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Zhan M, Xue L, Zhou JJ, Zhang Q, Qin XM, Liao XW, Wu L, Monro AK, Fu LF. Polyphyly of Boehmeria (Urticaceae) congruent with plastome structural variation. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2024; 15:1297499. [PMID: 39139721 PMCID: PMC11319286 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2024.1297499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2023] [Accepted: 07/08/2024] [Indexed: 08/15/2024]
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Boehmeria is a taxonomically challenging group within the nettle family (Urticaceae). The polyphyly of the genus has been proposed by previous studies with respect to five genera (Debregeasia, Cypholophus, Sarcochlamys, Archiboehmeria, and Astrothalamus). Extensive homoplasy of morphological characters has made generic delimitation problematic. Previous studies in other plant groups suggest that plastome structural variations have the potential to provide characters useful in reconstructing evolutionary relationships. We aimed to test this across Boehmeria and its allied genera by mapping plastome structural variations onto a resolved strongly supported phylogeny. In doing so, we expanded the sampling of the plastome to include Cypholophus, Sarcochlamys, Archiboehmeria, and Astrothalamus for the first time. The results of our phylogenomic analyses provide strong support for Sarcochlamys as being more closely related to Leucosyke puya than to Boehmeria and for the clustering of Boehmeria s.l. into four subclades. The sizes of the plastomes in Boehmeria s.l. ranged from 142,627 bp to 170,958 bp. The plastomes recovered a typical quadripartite structure comprising 127~146 genes. We observe several obvious structural variations across the taxa such as gene loss and multiple gene duplication, inverted repeat (IR) contraction and wide expansions, and inversions. Moreover, we recover a trend for these variations that the early clades were relatively conserved in evolution, whereas the later diverging clades were variable. We propose that the structural variations documented may be linked to the adaptation of Boehmeria s.l. to a wide range of habitats, from moist broadleaf forests in Asia to xeric shrublands and deserts in Africa. This study confirms that variation in plastome gene loss/duplication, IR contraction/expansion, and inversions can provide evidence useful for the reconstruction of evolutionary relationships.
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- Min Zhan
- College of Forestry, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha, China
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- College of Forestry, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha, China
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- Hunan Monitoring Center of Forest Resources and Ecological Environment, Hunan Prospecting Designing and Research General Institute for Agriculture Forestry and Industry, Changsha, China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Plant Conservation and Restoration Ecology in Karst Terrain, Guangxi Institute of Botany, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guilin, China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Plant Conservation and Restoration Ecology in Karst Terrain, Guangxi Institute of Botany, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guilin, China
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- College of Forestry, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha, China
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- College of Forestry, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha, China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Plant Conservation and Restoration Ecology in Karst Terrain, Guangxi Institute of Botany, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guilin, China
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Lubna, Asaf S, Khan I, Jan R, Asif S, Bilal S, Kim KM, Al-Harrasi A. Genetic characterization and phylogenetic analysis of the Nigella sativa (black seed) plastome. Sci Rep 2024; 14:14509. [PMID: 38914674 PMCID: PMC11196742 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-65073-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2024] [Accepted: 06/17/2024] [Indexed: 06/26/2024] Open
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In this study, the complete plastome sequence of Nigella sativa (black seed), was analyzed for the first time. The plastome spans approximately 154,120 bp, comprising four sections: the Large Single-Copy (LSC) (85,538 bp), the Small Single-Copy (SSC) (17,984 bp), and two Inverted Repeat (IR) regions (25,299 bp). A comparative study of N. sativa's plastome with ten other species from various genera in the Ranunculaceae family reveals substantial structural variations. The contraction of the inverted repeat region in N. sativa influences the boundaries of single-copy regions, resulting in a shorter plastome size than other species. When comparing the plastome of N. sativa with those of its related species, significant divergence is observed, particularly except for N. damascena. Among these, the plastome of A. glaucifolium displays the highest average pairwise sequence divergence (0.2851) with N. sativa, followed by A. raddeana (0.2290) and A. coerulea (0.1222). Furthermore, the study identified 12 distinct hotspot regions characterized by elevated Pi values (> 0.1). These regions include trnH-GUG-psbA, matK-trnQ-UUG, psbK-trnR-UCU, atpF-atpI, rpoB-psbD, ycf3-ndhJ, ndhC-cemA, petA-psaJ, trnN-GUU-ndhF, trnV-GAC-rps12, ycf2-trnI-CAU, and ndhA-ycf1. Approximately, 24 tandem and 48 palindromic and forward repeats were detected in N. sativa plastome. The analysis revealed 32 microsatellites with the majority being mononucleotide repeats. In the N. sativa plastome, phenylalanine had the highest number of codons (1982 codons), while alanine was the least common amino acid with 260 codons. A phylogenetic tree, constructed using protein-coding genes, revealed a distinct monophyletic clade comprising N. sativa and N. damascene, closely aligned with the Cimicifugeae tribe and exhibiting robust support. This plastome provides valuable genetic information for precise species identification, phylogenetic resolution, and evolutionary studies of N. sativa.
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- Lubna
- Natural and Medical Science Research Center, University of Nizwa, 616, Nizwa, Oman
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- Natural and Medical Science Research Center, University of Nizwa, 616, Nizwa, Oman.
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- Department of Applied Biosciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, 41566, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Applied Biosciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, 41566, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Applied Biosciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, 41566, Republic of Korea
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- Natural and Medical Science Research Center, University of Nizwa, 616, Nizwa, Oman
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- Department of Applied Biosciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, 41566, Republic of Korea.
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- Natural and Medical Science Research Center, University of Nizwa, 616, Nizwa, Oman.
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Yu Y, Wang X, Qu R, OuYang Z, Guo J, Zhao Y, Huang L. Extraction and analysis of high-quality chloroplast DNA with reduced nuclear DNA for medicinal plants. BMC Biotechnol 2024; 24:20. [PMID: 38637734 PMCID: PMC11025248 DOI: 10.1186/s12896-024-00843-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2023] [Accepted: 03/15/2024] [Indexed: 04/20/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Obtaining high-quality chloroplast genome sequences requires chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) samples that meet the sequencing requirements. The quality of extracted cpDNA directly impacts the efficiency and accuracy of sequencing analysis. Currently, there are no reported methods for extracting cpDNA from Erigeron breviscapus. Therefore, we developed a suitable method for extracting cpDNA from E. breviscapus and further verified its applicability to other medicinal plants. RESULTS We conducted a comparative analysis of chloroplast isolation and cpDNA extraction using modified high-salt low-pH method, the high-salt method, and the NaOH low-salt method, respectively. Subsequently, the number of cpDNA copies relative to the nuclear DNA (nDNA ) was quantified via qPCR. As anticipated, chloroplasts isolated from E. breviscapus using the modified high-salt low-pH method exhibited intact structures with minimal cell debris. Moreover, the concentration, purity, and quality of E. breviscapus cpDNA extracted through this method surpassed those obtained from the other two methods. Furthermore, qPCR analysis confirmed that the modified high-salt low-pH method effectively minimized nDNA contamination in the extracted cpDNA. We then applied the developed modified high-salt low-pH method to other medicinal plant species, including Mentha haplocalyx, Taraxacum mongolicum, and Portulaca oleracea. The resultant effect on chloroplast isolation and cpDNA extraction further validated the generalizability and efficacy of this method across different plant species. CONCLUSIONS The modified high-salt low-pH method represents a reliable approach for obtaining high-quality cpDNA from E. breviscapus. Its universal applicability establishes a solid foundation for chloroplast genome sequencing and analysis of this species. Moreover, it serves as a benchmark for developing similar methods to extract chloroplast genomes from other medicinal plants.
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- Yifan Yu
- State Key Laboratory for Quality Ensurance and Sustainable Use of Dao-di Herbs, National Resource Center for Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, 100700, Beijing, China
- School of Pharmacy, Jiangsu University, 212013, Zhenjiang, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Quality Ensurance and Sustainable Use of Dao-di Herbs, National Resource Center for Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, 100700, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Quality Ensurance and Sustainable Use of Dao-di Herbs, National Resource Center for Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, 100700, Beijing, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Jiangsu University, 212013, Zhenjiang, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Quality Ensurance and Sustainable Use of Dao-di Herbs, National Resource Center for Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, 100700, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Quality Ensurance and Sustainable Use of Dao-di Herbs, National Resource Center for Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, 100700, Beijing, China.
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- State Key Laboratory for Quality Ensurance and Sustainable Use of Dao-di Herbs, National Resource Center for Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, 100700, Beijing, China.
- School of Pharmacy, Jiangsu University, 212013, Zhenjiang, China.
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Cao J, Wang H, Cao Y, Kan S, Li J, Liu Y. Extreme Reconfiguration of Plastid Genomes in Papaveraceae: Rearrangements, Gene Loss, Pseudogenization, IR Expansion, and Repeats. Int J Mol Sci 2024; 25:2278. [PMID: 38396955 PMCID: PMC10888665 DOI: 10.3390/ijms25042278] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2024] [Revised: 02/08/2024] [Accepted: 02/10/2024] [Indexed: 02/25/2024] Open
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The plastid genomes (plastomes) of angiosperms are typically highly conserved, with extreme reconfiguration being uncommon, although reports of such events have emerged in some lineages. In this study, we conducted a comprehensive comparison of the complete plastomes from twenty-two species, covering seventeen genera from three subfamilies (Fumarioideae, Hypecooideae, and Papaveroideae) of Papaveraceae. Our results revealed a high level of variability in the plastid genome size of Papaveraceae, ranging from 151,864 bp to 219,144 bp in length, which might be triggered by the expansion of the IR region and a large number of repeat sequences. Moreover, we detected numerous large-scale rearrangements, primarily occurring in the plastomes of Fumarioideae and Hypecooideae. Frequent gene loss or pseudogenization were also observed for ndhs, accD, clpP, infA, rpl2, rpl20, rpl32, rps16, and several tRNA genes, particularly in Fumarioideae and Hypecooideae, which might be associated with the structural variation in their plastomes. Furthermore, we found that the plastomes of Fumarioideae exhibited a higher GC content and more repeat sequences than those of Papaveroideae. Our results showed that Papaveroideae generally displayed a relatively conserved plastome, with the exception of Eomecon chionantha, while Fumarioideae and Hypecooideae typically harbored highly reconfigurable plastomes, showing high variability in the genome size, gene content, and gene order. This study provides insights into the plastome evolution of Papaveraceae and may contribute to the development of effective molecular markers.
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- Jialiang Cao
- College of Plant Protection, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China; (J.C.); (H.W.); (Y.C.)
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- College of Plant Protection, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China; (J.C.); (H.W.); (Y.C.)
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- College of Plant Protection, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China; (J.C.); (H.W.); (Y.C.)
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- Marine College, Shandong University, Weihai 264209, China;
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- College of Life Sciences, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450046, China
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- College of Plant Protection, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China; (J.C.); (H.W.); (Y.C.)
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Bai MZ, Guo YY. Bioinformatics Analysis of MSH1 Genes of Green Plants: Multiple Parallel Length Expansions, Intron Gains and Losses, Partial Gene Duplications, and Alternative Splicing. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:13620. [PMID: 37686425 PMCID: PMC10487979 DOI: 10.3390/ijms241713620] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2023] [Revised: 08/28/2023] [Accepted: 08/29/2023] [Indexed: 09/10/2023] Open
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MutS homolog 1 (MSH1) is involved in the recombining and repairing of organelle genomes and is essential for maintaining their stability. Previous studies indicated that the length of the gene varied greatly among species and detected species-specific partial gene duplications in Physcomitrella patens. However, there are critical gaps in the understanding of the gene size expansion, and the extent of the partial gene duplication of MSH1 remains unclear. Here, we screened MSH1 genes in 85 selected species with genome sequences representing the main clades of green plants (Viridiplantae). We identified the MSH1 gene in all lineages of green plants, except for nine incomplete species, for bioinformatics analysis. The gene is a singleton gene in most of the selected species with conserved amino acids and protein domains. Gene length varies greatly among the species, ranging from 3234 bp in Ostreococcus tauri to 805,861 bp in Cycas panzhihuaensis. The expansion of MSH1 repeatedly occurred in multiple clades, especially in Gymnosperms, Orchidaceae, and Chloranthus spicatus. MSH1 has exceptionally long introns in certain species due to the gene length expansion, and the longest intron even reaches 101,025 bp. And the gene length is positively correlated with the proportion of the transposable elements (TEs) in the introns. In addition, gene structure analysis indicated that the MSH1 of green plants had undergone parallel intron gains and losses in all major lineages. However, the intron number of seed plants (gymnosperm and angiosperm) is relatively stable. All the selected gymnosperms contain 22 introns except for Gnetum montanum and Welwitschia mirabilis, while all the selected angiosperm species preserve 21 introns except for the ANA grade. Notably, the coding region of MSH1 in algae presents an exceptionally high GC content (47.7% to 75.5%). Moreover, over one-third of the selected species contain species-specific partial gene duplications of MSH1, except for the conserved mosses-specific partial gene duplication. Additionally, we found conserved alternatively spliced MSH1 transcripts in five species. The study of MSH1 sheds light on the evolution of the long genes of green plants.
