two members of the Poaceae (rice and millet). In addition to contrasting results obtained at the gene expression level, major differences were also observed between eudicot and monocot NAM-related genes in the occurrence of putative cis-regulatory elements in their promoter sequences. Overall, our results suggest that although NAM- and CUC3-related proteins are functionally equivalent between monocots and eudicots, evolutionary radiation has resulted in heterotopy through alterations in the expression domain of the NAM-miR164 regulatory module.
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- Hélène Adam
- IRD, UMR DIAPC, IRD/CIRAD Palm Development Group, Montpellier Cedex, France
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