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Li H, Zhang P, Luo M, Hoque M, Chakraborty S, Brooks B, Li J, Singh S, Forest K, Binney A, Zhang L, Mather D, Ayliffe M. Introgression of the bread wheat D genome encoded Lr34/Yr18/Sr57/Pm38/Ltn1 adult plant resistance gene into Triticum turgidum (durum wheat). TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2023; 136:226. [PMID: 37847385 PMCID: PMC10581953 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-023-04466-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2023] [Accepted: 09/18/2023] [Indexed: 10/18/2023]
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KEY MESSAGE Lack of function of a D-genome adult plant resistance gene upon introgression into durum wheat. The wheat Lr34/Yr18/Sr57/Pm38/Ltn1 adult plant resistance gene (Lr34), located on chromosome arm 7DS, provides broad spectrum, partial, adult plant resistance to leaf rust, stripe rust, stem rust and powdery mildew. It has been used extensively in hexaploid bread wheat (AABBDD) and conferred durable resistance for many decades. These same diseases also occur on cultivated tetraploid durum wheat and emmer wheat but transfer of D genome sequences to those subspecies is restricted due to very limited intergenomic recombination. Herein we have introgressed the Lr34 gene into chromosome 7A of durum wheat. Durum chromosome substitution line Langdon 7D(7A) was crossed to Cappelli ph1c, a mutant derivative of durum cultivar Cappelli homozygous for a deletion of the chromosome pairing locus Ph1. Screening of BC1F2 plants and their progeny by KASP and PCR markers, 90 K SNP genotyping and cytology identified 7A chromosomes containing small chromosome 7D fragments encoding Lr34. However, in contrast to previous transgenesis experiments in durum wheat, resistance to wheat stripe rust was not observed in either Cappelli/Langdon 7D(7A) or Bansi durum plants carrying this Lr34 encoding segment due to low levels of Lr34 gene expression. KEY MESSAGE
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- Hongyu Li
- CSIRO Agriculture and Food, Clunies Ross Street, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia
- Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, 211 Huimin Road, Wenjiang, Chengdu, 611130, Sichuan, China
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- Plant Breeding Institute, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, Cobbitty, NSW, 2570, Australia
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- CSIRO Agriculture and Food, Clunies Ross Street, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia
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- CSIRO Agriculture and Food, Clunies Ross Street, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia
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- CSIRO Agriculture and Food, Clunies Ross Street, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia
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- CSIRO Agriculture and Food, Clunies Ross Street, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia
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- Plant Breeding Institute, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, Cobbitty, NSW, 2570, Australia
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- Plant Breeding Institute, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, Cobbitty, NSW, 2570, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria, Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action, AgriBio Centre for AgriBioscience, 5 Ring Rd, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia
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- School of Agriculture, Food & Wine, The University of Adelaide, PMB 1, Glen Osmond, SA, 5064, Australia
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- Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, 211 Huimin Road, Wenjiang, Chengdu, 611130, Sichuan, China
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- School of Agriculture, Food & Wine, The University of Adelaide, PMB 1, Glen Osmond, SA, 5064, Australia
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- CSIRO Agriculture and Food, Clunies Ross Street, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia.
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Borowska-Zuchowska N, Senderowicz M, Trunova D, Kolano B. Tracing the Evolution of the Angiosperm Genome from the Cytogenetic Point of View. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 11:plants11060784. [PMID: 35336666 PMCID: PMC8953110 DOI: 10.3390/plants11060784] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2022] [Revised: 03/14/2022] [Accepted: 03/14/2022] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Cytogenetics constitutes a branch of genetics that is focused on the cellular components, especially chromosomes, in relation to heredity and genome structure, function and evolution. The use of modern cytogenetic approaches and the latest microscopes with image acquisition and processing systems enables the simultaneous two- or three-dimensional, multicolour visualisation of both single-copy and highly-repetitive sequences in the plant genome. The data that is gathered using the cytogenetic methods in the phylogenetic background enable tracing the evolution of the plant genome that involve changes in: (i) genome sizes; (ii) chromosome numbers and morphology; (iii) the content of repetitive sequences and (iv) ploidy level. Modern cytogenetic approaches such as FISH using chromosome- and genome-specific probes have been widely used in studies of the evolution of diploids and the consequences of polyploidy. Nowadays, modern cytogenetics complements analyses in other fields of cell biology and constitutes the linkage between genetics, molecular biology and genomics.
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Németh C, Papp N, Nosková J, Höhn M. Speciation by triparental hybridization in genus Sorbus (Rosaceae). Biol Futur 2021; 71:209-222. [PMID: 34554510 DOI: 10.1007/s42977-020-00003-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Hybridization associated with polyploidization and apomixis is a frequent mechanism of speciation. Sorbus is a genus with ongoing hybridization resulting in a polyploid complex with different parental lineage. Triparens is the smallest hybridogenous subgenus of Sorbus so far known to comprise only two taxa, S. intermedia and S. × liljeforsii that combine the genomes of three taxa (S. aria agg., S. aucuparia and S. torminalis). To elucidate the origins of S. dacica, S. paxiana and S. tauricola, three new trigenomic candidates formerly believed to be of biparental origin with either S. aria agg. × S. aucuparia or S. aria agg. × S. torminalis lineage we combined data from HPLC and chloroplast DNA analysing additional 33 related taxa as well. We concluded that the 'torminalis-type' flavonoid profile and the 'aucuparia-type' plastid indicate the participation of both S. torminalis and S. aucuparia resulting in the formation of S. dacica, S. paxiana and S. tauricola. Sorbus aria agg. as the third ancestor and as a necessary link to meet genes of S. torminalis and S. aucuparia in one genome is obvious from morphological features (densely tomentose undersides of leaves). The tetraploid cytotypes and obligate pseudogamy of S. dacica and S. paxiana were determined by flow cytometry and are published here for the first time. The most probable evolutionary scenario for Triparens species is: 1. a diploid sexual S. aucuparia as pollen acceptor hybridized with a tetraploid apomictic taxon from the S. aria agg. producing a triploid apomictic taxon with 'aucuparia-type' plastid inherited maternally; 2. during a second crossing event this subgenus Soraria hybrid as maternal progenitor hybridized with the sexual diploid S. torminalis (providing gene(s) of apigenin O-glucuronide synthesis) forming a tetraploid Triparens hybrid with 'aucuparia-type' plastid and 'torminalis-type' flavonoids.
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- Csaba Németh
- GINOP Sustainable Ecosystems Group, MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Klebersberg Kuno út 3, Tihany, 8237, Hungary. .,Department of Botany and Soroksár Botanical Garden, Faculty of Horticultural Science, Szent István University, Budapest, Hungary.
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Food Science, Szent István University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Botany and Soroksár Botanical Garden, Faculty of Horticultural Science, Szent István University, Budapest, Hungary
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Li G, Zhang T, Yu Z, Wang H, Yang E, Yang Z. An efficient Oligo-FISH painting system for revealing chromosome rearrangements and polyploidization in Triticeae. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2021; 105:978-993. [PMID: 33210785 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.15081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2020] [Revised: 10/25/2020] [Accepted: 11/09/2020] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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A chromosome-specific painting technique has been developed which combines the most recent approaches of the companion disciplines of molecular cytogenetics and genome research. We developed seven oligonucleotide (oligo) pools derivd from single-copy sequences on chromosomes 1 to 7 of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) and corresponding collinear regions of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). The seven groups of pooled oligos comprised between 10 986 and 12 496 45-bp monomers, and these then produced stable fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) signals on chromosomes of each linkage group of wheat and barley. The pooled oligo probes were applied to high-throughput karyotyping of the chromosomes of other Triticeae species in the genera Secale, Aegilops, Thinopyrum, and Dasypyrum, and the study also extended to some wheat-alien amphiploids and derived lines. We demonstrated that a complete set of whole-chromosome oligo painting probes facilitated the study of inter-species chromosome homologous relationships and visualized non-homologous chromosomal rearrangements in Triticeae species and some wheat-alien species derivatives. When combined with other non-denaturing FISH procedures using tandem-repeat oligos, the newly developed oligo painting techniques provide an efficient tool for the study of chromosome structure, organization, and evolution among any wild Triticeae species with non-sequenced genomes.
