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Erez K, Jangid A, Feldheim ON, Friedlander T. The role of promiscuous molecular recognition in the evolution of RNase-based self-incompatibility in plants. Nat Commun 2024; 15:4864. [PMID: 38849350 PMCID: PMC11161657 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-49163-7] [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: 10/05/2023] [Accepted: 05/22/2024] [Indexed: 06/09/2024] Open
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How do biological networks evolve and expand? We study these questions in the context of the plant collaborative-non-self recognition self-incompatibility system. Self-incompatibility evolved to avoid self-fertilization among hermaphroditic plants. It relies on specific molecular recognition between highly diverse proteins of two families: female and male determinants, such that the combination of genes an individual possesses determines its mating partners. Though highly polymorphic, previous models struggled to pinpoint the evolutionary trajectories by which new specificities evolved. Here, we construct a novel theoretical framework, that crucially affords interaction promiscuity and multiple distinct partners per protein, as is seen in empirical findings disregarded by previous models. We demonstrate spontaneous self-organization of the population into distinct "classes" with full between-class compatibility and a dynamic long-term balance between class emergence and decay. Our work highlights the importance of molecular recognition promiscuity to network evolvability. Promiscuity was found in additional systems suggesting that our framework could be more broadly applicable.
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Affiliation(s)
- Keren Erez
- The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, Faculty of Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, P.O. Box 12, Rehovot, 7610001, Israel
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- The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, Faculty of Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, P.O. Box 12, Rehovot, 7610001, Israel
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- The Einstein Institute of Mathematics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 9190401, Israel
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- The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, Faculty of Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, P.O. Box 12, Rehovot, 7610001, Israel.
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Brandvain Y, Thomson L, Pyhäjärvi T. Early-acting inbreeding depression can evolve as an inbreeding avoidance mechanism. Proc Biol Sci 2024; 291:20232467. [PMID: 38444336 PMCID: PMC10921365 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2023.2467] [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: 11/03/2023] [Accepted: 01/29/2024] [Indexed: 03/07/2024] Open
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Despite the potential for mechanical, developmental and/or chemical mechanisms to prevent self-fertilization, incidental self-fertilization is inevitable in many predominantly outcrossing species. In such cases, inbreeding can compromise individual fitness. Unquestionably, much of this inbreeding depression is maladaptive. However, we show that when reproductive compensation allows for the replacement of inviable embryos lost early in development, selection can favour deleterious recessive variants that induce 'self-sacrificial' death of inbred embryos. Our theoretical results provide numerous testable predictions which could challenge the assumption that inbreeding depression is always maladaptive. Our work is applicable any species that cannot fully avoid inbreeding, exhibits substantial inbreeding depression, and has the potential to compensate embryos lost early in development. In addition to its general applicability, our theory suggests that self-sacrificial variants might be responsible for the remarkably low realized selfing rates of gymnosperms with high primary selfing rates, as gymnosperms exhibit strong inbreeding depression, have effective reproductive compensation mechanisms, and cannot evolve chemical self-incompatibility.
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- Yaniv Brandvain
- Department of Plant amd Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, St Paul, MN, USA
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- Department of Plant amd Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, St Paul, MN, USA
- School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Temple, AZ, USA
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- Department of Forest Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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Zhang D, Li YY, Zhao X, Zhang C, Liu DK, Lan S, Yin W, Liu ZJ. Molecular insights into self-incompatibility systems: From evolution to breeding. PLANT COMMUNICATIONS 2024; 5:100719. [PMID: 37718509 PMCID: PMC10873884 DOI: 10.1016/j.xplc.2023.100719] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2023] [Revised: 08/18/2023] [Accepted: 09/13/2023] [Indexed: 09/19/2023]
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Plants have evolved diverse self-incompatibility (SI) systems for outcrossing. Since Darwin's time, considerable progress has been made toward elucidating this unrivaled reproductive innovation. Recent advances in interdisciplinary studies and applications of biotechnology have given rise to major breakthroughs in understanding the molecular pathways that lead to SI, particularly the strikingly different SI mechanisms that operate in Solanaceae, Papaveraceae, Brassicaceae, and Primulaceae. These best-understood SI systems, together with discoveries in other "nonmodel" SI taxa such as Poaceae, suggest a complex evolutionary trajectory of SI, with multiple independent origins and frequent and irreversible losses. Extensive exploration of self-/nonself-discrimination signaling cascades has revealed a comprehensive catalog of male and female identity genes and modifier factors that control SI. These findings also enable the characterization, validation, and manipulation of SI-related factors for crop improvement, helping to address the challenges associated with development of inbred lines. Here, we review current knowledge about the evolution of SI systems, summarize key achievements in the molecular basis of pollen‒pistil interactions, discuss potential prospects for breeding of SI crops, and raise several unresolved questions that require further investigation.
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- Diyang Zhang
- Key Laboratory of National Forestry and Grassland Administration for Orchid Conservation and Utilization, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- Key Laboratory of National Forestry and Grassland Administration for Orchid Conservation and Utilization, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- Key Laboratory of National Forestry and Grassland Administration for Orchid Conservation and Utilization, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China; College of Forestry, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- Key Laboratory of National Forestry and Grassland Administration for Orchid Conservation and Utilization, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- Key Laboratory of National Forestry and Grassland Administration for Orchid Conservation and Utilization, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China; College of Forestry, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- Key Laboratory of National Forestry and Grassland Administration for Orchid Conservation and Utilization, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China.
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- Key Laboratory of National Forestry and Grassland Administration for Orchid Conservation and Utilization, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China; College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China.
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- Key Laboratory of National Forestry and Grassland Administration for Orchid Conservation and Utilization, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China.
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Nasrallah JB. Stop and go signals at the stigma-pollen interface of the Brassicaceae. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2023; 193:927-948. [PMID: 37423711 PMCID: PMC10517188 DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiad301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2023] [Accepted: 05/16/2023] [Indexed: 07/11/2023]
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- June B Nasrallah
- Section of Plant Biology, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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Kolesnikova UK, Scott AD, Van de Velde JD, Burns R, Tikhomirov NP, Pfordt U, Clarke AC, Yant L, Seregin AP, Vekemans X, Laurent S, Novikova PY. Transition to Self-compatibility Associated With Dominant S-allele in a Diploid Siberian Progenitor of Allotetraploid Arabidopsis kamchatica Revealed by Arabidopsis lyrata Genomes. Mol Biol Evol 2023; 40:msad122. [PMID: 37432770 PMCID: PMC10335350 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msad122] [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] [Indexed: 07/13/2023] Open
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A transition to selfing can be beneficial when mating partners are scarce, for example, due to ploidy changes or at species range edges. Here, we explain how self-compatibility evolved in diploid Siberian Arabidopsis lyrata, and how it contributed to the establishment of allotetraploid Arabidopsis kamchatica. First, we provide chromosome-level genome assemblies for two self-fertilizing diploid A. lyrata accessions, one from North America and one from Siberia, including a fully assembled S-locus for the latter. We then propose a sequence of events leading to the loss of self-incompatibility in Siberian A. lyrata, date this independent transition to ∼90 Kya, and infer evolutionary relationships between Siberian and North American A. lyrata, showing an independent transition to selfing in Siberia. Finally, we provide evidence that this selfing Siberian A. lyrata lineage contributed to the formation of the allotetraploid A. kamchatica and propose that the selfing of the latter is mediated by the loss-of-function mutation in a dominant S-allele inherited from A. lyrata.
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- Uliana K Kolesnikova
- Department of Chromosome Biology, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Chromosome Biology, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Chromosome Biology, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
- Papanin Institute for Biology of Inland Waters, Russian Academy of Sciences, Borok, Russia
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- Department of Chromosome Biology, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany
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- Future Food Beacon of Excellence and School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington, United Kingdom
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- Future Food Beacon of Excellence and School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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- Herbarium (MW), Faculty of Biology, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- University Lille, CNRS, UMR 8198—Evo-Eco-Paleo, Lille, France
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- Department of Comparative Development and Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Chromosome Biology, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany
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De Cauwer I, Vernet P, Billiard S, Godé C, Bourceaux A, Ponitzki C, Saumitou-Laprade P. Widespread coexistence of self-compatible and self-incompatible phenotypes in a diallelic self-incompatibility system in Ligustrum vulgare (Oleaceae). Heredity (Edinb) 2021; 127:384-392. [PMID: 34482370 PMCID: PMC8479060 DOI: 10.1038/s41437-021-00463-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2020] [Revised: 07/26/2021] [Accepted: 07/26/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
Abstract
The breakdown of self-incompatibility (SI) in angiosperms is one of the most commonly observed evolutionary transitions. While multiple examples of SI breakdown have been documented in natural populations, there is strikingly little evidence of stable within-population polymorphism with both inbreeding (self-compatible) and outcrossing (self-incompatible) individuals. This absence of breeding system polymorphism corroborates theoretical expectations that predict that in/outbreeding polymorphism is possible only under very restricted conditions. However, theory also predicts that a diallelic sporophytic SI system should facilitate the maintenance of such polymorphism. We tested this prediction by studying the breeding system of Ligustrum vulgare L., an insect-pollinated hermaphroditic species of the Oleaceae family. Using stigma tests with controlled pollination and paternity assignment of open-pollinated progenies, we confirmed the existence of two self-incompatibility groups in this species. We also demonstrated the occurrence of self-compatible individuals in different populations of Western Europe arising from a mutation affecting the functioning of the pollen component of SI. Our results show that the observed low frequency of self-compatible individuals in natural populations is compatible with theoretical predictions only if inbreeding depression is very high.
