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Fan Z, Whitaker VM. Genomic signatures of strawberry domestication and diversification. THE PLANT CELL 2024; 36:1622-1636. [PMID: 38113879 PMCID: PMC11062436 DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koad314] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2023] [Revised: 11/20/2023] [Accepted: 11/25/2023] [Indexed: 12/21/2023]
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Cultivated strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa) has a brief history of less than 300 yr, beginning with the hybridization of octoploids Fragaria chiloensis and Fragaria virginiana. Here we explored the genomic signatures of early domestication and subsequent diversification for different climates using whole-genome sequences of 289 wild, heirloom, and modern varieties from two major breeding programs in the United States. Four nonadmixed wild octoploid populations were identified, with recurrent introgression among the sympatric populations. The proportion of F. virginiana ancestry increased by 20% in modern varieties over initial hybrids, and the proportion of F. chiloensis subsp. pacifica rose from 0% to 3.4%. Effective population size rapidly declined during early breeding. Meanwhile, divergent selection for distinct environments reshaped wild allelic origins in 21 out of 28 chromosomes. Overlapping divergent selective sweeps in natural and domesticated populations revealed 16 convergent genomic signatures that may be important for climatic adaptation. Despite 20 breeding cycles since initial hybridization, more than half of loci underlying yield and fruit size are still not under artificial selection. These insights add clarity to the domestication and breeding history of what is now the most widely cultivated fruit in the world.
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- Zhen Fan
- Horticultural Sciences Department, University of Florida, IFAS Gulf Coast Research and Education Center, Wimauma, FL 33597, USA
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- Horticultural Sciences Department, University of Florida, IFAS Gulf Coast Research and Education Center, Wimauma, FL 33597, USA
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Fan Z, Verma S, Lee H, Jang YJ, Wang Y, Lee S, Whitaker VM. Strawberry soluble solids QTL with inverse effects on yield. HORTICULTURE RESEARCH 2024; 11:uhad271. [PMID: 38371635 PMCID: PMC10873791 DOI: 10.1093/hr/uhad271] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2023] [Accepted: 12/05/2023] [Indexed: 02/20/2024]
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Sugars are the main drivers of strawberry sweetness, and understanding their genetic control is of critical importance for breeding. Large-scale genome-wide association studies were performed in two populations totaling 3399 individuals evaluated for soluble solids content (SSC) and fruit yield. Two stable quantitative trait loci (QTL) on chromosome 3B and 6A for SSC were identified. Favorable haplotypes at both QTL for SSC decreased yield, though optimal allelic combinations were identified with reduced impacts on yield. Metabolites in the starch and sucrose metabolism pathway were characterized and quantified for 23 contrasting genotypes in leaves, white fruit, and red fruit. Variations in sucrose concentrations/efflux indicated genetic variation underlying sucrose accumulation and transportation during fruit ripening. Integration of genome-wide association studies and expression quantitative locus mapping identified starch synthase 4 (FxaC_10g00830) and sugar transporter 2-like candidate genes (FxaC_21g51570) within the respective QTL intervals. These results will enable immediate applications in genomics-assisted breeding for flavor and further study of candidate genes underlying genetic variation of sugar accumulation in strawberry fruit.
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- Zhen Fan
- IFAS Gulf Coast Research and Education Center, Horticultural Sciences Department, University of Florida, Wimauma, Florida 33597, USA
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- IFAS Gulf Coast Research and Education Center, Horticultural Sciences Department, University of Florida, Wimauma, Florida 33597, USA
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- Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, IFAS Citrus Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Lake Alfred, Florida 33850, USA
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- IFAS Gulf Coast Research and Education Center, Horticultural Sciences Department, University of Florida, Wimauma, Florida 33597, USA
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- Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, IFAS Citrus Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Lake Alfred, Florida 33850, USA
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- IFAS Gulf Coast Research and Education Center, Horticultural Sciences Department, University of Florida, Wimauma, Florida 33597, USA
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- IFAS Gulf Coast Research and Education Center, Horticultural Sciences Department, University of Florida, Wimauma, Florida 33597, USA
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Labadie M, Vallin G, Potier A, Petit A, Ring L, Hoffmann T, Gaston A, Munoz-Blanco J, Caballero JL, Schwab W, Rothan C, Denoyes B. High Resolution Quantitative Trait Locus Mapping and Whole Genome Sequencing Enable the Design of an Anthocyanidin Reductase-Specific Homoeo-Allelic Marker for Fruit Colour Improvement in Octoploid Strawberry ( Fragaria × ananassa). FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:869655. [PMID: 35371183 PMCID: PMC8972132 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.869655] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2022] [Accepted: 02/24/2022] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Fruit colour is central to the sensorial and nutritional quality of strawberry fruit and is therefore a major target in breeding programmes of the octoploid cultivated strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa). The red colour of the fruit is caused by the accumulation of anthocyanins, which are water-soluble flavonoids. To facilitate molecular breeding, here we have mapped with high resolution fruit colour quantitative trait loci (QTLs) (COLOUR, scored visually as in selection programmes) and associated flavonoid metabolic QTLs (5 anthocyanins compounds together with 8 flavonols and flavan-3-ols) to specific subgenomes of cultivated strawberry. Two main colour-related QTLs were located on the LG3A linkage group (Fragaria vesca subgenome). Genetic mapping, transcriptome analysis and whole genome sequencing enabled the detection of a homoeo-allelic variant of ANTHOCYANIDIN REDUCTASE (ANR) underlying the major male M3A COLOUR and pelargonidin-3-glucoside (PgGs) QTLs (up to ∼20% of explained variance). Consistent with previously published functional studies, ANR transcript abundance was inversely related with PgGs content in contrasted progeny individuals. Genetic segregation analyses further indicated that a molecular marker designed using an 18 bp deletion found in the 5'UTR of the candidate ANR homoeo-allelic variant is effective in identifying genotypes with intense red fruit colour. Our study provides insights into the genetic and molecular control of colour-related traits in strawberry and further defines a genetic marker for marker-assisted selection of new strawberry varieties with improved colour. The QTLs detected and the underlying candidate genes are different from those described to date, emphasising the importance of screening a wide diversity of genetic resources in strawberry.
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- Marc Labadie
- Université de Bordeaux, INRAE, UMR BFP, Villenave d’Ornon, France
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- Université de Bordeaux, INRAE, UMR BFP, Villenave d’Ornon, France
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- Université de Bordeaux, INRAE, UMR BFP, Villenave d’Ornon, France
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- Biotechnology of Natural Products, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany
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- Biotechnology of Natural Products, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany
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- Université de Bordeaux, INRAE, UMR BFP, Villenave d’Ornon, France
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- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Universidad de Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain
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- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Universidad de Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain
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- Biotechnology of Natural Products, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany
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- Université de Bordeaux, INRAE, UMR BFP, Villenave d’Ornon, France
- Christophe Rothan, , orcid.org/0000-0002-6831-2823
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- Université de Bordeaux, INRAE, UMR BFP, Villenave d’Ornon, France
- *Correspondence: Béatrice Denoyes, , orcid.org/0000-0002-0369-9609
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Wada T, Monden H, Isobe S, Shirasawa K, Sueyoshi T, Hirata C, Mori M, Nagamatsu S, Tanaka Y. Comparative QTL mapping for male sterility of cultivated strawberry ( Fragaria × ananassa Duch.) using different reference genome sequences. BREEDING SCIENCE 2021; 71:456-466. [PMID: 34912172 PMCID: PMC8661490 DOI: 10.1270/jsbbs.20151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2020] [Accepted: 05/19/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Male sterility is one of the reproductive isolation systems in plants and quite useful for F1 seed production. We previously identified three independent quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for male sterility of cultivated strawberry, Here, we identified the specific subgenomes in which these QTLs are located by QTL-seq approach. QTLs qMS4.1, qMS4.2, and qMS4.3 were mapped separately in subgenomes Fvb4-4, Fvb4-3, and Fvb4-1, respectively, in 'Camarosa' genome assembly v. 1.0.a1. Candidate regions of qMS4.1 and qMS4.3 were clearly detected around 12-26 Mb in Fvb4-4 and 12-14 Mb in Fvb4-1, respectively; those of qMS4.2 were fragmented in Fvb4-3, which suggests that some scaffolds were incorrectly assembled in Fvb4-3. qMS4.3 was mapped to chr4X1 of 'Reikou' genome assembly r2.3, and qMS4.1 and qMS4.2 were both mapped to chr4Av, which indicates that differentiation of the subgenomes in which both QTLs are located was insufficient in 'Reikou' r2.3. Although 'Camarosa' genome assembly v. 1.0.a1 is an unphased map, which merges homologous chromosomes into one sequence, 'Reikou' genome assembly r2.3 is a phased map, which separates homologous chromosomes. QTL mapping to different reference genomes clearly showed the specific features of each reference genome, and that using different kinds of reference map could accelerate fine mapping and map-based cloning of certain genes of cultivated strawberry.
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- Takuya Wada
- Department of Agro-environment, Fukuoka Agricultural and Forestry Research Center, 587 Yoshiki, Chikushino, Fukuoka 818-8549, Japan
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- Department of Agro-environment, Fukuoka Agricultural and Forestry Research Center, 587 Yoshiki, Chikushino, Fukuoka 818-8549, Japan
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- Department of Frontier Research, Kazusa DNA Research Institute, 2-6-7 Kazusa-kamatari, Kisarazu, Chiba 292-0818, Japan
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- Department of Frontier Research, Kazusa DNA Research Institute, 2-6-7 Kazusa-kamatari, Kisarazu, Chiba 292-0818, Japan
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- Department of Agro-environment, Fukuoka Agricultural and Forestry Research Center, 587 Yoshiki, Chikushino, Fukuoka 818-8549, Japan
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- Department of Agro-environment, Fukuoka Agricultural and Forestry Research Center, 587 Yoshiki, Chikushino, Fukuoka 818-8549, Japan
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- Department of Agro-environment, Fukuoka Agricultural and Forestry Research Center, 587 Yoshiki, Chikushino, Fukuoka 818-8549, Japan
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- Department of Agro-environment, Fukuoka Agricultural and Forestry Research Center, 587 Yoshiki, Chikushino, Fukuoka 818-8549, Japan
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- Department of Agro-environment, Fukuoka Agricultural and Forestry Research Center, 587 Yoshiki, Chikushino, Fukuoka 818-8549, Japan
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Hardigan MA, Lorant A, Pincot DDA, Feldmann MJ, Famula RA, Acharya CB, Lee S, Verma S, Whitaker VM, Bassil N, Zurn J, Cole GS, Bird K, Edger PP, Knapp SJ. Unraveling the Complex Hybrid Ancestry and Domestication History of Cultivated Strawberry. Mol Biol Evol 2021; 38:2285-2305. [PMID: 33507311 PMCID: PMC8136507 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msab024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Cultivated strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa) is one of our youngest domesticates, originating in early eighteenth-century Europe from spontaneous hybrids between wild allo-octoploid species (Fragaria chiloensis and Fragaria virginiana). The improvement of horticultural traits by 300 years of breeding has enabled the global expansion of strawberry production. Here, we describe the genomic history of strawberry domestication from the earliest hybrids to modern cultivars. We observed a significant increase in heterozygosity among interspecific hybrids and a decrease in heterozygosity among domesticated descendants of those hybrids. Selective sweeps were found across the genome in early and modern phases of domestication—59–76% of the selectively swept genes originated in the three less dominant ancestral subgenomes. Contrary to the tenet that genetic diversity is limited in cultivated strawberry, we found that the octoploid species harbor massive allelic diversity and that F. × ananassa harbors as much allelic diversity as either wild founder. We identified 41.8 M subgenome-specific DNA variants among resequenced wild and domesticated individuals. Strikingly, 98% of common alleles and 73% of total alleles were shared between wild and domesticated populations. Moreover, genome-wide estimates of nucleotide diversity were virtually identical in F. chiloensis,F. virginiana, and F. × ananassa (π = 0.0059–0.0060). We found, however, that nucleotide diversity and heterozygosity were significantly lower in modern F. × ananassa populations that have experienced significant genetic gains and have produced numerous agriculturally important cultivars.