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- Guangrong Li
- Center for Informational Biology, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic and Technology of China, Chengdu, 611731, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology/Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genomics and Molecular Breeding/Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center for Modern Production Technology of Grain Crops, Agricultural College of Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, 225009, China
- Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics of the Ministry of Education/Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety of Ministry of Education of China, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, 225009, China
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- Center for Informational Biology, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic and Technology of China, Chengdu, 611731, China
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- Center for Informational Biology, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic and Technology of China, Chengdu, 611731, China
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- Crop Research Institute, Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Chengdu, 610066, China
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- Center for Informational Biology, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic and Technology of China, Chengdu, 611731, China
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Song X, Song R, Zhou J, Yan W, Zhang T, Sun H, Xiao J, Wu Y, Xi M, Lou Q, Wang H, Wang X. Development and application of oligonucleotide-based chromosome painting for chromosome 4D of Triticum aestivum L. Chromosome Res 2020; 28:171-182. [PMID: 32002727 DOI: 10.1007/s10577-020-09627-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2019] [Revised: 01/23/2020] [Accepted: 01/24/2020] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Chromosome painting is a useful technique for distinguishing specific chromosomes (fragments), elucidating the genetic relationships of different genomes or chromosomes, and identifying chromosomal rearrangements. The development of chromosome- or genome-specific probes is fundamental for chromosome painting. The possibility for developing such probes specifically painting homoeologous chromosomes in allopolyploid species has been questioned since that chromosomes belonging to the same homoeologous group share highly conserved sequences. In the present study, we attempted to construct a wheat chromosome 4D-specific oligo probe library by selecting 4D-specific sequences in reference genome of common wheat cv. Chinese Spring (CS, 2n = 6x = 42, AABBDD). The synthesized library contains 27,392 oligos. Oligo painting using the probe library confirmed its specificity, shown by that only chromosome 4D could be painted in three wheat genotypes and CS nulli-tetrasomic line N4AT4D. Oligo painting was successfully used to define the 4D breakpoints in CS deletion lines involving 4D and two wheat-Haynaldia villosa 4D-4V translocation lines. Thirteen wheat relatives and a Triticum durum-H. villosa amphiploid were used for oligo painting. Except the 4D in two Aegilops tauschii accessions, the 4M in Ae. comosa and 4U in Ae. umbellulata could be painted. In tetraploid Ae. ventricosa, both 4D and 4M could be painted; however, the signal intensity of 4M was less compared with 4D. No painted chromosome was observed for the other alien species. This indicated that the relationship among D/M/U was closer than that among D/A/B as well as D with genomes H/R/Ss/Sc/Y/P/N/J. Our successful development of 4D-specific oligo probe library may serve as a model for developing oligo probes specific for other homoeologous chromosomes.
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- Xinying Song
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, College of Agronomy, Nanjing Agricultural University/JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, Jiangsu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, College of Agronomy, Nanjing Agricultural University/JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, Jiangsu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, College of Agronomy, Nanjing Agricultural University/JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, Jiangsu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, College of Agronomy, Nanjing Agricultural University/JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, Jiangsu, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genomics and Molecular Breeding, Agricultural College of Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, 225009, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, College of Agronomy, Nanjing Agricultural University/JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, Jiangsu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, College of Agronomy, Nanjing Agricultural University/JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, Jiangsu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, College of Agronomy, Nanjing Agricultural University/JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, Jiangsu, China
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- Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China/Key Laboratory of Forest Genetics and Biotechnology of Ministry of Education, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, 210037, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, College of Agronomy, Nanjing Agricultural University/JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, Jiangsu, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, College of Agronomy, Nanjing Agricultural University/JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, Jiangsu, China.
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Dai K, Zhao R, Shi M, Xiao J, Yu Z, Jia Q, Wang Z, Yuan C, Sun H, Cao A, Zhang R, Chen P, Li Y, Wang H, Wang X. Dissection and cytological mapping of chromosome arm 4VS by the development of wheat-Haynaldia villosa structural aberration library. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2020; 133:217-226. [PMID: 31587088 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-019-03452-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2019] [Accepted: 09/28/2019] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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A cytological map of Haynaldia villosa chromosome arm 4VS was constructed to facilitate the identification and utilization of beneficial genes on 4VS. Induction of wheat-alien chromosomal structure aberrations not only provides new germplasm for wheat improvement, but also allows assignment of favorable genes to define physical regions. Especially, the translocation or introgression lines carrying alien chromosomal fragments with different sizes are useful for breeding and alien gene mapping. Chromosome arm 4VS of Haynaldia villosa (L.) Schur (syn. Dasypyrum villosum (L.) P. Candargy) confers resistances to eyespot and wheat yellow mosaic virus (WYMV). In this research, we used both irradiation and the pairing homoeologous gene (Ph) mutant to induce chromosomal aberrations or translocations. By using the two approaches, a structural aberration library of chromosome arm 4VS was constructed. In this library, there are 57 homozygous structural aberrations, in which, 39 were induced by the Triticum aestivum cv. Chinese Spring (CS) ph1b mutant (CS ph1b) and 18 were induced by irradiation. The aberrations included four types, i.e., terminal translocation, interstitial translocation, deletion and complex structural aberration. The 4VS cytological map was constructed by amplification in the developed homozygous aberrations using 199 4VS-specific markers, which could be allocated into 39 bins on 4VS. These bins were further assigned to their corresponding physical regions of chromosome arm 4DS based on BLASTn search of the marker sequences against the reference sequence of Aegilops tauschii Cosson. The developed genetic stocks and cytological map provide genetic stocks for wheat breeding as well as alien gene tagging.
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- Keli Dai
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Cytogenetics Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University/JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, Jiangsu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Cytogenetics Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University/JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, Jiangsu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Cytogenetics Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University/JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, Jiangsu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Cytogenetics Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University/JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, Jiangsu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Cytogenetics Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University/JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, Jiangsu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Cytogenetics Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University/JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, Jiangsu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Cytogenetics Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University/JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, Jiangsu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Cytogenetics Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University/JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, Jiangsu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Cytogenetics Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University/JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, Jiangsu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Cytogenetics Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University/JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, Jiangsu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Cytogenetics Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University/JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, Jiangsu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Cytogenetics Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University/JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, Jiangsu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Cytogenetics Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University/JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, Jiangsu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Cytogenetics Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University/JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, Jiangsu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Cytogenetics Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University/JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095, Jiangsu, China.
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Mirzaghaderi G, Mason AS. Broadening the bread wheat D genome. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2019; 132:1295-1307. [PMID: 30739154 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-019-03299-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2018] [Accepted: 02/02/2019] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Although Ae. tauschii has been extensively utilised for wheat breeding, the D-genome-containing allopolyploids have largely remained unexploited. In this review, we discuss approaches that can be used to exploit the D genomes of the different Aegilops species for the improvement of bread wheat. The D genome of allohexaploid bread wheat (Triticum aestivum, 2n = AABBDD) is the least diverse of the three wheat genomes and is unarguably less diverse than that of diploid progenitor Aegilops tauschii (2n = DD). Useful genetic variation and phenotypic traits also exist within each of the wheat group species containing a copy of the D genome: allopolyploid Aegilops species Ae. cylindrica (2n = DcDcCcCc), Ae. crassa 4x (2n = D1D1XcrXcr), Ae. crassa 6x (2n = D1D1XcrXcrDcrDcr), Ae. ventricosa (2n = DvDvNvNv), Ae. vavilovii (2n = D1D1XcrXcrSvSv) and Ae. juvenalis (2n = D1D1XcrXcrUjUj). Although Ae. tauschii has been extensively utilised for wheat breeding, the D-genome-containing allopolyploids have largely remained unexploited. Some of these D genomes appear to be modified relative to the bread wheat and Ae. tauschii D genomes, and others present in the allopolyploids may also contain useful variation as a result of adaptation to an allopolyploid, multi-genome environment. We summarise the genetic relationships, karyotypic variation and phenotypic traits known to be present in each of the D genome species that could be of relevance for bread wheat improvement and discuss approaches that can be used to exploit the D genomes of the different Aegilops species for the improvement of bread wheat. Better understanding of factors controlling chromosome inheritance and recombination in wheat group interspecific hybrids, as well as effective utilisation of new and developing genetics and genomics technologies, have great potential to improve the agronomic potential of the bread wheat D genome.
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- Ghader Mirzaghaderi
- Department of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Kurdistan, P. O. Box 416, Sanandaj, Iran.
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- Department of Plant Breeding, Justus Liebig University, IFZ Research Centre for Biosystems, Land Use and Nutrition, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26-32, Giessen, 35392, Germany
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Finnegan EJ, Ford B, Wallace X, Pettolino F, Griffin PT, Schmitz RJ, Zhang P, Barrero JM, Hayden MJ, Boden SA, Cavanagh CA, Swain SM, Trevaskis B. Zebularine treatment is associated with deletion of FT-B1 leading to an increase in spikelet number in bread wheat. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2018; 41:1346-1360. [PMID: 29430678 DOI: 10.1111/pce.13164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2017] [Revised: 01/16/2018] [Accepted: 01/21/2018] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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The number of rachis nodes (spikelets) on a wheat spike is a component of grain yield that correlates with flowering time. The genetic basis regulating flowering in cereals is well understood, but there are reports that flowering time can be modified at a high frequency by selective breeding, suggesting that it may be regulated by both epigenetic and genetic mechanisms. We investigated the role of DNA methylation in regulating spikelet number and flowering time by treating a semi-spring wheat with the demethylating agent, Zebularine. Three lines with a heritable increase in spikelet number were identified. The molecular basis for increased spikelet number was not determined in 2 lines, but the phenotype showed non-Mendelian inheritance, suggesting that it could have an epigenetic basis. In the remaining line, the increased spikelet phenotype behaved as a Mendelian recessive trait and late flowering was associated with a deletion encompassing the floral promoter, FT-B1. Deletion of FT-B1 delayed the transition to reproductive growth, extended the duration of spike development, and increased spikelet number under different temperature regimes and photoperiod. Transiently disrupting DNA methylation can generate novel flowering behaviour in wheat, but these changes may not be sufficiently stable for use in breeding programs.
