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Jia Y, Xu M, Hu H, Chapman B, Watt C, Buerte B, Han N, Zhu M, Bian H, Li C, Zeng Z. Comparative gene retention analysis in barley, wild emmer, and bread wheat pangenome lines reveals factors affecting gene retention following gene duplication. BMC Biol 2023; 21:25. [PMID: 36747211 PMCID: PMC9903521 DOI: 10.1186/s12915-022-01503-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2022] [Accepted: 12/16/2022] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Gene duplication is a prevalent phenomenon and a major driving force underlying genome evolution. The process leading to the fixation of gene duplicates following duplication is critical to understand how genome evolves but remains fragmentally understood. Most previous studies on gene retention are based on gene duplicate analyses in single reference genome. No population-based comparative gene retention analysis has been performed to date. RESULTS Taking advantage of recently published genomic data in Triticeae, we dissected a divergent homogentisate phytyltransferase (HPT2) lineage caught in the middle stage of gene fixation following duplication. The presence/absence of HPT2 in barley (diploid), wild emmer (tetraploid), and bread wheat (hexaploid) pangenome lines appears to be associated with gene dosage constraint and environmental adaption. Based on these observations, we adopted a phylogeny-based orthology inference approach and performed comparative gene retention analyses across barley, wild emmer, and bread wheat. This led to the identification of 326 HPT2-pattern-like genes at whole genome scale, representing a pool of gene duplicates in the middle stage of gene fixation. Majority of these HPT2-pattern-like genes were identified as small-scale duplicates, such as dispersed, tandem, and proximal duplications. Natural selection analyses showed that HPT2-pattern-like genes have experienced relaxed selection pressure, which is generally accompanied with partial positive selection and transcriptional divergence. Functional enrichment analyses showed that HPT2-pattern-like genes are over-represented with molecular-binding and defense response functions, supporting the potential role of environmental adaption during gene retention. We also observed that gene duplicates from larger gene family are more likely to be lost, implying a gene dosage constraint effect. Further comparative gene retention analysis in barley and bread wheat pangenome lines revealed combined effects of species-specific selection and gene dosage constraint. CONCLUSIONS Comparative gene retention analyses at the population level support gene dosage constraint, environmental adaption, and species-specific selection as three factors that may affect gene retention following gene duplication. Our findings shed light on the evolutionary process leading to the retention of newly formed gene duplicates and will greatly improve our understanding on genome evolution via duplication.
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- Yong Jia
- grid.1025.60000 0004 0436 6763Western Crop Genetic Alliance, College of Science, Health, Engineering and Education, Murdoch University, 90 South Street, Murdoch, WA 6150 Australia ,grid.1025.60000 0004 0436 6763Western Australian State Agricultural Biotechnology Centre, Murdoch University, 90 South Street, Murdoch, WA 6150 Australia
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- grid.410595.c0000 0001 2230 9154College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, 311121 China
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- grid.1025.60000 0004 0436 6763Western Crop Genetic Alliance, College of Science, Health, Engineering and Education, Murdoch University, 90 South Street, Murdoch, WA 6150 Australia ,grid.1025.60000 0004 0436 6763Western Australian State Agricultural Biotechnology Centre, Murdoch University, 90 South Street, Murdoch, WA 6150 Australia
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- grid.1025.60000 0004 0436 6763Western Crop Genetic Alliance, College of Science, Health, Engineering and Education, Murdoch University, 90 South Street, Murdoch, WA 6150 Australia ,grid.1025.60000 0004 0436 6763Western Australian State Agricultural Biotechnology Centre, Murdoch University, 90 South Street, Murdoch, WA 6150 Australia
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- grid.1025.60000 0004 0436 6763Western Australian State Agricultural Biotechnology Centre, Murdoch University, 90 South Street, Murdoch, WA 6150 Australia ,grid.516230.30000 0005 0233 6218Intergrain Pty Ltd, Bibra Lake, WA 6163 Australia
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- grid.13402.340000 0004 1759 700XInstitute of Genetic and Regenerative Biology, Key Laboratory for Cell and Gene Engineering of Zhejiang Province, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058 China
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- grid.13402.340000 0004 1759 700XInstitute of Genetic and Regenerative Biology, Key Laboratory for Cell and Gene Engineering of Zhejiang Province, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058 China
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- grid.13402.340000 0004 1759 700XInstitute of Genetic and Regenerative Biology, Key Laboratory for Cell and Gene Engineering of Zhejiang Province, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058 China
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- Institute of Genetic and Regenerative Biology, Key Laboratory for Cell and Gene Engineering of Zhejiang Province, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China.