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- Michael A Hardigan
- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- IFAS Gulf Coast Research and Education Center, Department of Horticulture, University of Florida, Wimauma, FL 33598, USA
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- IFAS Gulf Coast Research and Education Center, Department of Horticulture, University of Florida, Wimauma, FL 33598, USA
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- IFAS Gulf Coast Research and Education Center, Department of Horticulture, University of Florida, Wimauma, FL 33598, USA
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- USDA-ARS, National Clonal Germplasm Repository, Corvallis, OR 92182, USA
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- USDA-ARS, National Clonal Germplasm Repository, Corvallis, OR 92182, USA
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Department of Horticultural Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
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- Department of Horticultural Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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Lee HE, Manivannan A, Lee SY, Han K, Yeum JG, Jo J, Kim J, Rho IR, Lee YR, Lee ES, Kang BC, Kim DS. Chromosome Level Assembly of Homozygous Inbred Line 'Wongyo 3115' Facilitates the Construction of a High-Density Linkage Map and Identification of QTLs Associated With Fruit Firmness in Octoploid Strawberry ( Fragaria × ananassa). FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2021; 12:696229. [PMID: 34335662 PMCID: PMC8317996 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.696229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2021] [Accepted: 06/08/2021] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Strawberry is an allo-octoploid crop with high genome heterozygosity and complexity, which hinders the sequencing and the assembly of the genome. However, in the present study, we have generated a chromosome level assembly of octoploid strawberry sourced from a highly homozygous inbred line 'Wongyo 3115', using long- and short-read sequencing technologies. The assembly of 'Wongyo 3115' produced 805.6 Mb of the genome with 323 contigs scaffolded into 208 scaffolds with an N50 of 27.3 Mb after further gap filling. The whole genome annotation resulted in 151,892 genes with a gene density of 188.52 (genes/Mb) and validation of a genome, using BUSCO analysis resulted in 94.10% complete BUSCOs. Firmness is one of the vital traits in strawberry, which facilitate the postharvest shelf-life qualities. The molecular and genetic mechanisms that contribute the firmness in strawberry remain unclear. We have constructed a high-density genetic map based on the 'Wongyo 3115' reference genome to identify loci associated with firmness in the present study. For the quantitative trait locus (QTL) identification, the 'BS F2' populations developed from two inbred lines were genotyped, using an Axiom 35K strawberry chip, and marker positions were analyzed based on the 'Wongyo 3115' genome. Genetic maps were constructed with 1,049 bin markers, spanning the 3,861 cM. Using firmness data of 'BS F2' obtained from 2 consecutive years, five QTLs were identified on chromosomes 3-3, 5-1, 6-1, and 6-4. Furthermore, we predicted the candidate genes associated with firmness in strawberries by utilizing transcriptome data and QTL information. Overall, we present the chromosome-level assembly and annotation of a homozygous octoploid strawberry inbred line and a linkage map constructed to identify QTLs associated with fruit firmness.
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- Hye-Eun Lee
- Vegetable Research Division, National Institute of Horticultural and Herbal Science, Rural Development Administration, Jeonju, South Korea
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- Vegetable Research Division, National Institute of Horticultural and Herbal Science, Rural Development Administration, Jeonju, South Korea
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- Vegetable Research Division, National Institute of Horticultural and Herbal Science, Rural Development Administration, Jeonju, South Korea
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- Vegetable Research Division, National Institute of Horticultural and Herbal Science, Rural Development Administration, Jeonju, South Korea
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- Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Bioresources, Plant Genomics and Breeding Institute, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Bioresources, Plant Genomics and Breeding Institute, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Vegetable Research Division, National Institute of Horticultural and Herbal Science, Rural Development Administration, Jeonju, South Korea
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- Department of Agronomy, Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, South Korea
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- Vegetable Research Division, National Institute of Horticultural and Herbal Science, Rural Development Administration, Jeonju, South Korea
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- Vegetable Research Division, National Institute of Horticultural and Herbal Science, Rural Development Administration, Jeonju, South Korea
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- Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Bioresources, Plant Genomics and Breeding Institute, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
- *Correspondence: Byoung-Cheorl Kang
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- Vegetable Research Division, National Institute of Horticultural and Herbal Science, Rural Development Administration, Jeonju, South Korea
- Do-Sun Kim
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Lei Y, Sun Y, Wang B, Yu S, Dai H, Li H, Zhang Z, Zhang J. Woodland strawberry WRKY71 acts as a promoter of flowering via a transcriptional regulatory cascade. HORTICULTURE RESEARCH 2020; 7:137. [PMID: 32922809 PMCID: PMC7458929 DOI: 10.1038/s41438-020-00355-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2020] [Revised: 05/14/2020] [Accepted: 06/16/2020] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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The WRKY proteins are a large family of transcription factors that play important roles in stress responses and plant development. However, the roles of most WRKYs in strawberry are not well known. In this study, FvWRKY71 was isolated from the woodland strawberry 'Ruegen'. FvWRKY71 was highly expressed in the shoot apex and red fruit. Subcellular localization analysis showed that FvWRKY71 was located in the nucleus. Transactivation analysis showed that FvWRKY71 presented transcriptional activation activity in yeast. Overexpression of FvWRKY71 in Arabidopsis and woodland strawberry revealed early flowering in the transgenic plants compared with the wild-type control. Gene expression analysis indicated that the transcript levels of the flowering time and development integrator genes AP1, LFY, FT, AGL42, FUL, FPF1, SEP1, SEP2, and SEP3 were increased in FvWRKY71-overexpressing Arabidopsis and strawberry plants compared with the wild-type controls, which may result in accelerated flowering in transgenic plants. Furthermore, FvWRKY71 was proven to directly bind to the W-boxes (TTGACT/C) of the FvFUL, FvSEP1, FvAGL42, FvLFY, and FvFPF1 promoters in vitro and in vivo. Taken together, our results reveal a transcriptional regulatory cascade of FvWRKY71 involved in promoting flowering in woodland strawberry.
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- Yingying Lei
- Liaoning Key Laboratory of Strawberry Breeding and Cultivation, College of Horticulture, Shenyang Agricultural University, 120 Dongling Road, Shenyang, 110866 China
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- Liaoning Key Laboratory of Strawberry Breeding and Cultivation, College of Horticulture, Shenyang Agricultural University, 120 Dongling Road, Shenyang, 110866 China
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- Liaoning Key Laboratory of Strawberry Breeding and Cultivation, College of Horticulture, Shenyang Agricultural University, 120 Dongling Road, Shenyang, 110866 China
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- Liaoning Key Laboratory of Strawberry Breeding and Cultivation, College of Horticulture, Shenyang Agricultural University, 120 Dongling Road, Shenyang, 110866 China
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- Liaoning Key Laboratory of Strawberry Breeding and Cultivation, College of Horticulture, Shenyang Agricultural University, 120 Dongling Road, Shenyang, 110866 China
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- Liaoning Key Laboratory of Strawberry Breeding and Cultivation, College of Horticulture, Shenyang Agricultural University, 120 Dongling Road, Shenyang, 110866 China
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- Liaoning Key Laboratory of Strawberry Breeding and Cultivation, College of Horticulture, Shenyang Agricultural University, 120 Dongling Road, Shenyang, 110866 China
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- Liaoning Key Laboratory of Strawberry Breeding and Cultivation, College of Horticulture, Shenyang Agricultural University, 120 Dongling Road, Shenyang, 110866 China
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ddRAD-seq derived genome-wide SNPs, high density linkage map and QTLs for fruit quality traits in strawberry ( Fragaria x ananassa). 3 Biotech 2020; 10:353. [PMID: 32760641 PMCID: PMC7385052 DOI: 10.1007/s13205-020-02291-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2019] [Accepted: 06/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Understanding the genetic determinants are essential for improving the fruit quality traits of strawberry. In this study, we focused on mapping the loci for fruit-length (FL), -diameter (FD), -weight (FW) and -soluble solid content (SSC) using the genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) identified via ddRAD-sequencing of the F1 population raised from Maehyang (♀) X Festival (♂). A total of 12,698 high quality SNPs were identified of which 1554 SNPs that showed significant Mendelian segregation (p < 0.05) were mapped to 53 linkage groups (LG) spanning a total of 2937.93 cM with an average marker density of 2.14 cM/locus. Six QTLs for FL and four QTLs for each of FD, FW and SSC were identified that explained 24–35%, 21–42%, 24–54% and 23–50% of overall phenotypic variations, respectively. The genes that lie within these QTL regions were extracted and discussed thoroughly. In addition, a high resolution melting marker (MF154) were designed based on the SNP A1723G of the UDP-glucose 4-epimerase GEPI48-like gene FAN_iscf00021287. The marker detected the high vs low sugar containing F1 plants and commercial cultivars with 81.39% and 86.95% detection accuracy, respectively. These SNPs, linkage map, QTLs and candidate genes will be helpful in understanding and improving the fruit quality traits of strawberry.
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Labadie M, Vallin G, Petit A, Ring L, Hoffmann T, Gaston A, Potier A, Schwab W, Rothan C, Denoyes B. Metabolite Quantitative Trait Loci for Flavonoids Provide New Insights into the Genetic Architecture of Strawberry ( Fragaria × ananassa) Fruit Quality. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2020; 68:6927-6939. [PMID: 32469530 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.0c01855] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Flavonoids are products from specialized metabolism that contribute to fruit sensorial (color) and nutritional (antioxidant properties) quality. Here, using a pseudo full-sibling F1 progeny previously studied for fruit sensorial quality of cultivated strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa), we explored over two successive years the genetic architecture of flavonoid-related traits using liquid chromatography electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry (13 compounds including anthocyanins, flavonols, and flavan-3-ols) and colorimetric assays (anthocyanins, flavonoids, phenolics, and total antioxidant capacity (ferric reducing antioxidant power and Trolox equivalent antioxidant capacity)). Network correlation analysis highlighted the high connectivity of flavonoid compounds within each chemical class and low correlation with colorimetric traits except for anthocyanins. Mapping onto the female and male linkage maps of 152 flavonoid metabolic quantitative trait loci (mQTLs) and of 26 colorimetric QTLs indicated colocalization on few linkage groups of major flavonoid- and taste-related QTLs previously uncovered. These results pave the way for the discovery of genetic variations underlying flavonoid mQTLs and for marker-assisted selection of strawberry varieties with improved sensorial and nutritional quality.