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- CSIRO Agriculture and Food, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia
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- Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA
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- Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA
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- Plant Breeding Institute, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, Cobbitty, New South Wales, 2570, Australia
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- CSIRO Agriculture and Food, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria Research, Agribio Center, Bundoora, Victoria, 3083, Australia
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- CSIRO Agriculture and Food, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia
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- CSIRO Agriculture and Food, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia
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- CSIRO Agriculture and Food, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia
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Dong G, Shen J, Zhang Q, Wang J, Yu Q, Ming R, Wang K, Zhang J. Development and Applications of Chromosome-Specific Cytogenetic BAC-FISH Probes in S. spontaneum. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2018; 9:218. [PMID: 29535742 PMCID: PMC5834487 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2018.00218] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Saccharum spontaneum is a major Saccharum species that contributed to the origin of modern sugarcane cultivars, and due to a high degree of polyploidy is considered to be a plant species with one of the most complex genetics. Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) is a powerful and widely used tool in genome studies. Here, we demonstrated that FISH based on bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) clones can be used as a specific cytological marker to identify S. spontaneum individual chromosomes and study the relationship between S. spontaneum and other related species. We screened low-copy BACs as probes from the sequences of a high coverage of S. spontaneum BAC library based on BLAST search of the sorghum genome. In total, we isolated 49 positive BAC clones, and identified 27 BAC clones that can give specific signals on the S. spontaneum chromosomes. Of the 27 BAC probes, 18 were confirmed to be able to discriminate the eight basic chromosomes of S. spontaneum. Moreover, BAC-24, BAC-66, BAC-78, BAC-69, BAC-71, BAC-73, and BAC-77 probes were used to construct physical maps of chromosome 1 and chromosome 2 of S. spontaneum, which indicated synteny in Sb01 between S. spontaneum and sorghum. Furthermore, we found that BAC-14 and BAC-19 probes, corresponding to the sorghum chromosomes 2 and 8, respectively, localized to different arms of the same S. spontaneum chromosome, suggesting that there was an inter-chromosomal rearrangement event between S. spontaneum and sorghum. Our study provides the first set of chromosome-specific cytogenetic markers in Saccharum and is critical for future advances in cytogenetics and genome sequencing studies in Saccharum.
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- Guangrui Dong
- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Haixia Applied Plant Systems Biology, Center for Genomics and Biotechnology, Haixia Institute of Science and Technology, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
- Key Laboratory of Sugarcane Biology and Genetic Breeding, Ministry of Agriculture, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Haixia Applied Plant Systems Biology, Center for Genomics and Biotechnology, Haixia Institute of Science and Technology, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
- Key Laboratory of Sugarcane Biology and Genetic Breeding, Ministry of Agriculture, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Haixia Applied Plant Systems Biology, Center for Genomics and Biotechnology, Haixia Institute of Science and Technology, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
- Agronomy Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Haixia Applied Plant Systems Biology, Center for Genomics and Biotechnology, Haixia Institute of Science and Technology, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
- Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Haixia Applied Plant Systems Biology, Center for Genomics and Biotechnology, Haixia Institute of Science and Technology, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
- Texas A&M AgriLife Research Center, Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Texas A&M University System, Dallas, TX, United States
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Haixia Applied Plant Systems Biology, Center for Genomics and Biotechnology, Haixia Institute of Science and Technology, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
- Key Laboratory of Sugarcane Biology and Genetic Breeding, Ministry of Agriculture, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Haixia Applied Plant Systems Biology, Center for Genomics and Biotechnology, Haixia Institute of Science and Technology, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
- Key Laboratory of Sugarcane Biology and Genetic Breeding, Ministry of Agriculture, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
- College of Life Sciences, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, China
- *Correspondence: Jisen Zhang,
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Xiao J, Dai K, Fu L, Vrána J, Kubaláková M, Wan W, Sun H, Zhao J, Yu C, Wu Y, Abrouk M, Wang H, Doležel J, Wang X. Sequencing flow-sorted short arm of Haynaldia villosa chromosome 4V provides insights into its molecular structure and virtual gene order. BMC Genomics 2017; 18:791. [PMID: 29037165 PMCID: PMC5644170 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-017-4211-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2017] [Accepted: 10/12/2017] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Haynaldia villosa (H. villosa) has been recognized as a species potentially useful for wheat improvement. The availability of its genomic sequences will boost its research and application. RESULTS In this work, the short arm of H. villosa chromosome 4V (4VS) was sorted by flow cytometry and sequenced using Illumina platform. About 170.6 Mb assembled sequences were obtained. Further analysis showed that repetitive elements accounted for about 64.6% of 4VS, while the coding fraction, which is corresponding to 1977 annotated genes, represented 1.5% of the arm. The syntenic regions of the 4VS were searched and identified on wheat group 4 chromosomes 4AL, 4BS, 4DS, Brachypodium chromosomes 1 and 4, rice chromosomes 3 and 11, and sorghum chromosomes 1, 5 and 8. Based on genome-zipper analysis, a virtual gene order comprising 735 gene loci on 4VS genome was built by referring to the Brachypodium genome, which was relatively consistent with the scaffold order determined for Ae. tauschii chromosome 4D. The homologous alleles of several cloned genes on wheat group 4 chromosomes including Rht-1 gene were identified. CONCLUSIONS The sequences provided valuable information for mapping and positional-cloning genes located on 4VS, such as the wheat yellow mosaic virus resistance gene Wss1. The work on 4VS provided detailed insights into the genome of H. villosa, and may also serve as a model for sequencing the remaining parts of H. villosa genome.
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- Jin Xiao
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Cytogenetics Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University/JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Cytogenetics Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University/JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Cytogenetics Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University/JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095 China
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- Institute of Experimental Botany, Centre of the Haná Region for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Šlechtitelů 31, CZ-783671 Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Experimental Botany, Centre of the Haná Region for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Šlechtitelů 31, CZ-783671 Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Cytogenetics Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University/JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Cytogenetics Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University/JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Cytogenetics Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University/JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Cytogenetics Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University/JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Cytogenetics Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University/JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095 China
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- Institute of Experimental Botany, Centre of the Haná Region for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Šlechtitelů 31, CZ-783671 Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Cytogenetics Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University/JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095 China
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- Institute of Experimental Botany, Centre of the Haná Region for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Šlechtitelů 31, CZ-783671 Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Cytogenetics Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University/JCIC-MCP, Nanjing, 210095 China
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Karafiátová M, Bartoš J, Doležel J. Localization of Low-Copy DNA Sequences on Mitotic Chromosomes by FISH. Methods Mol Biol 2017; 1429:49-64. [PMID: 27511166 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-3622-9_5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/18/2023]
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Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) is a widely used method to localize DNA sequences on mitotic and meiotic chromosomes and interphase nuclei. It was developed in early 1980s and since then it has contributed to numerous studies and important discoveries. Over the decades, the protocol was modified for ease of use, allowing for localizing multiple probes simultaneously and increasing its sensitivity and specificity. Despite the continuous improvements, the ability to detect short single-copy sequences of only a few kilobases or less, such as genes, remains limited. Here, we provide a detailed protocol for detection of short, single- or low-copy sequences on plant mitotic metaphase chromosomes.
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- Miroslava Karafiátová
- Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Institute of Experimental Botany, Šlechtitelů 31, CZ-78374, Olomouc, Czech Republic.
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- Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Institute of Experimental Botany, Šlechtitelů 31, CZ-78374, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Institute of Experimental Botany, Šlechtitelů 31, CZ-78374, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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Danilova TV, Akhunova AR, Akhunov ED, Friebe B, Gill BS. Major structural genomic alterations can be associated with hybrid speciation in Aegilops markgrafii (Triticeae). THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2017; 92:317-330. [PMID: 28776783 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.13657] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2017] [Revised: 07/21/2017] [Accepted: 07/31/2017] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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During evolutionary history many grasses from the tribe Triticeae have undergone interspecific hybridization, resulting in allopolyploidy; whereas homoploid hybrid speciation was found only in rye. Homoeologous chromosomes within the Triticeae preserved cross-species macrocolinearity, except for a few species with rearranged genomes. Aegilops markgrafii, a diploid wild relative of wheat (2n = 2x = 14), has a highly asymmetrical karyotype that is indicative of chromosome rearrangements. Molecular cytogenetics and next-generation sequencing were used to explore the genome organization. Fluorescence in situ hybridization with a set of wheat cDNAs allowed the macrostructure and cross-genome homoeology of the Ae. markgrafii chromosomes to be established. Two chromosomes maintained colinearity, whereas the remaining were highly rearranged as a result of inversions and inter- and intrachromosomal translocations. We used sets of barley and wheat orthologous gene sequences to compare discrete parts of the Ae. markgrafii genome involved in the rearrangements. Analysis of sequence identity profiles and phylogenic relationships grouped chromosome blocks into two distinct clusters. Chromosome painting revealed the distribution of transposable elements and differentiated chromosome blocks into two groups consistent with the sequence analyses. These data suggest that introgressive hybridization accompanied by gross chromosome rearrangements might have had an impact on karyotype evolution and homoploid speciation in Ae. markgrafii.
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- Tatiana V Danilova
- Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA
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Dai Y, Duan Y, Chi D, Liu H, Huang S, Cao W, Gao Y, Fedak G, Chen J. Chromosome identification by new molecular markers and genomic in situ hybridization in the Triticum-Secale-Thinopyrum trigeneric hybrids. Genome 2017. [PMID: 28636827 DOI: 10.1139/gen-2017-0025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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It is very important to use chromosome-specific markers for identifying alien chromosomes in advanced generations of distant hybridization. The chromosome-specific markers of rye and Thinopyrum elongatum, as well as genomic in situ hybridization, were used to identify the alien chromosomes in eight lines that were derived from the crossing between Triticum trititrigia (AABBEE) and triticale (AABBRR). The results showed that four lines contained all rye chromosomes but no Th. elongatum chromosomes. The line RE36-1 contained all of the rye chromosomes except for chromosome 2R. The lines RE33-2 and RE62-1 contained all rye chromosomes and 1E and 5E translocated chromosome, respectively. The line RE24-4 contained 12 rye chromosomes plus a 7E chromosome or 12 rye chromosomes plus one R-E translocated chromosome. Chromosome identification in the above lines was consistent using chromosome-specific markers and genomic in situ hybridization. These chromosome-specific markers provide useful tools for detecting alien chromosomes in trigeneric hybrids, and these lines could be utilized as valuable germplasm in wheat improvement.