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- Western Crop Genetic Alliance, College of Science, Health, Engineering and Education, Murdoch University, 90 South Street, Murdoch, WA, 6150, Australia. .,Western Australian State Agricultural Biotechnology Centre, Murdoch University, 90 South Street, Murdoch, WA, 6150, Australia. .,Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, 3-Baron-Hay Court, South Perth, WA, 6151, Australia.
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- College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, 311121, China. .,Institute of Genetic and Regenerative Biology, Key Laboratory for Cell and Gene Engineering of Zhejiang Province, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China. .,Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory for Genetic Improvement and Quality Control of Medicinal Plants, Hangzhou, 311121, China.
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Zhao Y, Song L, Wang J, Fang X, Li K, Han L, Beiles A, Cao YB, Nevo E. Selection of p53 pathway in adaptive evolution and reproductive isolation in incipient sympatric speciation of Drosophila at Evolution Canyon. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2023. [DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blac125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Sympatric speciation (SS) refers to the origin of new species within a freely breeding population. The ‘Evolution Canyon’ (EC) in Israel is a natural microsite model for SS of species across phylogenies from viruses and bacteria to mammals, adapting to, and speciating in, interslope microclimates. The cosmopolitan Drosophila melanogaster at EC I, Mount Carmel, is undergoing incipient SS in response to sharply divergent interslope microclimate stresses, including solar radiation, temperature, humidity and pathogenicity. We demonstrated here a selective interslope divergence of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) distribution in the Drosophila p53 pathway. This involves a total of 71 genes, which are associated with DNA repair, heat response, and fungal and bacterial resistant pathways. This distribution pattern links the previously observed thermotolerance and ageing divergence of D. melanogaster between the opposite canyon slopes: the south-facing slope (SFS, or African slope: tropical, savannoid and dry) and the abutting north-facing slope (NFS, or European slope; temperate, forested, cool and humid). The genes with interslope-significant differential SNPs link the p53 pathway with pathways related to the responses to microclimates through protein-protein interaction. Moreover, for the first time we provide evidence that the p53 pathway is linked to reproductive isolation, and is thus actively participating in incipient SS of D. melanogaster. This is the first demonstration of a link between the p53 pathway and reproductive isolation, thereby contributing to adaptive incipient sympatric speciation.