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- College of Plant Protection, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450046, China
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Dong SS, Zhou XP, Peng T, Liu Y. Mitochondrial RNA editing sites affect the phylogenetic reconstruction of gymnosperms. PLANT DIVERSITY 2023; 45:485-489. [PMID: 37601539 PMCID: PMC10435907 DOI: 10.1016/j.pld.2023.02.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2022] [Revised: 02/13/2023] [Accepted: 02/14/2023] [Indexed: 08/22/2023]
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•RNA editing sites may contain homoplasious signals that cause artifactual inferences in phylogenetic analyses.•Excluding RNA editing sites from gymnosperm mitochondrial genes restored the sister relationship of gnetophytes and Pinaceae.•Phylogenetic analysis based on mitochondrial genomic data should carefully evaluate the impact of RNA editing sites.
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- Shan-Shan Dong
- Laboratory of Southern Subtropical Plant Diversity, Fairy Lake Botanical Garden, Shenzhen & Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518004, Guangdong, China
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- Laboratory of Southern Subtropical Plant Diversity, Fairy Lake Botanical Garden, Shenzhen & Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518004, Guangdong, China
- School of Life Sciences, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang 550001, Guizhou, China
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- Laboratory of Southern Subtropical Plant Diversity, Fairy Lake Botanical Garden, Shenzhen & Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518004, Guangdong, China
- School of Life Sciences, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang 550001, Guizhou, China
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- Laboratory of Southern Subtropical Plant Diversity, Fairy Lake Botanical Garden, Shenzhen & Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518004, Guangdong, China
- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Genomics, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, Guangdong, China
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Xia Q, Zhang H, Lv D, El-Kassaby YA, Li W. Insights into phylogenetic relationships in Pinus inferred from a comparative analysis of complete chloroplast genomes. BMC Genomics 2023; 24:346. [PMID: 37349702 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-023-09439-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2022] [Accepted: 06/09/2023] [Indexed: 06/24/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Pinus is the largest genus of Pinaceae and the most primitive group of modern genera. Pines have become the focus of many molecular evolution studies because of their wide use and ecological significance. However, due to the lack of complete chloroplast genome data, the evolutionary relationship and classification of pines are still controversial. With the development of new generation sequencing technology, sequence data of pines are becoming abundant. Here, we systematically analyzed and summarized the chloroplast genomes of 33 published pine species. RESULTS Generally, pines chloroplast genome structure showed strong conservation and high similarity. The chloroplast genome length ranged from 114,082 to 121,530 bp with similar positions and arrangements of all genes, while the GC content ranged from 38.45 to 39.00%. Reverse repeats showed a shrinking evolutionary trend, with IRa/IRb length ranging from 267 to 495 bp. A total of 3,205 microsatellite sequences and 5,436 repeats were detected in the studied species chloroplasts. Additionally, two hypervariable regions were assessed, providing potential molecular markers for future phylogenetic studies and population genetics. Through the phylogenetic analysis of complete chloroplast genomes, we offered novel opinions on the genus traditional evolutionary theory and classification. CONCLUSION We compared and analyzed the chloroplast genomes of 33 pine species, verified the traditional evolutionary theory and classification, and reclassified some controversial species classification. This study is helpful in analyzing the evolution, genetic structure, and the development of chloroplast DNA markers in Pinus.
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- Qijing Xia
- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, 100083, China
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- Gansu Province Academy of Qilian Water Resource Conservation Forests Research Institute, Zhangye, 734031, China
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- Gansu Province Academy of Qilian Water Resource Conservation Forests Research Institute, Zhangye, 734031, China
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- Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, 100083, China.
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Zhou L, Chen T, Qiu X, Liu J, Guo S. Evolutionary differences in gene loss and pseudogenization among mycoheterotrophic orchids in the tribe Vanilleae (subfamily Vanilloideae). FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2023; 14:1160446. [PMID: 37035052 PMCID: PMC10073425 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1160446] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2023] [Accepted: 03/08/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Galeola lindleyana is a mycoheterotrophic orchid belonging to the tribe Vanilleae within the subfamily Vanilloideae. METHODS In this study, the G. lindleyana plastome was assembled and annotated, and compared with other Vanilleae orchids, revealing the evolutionary variations between the photoautotrophic and mycoheterotrophic plastomes. RESULTS The G. lindleyana plastome was found to include 32 protein-coding genes, 16 tRNA genes and four ribosomal RNA genes, including 11 pseudogenes. Almost all of the genes encoding photosynthesis have been lost physically or functionally, with the exception of six genes encoding ATP synthase and psaJ in photosystem I. The length of the G. lindleyana plastome has decreased to 100,749 bp, while still retaining its typical quadripartite structure. Compared with the photoautotrophic Vanilloideae plastomes, the inverted repeat (IR) regions and the large single copy (LSC) region of the mycoheterotrophic orchid's plastome have contracted, while the small single copy (SSC) region has expanded significantly. Moreover, the difference in length between the two ndhB genes was found to be 682 bp, with one of them spanning the IRb/SSC boundary. The Vanilloideae plastomes were varied in their structural organization, gene arrangement, and gene content. Even the Cyrtosia septentrionalis plastome which was found to be closest in length to the G. lindleyana plastome, differed in terms of its gene arrangement and gene content. In the LSC region, the psbA, psbK, atpA and psaB retained in the G. lindleyana plastome were missing in the C. septentrionalis plastome, while, the matK, rps16, and atpF were incomplete in the C. septentrionalis plastome, yet still complete in that of the G. lindleyana. Lastly, compared with the G. lindleyana plastome, a 15 kb region located in the SSC area between ndhB-rrn16S was found to be inverted in the C. septentrionalis plastome. These changes in gene content, gene arrangment and gene structure shed light on the polyphyletic evolution of photoautotrophic orchid plastomes to mycoheterotrophic orchid plastomes. DISCUSSION Thus, this study's decoding of the mycoheterotrophic G. lindleyana plastome provides valuable resource data for future research and conservation of endangered orchids.
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- *Correspondence: Jinxin Liu, ; Shunxing Guo,
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Song Y, Li C, Liu L, Hu P, Li G, Zhao X, Zhou H. The population genomic analyses of chloroplast genomes shed new insights on the complicated ploidy and evolutionary history in Fragaria. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2023; 13:1065218. [PMID: 36874917 PMCID: PMC9975502 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.1065218] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2022] [Accepted: 12/30/2022] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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The genus Fragaria consists of a rich diversity of ploidy levels with diploid (2x), tetraploid (4x), pentaploid (5x), hexaploidy (6x), octoploid (8x) and decaploid (10x) species. Only a few studies have explored the origin of diploid and octoploid strawberry, and little is known about the roles of tetraploidy and hexaploidy during the evolution of octoploid strawberry. The chloroplast genome is usually a stable circular genome and is widely used in investigating the evolution and matrilineal identification. Here, we assembled the chloroplast genomes of F. x ananassa cv. 'Benihoppe' (8x) using Illumina and HiFi data seperately. The genome alignment results showed that more InDels were located in the chloroplast genomes based on the PacBio HiFi data than Illumina data. We obtain highly accurate chloroplast genomes assembled through GetOrganelle using Illumina reads. We assembled 200 chloroplast genomes including 198 Fragaria (21 species) and 2 Potentilla samples. Analyses of sequence variation, phylogenetic and PCA analyses showed that Fragaria was divided into five groups. F. iinumae, F. nilgerrensis and all octoploid accessions formed Group A, C and E separately. Species native to western China were clustered into Group B. Group D consisted of F. virdis, F. orientalis, F. moschata, and F. vesca. STRUCTURE and haplotype network confirmed that the diploid F. vesca subsp. bracteata was the last maternal donator of octoploid strawberry. The dN/dS ratio estimated for the protein-coding genes revealed that genes involved in ATP synthase and photosystem function were under positive selection. These findings demonstrate the phylogeny of totally 21 Fragaria species and the origin of octoploid species. F. vesca was the last female donator of octoploid, which confirms the hypothesis that the hexaploid species F. moschata may be an evolutionary intermediate between the diploids and wild octoploid species.
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- Yanhong Song
- Zhengzhou Fruit Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology (Ministry of Education), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
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- Zhengzhou Fruit Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou, China
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- Zhengzhou Fruit Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou, China
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- Zhengzhou Fruit Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou, China
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- Zhengzhou Fruit Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou, China
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- Zhengzhou Fruit Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou, China
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A Large Intergenic Spacer Leads to the Increase in Genome Size and Sequential Gene Movement around IR/SC Boundaries in the Chloroplast Genome of Adiantum malesianum (Pteridaceae). Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms232415616. [PMID: 36555263 PMCID: PMC9778900 DOI: 10.3390/ijms232415616] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2022] [Revised: 11/30/2022] [Accepted: 12/08/2022] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Expansion and contraction (ebb and flow events) of inverted repeat (IR) boundaries occur and are generally considered to be major factors affecting chloroplast (cp) genome size changes. Nonetheless, the Adiantum malesianum cp genome does not seem to follow this pattern. We sequenced, assembled and corrected the A. flabellulatum and A. malesianum cp genomes using the Illumina NovaSeq6000 platform, and we performed a comparative genome analysis of six Adiantum species. The results revealed differences in the IR/SC boundaries of A. malesianum caused by a 6876 bp long rpoB-trnD-GUC intergenic spacer (IGS) in the LSC. This IGS may create topological tension towards the LSC/IRb boundary in the cp genome, resulting in a sequential movement of the LSC genes. Consequently, this leads to changes of the IR/SC boundaries and may even destroy the integrity of trnT-UGU, which is located in IRs. This study provides evidence showing that it is the large rpoB-trnD-GUC IGS that leads to A. malesianum cp genome size change, rather than ebb and flow events. Then, the study provides a model to explain how the rpoB-trnD-GUC IGS in LSC affects A. malesianum IR/SC boundaries. Moreover, this study also provides useful data for dissecting the evolution of cp genomes of Adiantum. In future research, we can expand the sample to Pteridaceae to test whether this phenomenon is universal in Pteridaceae.
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Wang L, Zhang S, Fang J, Jin X, Mamut R, Li P. The Chloroplast Genome of the Lichen Photobiont Trebouxiophyceae sp. DW1 and Its Phylogenetic Implications. Genes (Basel) 2022; 13:genes13101840. [PMID: 36292725 PMCID: PMC9601494 DOI: 10.3390/genes13101840] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2022] [Revised: 09/30/2022] [Accepted: 10/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Lichens are symbiotic associations of algae and fungi. The genetic mechanism of the symbiosis of lichens and the influence of symbiosis on the size and composition of the genomes of symbiotic algae have always been intriguing scientific questions explored by lichenologists. However, there were limited data on lichen genomes. Therefore, we isolated and purified a lichen symbiotic alga to obtain a single strain (Trebouxiophyceae sp. DW1), and then obtained its chloroplast genome information by next-generation sequencing (NGS). The chloroplast genome is 129,447 bp in length, and the GC content is 35.2%. Repetitive sequences with the length of 30–35 bp account for 1.27% of the total chloroplast genome. The simple sequence repeats are all mononucleotide repeats. Codon usage analysis showed that the genome tended to use codon ending in A/U. By comparing the length of different regions of Trebouxiophyceae genomes, we found that the changes in the length of exons, introns, and intergenic sequences affect the size of genomes. Trebouxiophyceae had an unstable chloroplast genome structure, with IRs repeatedly losing during evolution. Phylogenetic analysis showed that Trebouxiophyceae is paraphyletic, and Trebouxiophyceae sp. DW1 is sister to the clade of Koliella longiseta and Pabia signiensis.
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- Lidan Wang
- College of Life Sciences and Technology, Xinjiang University, Urumchi 830046, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- College of Life Sciences and Technology, Xinjiang University, Urumchi 830046, China
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- College of Life and Environmental Science, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou 325035, China
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- College of Life Sciences and Technology, Xinjiang University, Urumchi 830046, China
- Correspondence: (R.M.); (P.L.)
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- College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
- Correspondence: (R.M.); (P.L.)
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Wang ZX, Wang DJ, Yi TS. Does IR-loss promote plastome structural variation and sequence evolution? FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:888049. [PMID: 36247567 PMCID: PMC9560873 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.888049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2022] [Accepted: 09/09/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Plastids are one of the main distinguishing characteristics of the plant cell. The plastid genome (plastome) of most autotrophic seed plants possesses a highly conserved quadripartite structure containing a large single-copy (LSC) and a small single-copy (SSC) region separated by two copies of the inverted repeat (termed as IRA and IRB). The IRs have been inferred to stabilize the plastid genome via homologous recombination-induced repair mechanisms. IR loss has been documented in seven autotrophic flowering plant lineages and two autotrophic gymnosperm lineages, and the plastomes of these species (with a few exceptions) are rearranged to a great extent. However, some plastomes containing normal IRs also show high structural variation. Therefore, the role of IRs in maintaining plastome stability is still controversial. In this study, we first integrated and compared genome structure and sequence evolution of representative plastomes of all nine reported IR-lacking lineages and those of their closest relative(s) with canonical inverted repeats (CRCIRs for short) to explore the role of the IR in maintaining plastome structural stability and sequence evolution. We found the plastomes of most IR-lacking lineages have experienced significant structural rearrangement, gene loss and duplication, accumulation of novel small repeats, and acceleration of synonymous substitution compared with those of their CRCIRs. However, the IR-lacking plastomes show similar structural variation and sequence evolution rate, and even less rearrangement distance, dispersed repeat number, tandem repeat number, indels frequency and GC3 content than those of IR-present plastomes with variation in Geraniaceae. We argue that IR loss is not a driver of these changes but is instead itself a consequence of other processes that more broadly shape both structural and sequence-level plastome evolution.