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- Yi Dai
- a College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Co-Innovation Center for Modern Production Technology of Grain Crops, Yangzhou University, 88 Da Xue South Road, Yangzhou 225100, Jiangsu, China.,b Ottawa Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, ON K1A 0C6, Canada
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- a College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Co-Innovation Center for Modern Production Technology of Grain Crops, Yangzhou University, 88 Da Xue South Road, Yangzhou 225100, Jiangsu, China
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- b Ottawa Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, ON K1A 0C6, Canada
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- a College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Co-Innovation Center for Modern Production Technology of Grain Crops, Yangzhou University, 88 Da Xue South Road, Yangzhou 225100, Jiangsu, China.,b Ottawa Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, ON K1A 0C6, Canada
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- a College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Co-Innovation Center for Modern Production Technology of Grain Crops, Yangzhou University, 88 Da Xue South Road, Yangzhou 225100, Jiangsu, China
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- b Ottawa Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, ON K1A 0C6, Canada
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- a College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Co-Innovation Center for Modern Production Technology of Grain Crops, Yangzhou University, 88 Da Xue South Road, Yangzhou 225100, Jiangsu, China.,c Jiangsu Key Laboratories of Crop Genetics and Physiology and Plant Functional Genomics of the Ministry of Education, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, Jiangsu, China
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- b Ottawa Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, ON K1A 0C6, Canada
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- a College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Co-Innovation Center for Modern Production Technology of Grain Crops, Yangzhou University, 88 Da Xue South Road, Yangzhou 225100, Jiangsu, China.,c Jiangsu Key Laboratories of Crop Genetics and Physiology and Plant Functional Genomics of the Ministry of Education, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, Jiangsu, China
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Majka J, Książczyk T, Kiełbowicz-Matuk A, Kopecký D, Kosmala A. Exploiting repetitive sequences and BAC clones in Festuca pratensis karyotyping. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0179043. [PMID: 28591168 PMCID: PMC5462415 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0179043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2017] [Accepted: 05/23/2017] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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The Festuca genus is thought to be the most numerous genus of the Poaceae family. One of the most agronomically important forage grasses, Festuca pratensis Huds. is treated as a model plant to study the molecular mechanisms associated with tolerance to winter stresses, including frost. However, the precise mapping of the genes governing stress tolerance in this species is difficult as its karyotype remains unrecognized. Only two F. pratensis chromosomes with 35S and 5S rDNA sequences can be easily identified, but its remaining chromosomes have not been distinguished to date. Here, two libraries derived from F. pratensis nuclear DNA with various contents of repetitive DNA sequences were used as sources of molecular probes for fluorescent in situ hybridisation (FISH), a BAC library and a library representing sequences most frequently present in the F. pratensis genome. Using FISH, six groups of DNA sequences were revealed in chromosomes on the basis of their signal position, including dispersed-like sequences, chromosome painting-like sequences, centromeric-like sequences, knob-like sequences, a group without hybridization signals, and single locus-like sequences. The last group was exploited to develop cytogenetic maps of diploid and tetraploid F. pratensis, which are presented here for the first time and provide a remarkable progress in karyotype characterization.
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- Joanna Majka
- Institute of Plant Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznań, Poland
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- Institute of Plant Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznań, Poland
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- Institute of Experimental Botany, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Plant Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznań, Poland
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Padmanaban S, Zhang P, Hare RA, Sutherland MW, Martin A. Pentaploid Wheat Hybrids: Applications, Characterisation, and Challenges. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2017; 8:358. [PMID: 28367153 PMCID: PMC5355473 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00358] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2016] [Accepted: 03/01/2017] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Interspecific hybridisation between hexaploid and tetraploid wheat species leads to the development of F1 pentaploid hybrids with unique chromosomal constitutions. Pentaploid hybrids derived from bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and durum wheat (Triticum turgidum spp. durum Desf.) crosses can improve the genetic background of either parent by transferring traits of interest. The genetic variability derived from bread and durum wheat and transferred into pentaploid hybrids has the potential to improve disease resistance, abiotic tolerance, and grain quality, and to enhance agronomic characters. Nonetheless, pentaploid wheat hybrids have not been fully exploited in breeding programs aimed at improving crops. There are several potential barriers for efficient pentaploid wheat production, such as low pollen compatibility, poor seed set, failed seedling establishment, and frequent sterility in F1 hybrids. However, most of the barriers can be overcome by careful selection of the parental genotypes and by employing the higher ploidy level genotype as the maternal parent. In this review, we summarize the current research on pentaploid wheat hybrids and analyze the advantages and pitfalls of current methods used to assess pentaploid-derived lines. Furthermore, we discuss current and potential applications in commercial breeding programs and future directions for research into pentaploid wheat.
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- Sriram Padmanaban
- Centre for Crop Health, University of Southern Queensland, ToowoombaQLD, Australia
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- Plant Breeding Institute, The University of Sydney, SydneyNSW, Australia
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- Centre for Crop Health, University of Southern Queensland, ToowoombaQLD, Australia
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- Centre for Crop Health, University of Southern Queensland, ToowoombaQLD, Australia
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- Centre for Crop Health, University of Southern Queensland, ToowoombaQLD, Australia
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Han C, Zhang P, Ryan PR, Rathjen TM, Yan Z, Delhaize E. Introgression of genes from bread wheat enhances the aluminium tolerance of durum wheat. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2016; 129:729-739. [PMID: 26747046 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-015-2661-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2015] [Accepted: 12/14/2015] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The aluminium tolerance of durum wheat was markedly enhanced by introgression of TaALMT1 and TaMATE1B from bread wheat. In contrast to bread wheat, TaMATE1B conferred greater aluminium tolerance than TaALMT1. Durum wheat (tetraploid AABB, Triticum turgidum) is a species that grows poorly on acid soils due to its sensitivity of Al(3+). By contrast, bread wheat (hexaploid AABBDD, T. aestivum) shows a large variation in Al(3+) tolerance which can be attributed to a major gene (TaALMT1) located on chromosome 4D as well as to other genes of minor effect such as TaMATE1B. Genotypic variation for Al(3+) tolerance in durum germplasm is small and the introgression of genes from bread wheat is one option for enhancing the ability of durum wheat to grow on acid soils. Introgression of a large fragment of the 4D chromosome previously increased the Al(3+) tolerance of durum wheat demonstrating the viability of transferring the TaALMT1 gene to durum wheat to increase its Al(3+) tolerance. Here, we used a ph1 (pairing homoeologous) mutant of durum wheat to introgress a small fragment of the 4D chromosome harboring the TaALMT1 gene. The size of the 4D chromosomal fragment introgressed into durum wheat was estimated by markers, fluorescence in situ hybridisation and real-time quantitative PCR. In a parallel strategy, we introgressed TaMATE1B from bread wheat into durum wheat using conventional crosses. Both genes separately increased the Al(3+) tolerance of durum wheat in both hydroponics and soil cultures. In contrast to bread wheat, the TaMATE1B gene was more effective than TaALMT1 in increasing the Al(3+) tolerance of durum wheat grown on acid soil.
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- Chang Han
- CSIRO Agriculture, GPO Box 1600, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia
- School of Agriculture and Technology, Zunyi Normal College, Zunyi, 563002, Guizhou, China
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- The University of Sydney, 107 Cobbitty Rd, Cobbitty, NSW, 2570, Australia
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- CSIRO Agriculture, GPO Box 1600, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia
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- CSIRO Agriculture, GPO Box 1600, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia
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- Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, 611130, Sichuan, China
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Molecular and Cytogenetic Characterization of New Wheat-Dasypyrum breviaristatum Derivatives with Post-Harvest Re-Growth Habit. Genes (Basel) 2015; 6:1242-55. [PMID: 26633516 PMCID: PMC4690038 DOI: 10.3390/genes6041242] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2015] [Revised: 11/10/2015] [Accepted: 11/18/2015] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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A novel Dasypyrum species, Dasypyrum breviaristatum, serves as a valuable source of useful genes for wheat improvement. The development and characterization of new wheat—D. breviaristatum introgression lines is important to determine the novel gene(s) on specific chromosome(s). We first used multi-color fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) to identify the individual D. breviaristatum Vb chromosomes in a common wheat—D. breviaristatum partial amphiploid, TDH-2. The FISH patterns of D. breviaristatum chromosomes were different from those of D. villosum chromosomes. Lines D2146 and D2150 were selected from a cross between wheat line MY11 and wheat—D. breviaristatum partial amphiploid TDH-2, and they were characterized by FISH and PCR-based molecular markers. We found that D2150 was a monosomic addition line for chromosome 5Vb of D. breviaristatum, while D2146 had the 5VbL chromosome arm translocated with wheat chromosome 5AS. Molecular marker analysis confirmed that the introduced D. breviaristatum chromosome 5VbL translocation possessed a duplicated region homoeologous to 5AS, revealing that the 5AS.5VbL translocation may not functionally compensate well. The dwarfing and the pre-harvest re-growth habits observed in the wheat—D. breviaristatum chromosome 5Vb derivatives may be useful for future development of perennial growth wheat lines.