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- Marc Labadie
- INRAE, Univ. Bordeaux, UMR BFP, Villenave d'Ornon F-33140, France
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- INRAE, Univ. Bordeaux, UMR BFP, Villenave d'Ornon F-33140, France
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- INRAE, Univ. Bordeaux, UMR BFP, Villenave d'Ornon F-33140, France
- INVENIO, MIN de Brienne, 110 quai de Paludate, Bordeaux 33800, France
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- Biotechnology of Natural Products, Technical University Munich, Liesel-Beckmann-Str. 1, Freising 85354, Germany
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- Biotechnology of Natural Products, Technical University Munich, Liesel-Beckmann-Str. 1, Freising 85354, Germany
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- INRAE, Univ. Bordeaux, UMR BFP, Villenave d'Ornon F-33140, France
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- INRAE, Univ. Bordeaux, UMR BFP, Villenave d'Ornon F-33140, France
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- Biotechnology of Natural Products, Technical University Munich, Liesel-Beckmann-Str. 1, Freising 85354, Germany
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- INRAE, Univ. Bordeaux, UMR BFP, Villenave d'Ornon F-33140, France
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Davis TM, Yang Y, Mahoney LL, Frailey DC. A pentaploid-based linkage map of the ancestral octoploid strawberry Fragaria virginiana reveals instances of sporadic hyper-recombination. HORTICULTURE RESEARCH 2020; 7:77. [PMID: 32411378 PMCID: PMC7206004 DOI: 10.1038/s41438-020-0308-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2020] [Revised: 03/27/2020] [Accepted: 03/30/2020] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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The first high-resolution genetic linkage map of the ancestral octoploid (2n = 8x = 56) strawberry species, Fragaria virginiana, was constructed using segregation data obtained from a pentaploid progeny population. This novel mapping population of size 178 was generated by crossing highly heterozygous F. virginiana hybrid "LB48" as a paternal parent with diploid (2n = 2x = 14) Fragaria vesca "Hawaii 4". The LB48 linkage map comprises 6055 markers genotyped on the Axiom® IStraw90 strawberry SNP array. The map consists of 28 linkage groups (LGs) organized into seven homoeology groups of four LGs each, and excludes a small 29th LG of undefined homoeology. One member of each homoeology group was assignable to an "A" subgenome associated with ancestral diploid Fragaria vesca, while no other subgenomes were defined. Despite an intriguing discrepancy within homoeology group VI, synteny comparisons with the previously published Fragaria ×ananassa DA × MO linkage map revealed substantial agreement. Following initial map construction, examination of crossover distributions revealed that six of the total 5162 (=29 chromosomes/individual × 178 individuals) chromosomes making up the data set exhibited abnormally high crossover counts, ranging from 15 to 48 crossovers per chromosome, as compared with the overall mean of 0.66 crossovers per chromosome. Each of these six hyper-recombinant (HypR) chromosomes occurred in a different LG and in a different individual. When calculated upon exclusion of the six HypR chromosomes, the canonical (i.e., broadly representative) LB48 map had 1851 loci distributed over a total map length of 1873 cM, while their inclusion increased the number of loci by 130, and the overall map length by 91 cM. Discovery of these hyper-recombinant chromosomes points to the existence of a sporadically acting mechanism that, if identified and manipulable, could be usefully harnessed for multiple purposes by geneticists and breeders.
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- Thomas M. Davis
- Department of Agriculture, Nutrition, and Food Systems, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824 USA
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- Department of Agriculture, Nutrition, and Food Systems, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824 USA
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- Department of Agriculture, Nutrition, and Food Systems, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824 USA
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- Department of Agriculture, Nutrition, and Food Systems, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824 USA
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Whitaker VM, Knapp SJ, Hardigan MA, Edger PP, Slovin JP, Bassil NV, Hytönen T, Mackenzie KK, Lee S, Jung S, Main D, Barbey CR, Verma S. A roadmap for research in octoploid strawberry. HORTICULTURE RESEARCH 2020; 7:33. [PMID: 32194969 PMCID: PMC7072068 DOI: 10.1038/s41438-020-0252-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2020] [Accepted: 01/26/2020] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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The cultivated strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa) is an allo-octoploid species, originating nearly 300 years ago from wild progenitors from the Americas. Since that time the strawberry has become the most widely cultivated fruit crop in the world, universally appealing due to its sensory qualities and health benefits. The recent publication of the first high-quality chromosome-scale octoploid strawberry genome (cv. Camarosa) is enabling rapid advances in genetics, stimulating scientific debate and provoking new research questions. In this forward-looking review we propose avenues of research toward new biological insights and applications to agriculture. Among these are the origins of the genome, characterization of genetic variants, and big data approaches to breeding. Key areas of research in molecular biology will include the control of flowering, fruit development, fruit quality, and plant-pathogen interactions. In order to realize this potential as a global community, investments in genome resources must be continually augmented.
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- Vance M Whitaker
- 1University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Gulf Coast Research and Education Center, Wimauma, Florida 33598 USA
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- 2Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA 95616 USA
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- 2Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA 95616 USA
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- 3Department of Horticulture, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 USA
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- USDA-ARS Genetic Improvement of Fruits and Vegetables Laboratory, Beltsville, MA 20705 USA
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- 5USDA-ARS National Clonal Germplasm Repository, Corvallis, OR 97333 USA
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- 6Department of Agricultural Sciences, Viikki Plant Science Centre, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, 00790 Finland
- 7Organismal and Evolutionary Biology Research Programme, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Viikki Plant Science Centre, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, 00790 Finland
- NIAB EMR, Kent, ME19 6BJ UK
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- 6Department of Agricultural Sciences, Viikki Plant Science Centre, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, 00790 Finland
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- 1University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Gulf Coast Research and Education Center, Wimauma, Florida 33598 USA
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- 9Department of Horticulture, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164 USA
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- 9Department of Horticulture, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164 USA
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- 1University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Gulf Coast Research and Education Center, Wimauma, Florida 33598 USA
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- 1University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Gulf Coast Research and Education Center, Wimauma, Florida 33598 USA
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Hardigan MA, Feldmann MJ, Lorant A, Bird KA, Famula R, Acharya C, Cole G, Edger PP, Knapp SJ. Genome Synteny Has Been Conserved Among the Octoploid Progenitors of Cultivated Strawberry Over Millions of Years of Evolution. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2020; 10:1789. [PMID: 32158449 PMCID: PMC7020885 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2019.01789] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2019] [Accepted: 12/20/2019] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Allo-octoploid cultivated strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa) originated through a combination of polyploid and homoploid hybridization, domestication of an interspecific hybrid lineage, and continued admixture of wild species over the last 300 years. While genes appear to flow freely between the octoploid progenitors, the genome structures and diversity of the octoploid species remain poorly understood. The complexity and absence of an octoploid genome frustrated early efforts to study chromosome evolution, resolve subgenomic structure, and develop a single coherent linkage group nomenclature. Here, we show that octoploid Fragaria species harbor millions of subgenome-specific DNA variants. Their diversity was sufficient to distinguish duplicated (homoeologous and paralogous) DNA sequences and develop 50K and 850K SNP genotyping arrays populated with co-dominant, disomic SNP markers distributed throughout the octoploid genome. Whole-genome shotgun genotyping of an interspecific segregating population yielded 1.9M genetically mapped subgenome variants in 5,521 haploblocks spanning 3,394 cM in F. chiloensis subsp. lucida, and 1.6M genetically mapped subgenome variants in 3,179 haploblocks spanning 2,017 cM in F. × ananassa. These studies provide a dense genomic framework of subgenome-specific DNA markers for seamlessly cross-referencing genetic and physical mapping information and unifying existing chromosome nomenclatures. Using comparative genomics, we show that geographically diverse wild octoploids are effectively diploidized, nearly completely collinear, and retain strong macro-synteny with diploid progenitor species. The preservation of genome structure among allo-octoploid taxa is a critical factor in the unique history of garden strawberry, where unimpeded gene flow supported its origin and domestication through repeated cycles of interspecific hybridization.
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- Michael A. Hardigan
- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States
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- Department of Horticulture, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States
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- Department of Horticulture, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States
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Letelier L, Gaete-Eastman C, Peñailillo P, Moya-León MA, Herrera R. Southern Species From the Biodiversity Hotspot of Central Chile: A Source of Color, Aroma, and Metabolites for Global Agriculture and Food Industry in a Scenario of Climate Change. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2020; 11:1002. [PMID: 32719706 PMCID: PMC7348657 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.01002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2019] [Accepted: 06/19/2020] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Two interesting plants within the Chilean flora (wild and crop species) can be found with a history related to modern fruticulture: Fragaria chiloensis subsp. chiloensis (Rosaceae) and Vasconcellea pubescens (Caricaceae). Both species have a wide natural distribution, which goes from the Andes mountains to the sea (East-West), and from the Atacama desert to the South of Chile (North-South). The growing locations are included within the Chilean Winter Rainfall-Valdivian Forest hotspot. Global warming is of great concern as it increases the risk of losing wild plant species, but at the same time, gives a chance for usually longer term genetic improvement using naturally adapted material and the source for generating healthy foods. Modern agriculture intensifies the attractiveness of native undomesticated species as a way to provide compounds like antioxidants or tolerant plants for climate change scenario. F. chiloensis subsp. chiloensis as the mother of commercial strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa) is an interesting genetic source for the improvement of fruit flavor and stress tolerance. On the other hand, V. pubescens produces fruit with high level of antioxidants and proteolytic enzymes of interest to the food industry. The current review compiles the botanical, physiological and phytochemical description of F. chiloensis subsp. chiloensis and V. pubescens, highlighting their potential as functional foods and as source of compounds with several applications in the pharmaceutical, biotechnological, and food science. The impact of global warming scenario on the distribution of the species is also discussed.
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- Luis Letelier
- Laboratorio de Fisiología Vegetal y Genética Molecular, Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de Talca, Talca, Chile
- Núcleo Científico Multidisciplinario, Dirección de Investigación, Universidad de Talca, Talca, Chile
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- Laboratorio de Fisiología Vegetal y Genética Molecular, Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de Talca, Talca, Chile
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- Laboratorio de Fisiología Vegetal y Genética Molecular, Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de Talca, Talca, Chile
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- Laboratorio de Fisiología Vegetal y Genética Molecular, Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de Talca, Talca, Chile
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- Laboratorio de Fisiología Vegetal y Genética Molecular, Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de Talca, Talca, Chile
- *Correspondence: Raúl Herrera,
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Petrasch S, Knapp SJ, van Kan JAL, Blanco‐Ulate B. Grey mould of strawberry, a devastating disease caused by the ubiquitous necrotrophic fungal pathogen Botrytis cinerea. MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY 2019; 20:877-892. [PMID: 30945788 PMCID: PMC6637890 DOI: 10.1111/mpp.12794] [Citation(s) in RCA: 133] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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The fungal pathogen Botrytis cinerea causes grey mould, a commercially damaging disease of strawberry. This pathogen affects fruit in the field, storage, transport and market. The presence of grey mould is the most common reason for fruit rejection by growers, shippers and consumers, leading to significant economic losses. Here, we review the biology and epidemiology of the pathogen, mechanisms of infection and the genetics of host plant resistance. The development of grey mould is affected by environmental and genetic factors; however, little is known about how B. cinerea and strawberry interact at the molecular level. Despite intensive efforts, breeding strawberry for resistance to grey mould has not been successful, and the mechanisms underlying tolerance to B. cinerea are poorly understood and under-investigated. Current control strategies against grey mould include pre- and postharvest fungicides, yet they are generally ineffective and expensive. In this review, we examine available research on horticultural management, chemical and biological control of the pathogen in the field and postharvest storage, and discuss their relevance for integrative disease management. Additionally, we identify and propose approaches for increasing resistance to B. cinerea in strawberry by tapping into natural genetic variation and manipulating host factors via genetic engineering and genome editing.
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- Stefan Petrasch
- Department of Plant SciencesUniversity of California, DavisDavisCAUSA
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- Department of Plant SciencesUniversity of California, DavisDavisCAUSA
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- Laboratory of PhytopathologyWageningen UniversityWageningenNetherlands
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Application of Nano-Silicon Dioxide Improves Salt Stress Tolerance in Strawberry Plants. AGRONOMY-BASEL 2019. [DOI: 10.3390/agronomy9050246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Silicon application can improve productivity outcomes for salt stressed plants. Here, we describe how strawberry plants respond to treatments including various combinations of salt stress and nano-silicon dioxide, and assess whether nano-silicon dioxide improves strawberry plant tolerance to salt stress. Strawberry plants were treated with salt (0, 25 or 50 mM NaCl), and the nano-silicon dioxide treatments were applied to the strawberry plants before (0, 50 and 100 mg L−1) or after (0 and 50 mg L−1) flowering. The salt stress treatments reduced plant biomass, chlorophyll content, and leaf relative water content (RWC) as expected. Relative to control (no NaCl) plants the salt treated plants had 10% lower membrane stability index (MSI), 81% greater proline content, and 54% greater cuticular transpiration; as well as increased canopy temperature and changes in the structure of the epicuticular wax layer. The plants treated with nano-silicon dioxide were better able to maintain epicuticular wax structure, chlorophyll content, and carotenoid content and accumulated less proline relative to plants treated only with salt and no nano-silicon dioxide. Analysis of scanning electron microscopic (SEM) images revealed that the salt treatments resulted in changes in epicuticular wax type and thickness, and that the application of nano-silicon dioxide suppressed the adverse effects of salinity on the epicuticular wax layer. Nano-silicon dioxide treated salt stressed plants had increased irregular (smoother) crystal wax deposits in their epicuticular layer. Together these observations indicate that application of nano-silicon dioxide can limit the adverse anatomical and biochemical changes related to salt stress impacts on strawberry plants and that this is, in part, associated with epicuticular wax deposition.