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- Zi-Xun Wang
- Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
- Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Medicinal Plant Resource and Natural Pharmaceutical Chemistry, National Engineering Laboratory for Resource Developing of Endangered Chinese Crude Drugs in Northwest of China, College of Life Sciences, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, China
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- Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
- Kunming College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
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- Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
- Kunming College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
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Turudić A, Liber Z, Grdiša M, Jakše J, Varga F, Šatović Z. Chloroplast Genome Annotation Tools: Prolegomena to the Identification of Inverted Repeats. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms231810804. [PMID: 36142721 PMCID: PMC9503105 DOI: 10.3390/ijms231810804] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2022] [Revised: 09/01/2022] [Accepted: 09/13/2022] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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The development of next-generation sequencing technology and the increasing amount of sequencing data have brought the bioinformatic tools used in genome assembly into focus. The final step of the process is genome annotation, which works on assembled genome sequences to identify the location of genome features. In the case of organelle genomes, specialized annotation tools are used to identify organelle genes and structural features. Numerous annotation tools target chloroplast sequences. Most chloroplast DNA genomes have a quadripartite structure caused by two copies of a large inverted repeat. We investigated the strategies of six annotation tools (Chloë, Chloroplot, GeSeq, ORG.Annotate, PGA, Plann) for identifying inverted repeats and analyzed their success using publicly available complete chloroplast sequences of taxa belonging to the asterid and rosid clades. The annotation tools use two different approaches to identify inverted repeats, using existing general search tools or implementing stand-alone solutions. The chloroplast sequences studied show that there are different types of imperfections in the assembled data and that each tool performs better on some sequences than the others.
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- Ante Turudić
- Centre of Excellence for Biodiversity and Molecular Plant Breeding (CoE CroP-BioDiv), Svetošimunska cesta 25, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
- Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb, Svetošimunska cesta 25, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +385-91-3141592
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- Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb, Svetošimunska cesta 25, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
- Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Marulićev trg 9a, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
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- Centre of Excellence for Biodiversity and Molecular Plant Breeding (CoE CroP-BioDiv), Svetošimunska cesta 25, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
- Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb, Svetošimunska cesta 25, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
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- Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Jamnikarjeva 101, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Centre of Excellence for Biodiversity and Molecular Plant Breeding (CoE CroP-BioDiv), Svetošimunska cesta 25, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
- Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb, Svetošimunska cesta 25, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
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- Centre of Excellence for Biodiversity and Molecular Plant Breeding (CoE CroP-BioDiv), Svetošimunska cesta 25, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
- Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb, Svetošimunska cesta 25, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
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Wu C, Chaw S. Evolution of mitochondrial RNA editing in extant gymnosperms. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2022; 111:1676-1687. [PMID: 35877596 PMCID: PMC9545813 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.15916] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2021] [Revised: 07/18/2022] [Accepted: 07/21/2022] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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To unveil the evolution of mitochondrial RNA editing in gymnosperms, we characterized mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes), plastid genomes, RNA editing sites, and pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins from 10 key taxa representing four of the five extant gymnosperm clades. The assembled mitogenomes vary in gene content due to massive gene losses in Gnetum and Conifer II clades. Mitochondrial gene expression levels also vary according to protein function, with the most highly expressed genes involved in the respiratory complex. We identified 9132 mitochondrial C-to-U editing sites, as well as 2846 P-class and 8530 PLS-class PPR proteins. Regains of editing sites were demonstrated in Conifer II rps3 transcripts whose corresponding mitogenomic sequences lack introns due to retroprocessing. Our analyses reveal that non-synonymous editing is efficient and results in more codons encoding hydrophobic amino acids. In contrast, synonymous editing, although performed with variable efficiency, can increase the number of U-ending codons that are preferentially utilized in gymnosperm mitochondria. The inferred loss-to-gain ratio of mitochondrial editing sites in gymnosperms is 2.1:1, of which losses of non-synonymous editing are mainly due to genomic C-to-T substitutions. However, such substitutions only explain a small fraction of synonymous editing site losses, indicating distinct evolutionary mechanisms. We show that gymnosperms have experienced multiple lineage-specific duplications in PLS-class PPR proteins. These duplications likely contribute to accumulated RNA editing sites, as a mechanistic correlation between RNA editing and PLS-class PPR proteins is statistically supported.
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- Chung‐Shien Wu
- Biodiversity Research CenterAcademia SinicaTaipei11529Taiwan
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- Biodiversity Research CenterAcademia SinicaTaipei11529Taiwan
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Chen S, Wang T, Shu J, Xiang Q, Yang T, Zhang X, Yan Y. Plastid Phylogenomics and Plastomic Diversity of the Extant Lycophytes. Genes (Basel) 2022; 13:genes13071280. [PMID: 35886063 PMCID: PMC9316050 DOI: 10.3390/genes13071280] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2022] [Revised: 07/12/2022] [Accepted: 07/13/2022] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Although extant lycophytes represent the most ancient surviving lineage of early vascular plants, their plastomic diversity has long been neglected. The ancient evolutionary history and distinct genetic diversity patterns of the three lycophyte families, each with its own characteristics, provide an ideal opportunity to investigate the interfamilial relationships of lycophytes and their associated patterns of evolution. To compensate for the lack of data on Lycopodiaceae, we sequenced and assembled 14 new plastid genomes (plastomes). Combined with other lycophyte plastomes available online, we reconstructed the phylogenetic relationships of the extant lycophytes based on 93 plastomes. We analyzed, traced, and compared the plastomic diversity and divergence of the three lycophyte families (Isoëtaceae, Lycopodiaceae, and Selaginellaceae) in terms of plastomic diversity by comparing their plastome sizes, GC contents, substitution rates, structural rearrangements, divergence times, ancestral states, RNA editings, and gene losses. Comparative analysis of plastid phylogenomics and plastomic diversity of three lycophyte families will set a foundation for further studies in biology and evolution in lycophytes and therefore in vascular plants.
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- Sisi Chen
- Shenzhen Key Laboratory for Orchid Conservation and Utilization, National Orchid Conservation Center of China and the Orchid Conservation & Research Center of Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518114, China; (S.C.); (T.W.); (J.S.); (T.Y.)
- State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100093, China;
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory for Orchid Conservation and Utilization, National Orchid Conservation Center of China and the Orchid Conservation & Research Center of Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518114, China; (S.C.); (T.W.); (J.S.); (T.Y.)
- College of Biodiversity Conservation, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory for Orchid Conservation and Utilization, National Orchid Conservation Center of China and the Orchid Conservation & Research Center of Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518114, China; (S.C.); (T.W.); (J.S.); (T.Y.)
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
- Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100093, China;
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory for Orchid Conservation and Utilization, National Orchid Conservation Center of China and the Orchid Conservation & Research Center of Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518114, China; (S.C.); (T.W.); (J.S.); (T.Y.)
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- State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100093, China;
- Correspondence: (X.Z.); (Y.Y.)
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory for Orchid Conservation and Utilization, National Orchid Conservation Center of China and the Orchid Conservation & Research Center of Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518114, China; (S.C.); (T.W.); (J.S.); (T.Y.)
- Correspondence: (X.Z.); (Y.Y.)
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Matsuo E, Morita K, Nakayama T, Yazaki E, Sarai C, Takahashi K, Iwataki M, Inagaki Y. Comparative Plastid Genomics of Green-Colored Dinoflagellates Unveils Parallel Genome Compaction and RNA Editing. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:918543. [PMID: 35898209 PMCID: PMC9309888 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.918543] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2022] [Accepted: 06/22/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Dinoflagellates possess plastids that are diverse in both pigmentation and evolutionary background. One of the plastid types found in dinoflagellates is pigmented with chlorophylls a and b (Chl a + b) and originated from the endosymbionts belonging to a small group of green algae, Pedinophyceae. The Chl a + b-containing plastids have been found in three distantly related dinoflagellates Lepidodinium spp., strain MGD, and strain TGD, and were proposed to be derived from separate partnerships between a dinoflagellate (host) and a pedinophycean green alga (endosymbiont). Prior to this study, a plastid genome sequence was only available for L. chlorophorum, which was reported to bear the features that were not found in that of the pedinophycean green alga Pedinomonas minor, a putative close relative of the endosymbiont that gave rise to the current Chl a + b-containing plastid. In this study, we sequenced the plastid genomes of strains MGD and TGD to compare with those of L. chlorophorum as well as pedinophycean green algae. The mapping of the RNA-seq reads on the corresponding plastid genome identified RNA editing on plastid gene transcripts in the three dinoflagellates. Further, the comparative plastid genomics revealed that the plastid genomes of the three dinoflagellates achieved several features, which are not found in or much less obvious than the pedinophycean plastid genomes determined to date, in parallel.
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- Eriko Matsuo
- Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
- Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamagata University, Yamagata, Japan
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- Asian Natural Environmental Science Center, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Asian Natural Environmental Science Center, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
- Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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Chen C, Xia X, Peng J, Wang D. Comparative Analyses of Six Complete Chloroplast Genomes from the Genus Cupressus and Juniperus (Cupressaceae). Gene 2022; 837:146696. [PMID: 35738448 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2022.146696] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2022] [Revised: 06/05/2022] [Accepted: 06/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Cupressaceae is a conifer family distributed around the world. Cupressus and Juniperus are the main genera of the Cupressaceae family and have important medicinal value. This leads to confusion between Cupressus and Juniperus due to similar morphologies. Here, the complete cp genomes of two Cupressus (C. duclouxiana and C. funebri) and four Juniperus (J. chinensis, J. gaussenii J. pingii and J. procumbens) were sequenced. The results revealed that the length of the cp genomes ranged from 126,996 bp to 129,959 bp, with 119 genes comprising 82 protein-coding genes, 33 transfer RNAs and 4 ribosomal RNAs. All chloroplast genomes of Cupressus and Juniperus lost whole IR regions, which is consistent with gymnosperm cp genome studies. In addition, the number of SSRs per species ranged from 54 to 73 and was dominated by mononucleotide repeats. In the six cp genomes of Cupressus and Juniperus, five highly divergent regions, including accD, accD-rpl2, ycf1, ycf2 and rrn23-rrn4.5, can be used as DNA barcodes of interspecific relationships and potential genetic markers. We compared the gene selection pressures (C. chengiana as reference species), and 6 genes underwent positive selection, the majority of which were related to photosynthesis. Phylogenetic results showed that the monophyly of Cupressus and Juniperus supported most bootstrap support. Cupressus funebris and J. chinensis were resolved to be early diverging species within Cupressus and Juniperus, and the two genera were sister groups to each other. This research revealed a new understanding of the structural pluralism and phylogenetic relationships of Cupressaceae cp genomes. These results will facilitate comprehension of the complexity and diversity of conifer cp genomes. SIGNIFICANCE:: Phylogenetic relationships among Cupressus, Juniperus, and their closest relatives are controversial, and generic delimitations have been in flux for the past decade. To address relationships and attempt to produce a more robust classification, we sequenced 6 new plastid genomes (plastomes) from the two variously described genera in this complex (Cupressus and Juniperus) and compared them with additional plastomes from diverse members of Cupressaceae. Our study corroborated the accD of Cupressophytes have a tendency to expand in size and strongly supported a sister relationship between Cupressus and Juniperus. The disparity in these results could be traced to the facts that the chloroplast genome is uniparentally inherited, also the usage of the whole chloroplast genome for this research is of a better advantage compared to usage of selected genes or portion of the plastome. The complete CP genomic data will provide useful information for studying genetic diversity and species identification, which is important for the overarching goal of biodiversity conservation.
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- Can Chen
- Key Laboratory for Forest Resource Conservation and Utilization in the Southwest Mountains of China, Ministry of Education, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, China; Key Laboratory for Forest Genetic and Tree Improvement & Propagation in Universities of Yunnan Province, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, China.
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- Key Laboratory for Forest Resource Conservation and Utilization in the Southwest Mountains of China, Ministry of Education, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, China; Key Laboratory for Forest Genetic and Tree Improvement & Propagation in Universities of Yunnan Province, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, China.
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- Department of Plant Genetics and Breeding, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China.
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- Key Laboratory for Forest Resource Conservation and Utilization in the Southwest Mountains of China, Ministry of Education, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, China; Key Laboratory for Forest Genetic and Tree Improvement & Propagation in Universities of Yunnan Province, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, China.