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- Isabelle De Cauwer
- grid.503422.20000 0001 2242 6780Univ. Lille, UMR 8198 – Evo-Eco-Paleo, F-59000 Lille, France ,grid.4444.00000 0001 2112 9282CNRS, UMR 8198, F-59000 Lille, France
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- grid.503422.20000 0001 2242 6780Univ. Lille, UMR 8198 – Evo-Eco-Paleo, F-59000 Lille, France ,grid.4444.00000 0001 2112 9282CNRS, UMR 8198, F-59000 Lille, France
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- grid.503422.20000 0001 2242 6780Univ. Lille, UMR 8198 – Evo-Eco-Paleo, F-59000 Lille, France ,grid.4444.00000 0001 2112 9282CNRS, UMR 8198, F-59000 Lille, France
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- grid.503422.20000 0001 2242 6780Univ. Lille, UMR 8198 – Evo-Eco-Paleo, F-59000 Lille, France ,grid.4444.00000 0001 2112 9282CNRS, UMR 8198, F-59000 Lille, France
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- grid.503422.20000 0001 2242 6780Univ. Lille, UMR 8198 – Evo-Eco-Paleo, F-59000 Lille, France ,grid.4444.00000 0001 2112 9282CNRS, UMR 8198, F-59000 Lille, France
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- grid.503422.20000 0001 2242 6780Univ. Lille, UMR 8198 – Evo-Eco-Paleo, F-59000 Lille, France ,grid.4444.00000 0001 2112 9282CNRS, UMR 8198, F-59000 Lille, France
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- grid.503422.20000 0001 2242 6780Univ. Lille, UMR 8198 – Evo-Eco-Paleo, F-59000 Lille, France ,grid.4444.00000 0001 2112 9282CNRS, UMR 8198, F-59000 Lille, France
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Harkness A, Brandvain Y. Non-self recognition-based self-incompatibility can alternatively promote or prevent introgression. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2021; 231:1630-1643. [PMID: 33533069 DOI: 10.1111/nph.17249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2020] [Accepted: 01/19/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
Abstract
Self-incompatibility alleles (S-alleles), which prevent self-fertilisation in plants, have historically been expected to benefit from negative frequency-dependent selection and invade when introduced to a new population through gene flow. However, the most taxonomically widespread form of self-incompatibility, the ribonuclease-based system ancestral to the core eudicots, functions through collaborative non-self recognition, which can affect both short-term patterns of gene flow and the long-term process of S-allele diversification. We analysed a model of S-allele evolution in two populations connected by migration, focussing on comparisons among the fates of S-alleles initially unique to each population and those shared among populations. We found that both shared and unique S-alleles from the population with more unique S-alleles were usually fitter compared with S-alleles from the population with fewer S-alleles. Resident S-alleles often became extinct and were replaced by migrant S-alleles, although this outcome could be averted by pollen limitation or biased migration. Collaborative non-self recognition will usually either result in the whole-sale replacement of S-alleles from one population with those from another or else disfavour introgression of S-alleles altogether.
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- Alexander Harkness
- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN, 55108, USA
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN, 55108, USA
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Vekemans X, Castric V. When the genetic architecture matters: evolutionary and ecological implications of self versus nonself recognition in plant self-incompatibility. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2021; 231:1304-1307. [PMID: 34146416 DOI: 10.1111/nph.17471] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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- Xavier Vekemans
- CNRS, Univ. Lille, UMR 8198 - Evo-Eco-Paleo, Lille, F-59000, France
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- CNRS, Univ. Lille, UMR 8198 - Evo-Eco-Paleo, Lille, F-59000, France
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Kämper J, Friedrich MW, Kahmann R. Creating novel specificities in a fungal nonself recognition system by single step homologous recombination events. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2020; 228:1001-1010. [PMID: 32559311 DOI: 10.1111/nph.16755] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2020] [Accepted: 05/05/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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In many organisms, two component systems have evolved to discriminate self from nonself. While the molecular function of the two components has been elucidated in several systems, the evolutionary events leading to the large number of different specificities for self-nonself recognition found in most systems remain obscure. We have investigated the variation within a multiallelic nonself recognition system in the phytopathogenic basidiomycete Ustilago maydis by means of sequence analysis and functional studies. The multiallelic b mating type locus of U. maydis ensures outbreeding during sexual development. Nonself recognition is specified by the two homeodomain proteins, bE and bW, encoded by the b locus. While bE-bW combinations from the same allele do not dimerize, bE and bW proteins originating from different alleles form a heterodimeric complex that functions as master regulator for sexual and pathogenic development. We show that novel specificities of the b mating type locus have arisen by single homologous recombination events between distinct b alleles that lead to a simultaneous exchange of subdomains involved in dimerization in both bE and bW, altering the specificity of both proteins in a single step.
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- Jörg Kämper
- Department Organismic Interactions, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Karl-von-Frisch-Strasse 10, Marburg, 35043, Germany
- Department of Genetics, Institute for Applied Biosciences, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Fritz Haber Weg 4, Karlsruhe, 76131, Germany
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- Department Organismic Interactions, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Karl-von-Frisch-Strasse 10, Marburg, 35043, Germany
- Microbial Ecophysiology Group BreMarE, University of Bremen, Leobener Straße 3, Bremen, 28359, Germany
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- Department Organismic Interactions, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Karl-von-Frisch-Strasse 10, Marburg, 35043, Germany
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Suwabe K, Nagasaka K, Windari EA, Hoshiai C, Ota T, Takada M, Kitazumi A, Masuko-Suzuki H, Kagaya Y, Yano K, Tsuchimatsu T, Shimizu KK, Takayama S, Suzuki G, Watanabe M. Double-Locking Mechanism of Self-Compatibility in Arabidopsis thaliana: The Synergistic Effect of Transcriptional Depression and Disruption of Coding Region in the Male Specificity Gene. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2020; 11:576140. [PMID: 33042191 PMCID: PMC7517786 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.576140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2020] [Accepted: 08/31/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Self-compatibility in Arabidopsis thaliana represents the relatively recent disruption of ancestral obligate cross pollination, recognized as one of the prevalent evolutionary pathways in flowering plants, as noted by Darwin. Our previous study found that inversion of the male specificity gene (SP11/SCR) disrupted self-incompatibility, which was restored by overexpressing the SCR with the reversed inversion. However, SCR in A. thaliana has other mutations aside from the pivotal inversion, in both promoter and coding regions, with probable effects on transcriptional regulation. To examine the functional consequences of these mutations, we conducted reciprocal introductions of native promoters and downstream sequences from orthologous loci of self-compatible A. thaliana and self-incompatible A. halleri. Use of this inter-species pair enabled us to expand the scope of the analysis to transcriptional regulation and deletion in the intron, in addition to inversion in the native genomic background. Initial analysis revealed that A. thaliana has a significantly lower basal expression level of SCR transcripts in the critical reproductive stage compared to that of A. halleri, suggesting that the promoter was attenuated in inducing transcription in A. thaliana. However, in reciprocal transgenic experiments, this A. thaliana promoter was able to restore partial function if coupled with the functional A. halleri coding sequence, despite extensive alterations due to the self-compatible mode of reproduction in A. thaliana. This represents a synergistic effect of the promoter and the inversion resulting in fixation of self-compatibility, primarily enforced by disruption of SCR. Our findings elucidate the functional and evolutionary context of the historical transition in A. thaliana thus contributing to the understanding of the molecular events leading to development of self-compatibility.
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- Keita Suwabe
- Graduate School of Bioresources, Mie University, Tsu, Japan
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- Graduate School of Bioresources, Mie University, Tsu, Japan
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- Graduate School of Bioresources, Mie University, Tsu, Japan
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- Graduate School of Bioresources, Mie University, Tsu, Japan
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- Department of Plant and Soil Science, Texas Tech University, TX, United States
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- Life Science Research Center, Mie University, Tsu, Japan
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- School of Agriculture, Meiji University, Kawasaki, Japan
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Kihara Institute for Biological Studies, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan
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- Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Division of Natural Science, Osaka Kyoiku University, Kashiwara, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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Durand E, Chantreau M, Le Veve A, Stetsenko R, Dubin M, Genete M, Llaurens V, Poux C, Roux C, Billiard S, Vekemans X, Castric V. Evolution of self-incompatibility in the Brassicaceae: Lessons from a textbook example of natural selection. Evol Appl 2020; 13:1279-1297. [PMID: 32684959 PMCID: PMC7359833 DOI: 10.1111/eva.12933] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2019] [Revised: 01/25/2020] [Accepted: 01/29/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Self-incompatibility (SI) is a self-recognition genetic system enforcing outcrossing in hermaphroditic flowering plants and results in one of the arguably best understood forms of natural (balancing) selection maintaining genetic variation over long evolutionary times. A rich theoretical and empirical population genetics literature has considerably clarified how the distribution of SI phenotypes translates into fitness differences among individuals by a combination of inbreeding avoidance and rare-allele advantage. At the same time, the molecular mechanisms by which self-pollen is specifically recognized and rejected have been described in exquisite details in several model organisms, such that the genotype-to-phenotype map is also pretty well understood, notably in the Brassicaceae. Here, we review recent advances in these two fronts and illustrate how the joint availability of detailed characterization of genotype-to-phenotype and phenotype-to-fitness maps on a single genetic system (plant self-incompatibility) provides the opportunity to understand the evolutionary process in a unique perspective, bringing novel insight on general questions about the emergence, maintenance, and diversification of a complex genetic system.
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- CNRSUniv. LilleUMR 8198 ‐ Evo‐Eco‐PaleoF-59000 LilleFrance
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- CNRSUniv. LilleUMR 8198 ‐ Evo‐Eco‐PaleoF-59000 LilleFrance
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- CNRSUniv. LilleUMR 8198 ‐ Evo‐Eco‐PaleoF-59000 LilleFrance
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- Institut de Systématique, Evolution et Biodiversité (ISYEB)Muséum national d'Histoire naturelleCNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, Université des Antilles CP 5057 rue Cuvier, 75005 ParisFrance
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- CNRSUniv. LilleUMR 8198 ‐ Evo‐Eco‐PaleoF-59000 LilleFrance
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- CNRSUniv. LilleUMR 8198 ‐ Evo‐Eco‐PaleoF-59000 LilleFrance
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Mattila TM, Laenen B, Slotte T. Population Genomics of Transitions to Selfing in Brassicaceae Model Systems. Methods Mol Biol 2020; 2090:269-287. [PMID: 31975171 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-0199-0_11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
Abstract
Many plants harbor complex mechanisms that promote outcrossing and efficient pollen transfer. These include floral adaptations as well as genetic mechanisms, such as molecular self-incompatibility (SI) systems. The maintenance of such systems over long evolutionary timescales suggests that outcrossing is favorable over a broad range of conditions. Conversely, SI has repeatedly been lost, often in association with transitions to self-fertilization (selfing). This transition is favored when the short-term advantages of selfing outweigh the costs, primarily inbreeding depression. The transition to selfing is expected to have major effects on population genetic variation and adaptive potential, as well as on genome evolution. In the Brassicaceae, many studies on the population genetic, gene regulatory, and genomic effects of selfing have centered on the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana and the crucifer genus Capsella. The accumulation of population genomics datasets have allowed detailed investigation of where, when and how the transition to selfing occurred. Future studies will take advantage of the development of population genetics theory on the impact of selfing, especially regarding positive selection. Furthermore, investigation of systems including recent transitions to selfing, mixed mating populations and/or multiple independent replicates of the same transition will facilitate dissecting the effects of mating system variation from processes driven by demography.