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- Yang Zhao
- Department of Physiology, and Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery of the First Affiliated Hospital , , Hangzhou 301158 , China
- Zhejiang University School of Medicine , , Hangzhou 301158 , China
- Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa , Haifa 3498838 , Israel
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- BGI Genomics, BGI-Shenzhen , Shenzhen 518083 , China
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- School of Life Science, South China Normal University , Guangzhou 510631 , China
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- BGI Genomics, BGI-Shenzhen , Shenzhen 518083 , China
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- Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa , Haifa 3498838 , Israel
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- BGI Genomics, BGI-Shenzhen , Shenzhen 518083 , China
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- Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa , Haifa 3498838 , Israel
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- Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa , Haifa 3498838 , Israel
- Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Department of Biotechnology, College of Chemistry and Life Science, Zhejiang Normal University , Jinhua 321004 , China
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- Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa , Haifa 3498838 , Israel
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Zhang W, Tan C, Hu H, Pan R, Xiao Y, Ouyang K, Zhou G, Jia Y, Zhang X, Hill CB, Wang P, Chapman B, Han Y, Xu L, Xu Y, Angessa T, Luo H, Westcott S, Sharma D, Nevo E, Barrero RA, Bellgard MI, He T, Tian X, Li C. Genome architecture and diverged selection shaping pattern of genomic differentiation in wild barley. PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL 2023; 21:46-62. [PMID: 36054248 PMCID: PMC9829399 DOI: 10.1111/pbi.13917] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2022] [Revised: 08/09/2022] [Accepted: 08/19/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Divergent selection of populations in contrasting environments leads to functional genomic divergence. However, the genomic architecture underlying heterogeneous genomic differentiation remains poorly understood. Here, we de novo assembled two high-quality wild barley (Hordeum spontaneum K. Koch) genomes and examined genomic differentiation and gene expression patterns under abiotic stress in two populations. These two populations had a shared ancestry and originated in close geographic proximity but experienced different selective pressures due to their contrasting micro-environments. We identified structural variants that may have played significant roles in affecting genes potentially associated with well-differentiated phenotypes such as flowering time and drought response between two wild barley genomes. Among them, a 29-bp insertion into the promoter region formed a cis-regulatory element in the HvWRKY45 gene, which may contribute to enhanced tolerance to drought. A single SNP mutation in the promoter region may influence HvCO5 expression and be putatively linked to local flowering time adaptation. We also revealed significant genomic differentiation between the two populations with ongoing gene flow. Our results indicate that SNPs and small SVs link to genetic differentiation at the gene level through local adaptation and are maintained through divergent selection. In contrast, large chromosome inversions may have shaped the heterogeneous pattern of genomic differentiation along the chromosomes by suppressing chromosome recombination and gene flow. Our research offers novel insights into the genomic basis underlying local adaptation and provides valuable resources for the genetic improvement of cultivated barley.
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- Wenying Zhang
- Hubei Collaborative Innovation Centre for Grain IndustryYangtze UniversityJingzhouChina
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- Western Crop Genetics Alliance, Future Food Institute, Western Australian State Agricultural Biotechnology Centre, College of Science, Health, Engineering and EducationMurdoch UniversityMurdochWestern AustraliaAustralia
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- Western Crop Genetics Alliance, Future Food Institute, Western Australian State Agricultural Biotechnology Centre, College of Science, Health, Engineering and EducationMurdoch UniversityMurdochWestern AustraliaAustralia
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- Hubei Collaborative Innovation Centre for Grain IndustryYangtze UniversityJingzhouChina
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- Grandomics Biotechnology Co., LtdWuhanChina
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- Grandomics Biotechnology Co., LtdWuhanChina
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- Western Crop Genetics Alliance, Future Food Institute, Western Australian State Agricultural Biotechnology Centre, College of Science, Health, Engineering and EducationMurdoch UniversityMurdochWestern AustraliaAustralia
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- Western Crop Genetics Alliance, Future Food Institute, Western Australian State Agricultural Biotechnology Centre, College of Science, Health, Engineering and EducationMurdoch UniversityMurdochWestern AustraliaAustralia
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- College of Science, Health, Engineering and EducationMurdoch UniversityMurdochWestern AustraliaAustralia
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- Western Crop Genetics Alliance, Future Food Institute, Western Australian State Agricultural Biotechnology Centre, College of Science, Health, Engineering and EducationMurdoch UniversityMurdochWestern AustraliaAustralia