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High density linkage map construction and QTL mapping for runner production in allo-octoploid strawberry Fragaria × ananassa based on ddRAD-seq derived SNPs. Sci Rep 2019; 9:3275. [PMID: 30824841 PMCID: PMC6397268 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-39808-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2018] [Accepted: 01/29/2019] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Recent advances in high-throughput genome sequencing technologies are now making the genetic dissection of the complex genome of cultivated strawberry easier. We sequenced Maehyang (short-day cultivar) × Albion (day-neutral cultivar) crossing populations using double digest restriction-associated DNA (ddRAD) sequencing technique that yielded 978,968 reads, 80.2% of which were aligned to strawberry genome allowing the identification of 13,181 high quality single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Total 3051 SNPs showed Mendelian segregation in F1, of which 1268 were successfully mapped to 46 linkage groups (LG) spanning a total of 2581.57 cM with an average interval genetic distance of 2.22 cM. The LGs were assigned to the 28 chromosomes of Fragaria × ananassa as determined by positioning the sequence tags on F. vesca genome. In addition, seven QTLs namely, qRU-5D, qRU-3D1, qRU-1D2, qRU-4D, qRU-4C, qRU-5C and qRU-2D2 were identified for runner production with LOD value ranging from 3.5–7.24 that explained 22–38% of phenotypic variation. The key candidate genes having putative roles in meristem differentiation for runnering and flowering within these QTL regions were identified. These will enhance our understanding of the vegetative vs sexual reproductive behavior in strawberry and will aid in setting breeding targets for developing perpetual flowering and profuse runnering cultivar.
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Shahan R, Li D, Liu Z. Identification of genes preferentially expressed in wild strawberry receptacle fruit and demonstration of their promoter activities. HORTICULTURE RESEARCH 2019; 6:50. [PMID: 31044078 PMCID: PMC6491448 DOI: 10.1038/s41438-019-0134-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2018] [Revised: 01/08/2019] [Accepted: 02/18/2019] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Fragaria vesca (F. vesca), the wild strawberry, is a diploid model for the commercial, octoploid strawberry as well as other members of the economically relevant Rosaceae family. Unlike the fruits of tomato and Arabidopsis, the fleshy fruit of strawberry is unique in that it is derived from the floral receptacle and has an external seed configuration. Thus, identification and subsequent characterization of receptacle-expressed genes may shed light on novel developmental processes or provide insight into how developmental regulation differs between receptacle-derived and ovary-derived fruits. Further, since fruit and flower tissues are the last organs to form on a plant, the development of receptacle fruit-specific promoters may provide useful molecular tools for research and application. In this work, we mined previously generated RNA-Seq datasets and identified 589 genes preferentially expressed in the strawberry receptacle versus all other profiled tissues. Promoters of a select subset of the 589 genes were isolated and their activities tested using a GUS transcriptional reporter. These promoters may now be used by the F. vesca research community for a variety of purposes, including driving expression of tissue-specific reporters, RNAi constructs, or specific genes to manipulate fruit development. Further, identified genes with receptacle-specific expression patterns, including MADS-Box and KNOX family transcription factors, are potential key regulators of fleshy fruit development and attractive candidates for functional characterization.
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- Rachel Shahan
- Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 USA
- Present Address: Department of Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708 USA
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- Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 USA
- Zhejiang University, College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Key Laboratory of Agro-Products Postharvest Handling Ministry of Agriculture, Zhejiang Key Laboratory for Agri-Food Processing, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058 People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 USA
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Cheng J, Niu Q, Zhang B, Chen K, Yang R, Zhu JK, Zhang Y, Lang Z. Downregulation of RdDM during strawberry fruit ripening. Genome Biol 2018; 19:212. [PMID: 30514401 PMCID: PMC6280534 DOI: 10.1186/s13059-018-1587-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2018] [Accepted: 11/15/2018] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Background Recently, DNA methylation was proposed to regulate fleshy fruit ripening. Fleshy fruits can be distinguished by their ripening process as climacteric fruits, such as tomatoes, or non-climacteric fruits, such as strawberries. Tomatoes undergo a global decrease in DNA methylation during ripening, due to increased expression of a DNA demethylase gene. The dynamics and biological relevance of DNA methylation during the ripening of non-climacteric fruits are unknown. Results Here, we generate single-base resolution maps of the DNA methylome in immature and ripe strawberry. We observe an overall loss of DNA methylation during strawberry fruit ripening. Thus, ripening-induced DNA hypomethylation occurs not only in climacteric fruit, but also in non-climacteric fruit. Application of a DNA methylation inhibitor causes an early ripening phenotype, suggesting that DNA hypomethylation is important for strawberry fruit ripening. The mechanisms underlying DNA hypomethylation during the ripening of tomato and strawberry are distinct. Unlike in tomatoes, DNA demethylase genes are not upregulated during the ripening of strawberries. Instead, genes involved in RNA-directed DNA methylation are downregulated during strawberry ripening. Further, ripening-induced DNA hypomethylation is associated with decreased siRNA levels, consistent with reduced RdDM activity. Therefore, we propose that a downregulation of RdDM contributes to DNA hypomethylation during strawberry ripening. Conclusions Our findings provide new insight into the DNA methylation dynamics during the ripening of non-climacteric fruit and suggest a novel function of RdDM in regulating an important process in plant development. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s13059-018-1587-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Jingfei Cheng
- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, CAS Center of Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200032, China.,University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China.,Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Center of Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200032, China
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- Laboratory of Fruit Quality Biology/Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Integrative Biology, Zhejiang University, Zijingang Campus, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- Laboratory of Fruit Quality Biology/Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Integrative Biology, Zhejiang University, Zijingang Campus, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- Horticultural Department, Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, China
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- University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China.,Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Center of Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200032, China.,Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, CAS Center of Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200032, China. .,University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China.
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- University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China. .,Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Center of Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200032, China.
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Zhong Y, Zhang X, Cheng ZM. Lineage-specific duplications of NBS-LRR genes occurring before the divergence of six Fragaria species. BMC Genomics 2018; 19:128. [PMID: 29422035 PMCID: PMC5806312 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-018-4521-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2017] [Accepted: 01/31/2018] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Background Plant disease resistance (R) genes are evolving rapidly and play a critical role in the innate immune system of plants. The nucleotide binding sites-leucine rich repeat (NBS-LRR) genes are one of the largest classes in plant R genes. Previous studies have focused on the NBS-LRR genes from one or several species of different genera, and the sequenced genomes of the genus Fragaria offer the opportunity to study the evolutionary processes of these R genes among the closely related species. Results In this study, 325, 155, 190, 187, and 133 NBS-LRRs were discovered from F. x ananassa, F. iinumae, F. nipponica, F. nubicola, and F. orientalis, respectively. Together with the 144 NBS-LRR genes from F. vesca, a total of 1134 NBS-LRRs containing 866 multi-genes comprised 184 gene families across the six Fragaria genomes. Extremely short branch lengths and shallow nodes were widely present in the phylogenetic tree constructed with all of the NBS-LRR genes of the six strawberry species. The identities of the orthologous genes were highly significantly greater than those of the paralogous genes, while the Ks ratios of the former were very significantly lower than those of the latter in all of the NBS-LRR gene families. In addition, the Ks and Ka/Ks values of the TIR-NBS-LRR genes (TNLs) were significantly greater than those of the non-TIR-NBS-LRR genes (non-TNLs). Furthermore, the expression patterns of the NBS-LRR genes revealed that the same gene expressed differently under different genetic backgrounds in response to pathogens. Conclusions These results, combined with the shared hotspot regions of the duplicated NBS-LRRs on the chromosomes, indicated that the lineage-specific duplication of the NBS-LRR genes occurred before the divergence of the six Fragaria species. The Ks and Ka/Ks ratios suggested that the TNLs are more rapidly evolving and driven by stronger diversifying selective pressures than the non-TNLs. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s12864-018-4521-4) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Yan Zhong
- College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China.
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- School of Life Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
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- College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China. .,Department of Plant Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA.
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Urrutia M, Rambla JL, Alexiou KG, Granell A, Monfort A. Genetic analysis of the wild strawberry (Fragaria vesca) volatile composition. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY : PPB 2017; 121:99-117. [PMID: 29100102 DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2017.10.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2017] [Revised: 10/13/2017] [Accepted: 10/17/2017] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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The volatile composition of wild strawberry (Fragaria vesca) fruit differs from that of the cultivated strawberry, having more intense and fruity aromas. Over the last few years, the diploid F. vesca has been recognized as a model species for genetic studies of cultivated strawberry (F. x ananassa), and here a previously developed F. vesca/F. bucharica Near Isogenic Line collection (NIL) was used to explore genetic variability of fruit quality traits. Analysis of fruit volatiles by GC-MS in our NIL collection revealed a complex and highly variable profile. One hundred compounds were unequivocally identified, including esters, aldehydes, ketones, alcohols, terpenoids, furans and lactones. Those in a subset, named key volatile compounds (KVCs), are likely contributors to the special aroma/flavour of wild strawberry. Genetic analysis revealed 50 major quantitative trait loci (QTL) including 14 QTL for KVCs, and one segregating as a dominant monogenetic trait for nerolidol. The most determinant regions affecting QTLs for KVCs, were mapped on LG5 and LG7. New candidate genes for the volatile QTL are proposed, based on differences in gene expression between NILs containing specific fragments of F. bucharica and the F. vesca recurrent genome. A high percentage of these candidate genes/alleles were colocalized within the boundaries of introgressed regions that contain QTLs, appearing to affect volatile metabolite accumulation acting in cis. A NIL collection is a good tool for the genetic dissection of volatile accumulation in wild strawberry fruit and a source of information for genes and alleles which may enhance aroma in cultivated strawberry.
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- María Urrutia
- Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG) CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB, Campus UAB, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain; Enza Zaden Spain R & D (04710), Sta Mª del Aguila, Almeria, Spain
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- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (IBMCP), Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Ingeniero Fausto Elio, 46022 Valencia, Spain
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- Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG) CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB, Campus UAB, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain; Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentàries (IRTA), Barcelona, Spain
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- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (IBMCP), Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Ingeniero Fausto Elio, 46022 Valencia, Spain
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- Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG) CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB, Campus UAB, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain; Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentàries (IRTA), Barcelona, Spain.
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Cruz-Rus E, Sesmero R, Ángel-Pérez JA, Sánchez-Sevilla JF, Ulrich D, Amaya I. Validation of a PCR test to predict the presence of flavor volatiles mesifurane and γ-decalactone in fruits of cultivated strawberry ( Fragaria × ananassa). MOLECULAR BREEDING : NEW STRATEGIES IN PLANT IMPROVEMENT 2017; 37:131. [PMID: 29070959 PMCID: PMC5624981 DOI: 10.1007/s11032-017-0732-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2017] [Accepted: 09/22/2017] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Flavor improvement is currently one of the most important goals for strawberry breeders. At the same time, it is one of the most complex traits to improve, involving the balanced combination of several desired characteristics such as high sweetness, moderate acidity, and the appropriate combination of aroma compounds that are beginning to be delineated in consumer tests. DNA-informed breeding will expedite the selection of complex traits, such as flavor, over traditional phenotypic evaluation, particularly when markers linked to several traits of interests are combined during the breeding process. Natural variation in mesifurane and γ-decalactone, two key volatile compounds providing sweet Sherry and fresh peach-like notes to strawberry fruits, is controlled by the FaOMT and FaFAD1 genes, respectively. In this study, we have optimized a simple PCR test for combined analysis of these genes and determined a prediction accuracy above 91% using a set of 71 diverse strawberry accessions. This high accuracy in predicting the presence of these important volatiles combined with the simplicity of the analytical methodology makes this DNA test an efficient tool for its implementation in current strawberry-breeding programs for the selection of new strawberry cultivars with superior flavor.