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Cainong JC, Bockus WW, Feng Y, Chen P, Qi L, Sehgal SK, Danilova TV, Koo DH, Friebe B, Gill BS. Chromosome engineering, mapping, and transferring of resistance to Fusarium head blight disease from Elymus tsukushiensis into wheat. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2015; 128:1019-27. [PMID: 25726000 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-015-2485-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2014] [Accepted: 02/13/2015] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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This manuscript describes the transfer and molecular cytogenetic characterization of a novel source of Fusarium head blight resistance in wheat. Fusarium head blight (FHB) caused by the fungus Fusarium graminearum Schwabe [telomorph = Gibberella zeae (Schwein. Fr.) Petch] is an important disease of bread wheat, Triticum aestivum L. (2n = 6x = 42, AABBDD) worldwide. Wheat has limited resistance to FHB controlled by many loci and new sources of resistance are urgently needed. The perennial grass Elymus tsukushiensis thrives in the warm and humid regions of China and Japan and is immune to FHB. Here, we report the transfer and mapping of a major gene Fhb6 from E. tsukushiensis to wheat. Fhb6 was mapped to the subterminal region in the short arm of chromosome 1E(ts)#1S of E. tsukushiensis. Chromosome engineering was used to replace corresponding homoeologous region of chromosome 1AS of wheat with the Fhb6 associated chromatin derived from 1E(ts)#1S of E. tsukushiensis. Fhb6 appears to be new locus for wheat as previous studies have not detected any FHB resistance QTL in this chromosome region. Plant progenies homozygous for Fhb6 had a disease severity rating of 7 % compared to 35 % for the null progenies. Fhb6 has been tagged with molecular markers for marker-assisted breeding and pyramiding of resistance loci for effective control of FHB.
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- Joey C Cainong
- Department of Plant Pathology, Wheat Genetics Resource Center, Throckmorton Plant Sciences Center, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 66506-5502, USA
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Ye X, Lu Y, Liu W, Chen G, Han H, Zhang J, Yang X, Li X, Gao A, Li L. The effects of chromosome 6P on fertile tiller number of wheat as revealed in wheat-Agropyron cristatum chromosome 5A/6P translocation lines. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2015; 128:797-811. [PMID: 25656149 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-015-2466-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2014] [Accepted: 01/17/2015] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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This study explored the genetic constitutions of several wheat- A. cristatum translocation lines and determined the effects of A. cristatum 6P chromosome segments on fertile tiller number in wheat. Progress in wheat breeding is hampered by a relatively narrow range of genetic variation. To overcome this hurdle, wild relatives of common wheat with superior agronomic traits are often used as donors of desirable genes in wheat-breeding programs. One of the successfully utilized wheat wild relatives is Agropyron cristatum (L.) Gaertn (2n = 4x = 28; genomes PPPP). We previously reported that WAT31-13 was a wheat-A. cristatum 5A-6P reciprocal translocation line with higher fertile tiller number and grain number per spike compared to common wheat. However, WAT31-13 was genetically unstable. In this study, we analyzed the 43 genetically stable progenies from WAT31-13 using genomic in situ hybridization, dual-color fluorescence in situ hybridization, and molecular markers. We classified them into three translocation types (TrS, TrL and TrA) and seven subtypes, and also pinpointed the translocation breakpoint. The genotypic data, combined with the phenotypes of each translocation type, enabled us to physically map agronomic traits to specific A. cristatum 6P chromosome arms or segments. Our results indicated that A. cristatum chromosome 6P played an important role in regulating fertile tiller number, and that positive and negative regulators of fertile tiller number existed on the A. cristatum chromosome arm 6PS and 6PL, respectively. By exploring the relationship between fertile tiller number and A. cristatum chromosome segment, this study presented a number of feasible approaches for creation, analysis, and utilization of wheat-alien chromosome translocation lines in genetic improvement of wheat.
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- Xueling Ye
- National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China
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Oleszczuk S, Lukaszewski AJ. The origin of unusual chromosome constitutions among newly formed allopolyploids. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY 2014; 101:318-26. [PMID: 24458118 DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1300286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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PREMISE OF THE STUDY Wide hybridization followed by spontaneous chromosome doubling of the resulting hybrids plays an important role in plant speciation. Such chromosome doubling is usually accomplished via unreduced gametes produced by altered meiosis, the so-called 'meiotic restitution'. Unreduced gametes are expected to carry somatic chromosome numbers and constitutions. However, it has been shown recently that new allopolyploids often carry unusual chromosome constitutions which include compensating and noncompensating nulli-tetrasomies and monotrisomies, and translocations of homoeologues. METHODS We have reanalyzed meiotic divisions in a wheat-rye hybrid by in situ probing with labeled DNA focusing on deviations from the standard pattern of meiotic restitution. KEY RESULTS In a typical first division restitution in a wide hybrid, there is no chromosome pairing, univalents separate sister chromatids in anaphase I, and there is no meiosis II. Here we illustrate that occasional pairing of homoeologous chromosomes in metaphase I, combined with separation of sister chromatids of univalents, generates diads with compensating nulli-disomies and associated translocations of homoeologues. Similarly, precocious metaphase I migration to the poles of some undivided univalents generates a wide range of noncompensating simple and complex nulli-disomies in the gametes. CONCLUSIONS Both alterations to the standard pattern of meiotic restitution tend to maintain the somatic chromosome numbers in the gametes; chromosome constitutions are variable but mostly genetically balanced. This source of variation among progeny may be an important factor contributing to greater success of natural allopolyploids.
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- Sylwia Oleszczuk
- Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute (IHAR-PIB), Radzikow, 05-870 Blonie, Poland
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Fredotović Ž, Šamanić I, Weiss-Schneeweiss H, Kamenjarin J, Jang TS, Puizina J. Triparental origin of triploid onion, Allium × cornutum (Clementi ex Visiani, 1842), as evidenced by molecular, phylogenetic and cytogenetic analyses. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2014; 14:24. [PMID: 24418109 PMCID: PMC3899691 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-14-24] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2013] [Accepted: 01/08/2014] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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BACKGROUND Reconstruction of the parental origins of cultivated plants from wild relatives, especially after long periods of domestication, is not a trivial task. However, recent advances in molecular phylogenetics, among other approaches, have proved to be very informative in analyses of the origin and evolution of polyploid genomes. An established minor garden crop, triploid onion Allium × cornutum (Clementi ex Visiani, 1842) (2n = 3x = 24), is widespread in southeastern Asia and Europe. Our previous cytogenetic analyses confirmed its highly heterozygous karyotype and indicated its possible complex triparental genome origin. Allium cepa L. and Allium roylei Stearn were suggested as two putative parental species of A. × cornutum, whereas the third parental species remained hitherto unknown. RESULTS Here we report the phylogenetic analyses of the internal transcribed spacers ITS1-5.8S-ITS2 of 35S rDNA and the non-transcribed spacer (NTS) region of 5S rDNA of A. × cornutum and its relatives of the section Cepa. Both ITS and NTS sequence data revealed intra-individual variation in triploid onion, and these data clustered into the three main clades, each with high sequence homology to one of three other species of section Cepa: A. cepa, A. roylei, and unexpectedly, the wild Asian species Allium pskemense B. Fedtsh. Allium pskemense is therefore inferred to be the third, so far unknown, putative parental species of triploid onion Allium × cornutum. The 35S and 5S rRNA genes were found to be localised on somatic chromosomes of A. × cornutum and its putative parental species by double fluorescent in situ hybridisation (FISH). The localisation of 35S and 5S rDNA in A. × cornutum chromosomes corresponded to their respective positions in the three putative parental species, A. cepa, A. pskemense, and A. roylei. GISH (genomic in situ hybridisation) using DNA of the three putative parental diploids corroborated the results of the phylogenetic study. CONCLUSIONS The combined molecular, phylogenetic and cytogenetic data obtained in this study provided evidence for a unique triparental origin of triploid onion A. × cornutum with three putative parental species, A. cepa, A. pskemense, and A. roylei.
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- Željana Fredotović
- Department of Biology, University of Split, Faculty of Science, Teslina 12, 21000 Split, Croatia
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- Department of Biology, University of Split, Faculty of Science, Teslina 12, 21000 Split, Croatia
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- Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Vienna, Rennweg 14, A-1030 Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Biology, University of Split, Faculty of Science, Teslina 12, 21000 Split, Croatia
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- Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Vienna, Rennweg 14, A-1030 Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Biology, University of Split, Faculty of Science, Teslina 12, 21000 Split, Croatia
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Schmutzer T, Ma L, Pousarebani N, Bull F, Stein N, Houben A, Scholz U. Kmasker--a tool for in silico prediction of single-copy FISH probes for the large-genome species Hordeum vulgare. Cytogenet Genome Res 2013; 142:66-78. [PMID: 24335088 DOI: 10.1159/000356460] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/08/2013] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Specific localization of large genomic fragments by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) is challenging in large- genome plant species due to the high content of repetitive sequences. We report the automated work flow (Kmasker) for in silico extraction of unique genomic sequences of large genomic fragments suitable for FISH in barley. This method can be widely used for the integration of genetic and cytogenetic maps in plants and other species with large and complex genomes if the probe sequence (e.g. BACs, sequence contigs) and a low coverage (8-fold) of unassembled sequences of the species of interest are available. Kmasker has been made publicly available as a web tool at http://webblast.ipk-gatersleben.de/kmasker.