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- College of Science, Health, Engineering and EducationMurdoch UniversityMurdochWestern AustraliaAustralia
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- Western Crop Genetics Alliance, Future Food Institute, Western Australian State Agricultural Biotechnology Centre, College of Science, Health, Engineering and EducationMurdoch UniversityMurdochWestern AustraliaAustralia
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- Western Crop Genetics Alliance, Future Food Institute, Western Australian State Agricultural Biotechnology Centre, College of Science, Health, Engineering and EducationMurdoch UniversityMurdochWestern AustraliaAustralia
- Department of Primary Industries and Regional DevelopmentSouth PerthWestern AustraliaAustralia
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- Hubei Collaborative Innovation Centre for Grain IndustryYangtze UniversityJingzhouChina
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- Hubei Collaborative Innovation Centre for Grain IndustryYangtze UniversityJingzhouChina
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- Western Crop Genetics Alliance, Future Food Institute, Western Australian State Agricultural Biotechnology Centre, College of Science, Health, Engineering and EducationMurdoch UniversityMurdochWestern AustraliaAustralia
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- Western Crop Genetics Alliance, Future Food Institute, Western Australian State Agricultural Biotechnology Centre, College of Science, Health, Engineering and EducationMurdoch UniversityMurdochWestern AustraliaAustralia
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- Department of Primary Industries and Regional DevelopmentSouth PerthWestern AustraliaAustralia
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- Department of Primary Industries and Regional DevelopmentSouth PerthWestern AustraliaAustralia
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- Institute of EvolutionUniversity of HaifaHaifaIsrael
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- eResearch OfficeQueensland University of TechnologyBrisbaneQueenslandAustralia
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- eResearch OfficeQueensland University of TechnologyBrisbaneQueenslandAustralia
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- Western Crop Genetics Alliance, Future Food Institute, Western Australian State Agricultural Biotechnology Centre, College of Science, Health, Engineering and EducationMurdoch UniversityMurdochWestern AustraliaAustralia
- College of Science, Health, Engineering and EducationMurdoch UniversityMurdochWestern AustraliaAustralia
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- Hubei Collaborative Innovation Centre for Grain IndustryYangtze UniversityJingzhouChina
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- Western Crop Genetics Alliance, Future Food Institute, Western Australian State Agricultural Biotechnology Centre, College of Science, Health, Engineering and EducationMurdoch UniversityMurdochWestern AustraliaAustralia
- College of Science, Health, Engineering and EducationMurdoch UniversityMurdochWestern AustraliaAustralia
- Department of Primary Industries and Regional DevelopmentSouth PerthWestern AustraliaAustralia
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Yin H, Fang X, Li P, Yang Y, Hao Y, Liang X, Bo C, Ni F, Ma X, Du X, Li A, Wang H, Nevo E, Kong L. Genetic mapping of a novel powdery mildew resistance gene in wild emmer wheat from "Evolution Canyon" in Mt. Carmel Israel. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2021; 134:909-921. [PMID: 33392708 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-020-03741-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2020] [Accepted: 11/25/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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A single dominant powdery mildew resistance gene MlNFS10 was identified in wild emmer wheat and mapped within a 0.3cM genetic interval spanning a 2.1Mb physical interval on chromosome arm 4AL. Wheat powdery mildew caused by Blumeria graminis forma specialis tritici (Bgt) is a globally devastating disease. The use of powdery mildew resistance genes from wild relatives of wheat is an effective method of disease management. Our previous research has shown that disruptive ecological selection has driven the discrete adaptations of the wild emmer wheat population on the south facing slope (SFS) and north facing slope (NFS) at the microsite of "Evolution Canyon" at Mount Carmel, Israel and demonstrated that 16 accessions in the NFS population display high resistance to 11 powdery mildew isolates (collected from different wheat fields in China). Here, we constructed bi-parental population by crossing the accession NFS-10 (resistant to 22 Bgt races collected from China in seedling resistance screen) and the susceptible line SFS2-12. Genetic analysis indicated that NFS-10 carries a single dominant gene, temporarily designated MlNFS10. Ultimately, 13 markers were successfully located within the long arm of chromosome 4A, thereby delineating MlNFS10 to a 0.3 cM interval covering 2.1 Mb (729275816-731365462) in the Chinese Spring reference sequence. We identified disease resistance-associated genes based on the RNA-seq analysis of both parents. The tightly linked InDel marker XWsdau73447 and SSR marker XWsdau72928 were developed and used for marker-assisted selection when MlNFS10 was introgressed into a hexaploid wheat background. Therefore, MlNFS10 can be used for improvement of germplasm in breeding programs for powdery mildew resistant cultivars.