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- Eduardo Cruz-Rus
- Instituto Andaluz de Investigación y Formación Agraria y Pesquera (IFAPA) Centro de Churriana, Cortijo de la Cruz, 29140 Málaga, Spain
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- Instituto Andaluz de Investigación y Formación Agraria y Pesquera (IFAPA) Centro de Churriana, Cortijo de la Cruz, 29140 Málaga, Spain
- Present Address: Departamento de Biología Vegetal, Universidad de Málaga, 29071 Málaga, Spain
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- Instituto Andaluz de Investigación y Formación Agraria y Pesquera (IFAPA) Centro de Churriana, Cortijo de la Cruz, 29140 Málaga, Spain
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- Instituto Andaluz de Investigación y Formación Agraria y Pesquera (IFAPA) Centro de Churriana, Cortijo de la Cruz, 29140 Málaga, Spain
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- Institute for Ecological Chemistry, Plant Analysis and Stored Product Protection, Julius Kühn-Institute (JKI), Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Erwin-Baur-Str. 26, 06484 Quedlinburg, Germany
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- Instituto Andaluz de Investigación y Formación Agraria y Pesquera (IFAPA) Centro de Churriana, Cortijo de la Cruz, 29140 Málaga, Spain
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Vining KJ, Salinas N, Tennessen JA, Zurn JD, Sargent DJ, Hancock J, Bassil NV. Genotyping-by-sequencing enables linkage mapping in three octoploid cultivated strawberry families. PeerJ 2017; 5:e3731. [PMID: 28875078 PMCID: PMC5581533 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.3731] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2017] [Accepted: 08/03/2017] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) was used to survey genome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in three biparental strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa) populations with the goal of evaluating this technique in a species with a complex octoploid genome. GBS sequence data were aligned to the F. vesca ‘Fvb’ reference genome in order to call SNPs. Numbers of polymorphic SNPs per population ranged from 1,163 to 3,190. Linkage maps consisting of 30–65 linkage groups were produced from the SNP sets derived from each parent. The linkage groups covered 99% of the Fvb reference genome, with three to seven linkage groups from a given parent aligned to any particular chromosome. A phylogenetic analysis performed using the POLiMAPS pipeline revealed linkage groups that were most similar to ancestral species F. vesca for each chromosome. Linkage groups that were most similar to a second ancestral species, F. iinumae, were only resolved for Fvb 4. The quantity of missing data and heterogeneity in genome coverage inherent in GBS complicated the analysis, but POLiMAPS resolved F. × ananassa chromosomal regions derived from diploid ancestor F. vesca.
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- Kelly J Vining
- Department of Horticulture, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States of America
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- Department of Horticulture, University of Florida, Wimauma, FL, United States of America
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- Department of Integrative Biology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States of America
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- National Clonal Germplasm Repository, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Corvallis, OR, United States of America
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- Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all'Adige, Italy.,East Malling Enterprise Centre, Driscoll's Genetics Limited, East Malling, United Kingdom
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- Department of Horticulture, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States of America
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- Department of Horticulture, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States of America.,National Clonal Germplasm Repository, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Corvallis, OR, United States of America
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Nagano S, Shirasawa K, Hirakawa H, Maeda F, Ishikawa M, Isobe SN. Discrimination of candidate subgenome-specific loci by linkage map construction with an S 1 population of octoploid strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa). BMC Genomics 2017; 18:374. [PMID: 28499415 PMCID: PMC5429521 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-017-3762-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2016] [Accepted: 05/03/2017] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Background The strawberry, Fragaria × ananassa, is an allo-octoploid (2n = 8x = 56) and outcrossing species. Although it is the most widely consumed berry crop in the world, its complex genome structure has hindered its genetic and genomic analysis, and thus discrimination of subgenome-specific loci among the homoeologous chromosomes is needed. In the present study, we identified candidate subgenome-specific single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) and simple sequence repeat (SSR) loci, and constructed a linkage map using an S1 mapping population of the cultivar ‘Reikou’ with an IStraw90 Axiom® SNP array and previously published SSR markers. Results The ‘Reikou’ linkage map consisted of 11,574 loci (11,002 SNPs and 572 SSR loci) spanning 2816.5 cM of 31 linkage groups. The 11,574 loci were located on 4738 unique positions (bin) on the linkage map. Of the mapped loci, 8999 (8588 SNPs and 411 SSR loci) showed a 1:2:1 segregation ratio of AA:AB:BB allele, which suggested the possibility of deriving loci from candidate subgenome-specific sequences. In addition, 2575 loci (2414 SNPs and 161 SSR loci) showed a 3:1 segregation of AB:BB allele, indicating they were derived from homoeologous genomic sequences. Comparative analysis of the homoeologous linkage groups revealed differences in genome structure among the subgenomes. Conclusions Our results suggest that candidate subgenome-specific loci are randomly located across the genomes, and that there are small- to large-scale structural variations among the subgenomes. The mapped SNPs and SSR loci on the linkage map are expected to be seed points for the construction of pseudomolecules in the octoploid strawberry. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12864-017-3762-y) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Soichiro Nagano
- Kazusa DNA Research Institute, Kazusa-Kamatari 2-6-7, Kisarazu, Chiba, 292-0818, Japan
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- Kazusa DNA Research Institute, Kazusa-Kamatari 2-6-7, Kisarazu, Chiba, 292-0818, Japan
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- Kazusa DNA Research Institute, Kazusa-Kamatari 2-6-7, Kisarazu, Chiba, 292-0818, Japan
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- Chiba Prefectural Agriculture and Forestry Research Center, Chousei, Daizenno-Cyou 808, Midori, Chiba, 299-4335, Japan
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- Chiba Prefectural Agriculture and Forestry Research Center, Chousei, Daizenno-Cyou 808, Midori, Chiba, 299-4335, Japan.,Institute for Horticultural Plant Breeding, Kamishiki 2-5-1, Matsudo, Chiba, 270-2221, Japan
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- Kazusa DNA Research Institute, Kazusa-Kamatari 2-6-7, Kisarazu, Chiba, 292-0818, Japan.
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Khanal S, Kim C, Auckland SA, Rainville LK, Adhikari J, Schwartz BM, Paterson AH. SSR-enriched genetic linkage maps of bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon × transvaalensis), and their comparison with allied plant genomes. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2017; 130:819-839. [PMID: 28168408 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-017-2854-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2016] [Accepted: 01/04/2017] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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We report SSR-enriched genetic maps of bermudagrass that: (1) reveal partial residual polysomic inheritance in the tetraploid species, and (2) provide insights into the evolution of chloridoid genomes. This study describes genetic linkage maps of two bermudagrass species, Cynodon dactylon (T89) and Cynodon transvaalensis (T574), that integrate heterologous microsatellite markers from sugarcane into frameworks built with single-dose restriction fragments (SDRFs). A maximum likelihood approach was used to construct two separate parental maps from a population of 110 F1 progeny of a cross between the two parents. The T89 map is based on 291 loci on 34 cosegregating groups (CGs), with an average marker spacing of 12.5 cM. The T574 map is based on 125 loci on 14 CGs, with an average marker spacing of 10.7 cM. Six T89 and one T574 CG(s) deviated from disomic inheritance. Furthermore, marker segregation data and linkage phase analysis revealed partial residual polysomic inheritance in T89, suggesting that common bermudagrass is undergoing diploidization following whole genome duplication (WGD). Twenty-six T89 CGs were coalesced into 9 homo(eo)logous linkage groups (LGs), while 12 T574 CGs were assembled into 9 LGs, both putatively representing the basic chromosome complement (x = 9) of the species. Eight T89 and two T574 CGs remain unassigned. The marker composition of bermudagrass ancestral chromosomes was inferred by aligning T89 and T574 homologs, and used in comparisons to sorghum and rice genome sequences based on 108 and 91 significant blast hits, respectively. Two nested chromosome fusions (NCFs) shared by two other chloridoids (i.e., zoysiagrass and finger millet) and at least three independent translocation events were evident during chromosome number reduction from 14 in the polyploid common ancestor of Poaceae to 9 in Cynodon.
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- Sameer Khanal
- Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA
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- Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA
- Department of Crop Science, Chungnam National University, 99 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34134, South Korea
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- Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA
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- Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA
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- Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA
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- Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, University of Georgia, Tifton, GA, 31793, USA
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- Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA.
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Clark LV, Schreier AD. Resolving microsatellite genotype ambiguity in populations of allopolyploid and diploidized autopolyploid organisms using negative correlations between allelic variables. Mol Ecol Resour 2017; 17:1090-1103. [DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12639] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2015] [Revised: 11/06/2016] [Accepted: 11/16/2016] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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- Lindsay V. Clark
- Department of Crop Sciences University of Illinois, Urbana‐Champaign 1201 W. Gregory Drive Urbana IL 61801 USA
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Verma S, Zurn JD, Salinas N, Mathey MM, Denoyes B, Hancock JF, Finn CE, Bassil NV, Whitaker VM. Clarifying sub-genomic positions of QTLs for flowering habit and fruit quality in U.S. strawberry ( Fragaria× ananassa) breeding populations using pedigree-based QTL analysis. HORTICULTURE RESEARCH 2017; 4:17062. [PMID: 29138689 PMCID: PMC5676184 DOI: 10.1038/hortres.2017.62] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2017] [Revised: 10/02/2017] [Accepted: 10/05/2017] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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The cultivated strawberry (Fragaria×ananassa) is consumed worldwide for its flavor and nutritional benefits. Genetic analysis of commercially important traits in strawberry are important for the development of breeding methods and tools for this species. Although several quantitative trait loci (QTL) have been previously detected for fruit quality and flowering traits using low-density genetic maps, clarity on the sub-genomic locations of these QTLs was missing. Recent discoveries in allo-octoploid strawberry genomics led to the development of the IStraw90 single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) array, enabling high-density genetic maps and finer resolution QTL analysis. In this study, breeder-specified traits were evaluated in the Eastern (Michigan) and Western (Oregon) United States for a common set of breeding populations during 2 years. Several QTLs were validated for soluble solids content (SSC), fruit weight (FWT), pH and titratable acidity (TA) using a pedigree-based QTL analysis approach. For fruit quality, a QTL for SSC on linkage group (LG) 6A, a QTL for FWT on LG 2BII, a QTL for pH on LG 4CII and two QTLs for TA on LGs 2A and 5B were detected. In addition, a large-effect QTL for flowering was detected at the distal end of LG 4A, coinciding with the FaPFRU locus. Marker haplotype analysis in the FaPFRU region indicated that the homozygous recessive genotype was highly predictive of seasonal flowering. SNP probes in the FaPFRU region may help facilitate marker-assisted selection for this trait.