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- Tiina M Mattila
- Department of Ecology and Genetics, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Department of Ecology, Environment, and Plant Sciences, Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Ecology, Environment, and Plant Sciences, Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Bachmann JA, Tedder A, Laenen B, Fracassetti M, Désamoré A, Lafon-Placette C, Steige KA, Callot C, Marande W, Neuffer B, Bergès H, Köhler C, Castric V, Slotte T. Genetic basis and timing of a major mating system shift in Capsella. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2019; 224:505-517. [PMID: 31254395 DOI: 10.1111/nph.16035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2019] [Accepted: 06/20/2019] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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A crucial step in the transition from outcrossing to self-fertilization is the loss of genetic self-incompatibility (SI). In the Brassicaceae, SI involves the interaction of female and male specificity components, encoded by the genes SRK and SCR at the self-incompatibility locus (S-locus). Theory predicts that S-linked mutations, and especially dominant mutations in SCR, are likely to contribute to loss of SI. However, few studies have investigated the contribution of dominant mutations to loss of SI in wild plant species. Here, we investigate the genetic basis of loss of SI in the self-fertilizing crucifer species Capsella orientalis, by combining genetic mapping, long-read sequencing of complete S-haplotypes, gene expression analyses and controlled crosses. We show that loss of SI in C. orientalis occurred < 2.6 Mya and maps as a dominant trait to the S-locus. We identify a fixed frameshift deletion in the male specificity gene SCR and confirm loss of male SI specificity. We further identify an S-linked small RNA that is predicted to cause dominance of self-compatibility. Our results agree with predictions on the contribution of dominant S-linked mutations to loss of SI, and thus provide new insights into the molecular basis of mating system transitions.
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- Jörg A Bachmann
- Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm University, SE-106 91, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm University, SE-106 91, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm University, SE-106 91, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm University, SE-106 91, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm University, SE-106 91, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Plant Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences & Linnean Center for Plant Biology, SE-750 07, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm University, SE-106 91, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, UPR 1258, Centre National des Ressources Génomiques Végétales, 31326, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, UPR 1258, Centre National des Ressources Génomiques Végétales, 31326, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- Department of Botany, University of Osnabruck, 49076, Osnabrück, Germany
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- Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, UPR 1258, Centre National des Ressources Génomiques Végétales, 31326, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- Department of Plant Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences & Linnean Center for Plant Biology, SE-750 07, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR 8198 - Evo-Eco-Paleo, F-59000, Lille, France
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- Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm University, SE-106 91, Stockholm, Sweden
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Evolutionary Pathways for the Generation of New Self-Incompatibility Haplotypes in a Nonself-Recognition System. Genetics 2018; 209:861-883. [PMID: 29716955 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.118.300748] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2018] [Accepted: 04/28/2018] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Self-incompatibility (SI) is a genetically based recognition system that functions to prevent self-fertilization and mating among related plants. An enduring puzzle in SI is how the high diversity observed in nature arises and is maintained. Based on the underlying recognition mechanism, SI can be classified into two main groups: self-recognition (SR) and nonself-recognition (NSR). Most work has focused on diversification within SR systems despite expected differences between the two groups in the evolutionary pathways and outcomes of diversification. Here, we use a deterministic population genetic model and stochastic simulations to investigate how novel S-haplotypes evolve in a gametophytic NSR [SRNase/S Locus F-box (SLF)] SI system. For this model, the pathways for diversification involve either the maintenance or breakdown of SI and can vary in the order of mutations of the female (SRNase) and male (SLF) components. We show analytically that diversification can occur with high inbreeding depression and self-pollination, but this varies with evolutionary pathway and level of completeness (which determines the number of potential mating partners in the population), and, in general, is more likely for lower haplotype number. The conditions for diversification are broader in stochastic simulations of finite population size. However, the number of haplotypes observed under high inbreeding and moderate-to-high self-pollination is less than that commonly observed in nature. Diversification was observed through pathways that maintain SI as well as through self-compatible intermediates. Yet the lifespan of diversified haplotypes was sensitive to their level of completeness. By examining diversification in a NSR SI system, this model extends our understanding of the evolution and maintenance of haplotype diversity observed in a recognition system common in flowering plants.
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Tsuchimatsu T, Goubet PM, Gallina S, Holl AC, Fobis-Loisy I, Bergès H, Marande W, Prat E, Meng D, Long Q, Platzer A, Nordborg M, Vekemans X, Castric V. Patterns of Polymorphism at the Self-Incompatibility Locus in 1,083 Arabidopsis thaliana Genomes. Mol Biol Evol 2018; 34:1878-1889. [PMID: 28379456 PMCID: PMC5850868 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msx122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Although the transition to selfing in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana involved the loss of the self-incompatibility (SI) system, it clearly did not occur due to the fixation of a single inactivating mutation at the locus determining the specificities of SI (the S-locus). At least three groups of divergent haplotypes (haplogroups), corresponding to ancient functional S-alleles, have been maintained at this locus, and extensive functional studies have shown that all three carry distinct inactivating mutations. However, the historical process of loss of SI is not well understood, in particular its relation with the last glaciation. Here, we took advantage of recently published genomic resequencing data in 1,083 Arabidopsis thaliana accessions that we combined with BAC sequencing to obtain polymorphism information for the whole S-locus region at a species-wide scale. The accessions differed by several major rearrangements including large deletions and interhaplogroup recombinations, forming a set of haplogroups that are widely distributed throughout the native range and largely overlap geographically. “Relict” A. thaliana accessions that directly derive from glacial refugia are polymorphic at the S-locus, suggesting that the three haplogroups were already present when glacial refugia from the last Ice Age became isolated. Interhaplogroup recombinant haplotypes were highly frequent, and detailed analysis of recombination breakpoints suggested multiple independent origins. These findings suggest that the complete loss of SI in A. thaliana involved independent self-compatible mutants that arose prior to the last Ice Age, and experienced further rearrangements during postglacial colonization.
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- Takashi Tsuchimatsu
- Gregor Mendel Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Vienna, Austria.,Department of Biology, Chiba University, Inage-ku, Chiba, Japan
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- Université de Lille CNRS, UMR 8198-Evo-Eco-Paleo, Lille, France
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- Reproduction et Développement des Plantes, Univ. Lyon, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Université Claude Bernard Lyon I, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Lyon, France
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- Centre National des Ressources Génomiques Végétales, INRA UPR 1258, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- Centre National des Ressources Génomiques Végétales, INRA UPR 1258, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- Centre National des Ressources Génomiques Végétales, INRA UPR 1258, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- Gregor Mendel Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology & Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Gregor Mendel Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Vienna, Austria
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- Gregor Mendel Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Vienna, Austria
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- Université de Lille CNRS, UMR 8198-Evo-Eco-Paleo, Lille, France
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- Université de Lille CNRS, UMR 8198-Evo-Eco-Paleo, Lille, France
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Chantha SC, Herman AC, Castric V, Vekemans X, Marande W, Schoen DJ. The unusual S locus of Leavenworthia is composed of two sets of paralogous loci. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2017; 216:1247-1255. [PMID: 28906557 DOI: 10.1111/nph.14764] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2017] [Accepted: 07/25/2017] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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The Leavenworthia self-incompatibility locus (S locus) consists of paralogs (Lal2, SCRL) of the canonical Brassicaceae S locus genes (SRK, SCR), and is situated in a genomic position that differs from the ancestral one in the Brassicaceae. Unexpectedly, in a small number of Leavenworthia alabamica plants examined, sequences closely resembling exon 1 of SRK have been found, but the function of these has remained unclear. BAC cloning and expression analyses were employed to characterize these SRK-like sequences. An SRK-positive Bacterial Artificial Chromosome clone was found to contain complete SRK and SCR sequences located close by one another in the derived genomic position of the Leavenworthia S locus, and in place of the more typical Lal2 and SCRL sequences. These sequences are expressed in stigmas and anthers, respectively, and crossing data show that the SRK/SCR haplotype is functional in self-incompatibility. Population surveys indicate that < 5% of Leavenworthia S loci possess such alleles. An ancestral translocation or recombination event involving SRK/SCR and Lal2/SCRL likely occurred, together with neofunctionalization of Lal2/SCRL, and both haplotype groups now function as Leavenworthia S locus alleles. These findings suggest that S locus alleles can have distinctly different evolutionary origins.