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Comparative Analyses of Chloroplast Genomes Provide Comprehensive Insights into the Adaptive Evolution of Paphiopedilum (Orchidaceae). HORTICULTURAE 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/horticulturae8050391] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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An elucidation of how the selection pressures caused by habitat environments affect plant plastid genomes and lead to the adaptive evolution of plants, is a very intense area of research in evolutionary biology. The genus Paphiopedilum is a predominant group of orchids that includes over 66 species with high horticultural and ornamental value. However, owing to the destructive exploitation and habitat deterioration of wild germplasm resources of Paphiopedilum, it needs more molecular genetic resources and studies on this genus. The chloroplast is cytoplasmically inherited and often used in evolutionary studies. Thus, for this study, we newly sequenced, assembled and annotated five chloroplast genomes of the Paphiopedilum species. The size of these genomes ranged from 155,886 bp (P. henryanum) to 160,503 bp (P. ‘GZSLKY’ Youyou) and they contained 121–122 genes, which consisted of 76 protein coding genes, eight ribosomal RNAs, and 37–38 transfer RNAs. Combined with the other 14 Paphiopedilum species, the characteristics of the repeat sequences, divergent hotspot regions, and the condo usage bias were evaluated and identified, respectively. The gene transfer analysis showed that some fragments of the ndh and ycf gene families were shared by both the chloroplast and nucleus. Although the genomic structure and gene content was conserved, there was a significant boundary shift caused by the inverted repeat (IR) expansion and small single copy (SSC) contraction. The lower GC content and loss of ndh genes could be the result of adaptive evolutionary responses to its unique habitats. The genes under positive selection, including accD, matK, psbM, rpl20, rps12, ycf1, and ycf2 might be regarded as potential candidate genes for further study, which significantly contribute to the adaptive evolution of Paphiopedilum.
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Li F, Liu Y, Wang J, Xin P, Zhang J, Zhao K, Zhang M, Yun H, Ma W. Comparative Analysis of Chloroplast Genome Structure and Phylogenetic Relationships Among Six Taxa Within the Genus Catalpa (Bignoniaceae). Front Genet 2022; 13:845619. [PMID: 35368674 PMCID: PMC8966708 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2022.845619] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2021] [Accepted: 03/01/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Species within the Genus Catalpa are mostly semievergreen or deciduous trees with opposite or whorled leaves. C. bungei, C. fargesii f. duclouxii and C. fargesii are sources of traditional precious wood in China, known as the “kings of wood”. Due to a lack of phenotypic and molecular studies and insufficient sequence information, intraspecific morphological differences, common DNA barcodes and partial sequence fragments cannot clearly reveal the phylogenetic or intraspecific relationships within Catalpa. Therefore, we sequenced the complete chloroplast genomes of six taxa of the genus Catalpa and analyzed their basic structure and evolutionary relationships. The chloroplast genome of Catalpa shows a typical tetrad structure with a total length ranging from 157,765 bp (C. fargesii) to 158,355 bp (C. ovata). The length of the large single-copy (LSC) region ranges from 84,599 bp (C. fargesii) to 85,004 bp (C. ovata), that of the small single-copy (SSC) region ranges from 12,662 bp (C. fargesii) to 12,675 bp (C. ovata), and that of the inverted repeat (IR) regions ranges from 30,252 bp (C. fargesii) to 30,338 bp (C. ovata). The GC content of the six chloroplast genomes were 38.1%. In total, 113 unique genes were detected, and there were 19 genes in IR regions. The 113 genes included 79 protein-coding genes, 30 tRNA genes and four rRNA genes. Five hypervariable regions (trnH-psbA, rps2-rpoC2, rpl22, ycf15-trnl-CAA and rps15) were identified by analyzing chloroplast nucleotide polymorphisms, which might be serve as potential DNA barcodes for the species. Comparative analysis showed that single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and simple sequence repeats (SSRs) were highly diverse in the six species. Codon usage patterns were highly similar among the taxa included in the present study. In addition to the stop codons, all codons showed a preference for ending in A or T. Phylogenetic analysis of the entire chloroplast genome showed that all taxa within the genus Catalpa formed a monophyletic group, clearly reflecting the relationships within the genus. This study provides information on the chloroplast genome sequence, structural variation, codon bias and phylogeny of Catalpa, which will facilitate future research efforts.
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- Feng Li
- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Key Laboratory of Tree Breeding and Cultivation of State Forestry Administration, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, National Innovation Alliance of Catalpa Bungei, Beijing, China
- Key Laboratory of National Forestry and Grassland Administration on Biodiversity Conservation in Southwest China, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Key Laboratory of Tree Breeding and Cultivation of State Forestry Administration, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, National Innovation Alliance of Catalpa Bungei, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Key Laboratory of Tree Breeding and Cultivation of State Forestry Administration, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, National Innovation Alliance of Catalpa Bungei, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of National Forestry and Grassland Administration on Biodiversity Conservation in Southwest China, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming, China
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- Luoyang Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Luoyang, China
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- Research Institute of Forestry of Xiaolongshan, Tianshui, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Key Laboratory of Tree Breeding and Cultivation of State Forestry Administration, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, National Innovation Alliance of Catalpa Bungei, Beijing, China
- *Correspondence: Wenjun Ma,
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Zeb U, Wang X, AzizUllah A, Fiaz S, Khan H, Ullah S, Ali H, Shahzad K. Comparative genome sequence and phylogenetic analysis of chloroplast for evolutionary relationship among Pinus species. Saudi J Biol Sci 2022; 29:1618-1627. [PMID: 35280541 PMCID: PMC8913380 DOI: 10.1016/j.sjbs.2021.10.070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2021] [Revised: 08/24/2021] [Accepted: 10/31/2021] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Genus Pinus is a widely dispersed genus of conifer plants in the Northern Hemisphere. However, the inadequate accessibility of genomic knowledge limits our understanding of molecular phylogeny and evolution of Pinus species. In this study, the evolutionary features of complete plastid genome and the phylogeny of the Pinus genus were studied. A total of thirteen divergent hotspot regions (trnk-UUU, matK, trnQ-UUG, atpF, atpH, rpoC1, rpoC2, rpoB, ycf2, ycf1, trnD-GUC, trnY-GUA, and trnH-GUG) were identified that would be utilized as possible genetic markers for determination of phylogeny and population genetics analysis of Pinus species. Furthermore, seven genes (petD, psaI, psaM, matK, rps18, ycf1, and ycf2) with positive selection site in Pinus species were identified. Based on the whole genome this phylogenetic study showed that twenty-four Pinus species form a significant genealogical clade. Divergence time showed that the Pinus species originated about 100 million years ago (MYA) (95% HPD, 101.76.35–109.79 MYA), in lateral stages of Cretaceous. Moreover, two of the subgenera are consequently originated in 85.05 MYA (95% HPD, 81.04–88.02 MYA). This study provides a phylogenetic relationship and a chronological framework for the future study of the molecular evolution of the Pinus species.
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- Umar Zeb
- Department of Biology, The University of Haripur, 22620, Pakistan
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- College of Life Sciences, Yan’an University, Yan’an 716000, Shaanxi, China
- Corresponding authors.
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- Department of Plant Breeding anf Genetics, The University of Haripur, 22620 Haripur, Pakistan
- Corresponding authors.
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- Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi’an 710069, China
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- Department of Botany University of Malakand, Pakistan
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- Department of Agricultural Engineering, Khawaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology, Rahim Yar Khan, Punjab, Pakistan
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- Department of Plant Breeding anf Genetics, The University of Haripur, 22620 Haripur, Pakistan
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Yang T, Sahu SK, Yang L, Liu Y, Mu W, Liu X, Strube ML, Liu H, Zhong B. Comparative Analyses of 3,654 Plastid Genomes Unravel Insights Into Evolutionary Dynamics and Phylogenetic Discordance of Green Plants. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:808156. [PMID: 35498716 PMCID: PMC9038950 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.808156] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2021] [Accepted: 03/07/2022] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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The plastid organelle is essential for many vital cellular processes and the growth and development of plants. The availability of a large number of complete plastid genomes could be effectively utilized to understand the evolution of the plastid genomes and phylogenetic relationships among plants. We comprehensively analyzed the plastid genomes of Viridiplantae comprising 3,654 taxa from 298 families and 111 orders and compared the genomic organizations in their plastid genomic DNA among major clades, which include gene gain/loss, gene copy number, GC content, and gene blocks. We discovered that some important genes that exhibit similar functions likely formed gene blocks, such as the psb family presumably showing co-occurrence and forming gene blocks in Viridiplantae. The inverted repeats (IRs) in plastid genomes have doubled in size across land plants, and their GC content is substantially higher than non-IR genes. By employing three different data sets [all nucleotide positions (nt123), only the first and second codon positions (nt12), and amino acids (AA)], our phylogenomic analyses revealed Chlorokybales + Mesostigmatales as the earliest-branching lineage of streptophytes. Hornworts, mosses, and liverworts forming a monophylum were identified as the sister lineage of tracheophytes. Based on nt12 and AA data sets, monocots, Chloranthales and magnoliids are successive sister lineages to the eudicots + Ceratophyllales clade. The comprehensive taxon sampling and analysis of different data sets from plastid genomes recovered well-supported relationships of green plants, thereby contributing to resolving some long-standing uncertainties in the plant phylogeny.
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- Ting Yang
- Beijing Genomics Institute Shenzhen, Yantian Beishan Industrial Zone, Shenzhen, China
- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Genomics, Beijing Genomics Institute Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
- Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
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- Beijing Genomics Institute Shenzhen, Yantian Beishan Industrial Zone, Shenzhen, China
- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Genomics, Beijing Genomics Institute Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
- *Correspondence: Sunil Kumar Sahu,
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- College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
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- Beijing Genomics Institute Shenzhen, Yantian Beishan Industrial Zone, Shenzhen, China
- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Genomics, Beijing Genomics Institute Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
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- Beijing Genomics Institute Shenzhen, Yantian Beishan Industrial Zone, Shenzhen, China
- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Genomics, Beijing Genomics Institute Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
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- Beijing Genomics Institute Shenzhen, Yantian Beishan Industrial Zone, Shenzhen, China
- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Genomics, Beijing Genomics Institute Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
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- Beijing Genomics Institute Shenzhen, Yantian Beishan Industrial Zone, Shenzhen, China
- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Genomics, Beijing Genomics Institute Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
- Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
- Bojian Zhong,
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Ping J, Hao J, Li J, Yang Y, Su Y, Wang T. Loss of the IR region in conifer plastomes: Changes in the selection pressure and substitution rate of protein-coding genes. Ecol Evol 2022; 12:e8499. [PMID: 35136556 PMCID: PMC8809450 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.8499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2021] [Revised: 12/08/2021] [Accepted: 12/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Plastid genomes (plastomes) have a quadripartite structure, but some species have drastically reduced or lost inverted repeat (IR) regions. IR regions are important for genome stability and the evolution rate. In the evolutionary process of gymnosperms, the typical IRs of conifers were lost, possibly affecting the evolutionary rate and selection pressure of genomic protein-coding genes. In this study, we selected 78 gymnosperm species (51 genera, 13 families) for evolutionary analysis. The selection pressure analysis results showed that negative selection effects were detected in all 50 common genes. Among them, six genes in conifers had higher ω values than non-conifers, and 12 genes had lower ω values. The evolutionary rate analysis results showed that 9 of 50 common genes differed between conifers and non-conifers. It is more obvious that in non-conifers, the rates of psbA (trst, trsv, ratio, dN, dS, and ω) were 2.6- to 3.1-fold of conifers. In conifers, trsv, ratio, dN, dS, and ω of ycf2 were 1.2- to 3.6-fold of non-conifers. In addition, the evolution rate of ycf2 in the IR was significantly reduced. psbA is undergoing dynamic change, with an abnormally high evolution rate as a small portion of it enters the IR region. Although conifers have lost the typical IR regions, we detected no change in the substitution rate or selection pressure of most protein-coding genes due to gene function, plant habitat, or newly acquired IRs.
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- Jingyao Ping
- College of Life SciencesSouth China Agricultural UniversityGuangzhouChina
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- College of Life SciencesSouth China Agricultural UniversityGuangzhouChina
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- College of Life SciencesSouth China Agricultural UniversityGuangzhouChina
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- College of Life Science and TechnologyCentral South University of Forestry and TechnologyChangshaChina
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- School of Life SciencesSun Yat‐sen UniversityGuangzhouChina
- Research Institute of Sun Yat‐sen UniversityShenzhenChina
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- College of Life SciencesSouth China Agricultural UniversityGuangzhouChina
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Asaf S, Khan AL, Jan R, Khan A, Khan A, Kim KM, Lee IJ. The dynamic history of gymnosperm plastomes: Insights from structural characterization, comparative analysis, phylogenomics, and time divergence. THE PLANT GENOME 2021; 14:e20130. [PMID: 34505399 DOI: 10.1002/tpg2.20130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2021] [Accepted: 06/08/2021] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Gymnosperms are among the most endangered groups of plant species; they include ginkgo, pines (Conifers I), cupressophytes (Conifers II), cycads, and gnetophytes. The relationships among the five extant gymnosperm groups remain equivocal. We analyzed 167 available gymnosperm plastomes and investigated their diversity and phylogeny. We found that plastome size, structure, and gene order were highly variable in the five gymnosperm groups, of which Parasitaxus usta (Vieill.) de Laub. and Macrozamia mountperriensis F.M.Bailey had the smallest and largest plastomes, respectively. The inverted repeats (IRs) of the five groups were shown to have evolved through distinctive evolutionary scenarios. The IRs have been lost in all conifers but retained in cycads and gnetophytes. A positive association between simple sequence repeat (SSR) abundance and plastome size was observed, and the SSRs with the most variation were found in Pinaceae. Furthermore, the number of repeats was negatively correlated with IR length; thus, the highest number of repeats was detected in Conifers I and II, in which the IRs had been lost. We constructed a phylogeny based on 29 shared genes from 167 plastomes. With the plastome tree and 13 calibrations, we estimated the tree height between present-day angiosperms and gymnosperms to be ∼380 million years ago (mya). The placement of Gnetales in the tree agreed with the Gnetales-other gymnosperms hypothesis. The divergence between Ginkgo and cycads was estimated as ∼284 mya; the crown age of the cycads was 251 mya. Our time-calibrated plastid-based phylogenomic tree provides a framework for comparative studies of gymnosperm evolution.