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- Sujeet Verma
- IFAS/Department of Horticulture, University of Florida, Gulf Coast Research and Education Center, 14625 CR 672, Wimauma, FL 33598, USA
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- USDA-ARS National Clonal Germplasm Repository, 33447 Peoria Road, Corvallis, OR 97333, USA
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- IFAS/Department of Horticulture, University of Florida, Gulf Coast Research and Education Center, 14625 CR 672, Wimauma, FL 33598, USA
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- Department of Horticulture, Oregon State University, 4017 Agriculture and Life Sciences Building, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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- Department of Horticulture, UMR 1332 Biologie du Fruit et Pathologie, INRA, Univ. Bordeaux, Villenave d’Ornon F-33140, France
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- USDA-ARS, HCRU, 3420 NW Orchard Avenue, Corvallis, OR 97330, USA
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- USDA-ARS National Clonal Germplasm Repository, 33447 Peoria Road, Corvallis, OR 97333, USA
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- IFAS/Department of Horticulture, University of Florida, Gulf Coast Research and Education Center, 14625 CR 672, Wimauma, FL 33598, USA
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Liao WY, Lin LF, Jheng JL, Wang CC, Yang JH, Chou ML. Identification of Heat Shock Transcription Factor Genes Involved in Thermotolerance of Octoploid Cultivated Strawberry. Int J Mol Sci 2016; 17:ijms17122130. [PMID: 27999304 PMCID: PMC5187930 DOI: 10.3390/ijms17122130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2016] [Revised: 12/12/2016] [Accepted: 12/13/2016] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Heat shock transcription factors (HSFs) are mainly involved in the activation of genes in response to heat stress as well as other abiotic and biotic stresses. The growth, development, reproduction, and yield of strawberry are strongly limited by extreme temperatures and droughts. In this study, we used Illumina sequencing and obtained transcriptome data set from Fragaria × ananassa Duchessne cv. Toyonoka. Six contigs and three unigenes were confirmed to encode HSF proteins (FaTHSFs). Subsequently, we characterized the biological functions of two particularly selected unigenes, FaTHSFA2a and FaTHSFB1a, which were classified into class A2 and B HSFs, respectively. Expression assays revealed that FaTHSFA2a and FaTHSFB1a expression was induced by heat shock and correlated well with elevated ambient temperatures. Overexpression of FaTHSFA2a and FaTHSFB1a resulted in the activation of their downstream stress-associated genes, and notably enhanced the thermotolerance of transgenic Arabidopsis plants. Besides, both FaTHSFA2a and FaTHSFB1a fusion proteins localized in the nucleus, indicating their similar subcellular distributions as transcription factors. Our yeast one-hybrid assay suggested that FaTHSFA2a has trans-activation activity, whereas FaTHSFB1a expresses trans-repression function. Altogether, our annotated transcriptome sequences provide a beneficial resource for identifying most genes expressed in octoploid strawberry. Furthermore, HSF studies revealed the possible insights into the molecular mechanisms of thermotolerance, thus rendering valuable molecular breeding to improve the tolerance of strawberry in response to high-temperature stress.
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- Wan-Yu Liao
- Institute of Medical Sciences, Tzu-Chi University, Hualien 97004, Taiwan.
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- Department of Life Sciences, Tzu-Chi University, Hualien 97004, Taiwan.
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Tzu-Chi University, Hualien 97004, Taiwan.
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- Institute of Molecular Medicine, National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan.
- Biomedical Technology and Device Research Laboratories, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu 30011, Taiwan.
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- Biomedical Technology and Device Research Laboratories, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu 30011, Taiwan.
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- Department of Life Sciences, Tzu-Chi University, Hualien 97004, Taiwan.
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Perrotte J, Gaston A, Potier A, Petit A, Rothan C, Denoyes B. Narrowing down the single homoeologous FaPFRU locus controlling flowering in cultivated octoploid strawberry using a selective mapping strategy. PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL 2016; 14:2176-2189. [PMID: 27168086 PMCID: PMC5095798 DOI: 10.1111/pbi.12574] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2016] [Revised: 04/23/2016] [Accepted: 05/02/2016] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Extending the period of fruit production is a way to substantially increase crop yield in many fruit or ornamental species. In the cultivated octoploid strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa), the most consumed small fruit worldwide, fruit production season can be extended by selecting the perpetual flowering (PF) cultivars. This trait is of considerable interest to growers and to the food industry. Four homoeologous loci controlling a single trait can be expected in such a complex octoploid species. However, we recently showed that the PF trait is under the control of the single dominant FaPFRU locus (J. Exp. Bot., 2013, 64, 1837), making it potentially amenable to marker-assisted selection (MAS). Here, we report the successful use of a strategy, based on a selective mapping using a reduced sample of individuals, to identify nine markers in close linkage to the FaPFRU allelic variant. Thus, this strategy can be used to fine map the target homoeologous loci in other complex polyploid crop species. Recombinant analysis further enabled us to reduce the locus to a region flanked by two markers, Bx083_206 and Bx215_131, corresponding to a 1.1 Mb region in the diploid F. vesca reference genome. This region comprises 234 genes, including 15 flowering associated genes. Among these, the FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT) is known to be a key activator of flowering. The close association between the PF trait and the FaPFRU flanking markers was validated using an additional segregating population and genetic resources. This study lays the foundation for effective and rapid breeding of PF strawberry cultivars by MAS.
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- Justine Perrotte
- INRA, UMR 1332 BFP, Villenave d'Ornon, France
- Université de Bordeaux, UMR 1332 BFP, Villenave d'Ornon, France
- Ciref Création Variétale Fraises Fruits Rouges, Douville, France
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- INRA, UMR 1332 BFP, Villenave d'Ornon, France
- Université de Bordeaux, UMR 1332 BFP, Villenave d'Ornon, France
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- INRA, UMR 1332 BFP, Villenave d'Ornon, France
- Université de Bordeaux, UMR 1332 BFP, Villenave d'Ornon, France
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- Ciref Création Variétale Fraises Fruits Rouges, Douville, France
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- INRA, UMR 1332 BFP, Villenave d'Ornon, France
- Université de Bordeaux, UMR 1332 BFP, Villenave d'Ornon, France
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- INRA, UMR 1332 BFP, Villenave d'Ornon, France.
- Université de Bordeaux, UMR 1332 BFP, Villenave d'Ornon, France.
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Perrotte J, Guédon Y, Gaston A, Denoyes B. Identification of successive flowering phases highlights a new genetic control of the flowering pattern in strawberry. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2016; 67:5643-5655. [PMID: 27664957 PMCID: PMC5066487 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erw326] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The genetic control of the switch between seasonal and perpetual flowering has been deciphered in various perennial species. However, little is known about the genetic control of the dynamics of perpetual flowering, which changes abruptly at well-defined time instants during the growing season. Here, we characterize the perpetual flowering pattern and identify new genetic controls of this pattern in the cultivated strawberry. Twenty-one perpetual flowering strawberry genotypes were phenotyped at the macroscopic scale for their course of emergence of inflorescences and stolons during the growing season. A longitudinal analysis based on the segmentation of flowering rate profiles using multiple change-point models was conducted. The flowering pattern of perpetual flowering genotypes takes the form of three or four successive phases: an autumn-initiated flowering phase, a flowering pause, and a single stationary perpetual flowering phase or two perpetual flowering phases, the second one being more intense. The genetic control of flowering was analysed by quantitative trait locus mapping of flowering traits based on these flowering phases. We showed that the occurrence of a fourth phase of intense flowering is controlled by a newly identified locus, different from the locus FaPFRU, controlling the switch between seasonal and perpetual flowering behaviour. The role of this locus was validated by the analysis of data obtained previously during six consecutive years.
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- Justine Perrotte
- UMR 1332 BFP, INRA, Univ. Bordeaux, F-33140 Villenave d'Ornon, France Ciref, Maison Jeannette, 24140 Douville, France
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- CIRAD, UMR AGAP and Inria, Virtual Plants, 34095 Montpellier, France
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- UMR 1332 BFP, INRA, Univ. Bordeaux, F-33140 Villenave d'Ornon, France
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- UMR 1332 BFP, INRA, Univ. Bordeaux, F-33140 Villenave d'Ornon, France
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Chen XR, Brurberg MB, Elameen A, Klemsdal SS, Martinussen I. Expression of resistance gene analogs in woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca) during infection with Phytophthora cactorum. Mol Genet Genomics 2016; 291:1967-78. [PMID: 27447867 PMCID: PMC4990625 DOI: 10.1007/s00438-016-1232-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2016] [Accepted: 07/12/2016] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Important losses in strawberry production are often caused by the oomycete Phytophthora cactorum, the causal agent of crown rot. However, very limited studies at molecular levels exist of the mechanisms related to strawberry resistance against this pathogen. To begin to rectify this situation, a PCR-based approach (NBS profiling) was used to isolate strawberry resistance gene analogs (RGAs) with altered expression in response to P. cactorum during a time course (2, 4, 6, 24, 48, 96 and 192 h post-infection). Twenty-three distinct RGA fragments of the NB-LRR type were identified from a resistance genotype (Bukammen) of the wild species Fragaria vesca. The gene transcriptional profiles after infection showed that the response of most RGAs was quicker and stronger in the resistance genotype (Bukammen) than in the susceptible one (FDP821) during the early infection stage. The transcriptional patterns of one RGA (RGA109) were further monitored and compared during the P. cactorum infection of two pairs of resistant and susceptible genotype combinations (Bukammen/FDP821 and FDR1218/1603). The 5′ end sequence was cloned, and its putative protein was characteristic of NBS-LRR R protein. Our results yielded a first insight into the strawberry RGAs responding to P. cactorum infection at molecular level.
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- Xiao-Ren Chen
- Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, Box 115, 1431, Ås, Norway.,College of Horticulture and Plant Protection, Yangzhou University, Wenhui Eastern Road 48, Yangzhou, 225009, Jiangsu Province, China
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- Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, Box 115, 1431, Ås, Norway.
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Khan A, Belfield EJ, Harberd NP, Mithani A. HANDS2: accurate assignment of homoeallelic base-identity in allopolyploids despite missing data. Sci Rep 2016; 6:29234. [PMID: 27378447 PMCID: PMC4932600 DOI: 10.1038/srep29234] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2015] [Accepted: 06/14/2016] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Characterization of homoeallelic base-identity in allopolyploids is difficult since homeologous subgenomes are closely related and becomes further challenging if diploid-progenitor data is missing. We present HANDS2, a next-generation sequencing-based tool that enables highly accurate (>90%) genome-wide discovery of homeolog-specific base-identity in allopolyploids even in the absence of a diploid-progenitor. We applied HANDS2 to the transcriptomes of various cruciferous plants belonging to genus Brassica. Our results suggest that the three C genomes in Brassica are more similar to each other than the three A genomes, and provide important insights into the relationships between various Brassica tetraploids and their diploid-progenitors at a single-base resolution.
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- Amina Khan
- Department of Biology, Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), D.H.A., Lahore 54792, Pakistan
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RB, United Kingdom
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RB, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biology, Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), D.H.A., Lahore 54792, Pakistan
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Mazzoni L, Perez-Lopez P, Giampieri F, Alvarez-Suarez JM, Gasparrini M, Forbes-Hernandez TY, Quiles JL, Mezzetti B, Battino M. The genetic aspects of berries: from field to health. JOURNAL OF THE SCIENCE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE 2016; 96:365-71. [PMID: 25872898 DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.7216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2015] [Revised: 03/24/2015] [Accepted: 04/10/2015] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Berries are a relevant source of micronutrients and nonessential phytochemicals, such as polyphenol compounds, that play a synergistic and cumulative role in human health promotion. Several systematic analyses showed that berry phenolics are able to detoxify reactive oxygen and nitrogen species, blocking their production, to intervene in the cell cycle, participating in the transduction and expression of genes involved in apoptosis, and to repair oxidative DNA damage. As a consequence, the improvement of the nutritional quality of berries has become a new quality target of breeding and biotechnological strategies, to control or to increase the content of specific health-related compounds in fruits. This work reviews, on the basis of the in vitro and in vivo evidence, the main berries' phytochemical compounds and their possible mechanisms of action on pathways involved in several type of diseases, with particular attention to cancer, inflammation, neurodegeneration, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases.