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- Sier-Ching Chantha
- Department of Biology, McGill University, 1205 Avenue Docteur Penfield, Montreal, QC, Canada, H3A1B1
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- Department of Biology, McGill University, 1205 Avenue Docteur Penfield, Montreal, QC, Canada, H3A1B1
- Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN, 55108, USA
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- Unité Evo-Eco-Paléo (EEP) - UMR 8198, CNRS/Université de Lille - Sciences et Technologies, Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, F-59655, France
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- Unité Evo-Eco-Paléo (EEP) - UMR 8198, CNRS/Université de Lille - Sciences et Technologies, Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, F-59655, France
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- Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, 31326, Castanet Tolosan Cedex, France
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- Department of Biology, McGill University, 1205 Avenue Docteur Penfield, Montreal, QC, Canada, H3A1B1
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Markova DN, Petersen JJ, Yam SE, Corral A, Valle MJ, Li W, Chetelat RT. Evolutionary history of two pollen self-incompatibility factors reveals alternate routes to self-compatibility within Solanum. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY 2017; 104:1904-1919. [PMID: 29212768 DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1700196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2017] [Accepted: 10/26/2017] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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PREMISE OF THE STUDY Self-incompatibility (SI) prevents self-fertilization and reduces inbreeding. While SI is common in plants, transitions to self-compatibility (SC) occur frequently. Little is known about the genetic changes and evolutionary steps underlying these shifts. METHODS In the Solanaceae, SI is gametophytic, with specificity determined by S-RNases in the pistil and S-locus F-box proteins (SLFs) in pollen. We examined the role of two pollen factors, Cullin1 (CUL1) and SLF-23, in SI → SC transitions in wild tomato species from the Arcanum species group (Solanum arcanum, S. neorickii, and S. chmielewskii). Pollen compatibility was assessed on tester lines that reject pollen lacking functional SLF-23 or CUL1. Complementation tests, gene sequencing, and phylogenetic analyses were used to characterize both functional and nonfunctional alleles. KEY RESULTS We found evidence for multiple independent SI → SC transitions. In S. arcanum and S. chmielewskii, SC is caused by loss of pistil S-RNase activity, while in S. neorickii SC is associated with expression of a functional SLF-23 that recognizes the S9 type S-RNase expressed in its pistils. Interestingly, we found identical deletion mutations in CUL1 exon 7 of S. chmielewskii as previously seen in S. habrochaites. CONCLUSIONS Mating system transitions in the Arcanum group have occurred via both pistil loss-of-function and pollen gain-of-function SC mutations. Mutations common to S. chmielewskii and S. habrochaites must have arisen in a common ancestor, possibly to the entire tomato clade, then became fixed in different lineages after loss of pistil-side SI function.
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- Dragomira N Markova
- C. M. Rick Tomato Genetics Resource Center, Department of Plant Sciences (ms 3), University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616 USA
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- C. M. Rick Tomato Genetics Resource Center, Department of Plant Sciences (ms 3), University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616 USA
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- C. M. Rick Tomato Genetics Resource Center, Department of Plant Sciences (ms 3), University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616 USA
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- C. M. Rick Tomato Genetics Resource Center, Department of Plant Sciences (ms 3), University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616 USA
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- C. M. Rick Tomato Genetics Resource Center, Department of Plant Sciences (ms 3), University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616 USA
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Furstenau TN, Cartwright RA. The impact of self-incompatibility systems on the prevention of biparental inbreeding. PeerJ 2017; 5:e4085. [PMID: 29188143 PMCID: PMC5703146 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.4085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2017] [Accepted: 11/02/2017] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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Inbreeding in hermaphroditic plants can occur through two different mechanisms: biparental inbreeding, when a plant mates with a related individual, or self-fertilization, when a plant mates with itself. To avoid inbreeding, many hermaphroditic plants have evolved self-incompatibility (SI) systems which prevent or limit self-fertilization. One particular SI system-homomorphic SI-can also reduce biparental inbreeding. Homomorphic SI is found in many angiosperm species, and it is often assumed that the additional benefit of reduced biparental inbreeding may be a factor in the success of this SI system. To test this assumption, we developed a spatially-explicit, individual-based simulation of plant populations that displayed three different types of homomorphic SI. We measured the total level of inbreeding avoidance by comparing each population to a self-compatible population (NSI), and we measured biparental inbreeding avoidance by comparing to a population of self-incompatible plants that were free to mate with any other individual (PSI). Because biparental inbreeding is more common when offspring dispersal is limited, we examined the levels of biparental inbreeding over a range of dispersal distances. We also tested whether the introduction of inbreeding depression affected the level of biparental inbreeding avoidance. We found that there was a statistically significant decrease in autozygosity in each of the homomorphic SI populations compared to the PSI population and, as expected, this was more pronounced when seed and pollen dispersal was limited. However, levels of homozygosity and inbreeding depression were not reduced. At low dispersal, homomorphic SI populations also suffered reduced female fecundity and had smaller census population sizes. Overall, our simulations showed that the homomorphic SI systems had little impact on the amount of biparental inbreeding in the population especially when compared to the overall reduction in inbreeding compared to the NSI population. With further study, this observation may have important consequences for research into the origin and evolution of homomorphic self-incompatibility systems.
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- Tara N. Furstenau
- The Biodesign Institute and School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States of America
- The School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States of America
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- The Biodesign Institute and School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States of America
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Do Canto J, Studer B, Lubberstedt T. Overcoming self-incompatibility in grasses: a pathway to hybrid breeding. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2016; 129:1815-29. [PMID: 27577253 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-016-2775-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2016] [Accepted: 08/24/2016] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Allogamous grasses exhibit an effective two-locus gametophytic self-incompatibility (SI) system, limiting the range of breeding techniques applicable for cultivar development. Current breeding methods based on populations are characterized by comparably low genetic gains for important traits such as biomass yield. To implement more efficient breeding schemes, the overall understanding of the SI system is crucial as are the mechanisms involved in the breakdown of SI. Self-fertile variants in outcrossing grasses have been studied, and the current level of knowledge includes approximate gene locations, linked molecular markers and first hypotheses on their mode of action. Environmental conditions increasing seed set upon self-pollination have also been described. Even though some strategies were proposed to take advantage of self-fertility, there have, so far, not been changes in the methods applied in cultivar development for allogamous grasses. In this review, we describe the current knowledge about self-fertility in allogamous grasses and outline strategies to incorporate this trait for implementation in synthetic and hybrid breeding schemes.
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- Javier Do Canto
- Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, 2104 Agronomy Hall, Ames, IA, 50011-1010, USA.
- National Institute of Agricultural Research, INIA, Route 5 km 386, Tacuarembo, Uruguay.
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- Forage Crop Genetics, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zurich, LFW Building, University Street 2, Zurich, 8092, Switzerland
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- Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, 2104 Agronomy Hall, Ames, IA, 50011-1010, USA
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Markova DN, Petersen JJ, Qin X, Short DR, Valle MJ, Tovar-Méndez A, McClure BA, Chetelat RT. Mutations in two pollen self-incompatibility factors in geographically marginal populations of Solanum habrochaites impact mating system transitions and reproductive isolation. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY 2016; 103:1847-1861. [PMID: 27793860 DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1600208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2016] [Accepted: 08/29/2016] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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PREMISE OF THE STUDY Self-incompatibility (SI) is a mechanism that prevents inbreeding in many plant species. The mutational breakdown of SI occurs frequently, yet relatively little is known about the evolutionary steps involved in the progressive loss of pistil and pollen SI function. METHODS In Solanaceae, SI is the S-RNase-based gametophytic type. We used SI and SC populations of the wild tomato species Solanum habrochaites to study natural variation for two pollen SI factors: a Cullin1 (CUL1) protein and an S-locus F-box protein (SLF-23). Pollen compatibility was assessed on an allotriploid tester line encoding an S-RNase recognized by SLF-23. Both pollen factors are required for compatibility on this tester line. Complementation tests and gene sequencing were used to identify mutations in CUL1 or SLF-23. KEY RESULTS We detected loss-of-function mutations in CUL1 and/or SLF-23 in SC populations collected near the northern and southern geographic margins of this taxon's natural range. Nonmarginal SC and all SI accessions expressed mostly functional alleles of these pollen factors. Comparison of the CUL1 sequences identified several shared deletion mutations present in both northern and southern margin SC accessions. CONCLUSIONS Loss-of-function mutations in CUL1 and SLF-23 likely became fixed relatively late during SI to SC transitions, after loss of pistil SI function. Mutations in CUL1 establish unilateral incompatibility with SI populations and strengthen reproductive isolation. Point mutations common to northern and southern SC biotypes likely derive from shared ancestral variants found in more central SI populations.
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- Dragomira N Markova
- C.M. Rick Tomato Genetics Resource Center, Department of Plant Sciences (ms 3), University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616 USA
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- C.M. Rick Tomato Genetics Resource Center, Department of Plant Sciences (ms 3), University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616 USA
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- C.M. Rick Tomato Genetics Resource Center, Department of Plant Sciences (ms 3), University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616 USA
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- C.M. Rick Tomato Genetics Resource Center, Department of Plant Sciences (ms 3), University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616 USA
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- C.M. Rick Tomato Genetics Resource Center, Department of Plant Sciences (ms 3), University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616 USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, 117 Schweitzer Hall, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211 USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, 117 Schweitzer Hall, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211 USA
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- C.M. Rick Tomato Genetics Resource Center, Department of Plant Sciences (ms 3), University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616 USA
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Helitron-like transposons contributed to the mating system transition from out-crossing to self-fertilizing in polyploid Brassica napus L. Sci Rep 2016; 6:33785. [PMID: 27650318 PMCID: PMC5030654 DOI: 10.1038/srep33785] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2016] [Accepted: 09/01/2016] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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The mating system transition in polyploid Brassica napus (AACC) from out-crossing to selfing is a typical trait to differentiate it from their diploid progenitors. Elucidating the mechanism of mating system transition has profound consequences for understanding the speciation and evolution in B. napus. Functional complementation experiment has shown that the insertion of 3.6 kb into the promoter of self-incompatibility male determining gene, BnSP11-1 leads to its loss of function in B. napus. The inserted fragment was found to be a non-autonomous Helitron transposon. Further analysis showed that the inserted 3.6 kb non-autonomous Helitron transposon was widely distributed in B. napus accessions which contain the S haplotype BnS-1. Through promoter deletion analysis, an enhancer and a putative cis-regulatory element (TTCTA) that were required for spatio-temporal specific expression of BnSP11-1 were identified, and both might be disrupted by the insertion of Helitron transposon. We suggested that the insertion of Helitron transposons in the promoter of BnSP11-1 gene had altered the mating system and might facilitated the speciation of B. napus. Our findings have profound consequences for understanding the self-compatibility in B. napus as well as for the trait variations during evolutionary process of plant polyploidization.