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- Sajjad Asaf
- Natural and Medical Sciences Research Center, Univ. of Nizwa, Nizwa, 616, Oman
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- Dep. of Biotechnology, College of Technology, Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX, 77204, USA
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- Division of Plant Biosciences, School of Applied Biosciences, College of Agriculture & Life Science, Kyungpook National Univ., Daegu, 41566, Republic of Korea
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- Genomics Group, Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture, Nord Univ., Bodø, 8049, Norway
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- Institute of Genomics for Crop Abiotic Stress Tolerance, Dep. of Plant and Soil Science, Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX, 79409, USA
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- Division of Plant Biosciences, School of Applied Biosciences, College of Agriculture & Life Science, Kyungpook National Univ., Daegu, 41566, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Plant Biosciences, School of Applied Biosciences, College of Agriculture & Life Science, Kyungpook National Univ., Daegu, 41566, Republic of Korea
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Wu S, Chen J, Li Y, Liu A, Li A, Yin M, Shrestha N, Liu J, Ren G. Extensive genomic rearrangements mediated by repetitive sequences in plastomes of Medicago and its relatives. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2021; 21:421. [PMID: 34521343 PMCID: PMC8438982 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-021-03202-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2021] [Accepted: 08/31/2021] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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BACKGROUND Although plastomes are highly conserved with respect to gene content and order in most photosynthetic angiosperms, extensive genomic rearrangements have been reported in Fabaceae, particularly within the inverted repeat lacking clade (IRLC) of Papilionoideae. Two hypotheses, i.e., the absence of the IR and the increased repeat content, have been proposed to affect the stability of plastomes. However, this is still unclear for the IRLC species. Here, we aimed to investigate the relationships between repeat content and the degree of genomic rearrangements in plastomes of Medicago and its relatives Trigonella and Melilotus, which are nested firmly within the IRLC. RESULTS We detected abundant repetitive elements and extensive genomic rearrangements in the 75 newly assembled plastomes of 20 species, including gene loss, intron loss and gain, pseudogenization, tRNA duplication, inversion, and a second independent IR gain (IR ~ 15 kb in Melilotus dentata) in addition to the previous first reported cases in Medicago minima. We also conducted comparative genomic analysis to evaluate plastome evolution. Our results indicated that the overall repeat content is positively correlated with the degree of genomic rearrangements. Some of the genomic rearrangements were found to be directly linked with repetitive sequences. Tandem repeated sequences have been detected in the three genes with accelerated substitution rates (i.e., accD, clpP, and ycf1) and their length variation could be explained by the insertions of tandem repeats. The repeat contents of the three localized hypermutation regions around these three genes with accelerated substitution rates are also significantly higher than that of the remaining plastome sequences. CONCLUSIONS Our results suggest that IR reemergence in the IRLC species does not ensure their plastome stability. Instead, repeat-mediated illegitimate recombination is the major mechanism leading to genome instability, a pattern in agreement with recent findings in other angiosperm lineages. The plastome data generated herein provide valuable genomic resources for further investigating the plastome evolution in legumes.
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- Shuang Wu
- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystems, Institute of Innovation Ecology & School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystems, Institute of Innovation Ecology & School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystems, Institute of Innovation Ecology & School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystems, Institute of Innovation Ecology & School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystems, Institute of Innovation Ecology & School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystems, Institute of Innovation Ecology & School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystems, Institute of Innovation Ecology & School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystems, Institute of Innovation Ecology & School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
- Key Laboratory of Bio-Resource and Eco-Environment of Ministry of Education &State Key Lab of Hydraulics & Mountain River Engineering, College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystems, Institute of Innovation Ecology & School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.
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Cauz-Santos LA, da Costa ZP, Callot C, Cauet S, Zucchi MI, Bergès H, van den Berg C, Vieira MLC. A Repertory of Rearrangements and the Loss of an Inverted Repeat Region in Passiflora Chloroplast Genomes. Genome Biol Evol 2021; 12:1841-1857. [PMID: 32722748 PMCID: PMC7586853 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evaa155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/23/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Chloroplast genomes (cpDNA) in angiosperms are usually highly conserved. Although rearrangements have been observed in some lineages, such as Passiflora, the mechanisms that lead to rearrangements are still poorly elucidated. In the present study, we obtained 20 new chloroplast genomes (18 species from the genus Passiflora, and Dilkea retusa and Mitostemma brevifilis from the family Passifloraceae) in order to investigate cpDNA evolutionary history in this group. Passiflora cpDNAs vary in size considerably, with ∼50 kb between shortest and longest. Large inverted repeat (IR) expansions were identified, and at the extreme opposite, the loss of an IR was detected for the first time in Passiflora, a rare event in angiosperms. The loss of an IR region was detected in Passiflora capsularis and Passiflora costaricensis, a species in which occasional biparental chloroplast inheritance has previously been reported. A repertory of rearrangements such as inversions and gene losses were detected, making Passiflora one of the few groups with complex chloroplast genome evolution. We also performed a phylogenomic study based on all the available cp genomes and our analysis implies that there is a need to reconsider the taxonomic classifications of some species in the group.
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- Luiz Augusto Cauz-Santos
- Departamento de Genética, Escola Superior de Agricultura "Luiz de Queiroz," Universidade de São Paulo, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil
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- Departamento de Genética, Escola Superior de Agricultura "Luiz de Queiroz," Universidade de São Paulo, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil
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- Centre National de Ressources Génomiques Végétales, INRA, Auzeville, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- Centre National de Ressources Génomiques Végétales, INRA, Auzeville, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- Polo Regional de Desenvolvimento Tecnológico do Centro Sul, Agência Paulista de Tecnologia dos Agronegócios, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil
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- Centre National de Ressources Génomiques Végétales, INRA, Auzeville, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- Departamento de Genética, Escola Superior de Agricultura "Luiz de Queiroz," Universidade de São Paulo, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil.,Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, BA, Brazil
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- Departamento de Genética, Escola Superior de Agricultura "Luiz de Queiroz," Universidade de São Paulo, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil
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Liu B, Zhu H, Dong X, Yan Q, Liu G, Hu Z. Reassessment of suitable markers for taxonomy of Chaetophorales (Chlorophyceae, Chlorophyta) based on chloroplast genomes. J Eukaryot Microbiol 2021; 68:e12858. [PMID: 34022092 DOI: 10.1111/jeu.12858] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Filamentous green algae Chaetophorales present numerous taxonomic problems as many other green algae. Phylogenetic analyses based on nuclear genes have limited solutions. Studies with appropriate chloroplast molecular markers may solve this problems; however, suitable molecular markers for the order Chaetophorales are still unknown. In this study, 50 chloroplast genomes of Chlorophyceae, including 15 of Chaetophorales, were subjected to single protein-coding gene phylogenetic analyses, and substitution rate and evolutionary rate assays, and PCR amplification verification was conducted to screen the suitable molecular markers. Phylogenetic analyses of three chloroplast representative genes (psaB, tufA, and rbcL) amplified from 124 strains of Chaetophorales showed that phylogenetic relationships were not improved by increasing the number of samples, implying that the genes themselves, rather than limited samples, were the reason for the unsupported Topology I. Seven genes (atpF, atpI, ccsA, cemA, chlB, psbB, and rpl2) with robust support were selected to be the most suitable molecular markers for phylogenetic analyses of Chaetophorales, and the concatenated seven genes could replace the time-consuming and labor-intensive phylogenetic analyses based on chloroplast genome to some extent. To further solve the taxonomic problems of Chaetophorales, suitable chloroplast markers combined with more taxon-rich approach could be helpful and efficient.
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- Benwen Liu
- Key Laboratory of Algal Biology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Algal Biology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Algal Biology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Algal Biology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Algal Biology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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Plastid Genomes of the Early Vascular Plant Genus Selaginella Have Unusual Direct Repeat Structures and Drastically Reduced Gene Numbers. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:ijms22020641. [PMID: 33440692 PMCID: PMC7827865 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22020641] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2020] [Revised: 01/06/2021] [Accepted: 01/08/2021] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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The early vascular plants in the genus Selaginella, which is the sole genus of the Selaginellaceae family, have an important place in evolutionary history, along with ferns, as such plants are valuable resources for deciphering plant evolution. In this study, we sequenced and assembled the plastid genome (plastome) sequences of two Selaginella tamariscina individuals, as well as Selaginella stauntoniana and Selaginella involvens. Unlike the inverted repeat (IR) structures typically found in plant plastomes, Selaginella species had direct repeat (DR) structures, which were confirmed by Oxford Nanopore long-read sequence assembly. Comparative analyses of 19 lycophytes, including two Huperzia and one Isoetes species, revealed unique phylogenetic relationships between Selaginella species and related lycophytes, reflected by structural rearrangements involving two rounds of large inversions that resulted in dynamic changes between IR and DR blocks in the plastome sequence. Furthermore, we present other uncommon characteristics, including a small genome size, drastic reductions in gene and intron numbers, a high GC content, and extensive RNA editing. Although the 16 Selaginella species examined may not fully represent the genus, our findings suggest that Selaginella plastomes have undergone unique evolutionary events yielding genomic features unparalleled in other lycophytes, ferns, or seed plants.
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Wei N, Pérez-Escobar OA, Musili PM, Huang WC, Yang JB, Hu AQ, Hu GW, Grace OM, Wang QF. Plastome Evolution in the Hyperdiverse Genus Euphorbia (Euphorbiaceae) Using Phylogenomic and Comparative Analyses: Large-Scale Expansion and Contraction of the Inverted Repeat Region. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2021; 12:712064. [PMID: 34421963 PMCID: PMC8372406 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.712064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2021] [Accepted: 07/05/2021] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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With c. 2,000 species, Euphorbia is one of the largest angiosperm genera, yet a lack of chloroplast genome (plastome) resources impedes a better understanding of its evolution. In this study, we assembled and annotated 28 plastomes from Euphorbiaceae, of which 15 were newly sequenced. Phylogenomic and comparative analyses of 22 plastome sequences from all four recognized subgenera within Euphorbia revealed that plastome length in Euphorbia is labile, presenting a range of variation c. 42 kb. Large-scale expansions of the inverted repeat (IR) region were identified, and at the extreme opposite, the near-complete loss of the IR region (with only 355 bp left) was detected for the first time in Euphorbiaceae. Other structural variations, including gene inversion and duplication, and gene loss/pseudogenization, were also observed. We screened the most promising molecular markers from both intergenic and coding regions for phylogeny-based utilities, and estimated maximum likelihood and Bayesian phylogenies from four datasets including whole plastome sequences. The monophyly of Euphorbia is supported, and its four subgenera are recovered in a successive sister relationship. Our study constitutes the first comprehensive investigation on the plastome structural variation in Euphorbia and it provides resources for phylogenetic research in the genus, facilitating further studies on its taxonomy, evolution, and conservation.
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- Neng Wei
- Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, United Kingdom
- Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- East African Herbarium, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Shanghai Chenshan Plant Science Research Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chenshan Botanical Garden, Shanghai, China
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- Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, United Kingdom
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
- Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
- Sino-Africa Joint Research Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, United Kingdom
- *Correspondence: Olwen M. Grace,
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
- Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
- Sino-Africa Joint Research Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
- Qing-Feng Wang,
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Plastome Phylogenomic and Biogeographical Study on Thuja (Cupressaceae). BIOMED RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2020; 2020:8426287. [PMID: 32685531 PMCID: PMC7335403 DOI: 10.1155/2020/8426287] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2019] [Accepted: 04/29/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Investigating the biogeographical disjunction of East Asian and North American flora is key to understanding the formation and dynamics of biodiversity in the Northern Hemisphere. The small Cupressaceae genus Thuja, comprising five species, exhibits a typical disjunct distribution in East Asia and North America. Owing to obscure relationships, the biogeographical history of the genus remains controversial. Here, complete plastomes were employed to investigate the plastome evolution, phylogenetic relationships, and biogeographic history of Thuja. All plastomes of Thuja share the same gene content arranged in the same order. The loss of an IR was evident in all Thuja plastomes, and the B-arrangement as previously recognized was detected. Phylogenomic analyses resolved two sister pairs, T. standishii-T. koraiensis and T. occidentalis-T. sutchuenensis, with T. plicata sister to T. occidentalis-T. sutchuenensis. Molecular dating and biogeographic results suggest the diversification of Thuja occurred in the Middle Miocene, and the ancestral area of extant species was located in northern East Asia. Incorporating the fossil record, we inferred that Thuja likely originated from the high-latitude areas of North America in the Paleocene with a second diversification center in northern East Asia. The current geographical distribution of Thuja was likely shaped by dispersal events attributed to the Bering Land Bridge in the Miocene and subsequent vicariance events accompanying climate cooling. The potential effect of extinction may have profound influence on the biogeographical history of Thuja.