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- T Schmutzer
- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany
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Zhao R, Wang H, Xiao J, Bie T, Cheng S, Jia Q, Yuan C, Zhang R, Cao A, Chen P, Wang X. Induction of 4VS chromosome recombinants using the CS ph1b mutant and mapping of the wheat yellow mosaic virus resistance gene from Haynaldia villosa. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2013; 126:2921-30. [PMID: 23989649 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-013-2181-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2013] [Accepted: 08/12/2013] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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The wheat spindle streak mosaic virus (WSSMV) or wheat yellow mosaic virus (WYMV) resistance gene, Wss1, from Haynaldia villosa, was previously mapped to the chromosome arm 4VS by the development of 4V (4D) substitution and T4DL·4VS translocation lines. For better utilization and more accurate mapping of the Wss1, in this research, the CS ph1b mutant was used to induce new translocations with shortened 4VS chromosome fragments. Thirty-five homozygous translocations with different alien fragment sizes and breakpoints of 4VS were identified by GISH and molecular marker analysis. By field test, it was found that all the identified terminal translocations characterized as having smaller 4VS chromosome segments in the chromosome 4DS were highly resistant to WYMV, while all the interstitial translocations with 4VS inserted into the 4DS were WYMV susceptible. Marker analysis using 32 4VS-specific markers showed that both the terminal and interstitial translocations had different alien fragment sizes. Five specific markers could be detected in the WYMV-resistant terminal translocation line NAU421 with the shortest introduced 4VS fragment, indicating they can be used for marker-assisted selection in wheat breeding. Based on the resistance evaluation, GISH and molecular marker analysis of the available translocations, the gene(s) conferring the WYMV resistance on 4VS could be further cytologically mapped to the distal region of 4VS, immersed in the bin of FL 0.78-1.00. The newly developed small fragment translocations with WYMV resistance and 4VS specific markers have laid solid groundwork for the utilization in wheat breeding for WYMV resistance as well as further cloning of Wss1.
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- Renhui Zhao
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Cytogenetics Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, Jiangsu, China
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de Souza MCP, Silva JN, Almeida C. Differential detection of transposable elements between Saccharum species. Genet Mol Biol 2013; 36:408-12. [PMID: 24130449 PMCID: PMC3795168 DOI: 10.1590/s1415-47572013005000030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2012] [Accepted: 05/03/2013] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Cultivars of sugarcane (Saccharum) are hybrids between species S. officinarum (x = 10, 2n = 8x = 80) and S. spontaneum (x = 8, 2n = 5 – 16x = 40 – 128). These accessions have 100 to 130 chromosomes, 80–85% of which are derived from S. officinarum, 10–15% from S. spontaneum, and 5–10% are possible recombinants between the two genomes. The aim of this study was to analyze the repetition of DNA sequences in S. officinarum and S. spontaneum. For this purpose, genomic DNA from S. officinarum was digested with restriction enzymes and the fragments cloned. Sixty-eight fragments, approximately 500 bp, were cloned, sequenced and had their identity analyzed in NCBI, and in the rice, maize, and sorghum genome databases using BLAST. Twelve clones containing partial transposable elements, one single-copy control, one DNA repetitive clone control and two genome controls were analyzed by DNA hybridization on membrane, using genomic probes from S. officinarum and S. spontaneum. The hybridization experiment revealed that six TEs had a similar repetitive DNA pattern in the genomes of S. officinarum and S. spontaneum, while six TEs were more abundant in the genome of S. officinarum. We concluded that the species S. officinarum and S. spontaneum have differential accumulation LTR retrotransposon families, suggesting distinct insertion or modification patterns.
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Almeida C, Pedrosa-Harand A. High macro-collinearity between lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus L.) and the common bean (P. vulgaris L.) as revealed by comparative cytogenetic mapping. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2013; 126:1909-1916. [PMID: 23649647 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-013-2106-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2012] [Accepted: 04/20/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Common bean (P. vulgaris) and lima bean (P. lunatus) are the most important crop species from the genus Phaseolus. Both species have the same chromosome number (2n = 22) and previous cytogenetic mapping of BAC clones suggested conserved synteny. Nevertheless, karyotype differences were observed, suggesting structural rearrangements. In this study, comparative cytogenetic maps for chromosomes 3, 4 and 7 were built and the collinearity between the common bean and lima bean chromosomes was investigated. Thirty-two markers (30 BACs and 2 bacteriophages) from P. vulgaris were hybridized in situ on mitotic chromosomes from P. lunatus. Nine BACs revealed a repetitive DNA pattern with pericentromeric distribution and 23 markers showed unique signals. Nine of these markers were mapped on chromosome 3, eight on chromosome 4 and six on chromosome 7. The order and position of all analyzed BACs were similar between the two species, indicating a high level of macro-collinearity. Thus, although few inversions have probably altered centromere position in other chromosomes, the main karyotypic differences were associated with the repetitive DNA fraction.
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- Cícero Almeida
- Laboratory of Plant Cytogenetics and Evolution, Department of Botany, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE 50670-420, Brazil
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Chester M, Lipman MJ, Gallagher JP, Soltis PS, Soltis DE. An assessment of karyotype restructuring in the neoallotetraploid Tragopogon miscellus (Asteraceae). Chromosome Res 2013; 21:75-85. [PMID: 23430325 DOI: 10.1007/s10577-013-9339-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2012] [Revised: 01/11/2013] [Accepted: 02/03/2013] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Tragopogon miscellus and Tragopogon mirus are two rare examples of allopolyploids that have formed recently in nature. Molecular cytogenetic studies have revealed chromosome copy number variation and intergenomic translocations in both allotetraploids. Due to a lack of interstitial chromosome markers, there remained the possibility of additional karyotype restructuring in these neopolyploids, via intrachromosomal and intragenomic rearrangements. To address this issue, we searched for additional high-copy tandem repeats in genomic sequences of the diploid progenitor species-Tragopogon dubius, Tragopogon pratensis and Tragopogon porrifolius-for application to the chromosomes of the allotetraploids. Eight novel repeats were localised by fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH) in the diploids; one of these repeats, TTR3, provided interstitial coverage. TTR3 was included in a cocktail with other previously characterised probes, producing better-resolved karyotypes for the three diploids. The cocktail was then used to test a hypothesis of karyotype restructuring in the recent allotetraploid T. miscellus by comparing repeat distributions to its diploid progenitors, T. dubius and T. pratensis. Five individuals of T. miscellus were selected from across the range of karyotypic variation previously observed in natural populations. FISH signal distributions mostly matched those observed in the diploid progenitors, with the exception of several losses or gains of signal at chromosomal subtermini and previously noted intergenomic translocations. Thus, in T. miscellus, we find most changes restricted to the subterminal regions, and although some were recurrent, none of the changes were common to all individuals analysed. We consider these findings in relation to the gene loss reported previously for T. miscellus.
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- Michael Chester
- Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.
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Zhang W, Zhang R, Feng Y, Bie T, Chen P. Distribution of highly repeated DNA sequences in Haynaldia villosa and its application in the identification of alien chromatin. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2013. [DOI: 10.1007/s11434-012-5598-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Single-copy gene fluorescence in situ hybridization and genome analysis: Acc-2 loci mark evolutionary chromosomal rearrangements in wheat. Chromosoma 2012; 121:597-611. [DOI: 10.1007/s00412-012-0384-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2012] [Revised: 09/12/2012] [Accepted: 09/17/2012] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Shcherban’ AB, Adonina IG, Salina EA. Impact of Ty3/Gypsy group retrotransposon Lila on the D-Genome specificity of common wheat Triticum aestivum L. Mol Biol 2012. [DOI: 10.1134/s002689331202015x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Salina EA, Sergeeva EM, Adonina IG, Shcherban AB, Belcram H, Huneau C, Chalhoub B. The impact of Ty3-gypsy group LTR retrotransposons Fatima on B-genome specificity of polyploid wheats. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2011; 11:99. [PMID: 21635794 PMCID: PMC3129301 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-11-99] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2010] [Accepted: 06/03/2011] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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BACKGROUND Transposable elements (TEs) are a rapidly evolving fraction of the eukaryotic genomes and the main contributors to genome plasticity and divergence. Recently, occupation of the A- and D-genomes of allopolyploid wheat by specific TE families was demonstrated. Here, we investigated the impact of the well-represented family of gypsy LTR-retrotransposons, Fatima, on B-genome divergence of allopolyploid wheat using the fluorescent in situ hybridisation (FISH) method and phylogenetic analysis. RESULTS FISH analysis of a BAC clone (BAC_2383A24) initially screened with Spelt1 repeats demonstrated its predominant localisation to chromosomes of the B-genome and its putative diploid progenitor Aegilops speltoides in hexaploid (genomic formula, BBAADD) and tetraploid (genomic formula, BBAA) wheats as well as their diploid progenitors. Analysis of the complete BAC_2383A24 nucleotide sequence (113,605 bp) demonstrated that it contains 55.6% TEs, 0.9% subtelomeric tandem repeats (Spelt1), and five genes. LTR retrotransposons are predominant, representing 50.7% of the total nucleotide sequence. Three elements of the gypsy LTR retrotransposon family Fatima make up 47.2% of all the LTR retrotransposons in this BAC. In situ hybridisation of the Fatima_2383A24-3 subclone suggests that individual representatives of the Fatima family contribute to the majority of the B-genome specific FISH pattern for BAC_2383A24. Phylogenetic analysis of various Fatima elements available from databases in combination with the data on their insertion dates demonstrated that the Fatima elements fall into several groups. One of these groups, containing Fatima_2383A24-3, is more specific to the B-genome and proliferated around 0.5-2.5 MYA, prior to allopolyploid wheat formation. CONCLUSION The B-genome specificity of the gypsy-like Fatima, as determined by FISH, is explained to a great degree by the appearance of a genome-specific element within this family for Ae. speltoides. Moreover, its proliferation mainly occurred in this diploid species before it entered into allopolyploidy.Most likely, this scenario of emergence and proliferation of the genome-specific variants of retroelements, mainly in the diploid species, is characteristic of the evolution of all three genomes of hexaploid wheat.