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Fujii S, Kubo KI, Takayama S. Non-self- and self-recognition models in plant self-incompatibility. NATURE PLANTS 2016; 2:16130. [PMID: 27595657 DOI: 10.1038/nplants.2016.130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 118] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2015] [Accepted: 07/22/2016] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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The mechanisms by which flowering plants choose their mating partners have interested researchers for a long time. Recent findings on the molecular mechanisms of non-self-recognition in some plant species have provided new insights into self-incompatibility (SI), the trait used by a wide range of plant species to avoid self-fertilization and promote outcrossing. In this Review, we compare the known SI systems, which can be largely classified into non-self- or self-recognition systems with respect to their molecular mechanisms, their evolutionary histories and their modes of evolution. We review previous controversies on haplotype evolution in the gametophytic SI system of Solanaceae species in light of a recently elucidated non-self-recognition model. In non-self-recognition SI systems, the transition from self-compatibility (SC) to SI may be more common than previously thought. Reversible transition between SI and SC in plants may have contributed to their adaptation to diverse and fluctuating environments.
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- Sota Fujii
- Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma 630-0192, Japan
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- Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma 630-0192, Japan
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- Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma 630-0192, Japan
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Sakai S. How Have Self-Incompatibility Haplotypes Diversified? Generation of New Haplotypes during the Evolution of Self-Incompatibility from Self-Compatibility. Am Nat 2016; 188:163-74. [PMID: 27420782 DOI: 10.1086/687110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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I developed a gametophytic self-incompatibility (SI) model to study the conditions leading to diversification in SI haplotypes. In the model, the SI system is assumed to be incomplete, and the pollen expressing a given specificity is not fully rejected by the pistils expressing the same specificity. I also assumed that mutations can occur that enhance the rejection of pollen by pistils with the same haplotype variant and reduce rejection by pistils with other variants in the same haplotype. I found that if such mutations occur, the new haplotypes (mutant variants) can stably coexist with the ancestral haplotype in which the mutant arose. This is because pollen bearing the new haplotype is most strongly rejected by pistils bearing the same new haplotype among the pistils in the population; hence, negative frequency-dependent selection prevents their fixation. I also performed simulations and found that the nearly complete SI system evolves from completely self-compatible populations and that SI haplotypes can increase to about 40-50 within a few thousand generations. On the basis of my findings, I propose that diversification of SI haplotypes occurred during the evolution of SI from self-compatibility.
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Vernet P, Lepercq P, Billiard S, Bourceaux A, Lepart J, Dommée B, Saumitou-Laprade P. Evidence for the long-term maintenance of a rare self-incompatibility system in Oleaceae. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2016; 210:1408-17. [PMID: 26833140 DOI: 10.1111/nph.13872] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2015] [Accepted: 12/17/2015] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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A rare homomorphic diallelic self-incompatibility (DSI) system discovered in Phillyrea angustifolia (family Oleaceae, subtribe Oleinae) can promote the transition from hermaphroditism to androdioecy. If widespread and stable in Oleaceae, DSI may explain the exceptionally high rate of androdioecious species reported in this plant family. Here, we set out to determine whether DSI occurs in another Oleaceae lineage. We tested for DSI in subtribe Fraxininae, a lineage that diverged from subtribe Oleinae c. 40 million yr ago. We explored the compatibility relationships in Fraxinus ornus using 81 hermaphrodites and 25 males from one natural stand and two naturalized populations using intra- and interspecific stigma tests performed on F. ornus and P. angustifolia testers. We uncovered a DSI system with hermaphrodites belonging to one of two self-incompatibility (SI) groups and males compatible with both groups, making for a truly androdioecious reproductive system. The two human-founded populations contained only one of the two SI groups. Our results provide evidence for the evolutionary persistence of DSI. We discuss how its stability over time may have affected transitions to other sexual systems, such as dioecy.
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- Philippe Vernet
- Université de Lille - Sciences et Technologies, CNRS, UMR 8198 Evo-Eco-Paleo, F59655, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
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- Université de Lille - Sciences et Technologies, CNRS, UMR 8198 Evo-Eco-Paleo, F59655, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
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- Université de Lille - Sciences et Technologies, CNRS, UMR 8198 Evo-Eco-Paleo, F59655, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
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- Université de Lille - Sciences et Technologies, CNRS, UMR 8198 Evo-Eco-Paleo, F59655, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
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- CEFE-UMR 5175 du CNRS, 1919 route de Mende, 34293, Montpellier Cedex, France
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- CEFE-UMR 5175 du CNRS, 1919 route de Mende, 34293, Montpellier Cedex, France
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- Université de Lille - Sciences et Technologies, CNRS, UMR 8198 Evo-Eco-Paleo, F59655, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
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Schoen DJ, Roda MJ. Selection of sporophytic and gametophytic self-incompatibility in the absence of a superlocus. Evolution 2016; 70:1409-17. [PMID: 27111063 DOI: 10.1111/evo.12930] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2015] [Revised: 04/12/2016] [Accepted: 04/15/2016] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Self-incompatibility (SI) is a complex trait that enforces outcrossing in plant populations. SI generally involves tight linkage of genes coding for the proteins that underlie self-pollen detection and pollen identity specification. Here, we develop two-locus genetic models to address the question of whether sporophytic SI (SSI) and gametophytic SI (GSI) can invade populations of self-compatible plants when there is no linkage or weak linkage of the underlying pollen detection and identity genes (i.e., no S-locus supergene). The models assume that SI evolves as a result of exaptation of genes formerly involved in functions other than SI. Model analysis reveals that SSI and GSI can invade populations even when the underlying genes are loosely linked, provided that inbreeding depression and selfing rate are sufficiently high. Reducing recombination between these genes makes conditions for invasion more lenient. These results can help account for multiple, independent evolution of SI systems as seems to have occurred in the angiosperms.
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- Daniel J Schoen
- Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 1B1, Canada.
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- Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 1B1, Canada
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Manzanares C, Barth S, Thorogood D, Byrne SL, Yates S, Czaban A, Asp T, Yang B, Studer B. A Gene Encoding a DUF247 Domain Protein Cosegregates with the S Self-Incompatibility Locus in Perennial Ryegrass. Mol Biol Evol 2015; 33:870-84. [PMID: 26659250 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msv335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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The grass family (Poaceae), the fourth largest family of flowering plants, encompasses the most economically important cereal, forage, and energy crops, and exhibits a unique gametophytic self-incompatibility (SI) mechanism that is controlled by at least two multiallelic and independent loci, S and Z. Despite intense research efforts over the last six decades, the genes underlying S and Z remain uncharacterized. Here, we report a fine-mapping approach to identify the male component of the S-locus in perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) and provide multiple evidence that a domain of unknown function 247 (DUF247) gene is involved in its determination. Using a total of 10,177 individuals from seven different mapping populations segregating for S, we narrowed the S-locus to a genomic region containing eight genes, the closest recombinant marker mapping at a distance of 0.016 cM. Of the eight genes cosegregating with the S-locus, a highly polymorphic gene encoding for a protein containing a DUF247 was fully predictive of known S-locus genotypes at the amino acid level in the seven mapping populations. Strikingly, this gene showed a frameshift mutation in self-compatible darnel (Lolium temulentum L.), whereas all of the self-incompatible species of the Festuca-Lolium complex were predicted to encode functional proteins. Our results represent a major step forward toward understanding the gametophytic SI system in one of the most important plant families and will enable the identification of additional components interacting with the S-locus.
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- Chloé Manzanares
- Forage Crop Genetics, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Teagasc Crops, Environment and Land Use Programme, Oak Park Research Centre, Carlow, Ireland Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Plas Gogerddan, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, United Kingdom
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- Teagasc Crops, Environment and Land Use Programme, Oak Park Research Centre, Carlow, Ireland
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- Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Plas Gogerddan, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, United Kingdom
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Research Centre Flakkebjerg, Aarhus University, Slagelse, Denmark
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- Forage Crop Genetics, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Research Centre Flakkebjerg, Aarhus University, Slagelse, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Research Centre Flakkebjerg, Aarhus University, Slagelse, Denmark
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Building 1, Beishan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, Shenzhen, China
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- Forage Crop Genetics, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Shimizu KK, Tsuchimatsu T. Evolution of Selfing: Recurrent Patterns in Molecular Adaptation. ANNUAL REVIEW OF ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS 2015. [DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-112414-054249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Selfing has evolved in animals, fungi, and plants, and since Darwin's pioneering study, it is considered one of the most frequent evolutionary trends in flowering plants. Generally, the evolution of selfing is characterized by a loss of self-incompatibility, the selfing syndrome, and changes in genome-wide polymorphism patterns. Recent interdisciplinary studies involving molecular functional experiments, genome-wide data, experimental evolution, and evolutionary ecology using Arabidopsis thaliana, Caenorhabditis elegans, and other species show that the evolution of selfing is not merely a degradation of outcrossing traits but a model for studying the recurrent patterns underlying adaptive molecular evolution. For example, in wild Arabidopsis relatives, self-compatibility evolved from mutations in the male specificity gene, S-LOCUS CYSTEINE-RICH PROTEIN/S-LOCUS PROTEIN 11 (SCR/SP11), rather than the female specificity gene, S-LOCUS RECEPTOR KINASE (SRK), supporting the theoretical prediction of sexual asymmetry. Prevalence of dominant self-compatible mutations is consistent with Haldane's sieve, which acts against recessive adaptive mutations. Time estimates based on genome-wide polymorphisms and self-incompatibility genes generally support the recent origin of selfing.
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- Kentaro K. Shimizu
- Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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Van de Paer C, Saumitou-Laprade P, Vernet P, Billiard S. The joint evolution and maintenance of self-incompatibility with gynodioecy or androdioecy. J Theor Biol 2015; 371:90-101. [PMID: 25681148 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2015.02.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2014] [Revised: 01/28/2015] [Accepted: 02/02/2015] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Mating systems show two kinds of frequent transitions: from hermaphroditism to dioecy, gynodioecy or androdioecy, or from self-incompatibility (SI) to self-compatibility (SC). While models have mostly investigated these two kinds of transitions as independent, empirical observations suggest that, to some extent, they can evolve jointly. Here, we study the joint evolution and maintenance of SI and androdioecy or SI and gynodioecy by the means of phenotypic models. Our models focus on three parameters: the unisexuals׳ advantage relative to that of the hermaphrodites due to resource reallocation, inbreeding depression and the selfing rate. We assume no pollen limitation or discounting. We show that SI helps the maintenance of androdioecy, but favors the loss of gynodioecy, and also that androdioecy facilitates the maintenance of SI, whereas gynodioecy does not affect it. We finally investigate how gynodioecy and androdioecy may affect the diversification of SI groups, especially considering an evolutionary pathway through SC intermediates. We show that while androdioecy prevents the increase of the number of SI groups, under certain conditions of inbreeding depression and selfing rates, gynodioecy allows it.