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Liu B, Hu Y, Hu Z, Liu G, Zhu H. Taxonomic scheme of the order Chaetophorales (Chlorophyceae, Chlorophyta) based on chloroplast genomes. BMC Genomics 2020; 21:442. [PMID: 32590931 PMCID: PMC7320567 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-020-06845-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2020] [Accepted: 06/17/2020] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Background Order Chaetophorales currently includes six families, namely Schizomeridaceae, Aphanochaetaceae, Barrancaceae, Uronemataceae, Fritschiellaceae, and Chaetophoraceae. The phylogenetic relationships of Chaetophorales have been inferred primarily based on short and less informative rDNA sequences. This study aimed to phylogenetically reconstruct order Chaetophorales and determine the taxonomic scheme, and to further understand the evolution of order Chaetophorales. Results In the present study, seven complete and five fragmentary chloroplast genomes were harvested. Phylogenomic and comparative genomic analysis were performed to determine the taxonomic scheme within Chaetophorales. Consequently, Oedogoniales was found to be a sister to a clade linking Chaetophorales and Chaetopeltidales. Schizomeriaceae, and Aphanochaetaceae clustered into a well-resolved basal clade in Chaetophorales, inconsistent with the results of phylogenetic analysis based on rDNA sequences. Comparative genomic analyses revealed that the chloroplast genomes of Schizomeriaceae and Aphanochaetaceae were highly conserved and homologous, highlighting the closest relationship in this order. Germination types of zoospores precisely correlated with the phylogenetic relationships. Conclusions chloroplast genome structure analyses, synteny analyses, and zoospore germination analyses were concurrent with phylogenetic analyses based on the chloroplast genome, and all of them robustly determined the unique taxonomic scheme of Chaetophorales and the relationships of Oedogoniales, Chaetophorales, and Chaetopeltidales.
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- Benwen Liu
- Key Laboratory of Algal Biology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430072, China
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- Key Laboratory of Algal Biology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430072, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100039, China
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- Key Laboratory of Algal Biology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430072, China.,State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430072, China
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- Key Laboratory of Algal Biology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430072, China
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- Key Laboratory of Algal Biology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430072, China.
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Sudianto E, Wu CS, Chaw SM. The Origin and Evolution of Plastid Genome Downsizing in Southern Hemispheric Cypresses (Cupressaceae). FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2020; 11:901. [PMID: 32655606 PMCID: PMC7324783 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.00901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2020] [Accepted: 06/02/2020] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Plastome downsizing is rare in photosynthetic seed plants. However, a large-scale study of five cupressophyte families (conifers II) indicated that the plastomes of some Cupressaceous genera are notably reduced and compact. Here, we enriched taxon sampling in Cupressaceae by adding plastomes of ten previously unreported genera to determine the origin, evolution, and consequences of plastome reduction in this family. We discovered that plastome downsizing is specific to Callitroideae (a Southern Hemispheric subfamily). Their plastomes are the smallest, encode the fewest plastid genes, and contain the fewest GC-end codons among Cupressaceae. We show that repeated tRNA losses and shrinkage of intergenic spacers together contributed to the plastome downsizing in Callitroideae. Moreover, our absolute nucleotide substitution rate analyses suggest relaxed functional constraints in translation-related plastid genes (clpP, infA, rpl, and rps), but not in photosynthesis- or transcription-related ones, of Callitris (the most diverse genus in Callitroideae). We hypothesize that the small and low-GC plastomes of Callitroideae emerged ca. 112-75 million years ago as an adaptation to increased competition with angiosperms on the Gondwana supercontinent. Our findings highlight Callitroideae as another case of plastome downsizing in photosynthetic seed plant lineages.
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Xiong Y, Xiong Y, He J, Yu Q, Zhao J, Lei X, Dong Z, Yang J, Peng Y, Zhang X, Ma X. The Complete Chloroplast Genome of Two Important Annual Clover Species, Trifolium alexandrinum and T. resupinatum: Genome Structure, Comparative Analyses and Phylogenetic Relationships with Relatives in Leguminosae. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2020; 9:E478. [PMID: 32283660 PMCID: PMC7238141 DOI: 10.3390/plants9040478] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2020] [Revised: 04/03/2020] [Accepted: 04/04/2020] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Trifolium L., which belongs to the IR lacking clade (IRLC), is one of the largest genera in the Leguminosae and contains several economically important fodder species. Here, we present whole chloroplast (cp) genome sequencing and annotation of two important annual grasses, Trifolium alexandrinum (Egyptian clover) and T. resupinatum (Persian clover). Abundant single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and insertions/deletions (In/Dels) were discovered between those two species. Global alignment of T. alexandrinum and T. resupinatum to a further thirteen Trifolium species revealed a large amount of rearrangement and repetitive events in these fifteen species. As hypothetical cp open reading frame (ORF) and RNA polymerase subunits, ycf1 and rpoC2 in the cp genomes both contain vast repetitive sequences and observed high Pi values (0.7008, 0.3982) between T. alexandrinum and T. resupinatum. Thus they could be considered as the candidate genes for phylogenetic analysis of Trifolium species. In addition, the divergence time of those IR lacking Trifolium species ranged from 84.8505 Mya to 4.7720 Mya. This study will provide insight into the evolution of Trifolium species.
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- Yanli Xiong
- College of Animal science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; (Y.X.); (Y.X.); (Q.Y.); (J.Z.); (X.L.); (Z.D.); (J.Y.); (Y.P.)
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- College of Animal science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; (Y.X.); (Y.X.); (Q.Y.); (J.Z.); (X.L.); (Z.D.); (J.Y.); (Y.P.)
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- State Key Laboratory of Exploration and Utilization of Crop Gene Resources in 10 Southwest China, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Maize in 11 Southwest Region, Ministry of Agriculture, Maize Research Institute of Sichuan 12 Agricultural University, Chengdu 600031, China;
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- College of Animal science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; (Y.X.); (Y.X.); (Q.Y.); (J.Z.); (X.L.); (Z.D.); (J.Y.); (Y.P.)
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- College of Animal science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; (Y.X.); (Y.X.); (Q.Y.); (J.Z.); (X.L.); (Z.D.); (J.Y.); (Y.P.)
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- College of Animal science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; (Y.X.); (Y.X.); (Q.Y.); (J.Z.); (X.L.); (Z.D.); (J.Y.); (Y.P.)
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- College of Animal science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; (Y.X.); (Y.X.); (Q.Y.); (J.Z.); (X.L.); (Z.D.); (J.Y.); (Y.P.)
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- College of Animal science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; (Y.X.); (Y.X.); (Q.Y.); (J.Z.); (X.L.); (Z.D.); (J.Y.); (Y.P.)
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- College of Animal science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; (Y.X.); (Y.X.); (Q.Y.); (J.Z.); (X.L.); (Z.D.); (J.Y.); (Y.P.)
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- College of Animal science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; (Y.X.); (Y.X.); (Q.Y.); (J.Z.); (X.L.); (Z.D.); (J.Y.); (Y.P.)
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- College of Animal science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; (Y.X.); (Y.X.); (Q.Y.); (J.Z.); (X.L.); (Z.D.); (J.Y.); (Y.P.)
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Comprehensive genomic analyses with 115 plastomes from algae to seed plants: structure, gene contents, GC contents, and introns. Genes Genomics 2020; 42:553-570. [PMID: 32200544 DOI: 10.1007/s13258-020-00923-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2020] [Accepted: 03/09/2020] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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BACKGROUND Chloroplasts are a common character in plants. The chloroplasts in each plant lineage have shaped their own genomes, plastomes, by structural changes and transferring many genes to nuclear genomes during plant evolution. Some plastid genes have introns that are mostly group II introns. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to get genomic and evolutionary insights on the plastomes from green algae to flowering plants. METHODS Plastomes of 115 species from green algae, bryophytes, pteridophytes (spore bearing vascular plants), gymnosperms, and angiosperms were mined from NCBI organelle genome database. Plastome structure, gene contents and GC contents were analyzed by the in-house developed Phyton code. Intronic features including presence/absence, length, intron phases were analyzed by manually in the annotated information in NCBI. RESULTS The canonical quadripartite structures were retained in most plastomes except of a few plastomes that had lost an invert repeat (IR). Expansion or reduction or deletion of IRs resulted in the length variation of the plastomes. The number of protein coding genes ranged from 40 to 92 with an average 79.43 ± 5.84 per plastome and gene losses were apparent in specific lineages. The number of trn genes ranged from 13 to 33 with an average 21.19 ± 2.42 per plastome. Ribosomal RNA genes, rrn, were located in the IRs so that they were present in a duplicate except of the species that had lost one of the IR. GC contents were variable from 24.9 to 51.0% with an average 38.21 ± 3.27%, indicating bias to high AT contents. Plastid introns were present in 18 protein coding genes, six trn genes, and one rrn gene. Intron losses occurred among the orthologous genes in different plant lineages. The plastid introns were long compared with the nuclear introns, which might be related with the spliceosome nuclear introns and self-splicing group II plastid introns. The trnK-UUU intron contained the maturase encoding matK gene except in the chlorophyte algae and monilophyte ferns in which the trnK-UUU was lost, but matK retained. There were many annotation artefacts in the intron positions in the NCBI database. In the analysis of intron phases, phase 0 introns were more frequent than those of phase 2 and 3 introns. Phase polymorphism was observed in the introns of clpP which was derived from nucleotide insertion. Plastid trn introns were long compared to the archaeal or eukaryotic nuclear tRNA introns. Of the six plastid trn introns, one was at the D loop and other five were at the anticodon loop. The insertion sites were conserved among the trn genes in archaea, eukaryotic nuclear and plastid tRNA genes. CONCLUSIONS Current study refurbrished the previous findings of structural variations, gene contents, and GC contents of the chloroplast genomes from green algae to flowering plants. The study also included some noble findings and discussions on the plastome introns including their length variations and phase variation. We also presented and corrected some false annotations on the introns in protein coding and tRNA genes in the genome database, which might be confirmed by the chloroplast transcriptome analysis in the future.
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Zhang Y, Xu Y, Chen H, Wang L, Yin K, Du FK. Comparative Genomic Analysis Reveals the Mechanism Driving the Diversification of Plastomic Structure in Taxaceae Species. Front Genet 2020; 10:1295. [PMID: 32010180 PMCID: PMC6971195 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2019.01295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2019] [Accepted: 11/25/2019] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Inverted repeat (IR) regions in the plastomes from land plants induce homologous recombination, generating isomeric plastomes. While the plastomes of Taxaceae species often lose one of the IR regions, considerable isomeric plastomes were created in Taxaceae species with a hitherto unclarified mechanism. To investigate the detailed mechanism underpinning the IR-independent genesis of plastomic diversity, we sequenced four Taxaceae plastomes, including Taxus cuspidata Siebold & Zuccarini, Taxus fauna Nan Li & R. R. Mill, and two individuals of Taxus wallichiana Zuccarini. Then we compared these structures with those of previously reported Taxaceae plastomes. Our analysis identified four distinct plastome forms that originated from the rearrangements of two IR-flanking inverted fragments. The presence of isomeric plastomes was then verified in T. cuspidata individuals. Both rearrangement analyses and phylogenetic results indicated that Taxaceae were separated into two clades, one including Taxus and Pseudotaxus and another formed by Amentotaxus and Torreya. Our reconstructed scenario suggests that the minimum number of inversion events required for the transformation of the plastome of Cephalotaxus oliveri Masters into the diversified Taxaceae plastomes ranged from three to six. To sum up, our study reveals a distinct pattern and the mechanism driving the structural diversification of Taxaceae plastomes, which will advance our understanding of the maintenance of plastomic diversity and complexity in conifers.