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- Luca Mazzoni
- Dipartimento di Scienze Cliniche Specialistiche ed Odontostomatologiche (DISCO), Facoltà di Medicina, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
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- Department of Physiology, Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology 'José Mataix, Biomedical Research Center, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari e Ambientali, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Cliniche Specialistiche ed Odontostomatologiche (DISCO), Facoltà di Medicina, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
- Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Nacional de Chimborazo, Riobamba, Ecuador
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Cliniche Specialistiche ed Odontostomatologiche (DISCO), Facoltà di Medicina, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Cliniche Specialistiche ed Odontostomatologiche (DISCO), Facoltà di Medicina, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
- Area de Nutrición y Salud, Universidad Internacional Iberoamericana (UNINI), Campeche, CP, 24040, Mexico
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- Department of Physiology, Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology 'José Mataix, Biomedical Research Center, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari e Ambientali, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Cliniche Specialistiche ed Odontostomatologiche (DISCO), Facoltà di Medicina, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
- Director Centre for Nutrition and Health, Universidad Europea del Atlantico (UEA), Santander, 39011, Spain
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Sargent DJ, Yang Y, Šurbanovski N, Bianco L, Buti M, Velasco R, Giongo L, Davis TM. HaploSNP affinities and linkage map positions illuminate subgenome composition in the octoploid, cultivated strawberry (Fragaria×ananassa). PLANT SCIENCE : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PLANT BIOLOGY 2016; 242:140-150. [PMID: 26566832 DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2015.07.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2015] [Revised: 07/05/2015] [Accepted: 07/06/2015] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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The cultivated strawberry, Fragaria×ananassa possesses a genetically complex allo-octoploid genome. Advances in genomics research in Fragaria, including the release of a genome sequence for F. vesca, have permitted the development of a high throughput whole genome genotyping array for strawberry, which promises to facilitate genetics and genomics research. In this investigation, we used the Axiom® IStraw90®)array for linkage map development, and produced a linkage map containing 8,407 SNP markers spanning 1,820cM. Whilst the linkage map provides good coverage of the genome of both parental genotypes, the map of 'Monterey' contained significantly fewer mapped markers than did that of 'Darselect'. The array contains a novel marker class known as haploSNPs, which exploit homoeologous sequence variants as probe destabilization sites to effectively reduce marker ploidy. We examined these sites as potential indicators of subgenomic identities by using comparisons to allele states in two ancestral diploids. On this basis, haploSNP loci could be inferred to be derived from F. vesca, F. iinumae, or from an unknown source. When the identity classifications of haploSNPs were considered in conjunction with their respective linkage map positions, it was possible to define two discrete subgenomes, while the remaining homoeologues of each chromosome could not be partitioned into two discrete subgenomic groupings. These findings suggested a novel hypothesis regarding octoploid strawberry subgenome structure and evolutionary origins.
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- D J Sargent
- Fondazione Edmund Mach, Research and Innovation Centre, San Michele all'Adige 38010, TN, Italy
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, 03824, USA
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- Fondazione Edmund Mach, Research and Innovation Centre, San Michele all'Adige 38010, TN, Italy
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- Fondazione Edmund Mach, Research and Innovation Centre, San Michele all'Adige 38010, TN, Italy
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- Fondazione Edmund Mach, Research and Innovation Centre, San Michele all'Adige 38010, TN, Italy
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- Fondazione Edmund Mach, Research and Innovation Centre, San Michele all'Adige 38010, TN, Italy
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- Fondazione Edmund Mach, Research and Innovation Centre, San Michele all'Adige 38010, TN, Italy
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, 03824, USA
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Urrutia M, Schwab W, Hoffmann T, Monfort A. Genetic dissection of the (poly)phenol profile of diploid strawberry (Fragaria vesca) fruits using a NIL collection. PLANT SCIENCE : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PLANT BIOLOGY 2016; 242:151-168. [PMID: 26566833 DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2015.07.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2015] [Revised: 07/24/2015] [Accepted: 07/25/2015] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Over the last few years, diploid strawberry (Fragaria vesca) has been recognized as a model species for applied research of cultivated strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa) that is one of the most economically important crops. Berries, particularly strawberries, are known for their high antioxidant capacity due to a high concentration of (poly) phenolic compounds. Studies have already characterized the phenolic composition of fruits from sets of cultivated strawberries but the quantification of phenolics in a Fragaria mapping population has not been reported, yet. The metabolite profiling of a F. vesca near isogenic line (NIL) collection by LC-MS allowed the unambiguous identification of 22 (poly)-phenols, including anthocyanins, flavonols, flavan-3-ols, flavanones, hydroxycinnamic acid derivatives, and ellagic acid in the diploid strawberry fruit. The variability in the collection revealed that the genetic factor was more decisive than the environmental factor for the accumulation of 18 of the 24 compounds. Genotyping the NIL collection with the Axiom® IStraw90® SNPs array, we were able to map 76 stable QTLs controlling accumulation of the (poly)-phenolic compounds. They provide a powerful new tool to characterise candidate genes to increase the antioxidant capacity of fruits and produce healthier strawberries for consumers.
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- Maria Urrutia
- IRTA, Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB), Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Biotechnology of Natural Products, Technische Universität München, Liesel-Beckmann-Str. 1, 85354 Freising, Germany
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- Biotechnology of Natural Products, Technische Universität München, Liesel-Beckmann-Str. 1, 85354 Freising, Germany
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- IRTA, Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB), Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain.
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Tantivit K, Isobe S, Nathewet P, Okuda N, Yanagi T. The Development of a Primed In Situ Hybridization Technique for Chromosome Labeling in Cultivated Strawberry ( Fragaria× ananassa). CYTOLOGIA 2016. [DOI: 10.1508/cytologia.81.439] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Sánchez-Sevilla JF, Horvath A, Botella MA, Gaston A, Folta K, Kilian A, Denoyes B, Amaya I. Diversity Arrays Technology (DArT) Marker Platforms for Diversity Analysis and Linkage Mapping in a Complex Crop, the Octoploid Cultivated Strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa). PLoS One 2015; 10:e0144960. [PMID: 26675207 PMCID: PMC4682937 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0144960] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2015] [Accepted: 11/25/2015] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Cultivated strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa) is a genetically complex allo-octoploid crop with 28 pairs of chromosomes (2n = 8x = 56) for which a genome sequence is not yet available. The diploid Fragaria vesca is considered the donor species of one of the octoploid sub-genomes and its available genome sequence can be used as a reference for genomic studies. A wide number of strawberry cultivars are stored in ex situ germplasm collections world-wide but a number of previous studies have addressed the genetic diversity present within a limited number of these collections. Here, we report the development and application of two platforms based on the implementation of Diversity Array Technology (DArT) markers for high-throughput genotyping in strawberry. The first DArT microarray was used to evaluate the genetic diversity of 62 strawberry cultivars that represent a wide range of variation based on phenotype, geographical and temporal origin and pedigrees. A total of 603 DArT markers were used to evaluate the diversity and structure of the population and their cluster analyses revealed that these markers were highly efficient in classifying the accessions in groups based on historical, geographical and pedigree-based cues. The second DArTseq platform took benefit of the complexity reduction method optimized for strawberry and the development of next generation sequencing technologies. The strawberry DArTseq was used to generate a total of 9,386 SNP markers in the previously developed ‘232’ × ‘1392’ mapping population, of which, 4,242 high quality markers were further selected to saturate this map after several filtering steps. The high-throughput platforms here developed for genotyping strawberry will facilitate genome-wide characterizations of large accessions sets and complement other available options.
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- José F. Sánchez-Sevilla
- Instituto Andaluz de Investigación y Formación Agraria y Pesquera (IFAPA) Centro de Churriana, Cortijo de la Cruz, 29140, Málaga, Spain
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- INRA, UMR 1332 BFP, F-33140 Villenave d’Ornon, France, Université de Bordeaux, UMR 1332 NFP, F-33140, Villenave d’Ornon, France
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- Instituto de Hortofruticultura Subtropical y Mediterránea (IHSM-UMA-CSIC),
Departamento de Biología Molecular y Bioquímica, Universidad de Málaga, 29071, Málaga, Spain
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- INRA, UMR 1332 BFP, F-33140 Villenave d’Ornon, France, Université de Bordeaux, UMR 1332 NFP, F-33140, Villenave d’Ornon, France
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- University of Florida, Horticultural Sciences Department, Gainesville, Florida, 32611, United States of America
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- Diversity Arrays Technology Pty Ltd, Building 3, University of Canberra, Bruce, ACT 2617, Australia
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- INRA, UMR 1332 BFP, F-33140 Villenave d’Ornon, France, Université de Bordeaux, UMR 1332 NFP, F-33140, Villenave d’Ornon, France
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- Instituto Andaluz de Investigación y Formación Agraria y Pesquera (IFAPA) Centro de Churriana, Cortijo de la Cruz, 29140, Málaga, Spain
- University of Florida, Horticultural Sciences Department, Gainesville, Florida, 32611, United States of America
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Davik J, Sargent DJ, Brurberg MB, Lien S, Kent M, Alsheikh M. A ddRAD Based Linkage Map of the Cultivated Strawberry, Fragaria xananassa. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0137746. [PMID: 26398886 PMCID: PMC4580419 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0137746] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2015] [Accepted: 08/21/2015] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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The cultivated strawberry (Fragaria ×ananassa Duch.) is an allo-octoploid considered difficult to disentangle genetically due to its four relatively similar sub-genomic chromosome sets. This has been alleviated by the recent release of the strawberry IStraw90 whole genome genotyping array. However, array resolution relies on the genotypes used in the array construction and may be of limited general use. SNP detection based on reduced genomic sequencing approaches has the potential of providing better coverage in cases where the studied genotypes are only distantly related from the SNP array’s construction foundation. Here we have used double digest restriction-associated DNA sequencing (ddRAD) to identify SNPs in a 145 seedling F1 hybrid population raised from the cross between the cultivars Sonata (♀) and Babette (♂). A linkage map containing 907 markers which spanned 1,581.5 cM across 31 linkage groups representing the 28 chromosomes of the species. Comparing the physical span of the SNP markers with the F. vesca genome sequence, the linkage groups resolved covered 79% of the estimated 830 Mb of the F. ×ananassa genome. Here, we have developed the first linkage map for F. ×ananassa using ddRAD and show that this technique and other related techniques are useful tools for linkage map development and downstream genetic studies in the octoploid strawberry.
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- Jahn Davik
- Norwegian Institute for Bioeconomy Research, Ås, Norway
- * E-mail:
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- Fondazione Edmund Mach, Centre for Research and Innovation, San Michele all'Adige, Italy
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- Center for Integrative Genetics, Department of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
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- Center for Integrative Genetics, Department of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
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- Graminor Breeding Ltd., Ridabu, Norway; Department of Plant Sciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
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Urrutia M, Bonet J, Arús P, Monfort A. A near-isogenic line (NIL) collection in diploid strawberry and its use in the genetic analysis of morphologic, phenotypic and nutritional characters. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2015; 128:1261-1275. [PMID: 25841354 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-015-2503-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2014] [Accepted: 03/20/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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First near-isogenic line collection in diploid strawberry, a tool for morphologic, phenotypic and nutritional QTL analysis. Diploid strawberry (Fragaria vesca), with a small genome, has a high degree of synteny with the octoploid cultivated strawberry (F. × ananassa), so can be used as a simplified model for genetic analysis of the octoploid species. Agronomically interesting traits are usually inherited quantitatively and they need to be studied in large segregating progenies well characterized with molecular markers. Near-isogenic lines (NILs) are tools to dissect quantitative characters and identify some of their components as Mendelian traits. NILs are fixed homozygous lines that share the same genetic background from a recurrent parent with a single introgression region from a donor parent. Here, we developed the first NIL collection in Fragaria, with F. vesca cv. Reine des Vallées as the recurrent parent and F. bucharica as the donor parent. A collection of 39 NILs was identified using a set of single sequence repeat markers. The NILs had an average introgression of 32 cM (6 % of genome) and were phenotyped over several years in two locations. This collection segregates for agronomic characters, such as flowering, germination, fruit size and shape, and nutritional content. At least 16 QTLs for morphological and reproductive traits, such as round fruits and vegetative propagation, and seven for nutritional traits such as sugar composition and total polyphenol content, were identified. The NIL collection of F. vesca can significantly facilitate understanding of the genetics of many traits and provide insight into the more complex F. × ananassa genome.