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- Céline Van de Paer
- Unité (EEP), Université des Sciences et Technologies Lille 1, Cité scientifique, 59655 Villeneuve d׳Ascq Cedex, France.
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- Unité (EEP), Université des Sciences et Technologies Lille 1, Cité scientifique, 59655 Villeneuve d׳Ascq Cedex, France.
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- Unité (EEP), Université des Sciences et Technologies Lille 1, Cité scientifique, 59655 Villeneuve d׳Ascq Cedex, France.
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- Unité (EEP), Université des Sciences et Technologies Lille 1, Cité scientifique, 59655 Villeneuve d׳Ascq Cedex, France.
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Pannell JR. Evolution of the mating system in colonizing plants. Mol Ecol 2015; 24:2018-37. [DOI: 10.1111/mec.13087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 122] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2014] [Revised: 01/12/2015] [Accepted: 01/15/2015] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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- John R. Pannell
- Department of Ecology and Evolution; University of Lausanne; Biophore Building 1015 Lausanne Switzerland
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Kubo KI, Paape T, Hatakeyama M, Entani T, Takara A, Kajihara K, Tsukahara M, Shimizu-Inatsugi R, Shimizu KK, Takayama S. Gene duplication and genetic exchange drive the evolution of S-RNase-based self-incompatibility in Petunia. NATURE PLANTS 2015; 1:14005. [PMID: 27246052 DOI: 10.1038/nplants.2014.5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2014] [Accepted: 10/17/2014] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Self-incompatibility (SI) systems in flowering plants distinguish self- and non-self pollen to prevent inbreeding. While other SI systems rely on the self-recognition between specific male- and female-determinants, the Solanaceae family has a non-self recognition system resulting in the detoxification of female-determinants of S-ribonucleases (S-RNases), expressed in pistils, by multiple male-determinants of S-locus F-box proteins (SLFs), expressed in pollen. It is not known how many SLF components of this non-self recognition system there are in Solanaceae species, or how they evolved. We identified 16-20 SLFs in each S-haplotype in SI Petunia, from a total of 168 SLF sequences using large-scale next-generation sequencing and genomic polymerase chain reaction (PCR) techniques. We predicted the target S-RNases of SLFs by assuming that a particular S-allele must not have a conserved SLF that recognizes its own S-RNase, and validated these predictions by transformation experiments. A simple mathematical model confirmed that 16-20 SLF sequences would be adequate to recognize the vast majority of target S-RNases. We found evidence of gene conversion events, which we suggest are essential to the constitution of a non-self recognition system and also contribute to self-compatible mutations.
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- Ken-Ichi Kubo
- Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma 630-0192, Japan
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- Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland
- Functional Genomics Center Zurich, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma 630-0192, Japan
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- Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma 630-0192, Japan
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- Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma 630-0192, Japan
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- Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma 630-0192, Japan
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- Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma 630-0192, Japan
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Gervais C, Awad DA, Roze D, Castric V, Billiard S. GENETIC ARCHITECTURE OF INBREEDING DEPRESSION AND THE MAINTENANCE OF GAMETOPHYTIC SELF-INCOMPATIBILITY. Evolution 2014; 68:3317-24. [DOI: 10.1111/evo.12495] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2014] [Accepted: 07/02/2014] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Camille Gervais
- UMI 3614; Evolutionary Biology and Ecology of Algae; CNRS; 29680 Roscoff France
- Sorbonne Universités; UPMC University Paris 06 29680 Roscoff France
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- Laboratoire de Génétique et Evolution des Populations Végétales; UMR CNRS 8198; Université Lille 1 - Sciences et Technologies; 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq France
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- UMI 3614; Evolutionary Biology and Ecology of Algae; CNRS; 29680 Roscoff France
- Sorbonne Universités; UPMC University Paris 06 29680 Roscoff France
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- Laboratoire de Génétique et Evolution des Populations Végétales; UMR CNRS 8198; Université Lille 1 - Sciences et Technologies; 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq France
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- Laboratoire de Génétique et Evolution des Populations Végétales; UMR CNRS 8198; Université Lille 1 - Sciences et Technologies; 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq France
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Sakai S, Wakoh H. Initial invasion of gametophytic self-incompatibility alleles in the absence of tight linkage between pollen and pistil S alleles. Am Nat 2014; 184:248-57. [PMID: 25058284 DOI: 10.1086/676942] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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In homomorphic self-incompatibility (SI) systems of plants, the loci controlling the pollen and pistil types are tightly linked, and this prevents the generation of compatible combinations of alleles expressing pollen and pistil types, which would result in self-fertilization. We modeled the initial invasion of the first pollen and pistil alleles in gametophytic SI to determine whether these alleles can stably coexist in a population without tight linkage. We assume pollen and pistil loci each carry an incompatibility allele S and an allele without an incompatibility function N. We assume that pollen with an S allele are incompatible with pistils carrying S alleles, whereas other crosses are compatible. Ovules in pistils carrying an S allele suffer viability costs because recognition consumes resources. We found that the cost of carrying a pistil S allele allows pollen and pistil S alleles to coexist in a stable equilibrium if linkage is partial. This occurs because parents that carry pistil S alleles but are homozygous for pollen N alleles cannot avoid self-fertilization; however, they suffer viability costs. Hence, pollen N alleles are selected again. When pollen and pistil S alleles can coexist in a polymorphic equilibrium, selection will favor tighter linkage.
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- Satoki Sakai
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University Aoba, Sendai 980-8578, Japan
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Castric V, Billiard S, Vekemans X. Trait transitions in explicit ecological and genomic contexts: plant mating systems as case studies. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2014; 781:7-36. [PMID: 24277293 DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-7347-9_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/17/2023]
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Plants are astonishingly diverse in how they reproduce sexually, and the study of plant mating systems provides some of the most compelling cases of parallel and independent evolutionary transitions. In this chapter, we review how the massive amount of genomic data being produced is allowing long-standing predictions from ecological and evolutionary theory to be put to test. After a review of theoretical predictions about the importance of considering the genomic architecture of the mating system, we focus on a set of recent discoveries on how the mating system is controlled in a variety of model and non-model species. In parallel, genomic approaches have revealed the complex interaction between the evolution of genes controlling mating systems and genome evolution, both genome-wide and in the mating system control region. In several cases, major transitions in the mating system can be clearly associated with important ecological changes, hence illuminating an important interplay between ecological and genomic approaches. We also list a number of major unsolved questions that remain for the field, and highlight foreseeable conceptual developments that are likely to play a major role in our understanding of how plant mating systems evolve in Nature.
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- Vincent Castric
- Laboratoire de Génétique et Evolution des Populations Végétales (GEPV), UMR 8198; CNRS, Université Lille 1, Sciences et Technologies, Cité Scientifique, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France,
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Tsuchimatsu T, Shimizu KK. Effects of pollen availability and the mutation bias on the fixation of mutations disabling the male specificity of self-incompatibility. J Evol Biol 2013; 26:2221-32. [PMID: 23980527 DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2013] [Revised: 06/21/2013] [Accepted: 06/24/2013] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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The evolution of self-compatibility (SC) by the loss of self-incompatibility (SI) is regarded as one of the most frequent transitions in flowering plants. SI systems are generally characterized by specific interactions between the male and female specificity genes encoded at the S-locus. Recent empirical studies have revealed that the evolution of SC is often driven by male SC-conferring mutations at the S-locus rather than by female mutations. In this study, using a forward simulation model, we compared the fixation probabilities of male vs. female SC-conferring mutations at the S-locus. We explicitly considered the effects of pollen availability in the population and bias in the occurrence of SC-conferring mutations on the male and female specificity genes. We found that male SC-conferring mutations were indeed more likely to be fixed than were female SC-conferring mutations in a wide range of parameters. This pattern was particularly strong when pollen availability was relatively high. Under such a condition, even if the occurrence of mutations was biased strongly towards the female specificity gene, male SC-conferring mutations were much more often fixed. Our study demonstrates that fixation probabilities of those two types of mutation vary strongly depending on ecological and genetic conditions, although both types result in the same evolutionary consequence-the loss of SI.
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- T Tsuchimatsu
- Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, Institute of Plant Biology & Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; Gregor Mendel Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
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van Diepen LTA, Olson A, Ihrmark K, Stenlid J, James TY. Extensive trans-specific polymorphism at the mating type locus of the root decay fungus Heterobasidion. Mol Biol Evol 2013; 30:2286-301. [PMID: 23864721 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mst126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Incompatibility systems in which individuals bearing identical alleles reject each other favor the maintenance of a diversity of alleles. Mushroom mating type loci (MAT) encode for dozens or hundreds of incompatibility alleles whose loss from the population is greatly restricted through negative frequency selection, leading to a system of alleles with highly divergent sequences. Here, we use DNA sequences of homeodomain (HD) encoding genes at the MAT locus of five closely related species of the root rot basidiomycete Heterobasidion annosum sensu lato to show that the extended coalescence time of MAT alleles greatly predates speciation in the group, contrasting loci outside of MAT that show allele divergences largely consistent with the species phylogeny with those of MAT, which show rampant trans-species polymorphism. We observe a roughly 6-fold greater genealogical depth and polymorphism of MAT compared with non-MAT that argues for the maintenance of balanced polymorphism for a minimum duration of 24 My based on a molecular-clock calibrated species phylogeny. As with other basidiomycete HD genes, balancing selection appears to be concentrated at the specificity-determining region in the N-terminus of the protein based on identification of codons under selection and the absence of recombination within the region. However, the elevated polymorphism extends into the nonspecificity determining regions as well as a neighboring non-MAT gene, the mitochondrial intermediate peptidase (MIP). In doing so, increased divergence should decrease recombination among alleles and as a by-product create incompatibilities in the functional domains not involved in allele recognition but in regulating sexual development.