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- Huayan Yin
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, Shandong Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Agronomy, Shandong Agricultural University, 271018, Tai'an, China
- College of Agronomy, Qingdao Agricultural University, 266109, Qingdao, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, Shandong Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Agronomy, Shandong Agricultural University, 271018, Tai'an, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, Shandong Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Agronomy, Shandong Agricultural University, 271018, Tai'an, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, Shandong Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Agronomy, Shandong Agricultural University, 271018, Tai'an, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, Shandong Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Agronomy, Shandong Agricultural University, 271018, Tai'an, China
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- College of Agronomy, Qingdao Agricultural University, 266109, Qingdao, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, Shandong Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Agronomy, Shandong Agricultural University, 271018, Tai'an, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, Shandong Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Agronomy, Shandong Agricultural University, 271018, Tai'an, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, Shandong Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Agronomy, Shandong Agricultural University, 271018, Tai'an, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, Guizhou Province, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, Shandong Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Agronomy, Shandong Agricultural University, 271018, Tai'an, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, Shandong Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Agronomy, Shandong Agricultural University, 271018, Tai'an, China.
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- Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Haifa, 3498838, Israel.
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, Shandong Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Agronomy, Shandong Agricultural University, 271018, Tai'an, China.
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Li K, Ren X, Song X, Li X, Zhou Y, Harlev E, Sun D, Nevo E. Incipient sympatric speciation in wild barley caused by geological-edaphic divergence. Life Sci Alliance 2020; 3:3/12/e202000827. [PMID: 33082129 PMCID: PMC7652381 DOI: 10.26508/lsa.202000827] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2020] [Revised: 09/18/2020] [Accepted: 09/23/2020] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Sympatric speciation is still contentious but here based on genome-wide analysis; we show incipient sympatric speciation of an emerging new wild barley species from Hordeum spontaneum, the progenitor of all cultivated barleys at “Evolution Plateau” (EP), Upper Galilee, Israel. Sympatric speciation (SS) has been contentious since the idea was suggested by Darwin. Here, we show in wild barley SS due to geologic and edaphic divergence in “Evolution Plateau,” Upper Galilee, Israel. Our whole genome resequencing data showed SS separating between the progenitor old Senonian chalk and abutting derivative young Pleistocene basalt wild barley populations. The basalt wild barley species unfolds larger effective population size, lower recombination rates, and larger genetic diversity. Both species populations show similar descending trend ∼200,000 yr ago associated with the last glacial maximum. Coalescent demography analysis indicates that SS was local, primary, in situ, and not due to a secondary contact from ex situ allopatric population. Adaptive divergent putatively selected genes were identified in both populations. Remarkably, disease resistant genes were selected in the wet basalt population, and genes related to flowering time, leading to temporal reproductive isolation, were selected in the chalk population. The evidence substantiates adaptive ecological SS in wild barley, highlighting the genome landscape during SS with gene flow, due to geologic-edaphic divergence.