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- Elena A Salina
- Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Lavrentieva ave. 10, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Lavrentieva ave. 10, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Lavrentieva ave. 10, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Lavrentieva ave. 10, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
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- UMR INRA 1165 - CNRS 8114 UEVE - Unite de Recherche en Genomique Vegetale (URGV), 2, rue Gaston Cremieux, CP5708, 91057 Evry cedex, France
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- UMR INRA 1165 - CNRS 8114 UEVE - Unite de Recherche en Genomique Vegetale (URGV), 2, rue Gaston Cremieux, CP5708, 91057 Evry cedex, France
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- UMR INRA 1165 - CNRS 8114 UEVE - Unite de Recherche en Genomique Vegetale (URGV), 2, rue Gaston Cremieux, CP5708, 91057 Evry cedex, France
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Wang L, Chen P, Wang X. Molecular cytogenetic analysis of Triticum aestivum-Leymus racemosus reciprocal chromosomal translocation T7DS·5LrL/T5LrS·7DL. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010. [DOI: 10.1007/s11434-010-0105-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Wang L, Yuan J, Bie T, Zhou B, Chen P. Cytogenetic and molecular identification of three Triticum aestivum-Leymus racemosus translocation addition lines. J Genet Genomics 2009; 36:379-85. [PMID: 19539248 DOI: 10.1016/s1673-8527(08)60127-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2008] [Revised: 01/21/2009] [Accepted: 01/22/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Chromosome 2C from Aegilops cylindrica has the ability to induce chromosome breakage in common wheat (Tritivum aestivum). In the BC(1)F(3) generation of the T. aestivum cv. Chinese Spring and a hybrid between T. aestivum-Leymus racemosus Lr.7 addition line and T. aestivum-Ae. cylindrica 2C addition line, three disomic translocation addition lines (2n = 44) were selected by mitotic chromosome C-banding and genomic in situ hybridization. We further characterized these T. aestivum-L. racemosus translocation addition lines, NAU636, NAU637 and NAU638, by chromosome C-banding, in situ hybridization using the A- and D-genome-specific bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) clones 676D4 and 9M13; plasmids pAs1 and pSc119.2, and 45S rDNA; as well as genomic DNA of L. racemosus as probes, in combination with double ditelosomic test cross and SSR marker analysis. The translocation chromosomes were designated as T3AS-Lr7S, T6BS-Lr7S, and T5DS-Lr7L. The translocation line T3AS-Lr7S was highly resistant to Fusarium head blight and will be useful germplasm for resistance breeding.
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- Le Wang
- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Cytogenetics Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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Cao Y, Bie T, Wang X, Chen P. Induction and transmission of wheat-Haynaldia villosa chromosomal translocations. J Genet Genomics 2009; 36:313-20. [DOI: 10.1016/s1673-8527(08)60120-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2008] [Revised: 03/26/2009] [Accepted: 03/27/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Development of Triticum aestivum-Leymus racemosus ditelosomic substitution line 7Lr#1S(7A) with resistance to wheat scab and its meiotic behavior analysis. Sci Bull (Beijing) 2008. [DOI: 10.1007/s11434-008-0457-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Benavente E, Cifuentes M, Dusautoir JC, David J. The use of cytogenetic tools for studies in the crop-to-wild gene transfer scenario. Cytogenet Genome Res 2008; 120:384-95. [PMID: 18504367 DOI: 10.1159/000121087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/07/2007] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Interspecific hybridization in plants is an important evolutionary phenomenon involved in the dynamics of speciation that receives increasing interest in the context of possible gene escapes from transgenic crop varieties. Crops are able to cross-pollinate with a number of wild related species and exchange chromosome segments through homoeologous recombination. In this paper, we review a set of cytogenetic techniques that are appropriate to document the different steps required for the stable introgression of a chromosome segment from a donor species (i.e., the crop) into a recipient species (i.e., the wild). Several examples in hybrids and derivatives are given to illustrate how these approaches may be used to evaluate the potential for gene transfer between crops and wild relatives. Different techniques, from classical chromosome staining methods to recent developments in molecular cytogenetics, can be used to differentiate genomes and identify the chromosome regions eventually involved in genetic exchanges. Some clues are also given for the study of fertility restoration in the interspecific hybrid forms.
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- E Benavente
- Departamento de Biotecnología, ETS Ingenieros Agrónomos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain.
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Liu Z, Yue W, Li D, Wang RRC, Kong X, Lu K, Wang G, Dong Y, Jin W, Zhang X. Structure and dynamics of retrotransposons at wheat centromeres and pericentromeres. Chromosoma 2008; 117:445-56. [PMID: 18496705 DOI: 10.1007/s00412-008-0161-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2007] [Revised: 03/27/2008] [Accepted: 03/28/2008] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Little is known of the dynamics of centromeric DNA in polyploid plants. We report the sequences of two centromere-associated bacterial artificial chromosome clones from a Triticum boeoticum library. Both autonomous and non-autonomous wheat centromeric retrotransposons (CRWs) were identified, both being closely associated with the centromeres of wheat. Fiber-fluorescence in situ hybridization and chromatin immunoprecipitation analysis showed that wheat centromeric retrotransposons (CRWs) represent a dominant component of the wheat centromere and are associated with centromere function. CRW copy number showed variation among different genomes: the D genome chromosomes contained fewer copies than either the A or B genome chromosomes. The frequency of lengthy continuous CRW arrays was higher than that in either rice or maize. The dynamics of CRWs and other retrotransposons at centromeric and pericentromeric regions during diploid speciation and polyploidization of wheat and its related species are discussed.
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- Zhao Liu
- Key Laboratory of Crop Germplasm & Biotechnology, MOA, Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, The National Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Beijing 100081, People's Republic of China
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Anugrahwati DR, Shepherd KW, Verlin DC, Zhang P, Ghader Mirzaghaderi, Walker E, Francki MG, Dundas IS. Isolation of wheat–rye 1RS recombinants that break the linkage between the stem rust resistance gene SrR and secalin. Genome 2008; 51:341-9. [DOI: 10.1139/g08-019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Chromosome 1R of rye is a useful source of genes for disease resistance and enhanced agronomic performance in wheat. One of the most prevalent genes transferred to wheat from rye is the stem rust resistance gene Sr31. The recent emergence and spread of a stem rust pathotype virulent to this gene has refocused efforts to find and utilize alternative sources of resistance. There has been considerable effort to transfer a stem rust resistance gene, SrR, from Imperial rye, believed to be allelic to Sr31, into commercial wheat cultivars. However, the simultaneous transfer of genes at the Sec-1 locus encoding secalin seed storage proteins and their association with quality defects preclude the deployment of SrR in some commercial wheat breeding programs. Previous attempts to induce homoeologous recombination between wheat and rye chromosomes to break the linkage between SrR and Sec-1 whilst retaining the tightly linked major loci for wheat seed storage proteins, Gli-D1 and Glu-D3, and recover good dough quality characteristics, have been unsuccessful. We produced novel tertiary wheat–rye recombinant lines carrying different lengths of rye chromosome arm 1RS by inducing homoeologous recombination between the wheat 1D chromosome and a previously described secondary wheat–rye recombinant, DRA-1. Tertiary recombinant T6-1 (SrR+ Sec-1–) carries the target gene for stem rust resistance from rye and retains Gli-D1 but lacks the secalin locus. The tertiary recombinant T49-7 (SrR– Sec-1+) contains the secalin locus but lacks the stem rust resistance gene. T6-1 is expected to contribute to wheat breeding programs in Australia, whereas T49-7 provides opportunities to investigate whether the presence of secalins is responsible for the previously documented dough quality defects.