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Chantha SC, Herman AC, Platts AE, Vekemans X, Schoen DJ. Secondary evolution of a self-incompatibility locus in the Brassicaceae genus Leavenworthia. PLoS Biol 2013; 11:e1001560. [PMID: 23690750 PMCID: PMC3653793 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001560] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2012] [Accepted: 04/02/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Self-incompatibility (SI) is the flowering plant reproductive system in which self pollen tube growth is inhibited, thereby preventing self-fertilization. SI has evolved independently in several different flowering plant lineages. In all Brassicaceae species in which the molecular basis of SI has been investigated in detail, the product of the S-locus receptor kinase (SRK) gene functions as receptor in the initial step of the self pollen-rejection pathway, while that of the S-locus cysteine-rich (SCR) gene functions as ligand. Here we examine the hypothesis that the S locus in the Brassicaceae genus Leavenworthia is paralogous with the S locus previously characterized in other members of the family. We also test the hypothesis that self-compatibility in this group is based on disruption of the pollen ligand-producing gene. Sequence analysis of the S-locus genes in Leavenworthia, phylogeny of S alleles, gene expression patterns, and comparative genomics analyses provide support for both hypotheses. Of special interest are two genes located in a non-S locus genomic region of Arabidopsis lyrata that exhibit domain structures, sequences, and phylogenetic histories similar to those of the S-locus genes in Leavenworthia, and that also share synteny with these genes. These A. lyrata genes resemble those comprising the A. lyrata S locus, but they do not function in self-recognition. Moreover, they appear to belong to a lineage that diverged from the ancestral Brassicaceae S-locus genes before allelic diversification at the S locus. We hypothesize that there has been neo-functionalization of these S-locus-like genes in the Leavenworthia lineage, resulting in evolution of a separate ligand-receptor system of SI. Our results also provide support for theoretical models that predict that the least constrained pathway to the evolution of self-compatibility is one involving loss of pollen gene function.
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- Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Laboratoire de Génétique et Évolution des Populations Végétale, Unité Mixte de Recherche 8198, Centre National de Recherches Scientifiques–Université Lille 1, Sciences et Technologies, Cité Scientifique, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
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- Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Brennan AC, Harris SA, Hiscock SJ. The population genetics of sporophytic self-incompatibility in three hybridizing senecio (asteraceae) species with contrasting population histories. Evolution 2013; 67:1347-67. [PMID: 23617913 DOI: 10.1111/evo.12033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2012] [Accepted: 11/28/2012] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Hybridization generates evolutionary novelty and spreads adaptive variation. By promoting outcrossing, plant self-incompatibility (SI) systems also favor interspecific hybridization because the S locus is under strong negative frequency-dependent balancing selection. This study investigates the SI mating systems of three hybridizing Senecio species with contrasting population histories. Senecio aethnensis and S. chrysanthemifolius native to Sicily, form a hybrid zone at intermediate altitudes on Mount Etna, and their neo-homoploid hybrid species, S. squalidus, has colonized disturbed urban habitats in the UK during the last 150 years. We show that all three species express sporophytic SI (SSI), where pollen incompatibility is controlled by the diploid parental genome, and that SSI is inherited and functions normally in hybrids. Large-scale crossing studies of wild sampled populations allowed direct comparison of SSI between species and found that the main impacts of colonization in S. squalidus compared to Sicilian Senecio was a reduced number of S alleles, increased S allele frequencies, and increased interpopulation S allele sharing. In general, many S alleles were shared between species and the S locus showed reduced intra- and interspecific population genetic structure compared to molecular genetic markers, indicative of enhanced effective gene flow due to balancing selection.
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- Adrian C Brennan
- Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Avenida Américo Vespucio s/n, 41092 Sevilla, Spain
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Chantha SC, Herman AC, Platts AE, Vekemans X, Schoen DJ. Secondary evolution of a self-incompatibility locus in the Brassicaceae genus Leavenworthia. PLoS Biol 2013. [PMID: 23690750 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001560pbiology-d-12-03507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/24/2023] Open
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Self-incompatibility (SI) is the flowering plant reproductive system in which self pollen tube growth is inhibited, thereby preventing self-fertilization. SI has evolved independently in several different flowering plant lineages. In all Brassicaceae species in which the molecular basis of SI has been investigated in detail, the product of the S-locus receptor kinase (SRK) gene functions as receptor in the initial step of the self pollen-rejection pathway, while that of the S-locus cysteine-rich (SCR) gene functions as ligand. Here we examine the hypothesis that the S locus in the Brassicaceae genus Leavenworthia is paralogous with the S locus previously characterized in other members of the family. We also test the hypothesis that self-compatibility in this group is based on disruption of the pollen ligand-producing gene. Sequence analysis of the S-locus genes in Leavenworthia, phylogeny of S alleles, gene expression patterns, and comparative genomics analyses provide support for both hypotheses. Of special interest are two genes located in a non-S locus genomic region of Arabidopsis lyrata that exhibit domain structures, sequences, and phylogenetic histories similar to those of the S-locus genes in Leavenworthia, and that also share synteny with these genes. These A. lyrata genes resemble those comprising the A. lyrata S locus, but they do not function in self-recognition. Moreover, they appear to belong to a lineage that diverged from the ancestral Brassicaceae S-locus genes before allelic diversification at the S locus. We hypothesize that there has been neo-functionalization of these S-locus-like genes in the Leavenworthia lineage, resulting in evolution of a separate ligand-receptor system of SI. Our results also provide support for theoretical models that predict that the least constrained pathway to the evolution of self-compatibility is one involving loss of pollen gene function.
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Chantha SC, Herman AC, Platts AE, Vekemans X, Schoen DJ. Secondary evolution of a self-incompatibility locus in the Brassicaceae genus Leavenworthia. PLoS Biol 2013. [PMID: 23690750 DOI: 10.5061/dryad.mq5ct] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023] Open
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Self-incompatibility (SI) is the flowering plant reproductive system in which self pollen tube growth is inhibited, thereby preventing self-fertilization. SI has evolved independently in several different flowering plant lineages. In all Brassicaceae species in which the molecular basis of SI has been investigated in detail, the product of the S-locus receptor kinase (SRK) gene functions as receptor in the initial step of the self pollen-rejection pathway, while that of the S-locus cysteine-rich (SCR) gene functions as ligand. Here we examine the hypothesis that the S locus in the Brassicaceae genus Leavenworthia is paralogous with the S locus previously characterized in other members of the family. We also test the hypothesis that self-compatibility in this group is based on disruption of the pollen ligand-producing gene. Sequence analysis of the S-locus genes in Leavenworthia, phylogeny of S alleles, gene expression patterns, and comparative genomics analyses provide support for both hypotheses. Of special interest are two genes located in a non-S locus genomic region of Arabidopsis lyrata that exhibit domain structures, sequences, and phylogenetic histories similar to those of the S-locus genes in Leavenworthia, and that also share synteny with these genes. These A. lyrata genes resemble those comprising the A. lyrata S locus, but they do not function in self-recognition. Moreover, they appear to belong to a lineage that diverged from the ancestral Brassicaceae S-locus genes before allelic diversification at the S locus. We hypothesize that there has been neo-functionalization of these S-locus-like genes in the Leavenworthia lineage, resulting in evolution of a separate ligand-receptor system of SI. Our results also provide support for theoretical models that predict that the least constrained pathway to the evolution of self-compatibility is one involving loss of pollen gene function.
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Scalone R, Albach DC. Degradation of sexual reproduction in Veronica filiformis after introduction to Europe. BMC Evol Biol 2012. [PMID: 23198765 PMCID: PMC3539859 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-12-233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Baker's law predicts that self-incompatible plant species are generally poor colonizers because their mating system requires a high diversity of genetically differentiated individuals and thus self-compatibility should develop after long-distance dispersal. However, cases like the introduction of the self-incompatible Veronica filiformis (Plantaginaceae) to Europe constitute an often overlooked alternative to this rule. This species was introduced from subalpine areas of the Pontic-Caucasian Mountains and colonized many parts of Central and Western Europe in the last century, apparently without producing seeds. To investigate the consequences of the absence of sexual reproduction in this obligate outcrosser since its introduction, AFLP fingerprints, flower morphology, pollen and ovule production and seed vitality were studied in introduced and native populations. RESULTS Interpopulation crossings of 19 introduced German populations performed in the greenhouse demonstrated that introduced populations are often unable to reproduce sexually. These results were similar to intrapopulation crossings, but this depended on the populations used for crossings. Results from AFLP fingerprinting confirmed a lack of genetic diversity in the area of introduction, which is best explained by the dispersal of clones. Flower morphology revealed the frequent presence of mutations affecting the androecium of the flower and decreasing pollen production in introduced populations. The seeds produced in our experiments were smaller, had a lower germination rate and had lower viability than seeds from the native area. CONCLUSIONS Taken together, our results demonstrate that V. filiformis was able to spread by vegetative means in the absence of sexual reproduction. This came at the cost of an accumulation of phenotypically observable mutations in reproductive characters, i.e. Muller's ratchet.
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- Romain Scalone
- Institut für Spezielle Botanik und Botanischer Garten, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Bentzelweg 9, Mainz 55099, Germany
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Tsuchimatsu T, Kaiser P, Yew CL, Bachelier JB, Shimizu KK. Recent loss of self-incompatibility by degradation of the male component in allotetraploid Arabidopsis kamchatica. PLoS Genet 2012; 8:e1002838. [PMID: 22844253 PMCID: PMC3405996 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002838] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2011] [Accepted: 06/04/2012] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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The evolutionary transition from outcrossing to self-fertilization (selfing) through the loss of self-incompatibility (SI) is one of the most prevalent events in flowering plants, and its genetic basis has been a major focus in evolutionary biology. In the Brassicaceae, the SI system consists of male and female specificity genes at the S-locus and of genes involved in the female downstream signaling pathway. During recent decades, much attention has been paid in particular to clarifying the genes responsible for the loss of SI. Here, we investigated the pattern of polymorphism and functionality of the female specificity gene, the S-locus receptor kinase (SRK), in allotetraploid Arabidopsis kamchatica. While its parental species, A. lyrata and A. halleri, are reported to be diploid and mainly self-incompatible, A. kamchatica is self-compatible. We identified five highly diverged SRK haplogroups, found their disomic inheritance and, for the first time in a wild allotetraploid species, surveyed the geographic distribution of SRK at the two homeologous S-loci across the species range. We found intact full-length SRK sequences in many accessions. Through interspecific crosses with the self-incompatible and diploid congener A. halleri, we found that the female components of the SI system, including SRK and the female downstream signaling pathway, are still functional in these accessions. Given the tight linkage and very rare recombination of the male and female components on the S-locus, this result suggests that the degradation of male components was responsible for the loss of SI in A. kamchatica. Recent extensive studies in multiple Brassicaceae species demonstrate that the loss of SI is often derived from mutations in the male component in wild populations, in contrast to cultivated populations. This is consistent with theoretical predictions that mutations disabling male specificity are expected to be more strongly selected than mutations disabling female specificity, or the female downstream signaling pathway.