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- Yue Zhang
- School of Ecology and Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
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- School of Ecology and Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
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- School of Ecology and Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States
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- College of Grassland Science, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
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- School of Ecology and Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
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Bateman RM. Hunting the Snark: the flawed search for mythical Jurassic angiosperms. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2020; 71:22-35. [PMID: 31538196 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erz411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2019] [Accepted: 09/03/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Several recent palaeobotanical studies claim to have found and described pre-Cretaceous angiosperm macrofossils. With rare exceptions, these papers fail to define a flower, do not acknowledge that fossils require character-based rather than group-based classification, do not explicitly state which morphological features would unambiguously identify a fossil as angiospermous, ignore the modern conceptual framework of phylogeny reconstruction, and infer features in the fossils in question that are interpreted differently by (or even invisible to) other researchers. This unfortunate situation is compounded by the relevant fossils being highly disarticulated two-dimensional compression-impressions lacking anatomical preservation. Given current evidence, all supposed pre-Cretaceous angiosperms are assignable to other major clades among the gymnosperms sensu lato. By any workable morphological definition, flowers are not confined to, and therefore cannot delimit, the angiosperm clade. More precisely defined character states that are potentially diagnostic of angiosperms must by definition originate on the phylogenetic branch that immediately precedes the angiosperm crown group. Although the most reliable candidates for diagnostic characters (triploid endosperm reflecting double fertilization, closed carpel, bitegmic ovule, and phloem companion cells) are rarely preserved and/or difficult to detect unambiguously, similar characters have occasionally been preserved in high-quality permineralized non-angiosperm fossils. The angiosperm radiation documented by Early Cretaceous fossils involves only lineages closely similar to extant taxonomic families, lacks obvious morphological gaps, and (as agreed by both the fossil record and molecular phylogenies) was relatively rapid-all features that suggest a primary radiation. It is unlikely that ancestors of the crown group common ancestor would have fulfilled a character-based definition of (and thereby required expansion of the concept of) an angiosperm; they would instead form a new element of the non-angiosperm members of the 'anthophyte' grade, competing with Caytonia to be viewed as morphologically determined sister group for angiosperms. Conclusions drawn from molecular phylogenetics should not be allowed to routinely constrain palaeobotanical inferences; reciprocal illumination between different categories of data offers greater explanatory power than immediately resorting to Grand Syntheses. The Jurassic angiosperm-essentially a product of molecular phylogenetics-may have become the holy grail of palaeobotany but it appears equally mythical.
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Chloroplast genome of Hibiscus rosa-sinensis (Malvaceae): Comparative analyses and identification of mutational hotspots. Genomics 2020; 112:581-591. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2019.04.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2019] [Revised: 04/09/2019] [Accepted: 04/13/2019] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Wang W, Lanfear R. Long-Reads Reveal That the Chloroplast Genome Exists in Two Distinct Versions in Most Plants. Genome Biol Evol 2019; 11:3372-3381. [PMID: 31750905 PMCID: PMC7145664 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evz256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/15/2019] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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The chloroplast genome usually has a quadripartite structure consisting of a large single copy region and a small single copy region separated by two long inverted repeats. It has been known for some time that a single cell may contain at least two structural haplotypes of this structure, which differ in the relative orientation of the single copy regions. However, the methods required to detect and measure the abundance of the structural haplotypes are labor-intensive, and this phenomenon remains understudied. Here, we develop a new method, Cp-hap, to detect all possible structural haplotypes of chloroplast genomes of quadripartite structure using long-read sequencing data. We use this method to conduct a systematic analysis and quantification of chloroplast structural haplotypes in 61 land plant species across 19 orders of Angiosperms, Gymnosperms, and Pteridophytes. Our results show that there are two chloroplast structural haplotypes which occur with equal frequency in most land plant individuals. Nevertheless, species whose chloroplast genomes lack inverted repeats or have short inverted repeats have just a single structural haplotype. We also show that the relative abundance of the two structural haplotypes remains constant across multiple samples from a single individual plant, suggesting that the process which maintains equal frequency of the two haplotypes operates rapidly, consistent with the hypothesis that flip-flop recombination mediates chloroplast structural heteroplasmy. Our results suggest that previous claims of differences in chloroplast genome structure between species may need to be revisited.
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- Weiwen Wang
- Division of Ecology and Evolution, Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Acton, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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- Division of Ecology and Evolution, Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Acton, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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Complete Chloroplast Genome of Pinus densiflora Siebold & Zucc. and Comparative Analysis with Five Pine Trees. FORESTS 2019. [DOI: 10.3390/f10070600] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Pinus densiflora (Korean red pine) is widely distributed in East Asia and considered one of the most important species in Korea. In this study, the complete chloroplast genome of P. densiflora was sequenced by combining the advantages of Oxford Nanopore MinION and Illumina MiSeq. The sequenced genome was then compared with that of a previously published conifer plastome. The chloroplast genome was found to be circular and comprised of a quadripartite structure, including 113 genes encoding 73 proteins, 36 tRNAs and 4 rRNAs. It had short inverted repeat regions and lacked ndh gene family genes, which is consistent with other Pinaceae species. The gene content of P. densiflora was found to be most similar to that of P. sylvestris. The newly attempted sequencing method could be considered an alternative method for obtaining accurate genetic information, and the chloroplast genome sequence of P. densiflora revealed in this study can be used in the phylogenetic analysis of Pinus species.
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Jin DP, Choi IS, Choi BH. Plastid genome evolution in tribe Desmodieae (Fabaceae: Papilionoideae). PLoS One 2019; 14:e0218743. [PMID: 31233545 PMCID: PMC6590825 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0218743] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2019] [Accepted: 06/08/2019] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Recent plastid genome (plastome) studies of legumes (family Fabaceae) have shown that this family has undergone multiple atypical plastome evolutions from each of the major clades. The tribe Desmodieae belongs to the Phaseoloids, an important but systematically puzzling clade within Fabaceae. In this study, we investigated the plastome evolution of Desmodieae and analyzed its phylogenetic signaling. We sequenced six complete plastomes from representative members of Desmodieae and from its putative sister Phaseoloid genus Mucuna. Those genomes contain 128 genes and range in size from 148,450 to 153,826 bp. Analyses of gene and intron content revealed similar characters among the members of Desmodieae and Mucuna. However, there were also several distinct characters identified. The loss of the rpl2 intron was a feature shared between Desmodieae and Mucuna, whereas the loss of the rps12 intron was specific to Desmodieae. Likewise, gene loss of rps16 was observed in Mucuna but not in Desmodieae. Substantial sequence variation of ycf4 was detected from all the sequenced plastomes, but pseudogenization was restricted to the genus Desmodium. Comparative analysis of gene order revealed a distinct plastome conformation of Desmodieae compared with other Phaseoloid legumes, i.e., an inversion of an approximately 1.5-kb gene cluster (trnD-GUC, trnY-GUA, and trnE-UUC). The inversion breakpoint suggests that this event was mediated by the recombination of an 11-bp repeat motif. A phylogenetic analysis based on the plastome-scale data set found the tribe Desmodieae is a highly supported monophyletic group nested within the paraphyletic Phaseoleae, as has been found in previous phylogenetic studies. Two subtribes (Desmodiinae and Lespedezinae) of Desmodieae were also supported as monophyletic groups. Within the subtribe Lespedezinae, Lespedeza is closer to Kummerowia than Campylotropis.
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- Dong-Pil Jin
- Department of Biological Sciences, Inha University, Michuhol-gu, Incheon, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Inha University, Michuhol-gu, Incheon, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Inha University, Michuhol-gu, Incheon, Republic of Korea
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Brandão JHSG, Rodrigues NF, Eguiluz M, Guzman F, Margis R. Araucaria angustifolia chloroplast genome sequence and its relation to other Araucariaceae. Genet Mol Biol 2019; 42:671-676. [PMID: 31188933 PMCID: PMC6905450 DOI: 10.1590/1678-4685-gmb-2018-0213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2018] [Accepted: 11/28/2018] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Araucaria angustifolia is endemic to southern Brazil. Known as Brazilian pine, A. angustifolia is the only native conifer species with economic and social relevance in this country. Due to massive exploitation, it has suffered a significant population decline and currently is classified as critically endangered. This encouraged the scientific community to investigate genetic features in Brazilian pine to increase resources for management and preservation. In this work, RNA-Seq data was used to determine the complete nucleotide sequence of the A. angustifolia chloroplast genome (cpDNA). The cpDNA is 146,203 bp in length and contains 122 genes, including 80 protein-coding genes, 5 ribosomal RNA genes, and 37 tRNA genes. Coding regions comprise 45.02%, 4.96% correspond to rRNAs and tRNAs, and 50.02% of the genome encompasses non-coding regions. Genes found in the inverted repeat (IR) are present as single copy, with exception of the rrn5 and trnI-CAU loci. The typical LSC, SSC, IRa and IRb organization reported in several land-plant groups is not present in A. angustifolia cpDNA. Phylogenetic analyses using Bayesian and Maximum Likelihood methods clustered A. angustifolia in the Araucariaceae family, with A. heterophylla and A. columnaris as congeneric species. The screening of A. angustifolia cpDNA reveled 100 SSRs, 14 of them corresponding to tetrapolymer loci.
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- José Henrique S G Brandão
- PPGBM, Departamento de Genética, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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- PPGBCM, Centro de Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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- PPGBM, Departamento de Genética, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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- PPGBCM, Centro de Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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- PPGBM, Departamento de Genética, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.,PPGBCM, Centro de Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.,Departamento de Biofísica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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Guyeux C, Charr JC, Tran HTM, Furtado A, Henry RJ, Crouzillat D, Guyot R, Hamon P. Evaluation of chloroplast genome annotation tools and application to analysis of the evolution of coffee species. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0216347. [PMID: 31188829 PMCID: PMC6561552 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0216347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2018] [Accepted: 04/18/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Chloroplast sequences are widely used for phylogenetic analysis due to their high degree of conservation in plants. Whole chloroplast genomes can now be readily obtained for plant species using new sequencing methods, giving invaluable data for plant evolution However new annotation methods are required for the efficient analysis of this data to deliver high quality phylogenetic analyses. In this study, the two main tools for chloroplast genome annotation were compared. More consistent detection and annotation of genes were produced with GeSeq when compared to the currently used Dogma. This suggests that the annotation of most of the previously annotated chloroplast genomes should now be updated. GeSeq was applied to species related to coffee, including 16 species of the Coffea and Psilanthus genera to reconstruct the ancestral chloroplast genomes and to evaluate their phylogenetic relationships. Eight genes in the plant chloroplast pan genome (consisting of 92 genes) were always absent in the coffee species analyzed. Notably, the two main cultivated coffee species (i.e. Arabica and Robusta) did not group into the same clade and differ in their pattern of gene evolution. While Arabica coffee (Coffea arabica) belongs to the Coffea genus, Robusta coffee (Coffea canephora) is associated with the Psilanthus genus. A more extensive survey of related species is required to determine if this is a unique attribute of Robusta coffee or a more widespread feature of coffee tree species.
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- Christophe Guyeux
- Femto-ST Institute, UMR 6174 CNRS, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
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- Femto-ST Institute, UMR 6174 CNRS, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
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- Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, UMR IPME, CIRAD, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- Department of Electronics and Automatization, Universidad Autónoma de Manizales, Manizales, Colombia
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- Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, UMR DIADE, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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Zhang HR, Zhang XC, Xiang QP. Directed Repeats Co-occur with Few Short-Dispersed Repeats in Plastid Genome of a Spikemoss, Selaginella vardei (Selaginellaceae, Lycopodiopsida). BMC Genomics 2019; 20:484. [PMID: 31185895 PMCID: PMC6560725 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-019-5843-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2018] [Accepted: 05/24/2019] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND It is hypothesized that the highly conserved inverted repeats (IR) structure of land plant plastid genomes (plastomes) is beneficial for stabilizing plastome organization, whereas the mechanism of the occurrence and stability maintenance of the recently reported direct repeats (DR) structure is yet awaiting further exploration. Here we describe the DR structure of the Selaginella vardei (Selaginellaceae) plastome, to elucidate the mechanism of DR occurrence and stability maintenance. RESULTS The plastome of S. vardei is 121,254 bp in length and encodes 76 genes, of which 62 encode proteins, 10 encode tRNAs, and four encode rRNAs. Unexpectedly, the two identical rRNA gene regions (13,893 bp) are arranged in a direct orientation (DR), rather than inverted. Comparing to the IR organization in Isoetes flaccida (Isoetaceae, Lycopodiopsida) plastome, a ca. 50-kb trnN-trnF inversion that spans one DR copy was found in the plastome of S. vardei, which might cause the orientation change. In addition, we find extremely rare short dispersed repeats (SDRs) in the plastomes of S. vardei and its closely related species S. indica. CONCLUSIONS We suggest that the ca. 50-kb inversion resulted in the DR structure, and the reduction in SDRs plays a key role in maintaining the stability of plastomes with DR structure by avoiding potential secondary recombination. We further confirmed the presence of homologous recombination between DR regions, which are able to generate subgenomes and form diverse multimers. Our study deepens the understanding of Selaginella plastomes and provides new insights into the diverse plastome structures in land plants.
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- Hong-Rui Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093 China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093 China
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Fu CN, Wu CS, Ye LJ, Mo ZQ, Liu J, Chang YW, Li DZ, Chaw SM, Gao LM. Prevalence of isomeric plastomes and effectiveness of plastome super-barcodes in yews (Taxus) worldwide. Sci Rep 2019; 9:2773. [PMID: 30808961 PMCID: PMC6391452 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-39161-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2018] [Accepted: 10/02/2018] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Taxus (yew) is both the most species-rich and taxonomically difficult genus in Taxaceae. To date, no study has elucidated the complexities of the plastid genome (plastome) or examined the possibility of whole plastomes as super-barcodes across yew species worldwide. In this study, we sequenced plastomes from two to three individuals for each of the 16 recognized yew species (including three potential cryptics) and Pseudotaxus chienii. Our comparative analyses uncovered several gene loss events that independently occurred in yews, resulting in a lower plastid gene number than other Taxaceous genera. In Pseudotaxus and Taxus, we found two isomeric arrangements that differ by the orientation of a 35 kb fragment flanked by "trnQ-IRs". These two arrangements exist in different ratios within each sampled individual, and intraspecific shifts in major isomeric arrangements are first reported here in Taxus. Moreover, we demonstrate that entire plastomes can be used to successfully discriminate all Taxus species with 100% support, suggesting that they are useful as super-barcodes for species identification. We also propose that accD and rrn16-rrn23 are promising special barcodes to discriminate yew species. Our newly developed Taxus plastomic sequences provide a resource for super-barcodes and conservation genetics of several endangered yews and serve as comprehensive data to improve models of plastome complexity in Taxaceae as a whole and authenticate Taxus species.