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- Kexin Li
- College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China.,State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, Institute of Innovation Ecology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.,Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
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- College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, Institute of Innovation Ecology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
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- College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
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- Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
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- College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
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- Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
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Current Progress in Understanding and Recovering the Wheat Genes Lost in Evolution and Domestication. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:ijms21165836. [PMID: 32823887 PMCID: PMC7461589 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21165836] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2020] [Revised: 08/08/2020] [Accepted: 08/12/2020] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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The modern cultivated wheat has passed a long evolution involving origin of wild emmer (WEM), development of cultivated emmer, formation of spelt wheat and finally establishment of modern bread wheat and durum wheat. During this evolutionary process, rapid alterations and sporadic changes in wheat genome took place, due to hybridization, polyploidization, domestication, and mutation. This has resulted in some modifications and a high level of gene loss. As a result, the modern cultivated wheat does not contain all genes of their progenitors. These lost genes are novel for modern wheat improvement. Exploring wild progenitor for genetic variation of important traits is directly beneficial for wheat breeding. WEM wheat (Triticum dicoccoides) is a great genetic resource with huge diversity for traits. Few genes and quantitative trait loci (QTL) for agronomic, quantitative, biotic and abiotic stress-related traits have already been mapped from WEM. This resource can be utilized for modern wheat improvement by integrating identified genes or QTLs through breeding.
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Positional cloning of PmCH1357 reveals the origin and allelic variation of the Pm2 gene for powdery mildew resistance in wheat. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cj.2019.08.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Aggression and courtship differences found in Drosophila melanogaster from two different microclimates at Evolution Canyon, Israel. Sci Rep 2019; 9:4084. [PMID: 30858499 PMCID: PMC6411990 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-40701-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2018] [Accepted: 02/23/2019] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Aggression and courtship behavior were examined of wild Drosophila melanogaster flies isolated from two contrasting microclimates found at Evolution Canyon in Mt. Carmel, Israel: an African-like dry tropical Slope (AS) and a European-like humid temperate Slope (ES), separated by 250 meters. Studies were carried out to ask whether behavioral differences existed between the two populations obtained from opposite slopes with divergent microclimates in Israel. First, we measured and compared intraslope aggression between same sex fly pairings collected from the same slope. Both male and female flies displayed similar fighting abilities from both slopes. ES males, however, from the humid biome, showed a tendency to lunge more per aggressive encounter, compared with AS males from the dry biome. Next, we tested interslope aggression by pairing flies from opposite slopes. ES males displayed higher numbers of lunges, and won more fights against their AS opponents. We also observed enhanced courtship performances in ES compared to AS males. The fighting and courtship superiority seen in ES males could reinforce fitness and pre-mating reproductive isolation mechanisms that underlie incipient sympatric speciation. This may support an evolutionary advantage of adaptively divergent fruit fly aggression phenotypes from different environments.
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Ben-Abu Y, Beiles A, Flom D, Nevo E. Adaptive evolution of benzoxazinoids in wild emmer wheat, Triticum dicoccoides, at "Evolution Canyon", Mount Carmel, Israel. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0190424. [PMID: 29408917 PMCID: PMC5800564 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0190424] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2017] [Accepted: 12/14/2017] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Background "Evolution Canyon" (ECI) at Lower Nahal Oren, Mount Carmel, Israel, is an optimal natural microscale model for unraveling evolution-in-action, highlighting the evolutionary processes of biodiversity evolution, adaptation, and incipient sympatric speciation. A major model organism in ECI is the tetraploid wild emmer wheat, Triticum dicoccoides (TD), the progenitor of cultivated emmer and durum wheat. TD displays dramatic interslope adaptive evolutionary divergence on the tropical, savannoid-hot and dry south-facing, "African" slope (AS), and on the temperate, forested, cool and humid, north-facing, "European" slope (ES), separated on average by 250 m. From the perspective of chemical evolution and metabolomics, it is important to unravel interslope divergence in biologically relevant secondary metabolites between the abutting slope populations. Here, in TD we examined hydroxamic acid (Hx), which is a family of secondary cereal metabolites, and plays a major role in defending the plant against fungi, insects and weeds. Results Our examination revealed that higher concentrations of DIBOA and DIMBOA were found in seedlings growing in the same greenhouse from seeds collected from the cool and humid forested ES, whereas the seedlings of seeds collected from the savannoid AS (both in root and shoot tissues), showed no DIMBOA. Remarkably, only DIBOA appears in both shoots and roots of the AS seedlings. It rises to a peak and then decreases in both organs and in seedlings from both slopes. The DIMBOA, which appears only in the ES seedlings, rises to a peak and decreases in the shoot, but increased and remained in a plateau in the root, till the end of the experiment. Conculsions/Significance The results suggest stronger genetic resistance of defense compounds DIBOA and DIMBOA against biotic stresses (fungi and other pathogens) by ES seedlings. However, AS seedlings responded earlier but were to the same biotic stresses. The genetic difference found in AS seedlings was caused by the main adaptive selection in AS, which was against climatic, abiotic stresses, and was weaker, or not at all, against biotic stresses. The distinct genetic interslope differences appear important and is very significant and are elaborated in the discussion.