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- D. Ratna Anugrahwati
- Faculty of Agriculture, Universitas Mataram, JL Majapahit 62, Mataram, Lombok 83127, Indonesia
- School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, University of Adelaide, Glen Osmond, SA 5064, Australia
- Plant Breeding Institute, University of Sydney, Cobbitty, NSW 2570, Australia
- Plant Breeding Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran 14115-336, Iran
- Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia, South Perth, WA 6152, Australia
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- Faculty of Agriculture, Universitas Mataram, JL Majapahit 62, Mataram, Lombok 83127, Indonesia
- School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, University of Adelaide, Glen Osmond, SA 5064, Australia
- Plant Breeding Institute, University of Sydney, Cobbitty, NSW 2570, Australia
- Plant Breeding Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran 14115-336, Iran
- Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia, South Perth, WA 6152, Australia
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- Faculty of Agriculture, Universitas Mataram, JL Majapahit 62, Mataram, Lombok 83127, Indonesia
- School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, University of Adelaide, Glen Osmond, SA 5064, Australia
- Plant Breeding Institute, University of Sydney, Cobbitty, NSW 2570, Australia
- Plant Breeding Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran 14115-336, Iran
- Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia, South Perth, WA 6152, Australia
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- Faculty of Agriculture, Universitas Mataram, JL Majapahit 62, Mataram, Lombok 83127, Indonesia
- School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, University of Adelaide, Glen Osmond, SA 5064, Australia
- Plant Breeding Institute, University of Sydney, Cobbitty, NSW 2570, Australia
- Plant Breeding Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran 14115-336, Iran
- Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia, South Perth, WA 6152, Australia
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- Faculty of Agriculture, Universitas Mataram, JL Majapahit 62, Mataram, Lombok 83127, Indonesia
- School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, University of Adelaide, Glen Osmond, SA 5064, Australia
- Plant Breeding Institute, University of Sydney, Cobbitty, NSW 2570, Australia
- Plant Breeding Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran 14115-336, Iran
- Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia, South Perth, WA 6152, Australia
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- Faculty of Agriculture, Universitas Mataram, JL Majapahit 62, Mataram, Lombok 83127, Indonesia
- School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, University of Adelaide, Glen Osmond, SA 5064, Australia
- Plant Breeding Institute, University of Sydney, Cobbitty, NSW 2570, Australia
- Plant Breeding Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran 14115-336, Iran
- Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia, South Perth, WA 6152, Australia
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- Faculty of Agriculture, Universitas Mataram, JL Majapahit 62, Mataram, Lombok 83127, Indonesia
- School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, University of Adelaide, Glen Osmond, SA 5064, Australia
- Plant Breeding Institute, University of Sydney, Cobbitty, NSW 2570, Australia
- Plant Breeding Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran 14115-336, Iran
- Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia, South Perth, WA 6152, Australia
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- Faculty of Agriculture, Universitas Mataram, JL Majapahit 62, Mataram, Lombok 83127, Indonesia
- School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, University of Adelaide, Glen Osmond, SA 5064, Australia
- Plant Breeding Institute, University of Sydney, Cobbitty, NSW 2570, Australia
- Plant Breeding Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran 14115-336, Iran
- Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia, South Perth, WA 6152, Australia
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Sepsi A, Molnár I, Szalay D, Molnár-Láng M. Characterization of a leaf rust-resistant wheat-Thinopyrum ponticum partial amphiploid BE-1, using sequential multicolor GISH and FISH. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2008; 116:825-34. [PMID: 18224300 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-008-0716-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2007] [Accepted: 01/08/2008] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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In situ hybridization (multicolor GISH and FISH) was used to characterize the genomic composition of the wheat-Thinopyrum ponticum partial amphiploid BE-1. The amphiploid is a high-protein line having resistance to leaf rust (Puccinia recondita f. sp. tritici) and powdery mildew (Blumeria graminis f. sp. tritici) and has in total 56 chromosomes per cell. Multicolor GISH using J, A and D genomic probes showed 16 chromosomes originating from Thinopyrum ponticum and 14 A genome, 14 B genome and 12 D genome chromosomes. Six of the Th. ponticum chromosomes carried segments different from the J genome in their centromeric regions. It was demonstrated that these alien chromosome segments did not originate from the A, B or D genomes of wheat, so the translocation chromosomes were considered to be J(s) type chromosomes carrying segments similar to the S genome near the centromeres. Rearrangements between the A and D genomes of wheat were detected. FISH using Afa family, pSc119.2 and pTa71 probes allowed the identification of all the wheat chromosomes present and the determination of the chromosomes involved in the translocations. The 4A and 7A chromosomes were identified as being involved in intergenomic translocations. The replaced wheat chromosome was identified as 7D. The localization of these repetitive DNA clones on the Th. ponticum chromosomes of the amphiploid was described in the present study. On the basis of their multicolor FISH patterns, the alien chromosomes could be arranged in eight pairs and could also be differentiated unequivocally from each other.
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- A Sepsi
- Agricultural Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2462, Martonvásár, Hungary
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Inducement of chromosome translocation with small alien segments by irradiating mature female gametes of the whole arm translocation line. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008; 51:346-52. [DOI: 10.1007/s11427-008-0048-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2007] [Accepted: 11/19/2007] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Jenkins G, Hasterok R. BAC 'landing' on chromosomes of Brachypodium distachyon for comparative genome alignment. Nat Protoc 2007; 2:88-98. [PMID: 17401342 DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2006.490] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) using bacterial artificial chromosomes (BACs) with large genomic DNA inserts as probes (BAC 'landing') is a powerful means by which eukaryotic genomes can be physically mapped and compared. Here we report a BAC landing protocol that has been developed specifically for the weedy grass species Brachypodium distachyon, which has been adopted recently by the scientific community as an alternative model for the temperate cereals and grasses. The protocol describes the preparation of somatic and meiotic chromosome substrates for FISH, the labeling of BACs, a chromosome mapping strategy, empirical conditions for optimal in situ hybridization and stringency washing, the detection of probes and the capturing and processing of images. The expected outcome of the protocol is the specific assignment of BACs containing single-copy inserts to one of the five linkage groups of the genome of this species. Once somatic or meiotic material is available, the entire protocol can be completed in about 3 d. The protocol has been customized empirically for B. distachyon and its near relatives, but it can be adapted with minor modifications to diverse plant species.
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- Glyn Jenkins
- Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Wales Aberystwyth, Penglais, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 3DA, UK.
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Qi L, Friebe B, Zhang P, Gill BS. Homoeologous recombination, chromosome engineering and crop improvement. Chromosome Res 2007; 15:3-19. [PMID: 17295123 DOI: 10.1007/s10577-006-1108-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 150] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Sears (1956) pioneered plant chromosome engineering 50 years ago by directed transfer of a leaf rust resistance gene from an alien chromosome to a wheat chromosome using X-ray irradiation and an elegant cytogenetic scheme. Since then many other protocols have been reported, but the one dealing with induced homoeologous pairing and recombination is the most powerful, and has been extensively used in wheat. Here, we briefly review the current status of homoeologous recombination-based chromosome engineering research in plants with a focus on wheat, and demonstrate that integrated use of cytogenetic stocks and molecular resources can enhance the efficiency and precision of homoeologus-based chromosome engineering. We report the results of an experiment on homoeologous recombination-based transfer of virus resistance from an alien chromosome to a wheat chromosome, its characterization, and the prospects for further engineering by a second round of recombination. A proposal is presented for genome-wide, homoeologous recombination-based engineering for efficient mining of gene pools of wild relatives for crop improvement.
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- Lili Qi
- Wheat Genetic and Genomic Resources Center, Department of Plant Pathology, Throckmorton Plant Sciences Center, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506-5502, USA
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Zhang P, Friebe B, Gill B, Park RF. Cytogenetics in the age of molecular genetics. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007. [DOI: 10.1071/ar07054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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From the beginning of the 20th Century, we have seen tremendous advances in knowledge and understanding in almost all biological disciplines, including genetics, molecular biology, structural and functional genomics, and biochemistry. Among these advances, cytogenetics has played an important role. This paper details some of the important milestones of modern cytogenetics. Included are the historical role of cytogenetics in genetic studies in general and the genetics stocks produced using cytogenetic techniques. The basic biological questions cytogenetics can address and the important role and practical applications of cytogenetics in applied sciences, such as in agriculture and in breeding for disease resistance in cereals, are also discussed. The goal of this paper is to show that cytogenetics remains important in the age of molecular genetics, because it is inseparable from overall genome analysis. Cytogenetics complements studies in other disciplines within the field of biology and provides the basis for linking genetics, molecular biology and genomics research.
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Jiang J, Gill BS. Current status and the future of fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) in plant genome research. Genome 2006; 49:1057-68. [PMID: 17110986 DOI: 10.1139/g06-076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 187] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), which allows direct mapping of DNA sequences on chromosomes, has become the most important technique in plant molecular cytogenetics research. Repetitive DNA sequence can generate unique FISH patterns on individual chromosomes for karyotyping and phylogenetic analysis. FISH on meiotic pachytene chromosomes coupled with digital imaging systems has become an efficient method to develop physical maps in plant species. FISH on extended DNA fibers provides a high-resolution mapping approach to analyze large DNA molecules and to characterize large genomic loci. FISH-based physical mapping provides a valuable complementary approach in genome sequencing and map-based cloning research. We expect that FISH will continue to play an important role in relating DNA sequence information to chromosome biology. FISH coupled with immunoassays will be increasingly used to study features of chromatin at the cytological level that control expression and regulation of genes.
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- Jiming Jiang
- Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA.
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Hasterok R, Marasek A, Donnison IS, Armstead I, Thomas A, King IP, Wolny E, Idziak D, Draper J, Jenkins G. Alignment of the genomes of Brachypodium distachyon and temperate cereals and grasses using bacterial artificial chromosome landing with fluorescence in situ hybridization. Genetics 2006; 173:349-62. [PMID: 16489232 PMCID: PMC1461447 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.105.049726] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2005] [Accepted: 02/14/2006] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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As part of an initiative to develop Brachypodium distachyon as a genomic "bridge" species between rice and the temperate cereals and grasses, a BAC library has been constructed for the two diploid (2n = 2x = 10) genotypes, ABR1 and ABR5. The library consists of 9100 clones, with an approximate average insert size of 88 kb, representing 2.22 genome equivalents. To validate the usefulness of this species for comparative genomics and gene discovery in its larger genome relatives, the library was screened by PCR using primers designed on previously mapped rice and Poaceae sequences. Screening indicated a degree of synteny between these species and B. distachyon, which was confirmed by fluorescent in situ hybridization of the marker-selected BACs (BAC landing) to the 10 chromosome arms of the karyotype, with most of the BACs hybridizing as single loci on known chromosomes. Contiguous BACs colocalized on individual chromosomes, thereby confirming the conservation of genome synteny and proving that B. distachyon has utility as a temperate grass model species alternative to rice.
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- Robert Hasterok
- Department of Plant Anatomy and Cytology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland.
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