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- Chao-Nan Fu
- CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography in East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, 650201, China
- Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, 650201, China
- Kunming College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, 650201, China
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- Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan
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- Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, 650201, China
- Kunming College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, 650201, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography in East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, 650201, China
- Kunming College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, 650201, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography in East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, 650201, China
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- Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan
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- Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, 650201, China
- Kunming College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, 650201, China
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- Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan.
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- CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography in East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, 650201, China.
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Ding X, Chen H, Huang S, Yu M, Dai H, Mei W. Characterization of complete chloroplast genome of the tertiary relict tree Cephalotaxus hainanensis (Cephalotaxaceae), an endangered species endemic to China. Mitochondrial DNA B Resour 2019. [DOI: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1567280] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022] Open
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- Xupo Ding
- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Resources of Tropical Crops of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou, P. R. China
- Hainan Key Laboratory for Research and Development of Natural Products from Li folk Medicine, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Resources of Tropical Crops of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou, P. R. China
- Hainan Key Laboratory for Research and Development of Natural Products from Li folk Medicine, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Resources of Tropical Crops of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou, P. R. China
- Hainan Key Laboratory for Research and Development of Natural Products from Li folk Medicine, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou, P. R. China
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- Hainan Key Laboratory for Research and Development of Natural Products from Li folk Medicine, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Resources of Tropical Crops of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou, P. R. China
- Hainan Key Laboratory for Research and Development of Natural Products from Li folk Medicine, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Resources of Tropical Crops of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou, P. R. China
- Hainan Key Laboratory for Research and Development of Natural Products from Li folk Medicine, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou, P. R. China
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Sudianto E, Wu CS, Leonhard L, Martin WF, Chaw SM. Enlarged and highly repetitive plastome of Lagarostrobos and plastid phylogenomics of Podocarpaceae. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2018; 133:24-32. [PMID: 30553879 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.12.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2018] [Revised: 12/09/2018] [Accepted: 12/10/2018] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Podocarpaceae is the largest family in cupressophytes (conifers II), but its plastid genomes (plastomes) are poorly studied, with plastome data currently existing for only four of the 19 Podocarpaceous genera. In this study, we sequenced and assembled the complete plastomes from representatives of eight additional genera, including Afrocarpus, Dacrydium, Lagarostrobos, Lepidothamnus, Pherosphaera, Phyllocladus, Prumnopitys, and Saxegothaea. We found that Lagarostrobos, a monotypic genus native to Tasmania, has the largest plastome (151,496 bp) among any cupressophytes studied to date. Plastome enlargement in Lagarostrobos coincides with increased intergenic spacers, repeats, and duplicated genes. Among the Podocarpaceae, Lagarostrobos has the most rearranged plastome, but its substitution rates are modest. Plastid phylogenomic analyses based on 81 plastid genes clarify the positions of previously conflicting Podocarpaceous genera. Tree topologies firmly support the division of Podocarpaceae into two sister clades: (1) the Prumnopityoid clade and (2) the clade containing Podocarpoid, Dacrydioid, Pherosphaera, and Saxegothaea. The Phyllocladus is nested within the Podocarpaceae, thus familial status of the monotypic Phyllocladaceae is not supported.
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- Edi Sudianto
- Biodiversity Program, Taiwan International Graduate Program, Academia Sinica and National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei 11529, Taiwan; Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei 11677, Taiwan; Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
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- Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
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- Botanical Garden, Heinrich-Heine-University, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Evolution, Heinrich-Heine-University, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany.
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- Biodiversity Program, Taiwan International Graduate Program, Academia Sinica and National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei 11529, Taiwan; Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan.
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Phylogeny and evolutionary history of Pinaceae updated by transcriptomic analysis. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2018; 129:106-116. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.08.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2018] [Revised: 06/21/2018] [Accepted: 08/20/2018] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Accurate authentication of Dendrobium officinale and its closely related species by comparative analysis of complete plastomes. Acta Pharm Sin B 2018; 8:969-980. [PMID: 30505665 PMCID: PMC6251949 DOI: 10.1016/j.apsb.2018.05.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2018] [Revised: 05/18/2018] [Accepted: 05/21/2018] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Owing to its great medicinal and ornamental values, Dendrobium officinale is frequently adulterated with other Dendrobium species on the market. Unfortunately, the utilization of the common DNA markers ITS, ITS2, and matK+rbcL is unable to distinguish D. officinale from 5 closely related species of it (D. tosaense, D. shixingense, D. flexicaule, D. scoriarum and D. aduncum). Here, we compared 63 Dendrobium plastomes comprising 40 newly sequenced plastomes of the 6 species and 23 previously published plastomes. The plastomes of D. officinale and its closely related species were shown to have conserved genome structure and gene content. Comparative analyses revealed that small single copy region contained higher variation than large single copy and inverted repeat regions, which was mainly attributed to the loss/retention of ndh genes. Furthermore, the intraspecific sequence variability among different Dendrobium species was shown to be diversified, which necessitates a cautious evaluation of genetic markers specific for different Dendrobium species. By evaluating the maximum likelihood trees inferred from different datasets, we found that the complete plastome sequence dataset had the highest discriminatory power for D. officinale and its closely related species, indicating that complete plastome sequences can be used to accurately authenticate Dendrobium species.
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Key Words
- Authentication
- BS, bootstrap value
- CE, capillary electrophoresis
- Complete plastome sequence
- Dendrobium officinale
- Genetic marker
- HPLC, high-pressure liquid chromatography
- IR, inverted repeat region
- Indels, insertions/deletions
- LSC, large single copy region
- ML, maximum likelihood
- NGS, next-generation sequencing
- Plastomic comparison
- SNPs, single nucleotide polymorphisms
- SSC, small single copy region
- SV, sequence variability.
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Li B, Zheng Y. Dynamic evolution and phylogenomic analysis of the chloroplast genome in Schisandraceae. Sci Rep 2018; 8:9285. [PMID: 29915292 PMCID: PMC6006245 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-27453-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2018] [Accepted: 05/31/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Chloroplast genomes of plants are highly conserved in both gene order and gene content, are maternally inherited, and have a lower rate of evolution. Chloroplast genomes are considered to be good models for testing lineage-specific molecular evolution. In this study, we use Schisandraceae as an example to generate insights into the overall evolutionary dynamics in chloroplast genomes and to establish the phylogenetic relationship of Schisandraceae based on chloroplast genome data using phylogenomic analysis. By comparing three Schisandraceae chloroplast genomes, we demonstrate that the gene order, gene content, and length of chloroplast genomes in Schisandraceae are highly conserved but experience dynamic evolution among species. The number of repeat variations were detected, and the Schisandraceae chloroplast genome was revealed as unusual in having a 10 kb contraction of the IR due to the genome size variations compared with other angiosperms. Phylogenomic analysis based on 82 protein-coding genes from 66 plant taxa clearly elucidated that Schisandraceae is a sister to a clade that includes magnoliids, monocots, and eudicots within angiosperms. As to genus relationships within Schisandraceae, Kadsura and Schisandra formed a monophyletic clade which was sister to Illicium.
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- Bin Li
- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China
- Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China
- Key Laboratory of Tree Breeding and Cultivation of State Forestry Administration, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China.
- Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China.
- Key Laboratory of Tree Breeding and Cultivation of State Forestry Administration, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China.
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Song Y, Yu WB, Tan Y, Liu B, Yao X, Jin J, Padmanaba M, Yang JB, Corlett RT. Evolutionary Comparisons of the Chloroplast Genome in Lauraceae and Insights into Loss Events in the Magnoliids. Genome Biol Evol 2018; 9:2354-2364. [PMID: 28957463 PMCID: PMC5610729 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evx180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2017] [Accepted: 09/01/2017] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Available plastomes of the Lauraceae show similar structure and varied size, but there has been no systematic comparison across the family. In order to understand the variation in plastome size and structure in the Lauraceae and related families of magnoliids, we here compare 47 plastomes, 15 newly sequenced, from 27 representative genera. We reveal that the two shortest plastomes are in the parasitic Lauraceae genus Cassytha, with lengths of 114,623 (C. filiformis) and 114,963 bp (C. capillaris), and that they have lost NADH dehydrogenase (ndh) genes in the large single-copy region and one entire copy of the inverted repeat (IR) region. The plastomes of the core Lauraceae group, with lengths from 150,749 bp (Nectandra angustifolia) to 152,739 bp (Actinodaphne trichocarpa), have lost trnI-CAU, rpl23, rpl2, a fragment of ycf2, and their intergenic regions in IRb region, whereas the plastomes of the basal Lauraceae group, with lengths from 157,577 bp (Eusideroxylon zwageri) to 158,530 bp (Beilschmiedia tungfangensis), have lost rpl2 in IRa region. The plastomes of Calycanthus (Calycanthaceae, Laurales) have lost rpl2 in IRb region, but the plastome of Caryodaphnopsis henryi (Lauraceae) remain intact, as do those of the nonLaurales magnoliid genera Piper, Liriodendron, and Magnolia. On the basis of our phylogenetic analysis and structural comparisons, different loss events occurred in different lineages of the Laurales, and fragment loss events in the IR regions have largely driven the contraction of the plastome in the Lauraceae. These results provide new insights into the evolution of the Lauraceae as well as the magnoliids as a whole.
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- Yu Song
- Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, China.,Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yezin, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar
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- Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, China.,Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yezin, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar
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- Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, China.,Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yezin, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar
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- State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, China
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- Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
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- Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, China
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- Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
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- Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, China.,Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yezin, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar
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Hohmann N, Wolf EM, Rigault P, Zhou W, Kiefer M, Zhao Y, Fu CX, Koch MA. Ginkgo biloba's footprint of dynamic Pleistocene history dates back only 390,000 years ago. BMC Genomics 2018; 19:299. [PMID: 29703145 PMCID: PMC5921299 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-018-4673-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2017] [Accepted: 04/13/2018] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND At the end of the Pliocene and the beginning of Pleistocene glaciation and deglaciation cycles Ginkgo biloba went extinct all over the world, and only few populations remained in China in relict areas serving as sanctuary for Tertiary relict trees. Yet the status of these regions as refuge areas with naturally existing populations has been proven not earlier than one decade ago. Herein we elaborated the hypothesis that during the Pleistocene cooling periods G. biloba expanded its distribution range in China repeatedly. Whole plastid genomes were sequenced, assembled and annotated, and sequence data was analyzed in a phylogenetic framework of the entire gymnosperms to establish a robust spatio-temporal framework for gymnosperms and in particular for G. biloba Pleistocene evolutionary history. RESULTS Using a phylogenetic approach, we identified that Ginkgoatae stem group age is about 325 million years, whereas crown group radiation of extant Ginkgo started not earlier than 390,000 years ago. During repeated warming phases, Gingko populations were separated and isolated by contraction of distribution range and retreated into mountainous regions serving as refuge for warm-temperate deciduous forests. Diversification and phylogenetic splits correlate with the onset of cooling phases when Ginkgo expanded its distribution range and gene pools merged. CONCLUSIONS Analysis of whole plastid genome sequence data representing the entire spatio-temporal genetic variation of wild extant Ginkgo populations revealed the deepest temporal footprint dating back to approximately 390,000 years ago. Present-day directional West-East admixture of genetic diversity is shown to be the result of pronounced effects of the last cooling period. Our evolutionary framework will serve as a conceptual roadmap for forthcoming genomic sequence data, which can then provide deep insights into the demographic history of Ginkgo.
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- Nora Hohmann
- Center for Organismal Studies (COS) Heidelberg/Botanic Garden and Herbarium Heidelberg (HEID), University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 345, D-69120, Heidelberg, Germany.,Present address: Department of Environmental Sciences, Botany, University of Basel, Schönbeinstrasse 6, CH-4056, Basel, Switzerland
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- Center for Organismal Studies (COS) Heidelberg/Botanic Garden and Herbarium Heidelberg (HEID), University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 345, D-69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Center for Organismal Studies (COS) Heidelberg/Botanic Garden and Herbarium Heidelberg (HEID), University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 345, D-69120, Heidelberg, Germany.,GYDLE Inc., 1135 Grande Allée Ouest, Suite 220, QC, Québec, G1S 1E7, Canada
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- The Key Laboratory of Conservation Biology for Endangered Wildlife of the Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- Center for Organismal Studies (COS) Heidelberg/Botanic Garden and Herbarium Heidelberg (HEID), University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 345, D-69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- The Key Laboratory of Conservation Biology for Endangered Wildlife of the Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China.
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- The Key Laboratory of Conservation Biology for Endangered Wildlife of the Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- Center for Organismal Studies (COS) Heidelberg/Botanic Garden and Herbarium Heidelberg (HEID), University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 345, D-69120, Heidelberg, Germany.
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