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- Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, Institute of Plant Biology, and Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Guo YL, Zhao X, Lanz C, Weigel D. Evolution of the S-locus region in Arabidopsis relatives. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2011; 157:937-46. [PMID: 21810962 PMCID: PMC3192562 DOI: 10.1104/pp.111.174912] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2011] [Accepted: 08/01/2011] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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The S locus, a single polymorphic locus, is responsible for self-incompatibility (SI) in the Brassicaceae family and many related plant families. Despite its importance, our knowledge of S-locus evolution is largely restricted to the causal genes encoding the S-locus receptor kinase (SRK) receptor and S-locus cysteine-rich protein (SCR) ligand of the SI system. Here, we present high-quality sequences of the genomic region of six S-locus haplotypes: Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana; one haplotype), Arabidopsis lyrata (four haplotypes), and Capsella rubella (one haplotype). We compared these with reference S-locus haplotypes of the self-compatible Arabidopsis and its SI congener A. lyrata. We subsequently reconstructed the likely genomic organization of the S locus in the most recent common ancestor of Arabidopsis and Capsella. As previously reported, the two SI-determining genes, SCR and SRK, showed a pattern of coevolution. In addition, consistent with previous studies, we found that duplication, gene conversion, and positive selection have been important factors in the evolution of these two genes and appear to contribute to the generation of new recognition specificities. Intriguingly, the inactive pseudo-S-locus haplotype in the self-compatible species C. rubella is likely to be an old S-locus haplotype that only very recently became fixed when C. rubella split off from its SI ancestor, Capsella grandiflora.
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- Ya-Long Guo
- Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany.
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Zhang X, Wang L, Yuan Y, Tian D, Yang S. Rapid copy number expansion and recent recruitment of domains in S-receptor kinase-like genes contribute to the origin of self-incompatibility. FEBS J 2011; 278:4323-37. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2011.08349.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Shimizu KK, Kudoh H, Kobayashi MJ. Plant sexual reproduction during climate change: gene function in natura studied by ecological and evolutionary systems biology. ANNALS OF BOTANY 2011; 108:777-87. [PMID: 21852275 PMCID: PMC3170158 DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcr180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2010] [Accepted: 05/18/2011] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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BACKGROUND It is essential to understand and predict the effects of changing environments on plants. This review focuses on the sexual reproduction of plants, as previous studies have suggested that this trait is particularly vulnerable to climate change, and because a number of ecologically and evolutionarily relevant genes have been identified. SCOPE It is proposed that studying gene functions in naturally fluctuating conditions, or gene functions in natura, is important to predict responses to changing environments. First, we discuss flowering time, an extensively studied example of phenotypic plasticity. The quantitative approaches of ecological and evolutionary systems biology have been used to analyse the expression of a key flowering gene, FLC, of Arabidopsis halleri in naturally fluctuating environments. Modelling showed that FLC acts as a quantitative tracer of the temperature over the preceding 6 weeks. The predictions of this model were verified experimentally, confirming its applicability to future climate changes. Second, the evolution of self-compatibility as exemplifying an evolutionary response is discussed. Evolutionary genomic and functional analyses have indicated that A. thaliana became self-compatible via a loss-of-function mutation in the male specificity gene, SCR/SP11. Self-compatibility evolved during glacial-interglacial cycles, suggesting its association with mate limitation during migration. Although the evolution of self-compatibility may confer short-term advantages, it is predicted to increase the risk of extinction in the long term because loss-of-function mutations are virtually irreversible. CONCLUSIONS Recent studies of FLC and SCR have identified gene functions in natura that are unlikely to be found in laboratory experiments. The significance of epigenetic changes and the study of non-model species with next-generation DNA sequencers is also discussed.
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- Kentaro K Shimizu
- Institute of Plant Biology, University Research Priority Program in Systems Biology/Functional Genomics & Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center, University of Zurich, Zollikerstrasse 107, CH-8008 Zurich, Switzerland.
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Self-incompatibility (SI) is a genetic system found in some hermaphrodite plants. Recognition of pollen by pistils expressing cognate specificities at two linked genes leads to rejection of self pollen and pollen from close relatives, i.e., to avoidance of self-fertilization and inbred matings, and thus increased outcrossing. These genes generally have many alleles, yet the conditions allowing the evolution of new alleles remain mysterious. Evolutionary changes are clearly necessary in both genes, since any mutation affecting only one of them would result in a nonfunctional self-compatible haplotype. Here, we study diversification at the S-locus (i.e., a stable increase in the total number of SI haplotypes in the population, through the incorporation of new SI haplotypes), both deterministically (by investigating analytically the fate of mutations in an infinite population) and by simulations of finite populations. We show that the conditions allowing diversification are far less stringent in finite populations with recurrent mutations of the pollen and pistil genes, suggesting that diversification is possible in a panmictic population. We find that new SI haplotypes emerge fastest in populations with few SI haplotypes, and we discuss some implications for empirical data on S-alleles. However, allele numbers in our simulations never reach values as high as observed in plants whose SI systems have been studied, and we suggest extensions of our models that may reconcile the theory and data.
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Busch JW, Joly S, Schoen DJ. Demographic signatures accompanying the evolution of selfing in Leavenworthia alabamica. Mol Biol Evol 2011; 28:1717-29. [PMID: 21199892 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msq352] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The evolution of selfing from outcrossing is a common transition, yet little is known about the mutations and selective factors that promote this shift. In the mustard family, single-locus self-incompatibility (SI) enforces outcrossing. In this study, we test whether mutations causing self-compatibility (SC) are linked to the self-incompatibility locus (S-locus) in Leavenworthia alabamica, a species where two selfing races (a2 and a4) co-occur with outcrossing populations. We also infer the ecological circumstances associated with origins of selfing using molecular sequence data. Genealogical reconstruction of the Lal2 locus, the putative ortholog of the SRK locus, showed that both selfing races are fixed for one of two different S-linked Lal2 sequences, whereas outcrossing populations harbor many S-alleles. Hybrid crosses demonstrated that S-linked mutations cause SC in each selfing race. These results strongly suggest two origins of selfing in this species, a result supported by population admixture analysis of 16 microsatellite loci and by a population tree built from eight nuclear loci. One selfing race (a4) shows signs of a severe population bottleneck, suggesting that reproductive assurance might have caused the evolution of selfing in this case. In contrast, the population size of race a2 cannot be distinguished from that of outcrossing populations after correcting for differences in selfing rates. Coalescent-based analyses suggest a relatively old origin of selfing in the a4 race (∼150 ka ago), whereas selfing evolved recently in the a2 race (∼12-48 ka ago). These results imply that S-locus mutations have triggered two recent shifts to selfing in L. alabamica, but that these transitions are not always associated with a severe population bottleneck, suggesting that factors other than reproductive assurance may play a role in its evolution.
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- Jeremiah W Busch
- School of Biological Sciences and The Center for Reproductive Biology, Washington State University, WA, USA.
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Insights Gained From 50 Years of Studying the Evolution of Self-Compatibility in Leavenworthia (Brassicaceae). Evol Biol 2010. [DOI: 10.1007/s11692-010-9104-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Miller JS, Kamath A, Damashek J, Levin RA. Out of America to Africa or Asia: Inference of Dispersal Histories Using Nuclear and Plastid DNA and the S-RNase Self-incompatibility Locus. Mol Biol Evol 2010; 28:793-801. [DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msq253] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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There are several different types of self-incompatibility in different flowering plant species, and there has recently been progress in understanding their molecular genetics by using combined molecular and evolutionary approaches. Questions include the mechanism of self-incompatibility (both the nature of the proteins encoded by the genes and whether incompatibility systems all have separate genes for the pollen and pistil recognition proteins, which is the focus of this mini-review) and whether these systems involve chromosome regions with suppressed recombination and, if so, the size of these regions.
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- Deborah Charlesworth
- Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Ashworth Laboratory King's Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JT UK
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Sanzol J. Two neutral variants segregating at the gametophytic self-incompatibility locus of European pear (Pyrus communis L.) (Rosaceae, Pyrinae). PLANT BIOLOGY (STUTTGART, GERMANY) 2010; 12:800-805. [PMID: 20701704 DOI: 10.1111/j.1438-8677.2009.00277.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Extensive survey of the S-locus diversity of plant species with RNase-based gametophytic self-incompatibility has failed to identify neutral variation segregating within S-allele specificities. Although this is the expected result according to population genetics theory, it conflicts with recent models of S-allele evolution, which suggest that new specificities might arise by a continuous process of subtle changes that individually do not alter the specificity of the S-genes, but whose cumulative effects result in new S-allele functions. Genomic analysis of S-RNase sequences associated with the S(104) (=S(4), =S(b)) allele of European pear (Pyrus communis L.) cultivars yielded two distinct variants (named herein S(104-1) and S(104-2)) that differed at five nucleotide positions within the open reading frame, two of which resulted in changes in the predicted protein sequence. Test-cross experiments indicated that the S-alleles associated with the S(104-1) and S(104-2)RNases exhibit the same pollen and pistil functions, suggesting that they are two neutral variants segregating within the S(104) haplotype of European pear. These allelic forms might represent transitional states in the process of generating new specificities in the species, in accordance with models that predict S-function transition through neutral intermediates. This possibility was further evaluated through the pattern of molecular evolution of functionally distinct European pear S-RNases, which indicated that most recent S-allele diversification in this species proceeded in the absence of adaptive selective pressure.
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- J Sanzol
- Unidad de Fruticultura, Centro de Investigación y Tecnología Agroalimentaria de Aragón (CITA), Zaragoza, Spain.
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