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- Yuval Ben-Abu
- Projects and Physics Section, Sapir Academic College, D.N. Hof Ashkelon, Israel
- * E-mail: (YBA); (EN)
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- Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Physics, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel
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- Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
- * E-mail: (YBA); (EN)
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Ren J, Chen L, Jin X, Zhang M, You FM, Wang J, Frenkel V, Yin X, Nevo E, Sun D, Luo MC, Peng J. Solar Radiation-Associated Adaptive SNP Genetic Differentiation in Wild Emmer Wheat, Triticum dicoccoides. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2017; 8:258. [PMID: 28352272 PMCID: PMC5348526 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00258] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2016] [Accepted: 02/10/2017] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
Abstract
Whole-genome scans with large number of genetic markers provide the opportunity to investigate local adaptation in natural populations and identify candidate genes under positive selection. In the present study, adaptation genetic differentiation associated with solar radiation was investigated using 695 polymorphic SNP markers in wild emmer wheat originated in a micro-site at Yehudiyya, Israel. The test involved two solar radiation niches: (1) sun, in-between trees; and (2) shade, under tree canopy, separated apart by a distance of 2-4 m. Analysis of molecular variance showed a small (0.53%) but significant portion of overall variation between the sun and shade micro-niches, indicating a non-ignorable genetic differentiation between sun and shade habitats. Fifty SNP markers showed a medium (0.05 ≤ FST ≤ 0.15) or high genetic differentiation (FST > 0.15). A total of 21 outlier loci under positive selection were identified by using four different FST -outlier testing algorithms. The markers and genome locations under positive selection are consistent with the known patterns of selection. These results suggested that genetic differentiation between sun and shade habitats is substantial, radiation-associated, and therefore ecologically determined. Hence, the results of this study reflected effects of natural selection through solar radiation on EST-related SNP genetic diversity, resulting presumably in different adaptive complexes at a micro-scale divergence. The present work highlights the evolutionary theory and application significance of solar radiation-driven natural selection in wheat improvement.
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Affiliation(s)
- Jing Ren
- Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biophysics, Institute of Biophysics, Dezhou UniversityDezhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Chinese Academy of SciencesWuhan, China
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- Department of Agronomy and the Key Laboratory of Crop Germplasm Resource of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang UniversityHangzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Chinese Academy of SciencesWuhan, China
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- Cereal Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food CanadaWinnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of CaliforniaDavis, CA, USA
| | - Vladimir Frenkel
- Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology, Institute of Evolution, University of HaifaHaifa, Israel
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- Department of Biotechnology, College of Agriculture, Guangdong Ocean UniversityZhanjiang, China
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- Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology, Institute of Evolution, University of HaifaHaifa, Israel
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- Department of Agronomy, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhan, China
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of CaliforniaDavis, CA, USA
| | - Junhua Peng
- Department of Biotechnology, College of Agriculture, Guangdong Ocean UniversityZhanjiang, China
- The State Key Lab of Crop Breeding Technology Innovation and Integration, China National Seed Group Co. Ltd.Wuhan, China
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