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- María Urrutia
- IRTA, Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB), Campus UAB, 08193, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
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Tennessen JA, Govindarajulu R, Ashman TL, Liston A. Evolutionary origins and dynamics of octoploid strawberry subgenomes revealed by dense targeted capture linkage maps. Genome Biol Evol 2014; 6:3295-313. [PMID: 25477420 PMCID: PMC4986458 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evu261] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Whole-genome duplications are radical evolutionary events that have driven speciation and adaptation in many taxa. Higher-order polyploids have complex histories often including interspecific hybridization and dynamic genomic changes. This chromosomal reshuffling is poorly understood for most polyploid species, despite their evolutionary and agricultural importance, due to the challenge of distinguishing homologous sequences from each other. Here, we use dense linkage maps generated with targeted sequence capture to improve the diploid strawberry (Fragaria vesca) reference genome and to disentangle the subgenomes of the wild octoploid progenitors of cultivated strawberry, Fragaria virginiana and Fragaria chiloensis. Our novel approach, POLiMAPS (Phylogenetics Of Linkage-Map-Anchored Polyploid Subgenomes), leverages sequence reads to associate informative interhomeolog phylogenetic markers with linkage groups and reference genome positions. In contrast to a widely accepted model, we find that one of the four subgenomes originates with the diploid cytoplasm donor F. vesca, one with the diploid Fragaria iinumae, and two with an unknown ancestor close to F. iinumae. Extensive unidirectional introgression has converted F. iinumae-like subgenomes to be more F. vesca-like, but never the reverse, due either to homoploid hybridization in the F. iinumae-like diploid ancestors or else strong selection spreading F. vesca-like sequence among subgenomes through homeologous exchange. In addition, divergence between homeologous chromosomes has been substantially augmented by interchromosomal rearrangements. Our phylogenetic approach reveals novel aspects of the complicated web of genetic exchanges that occur during polyploid evolution and suggests a path forward for unraveling other agriculturally and ecologically important polyploid genomes.
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- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University
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Monden Y, Fujii N, Yamaguchi K, Ikeo K, Nakazawa Y, Waki T, Hirashima K, Uchimura Y, Tahara M. Efficient screening of long terminal repeat retrotransposons that show high insertion polymorphism via high-throughput sequencing of the primer binding site. Genome 2014; 57:245-52. [PMID: 25072847 DOI: 10.1139/gen-2014-0031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Retrotransposons have been used frequently for the development of molecular markers by using their insertion polymorphisms among cultivars, because multiple copies of these elements are dispersed throughout the genome and inserted copies are inherited genetically. Although a large number of long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposon families exist in the higher eukaryotic genomes, the identification of families that show high insertion polymorphism has been challenging. Here, we performed an efficient screening of these retrotransposon families using an Illumina HiSeq2000 sequencing platform with comprehensive LTR library construction based on the primer binding site (PBS), which is located adjacent to the 5' LTR and has a motif that is universal and conserved among LTR retrotransposon families. The paired-end sequencing library of the fragments containing a large number of LTR sequences and their insertion sites was sequenced for seven strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa Duchesne) cultivars and one diploid wild species (Fragaria vesca L.). Among them, we screened 24 families with a "unique" insertion site that appeared only in one cultivar and not in any others, assuming that this type of insertion should have occurred quite recently. Finally, we confirmed experimentally the selected LTR families showed high insertion polymorphisms among closely related cultivars.
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- Yuki Monden
- a Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University, 1-1-1 Tsushimanaka Kitaku, Okayama, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
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Sánchez-Sevilla JF, Cruz-Rus E, Valpuesta V, Botella MA, Amaya I. Deciphering gamma-decalactone biosynthesis in strawberry fruit using a combination of genetic mapping, RNA-Seq and eQTL analyses. BMC Genomics 2014; 15:218. [PMID: 24742100 PMCID: PMC4023230 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-218] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2013] [Accepted: 03/17/2014] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Understanding the basis for volatile organic compound (VOC) biosynthesis and regulation is of great importance for the genetic improvement of fruit flavor. Lactones constitute an essential group of fatty acid-derived VOCs conferring peach-like aroma to a number of fruits including peach, plum, pineapple and strawberry. Early studies on lactone biosynthesis suggest that several enzymatic pathways could be responsible for the diversity of lactones, but detailed information on them remained elusive. In this study, we have integrated genetic mapping and genome-wide transcriptome analysis to investigate the molecular basis of natural variation in γ-decalactone content in strawberry fruit. RESULTS As a result, the fatty acid desaturase FaFAD1 was identified as the gene underlying the locus at LGIII-2 that controls γ-decalactone production in ripening fruit. The FaFAD1 gene is specifically expressed in ripe fruits and its expression fully correlates with the presence of γ-decalactone in all 95 individuals of the mapping population. In addition, we show that the level of expression of FaFAH1, with similarity to cytochrome p450 hydroxylases, significantly correlates with the content of γ-decalactone in the mapping population. The analysis of expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) suggests that the product of this gene also has a regulatory role in the biosynthetic pathway of lactones. CONCLUSIONS Altogether, this study provides mechanistic information of how the production of γ-decalactone is naturally controlled in strawberry, and proposes enzymatic activities necessary for the formation of this VOC in plants.
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- Instituto Andaluz de Investigación y Formación Agraria y Pesquera, IFAPA-Centro de Churriana, Cortijo de la Cruz s/n, 29140 Málaga, Spain.
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Chambers AH, Pillet J, Plotto A, Bai J, Whitaker VM, Folta KM. Identification of a strawberry flavor gene candidate using an integrated genetic-genomic-analytical chemistry approach. BMC Genomics 2014; 15:217. [PMID: 24742080 PMCID: PMC4023330 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2013] [Accepted: 03/17/2014] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND There is interest in improving the flavor of commercial strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa) varieties. Fruit flavor is shaped by combinations of sugars, acids and volatile compounds. Many efforts seek to use genomics-based strategies to identify genes controlling flavor, and then designing durable molecular markers to follow these genes in breeding populations. In this report, fruit from two cultivars, varying for presence-absence of volatile compounds, along with segregating progeny, were analyzed using GC/MS and RNAseq. Expression data were bulked in silico according to presence/absence of a given volatile compound, in this case γ-decalactone, a compound conferring a peach flavor note to fruits. RESULTS Computationally sorting reads in segregating progeny based on γ-decalactone presence eliminated transcripts not directly relevant to the volatile, revealing transcripts possibly imparting quantitative contributions. One candidate encodes an omega-6 fatty acid desaturase, an enzyme known to participate in lactone production in fungi, noted here as FaFAD1. This candidate was induced by ripening, was detected in certain harvests, and correlated with γ-decalactone presence. The FaFAD1 gene is present in every genotype where γ-decalactone has been detected, and it was invariably missing in non-producers. A functional, PCR-based molecular marker was developed that cosegregates with the phenotype in F1 and BC1 populations, as well as in many other cultivars and wild Fragaria accessions. CONCLUSIONS Genetic, genomic and analytical chemistry techniques were combined to identify FaFAD1, a gene likely controlling a key flavor volatile in strawberry. The same data may now be re-sorted based on presence/absence of any other volatile to identify other flavor-affecting candidates, leading to rapid generation of gene-specific markers.
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- Horticultural Sciences Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
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van Dijk T, Pagliarani G, Pikunova A, Noordijk Y, Yilmaz-Temel H, Meulenbroek B, Visser RGF, van de Weg E. Genomic rearrangements and signatures of breeding in the allo-octoploid strawberry as revealed through an allele dose based SSR linkage map. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2014; 14:55. [PMID: 24581289 PMCID: PMC3944823 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-14-55] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2013] [Accepted: 02/18/2014] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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BACKGROUND Breeders in the allo-octoploid strawberry currently make little use of molecular marker tools. As a first step of a QTL discovery project on fruit quality traits and resistance to soil-borne pathogens such as Phytophthora cactorum and Verticillium we built a genome-wide SSR linkage map for the cross Holiday x Korona. We used the previously published MADCE method to obtain full haplotype information for both of the parental cultivars, facilitating in-depth studies on their genomic organisation. RESULTS The linkage map incorporates 508 segregating loci and represents each of the 28 chromosome pairs of octoploid strawberry, spanning an estimated length of 2050 cM. The sub-genomes are denoted according to their sequence divergence from F. vesca as revealed by marker performance. The map revealed high overall synteny between the sub-genomes, but also revealed two large inversions on LG2C and LG2D, of which the latter was confirmed using a separate mapping population. We discovered interesting breeding features within the parental cultivars by in-depth analysis of our haplotype data. The linkage map-derived homozygosity level of Holiday was similar to the pedigree-derived inbreeding level (33% and 29%, respectively). For Korona we found that the observed homozygosity level was over three times higher than expected from the pedigree (13% versus 3.6%). This could indicate selection pressure on genes that have favourable effects in homozygous states. The level of kinship between Holiday and Korona derived from our linkage map was 2.5 times higher than the pedigree-derived value. This large difference could be evidence of selection pressure enacted by strawberry breeders towards specific haplotypes. CONCLUSION The obtained SSR linkage map provides a good base for QTL discovery. It also provides the first biologically relevant basis for the discernment and notation of sub-genomes. For the first time, we revealed genomic rearrangements that were verified in a separate mapping population. We believe that haplotype information will become increasingly important in identifying marker-trait relationships and regions that are under selection pressure within breeding material. Our attempt at providing a biological basis for the discernment of sub-genomes warrants follow-up studies to streamline the naming of the sub-genomes among different octoploid strawberry maps.
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- Thijs van Dijk
- Wageningen-UR Plant Breeding, Wageningen University and Research Centre, P.O. Box 16, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands
- Graduate School Experimental Plant Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Wageningen-UR Plant Breeding, Wageningen University and Research Centre, P.O. Box 16, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands
- Department of Agricultural Science, University of Bologna, Viale Fanin 46, 40127 Bologna, Italy
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- Wageningen-UR Plant Breeding, Wageningen University and Research Centre, P.O. Box 16, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands
- The All-Russian Research Institute of Horticultural Breeding (VNIISPK), p/o Zhilina, Orel, Russia
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- Wageningen-UR Plant Breeding, Wageningen University and Research Centre, P.O. Box 16, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Wageningen-UR Plant Breeding, Wageningen University and Research Centre, P.O. Box 16, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands
- Department of Bioengineering, Ege University, 35100 Izmir, Bornova, Turkey
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- Fresh Forward Breeding B.V, Wielseweg 38a, Eck en Wiel, The Netherlands
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- Wageningen-UR Plant Breeding, Wageningen University and Research Centre, P.O. Box 16, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Wageningen-UR Plant Breeding, Wageningen University and Research Centre, P.O. Box 16, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Longhi S, Giongo L, Buti M, Surbanovski N, Viola R, Velasco R, Ward JA, Sargent DJ. Molecular genetics and genomics of the Rosoideae: state of the art and future perspectives. HORTICULTURE RESEARCH 2014; 1:1. [PMID: 26504527 PMCID: PMC4591673 DOI: 10.1038/hortres.2014.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2013] [Accepted: 11/24/2013] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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The Rosoideae is a subfamily of the Rosaceae that contains a number of species of economic importance, including the soft fruit species strawberry (Fragaria ×ananassa), red (Rubus idaeus) and black (Rubus occidentalis) raspberries, blackberries (Rubus spp.) and one of the most economically important cut flower genera, the roses (Rosa spp.). Molecular genetics and genomics resources for the Rosoideae have developed rapidly over the past two decades, beginning with the development and application of a number of molecular marker types including restriction fragment length polymorphisms, amplified fragment length polymorphisms and microsatellites, and culminating in the recent publication of the genome sequence of the woodland strawberry, Fragaria vesca, and the development of high throughput single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)-genotyping resources for Fragaria, Rosa and Rubus. These tools have been used to identify genes and other functional elements that control traits of economic importance, to study the evolution of plant genome structure within the subfamily, and are beginning to facilitate genomic-assisted breeding through the development and deployment of markers linked to traits such as aspects of fruit quality, disease resistance and the timing of flowering. In this review, we report on the developments that have been made over the last 20 years in the field of molecular genetics and structural genomics within the Rosoideae, comment on how the knowledge gained will improve the efficiency of cultivar development and discuss how these advances will enhance our understanding of the biological processes determining agronomically important traits in all Rosoideae species.
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- Sara Longhi
- Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all’Adige, Italy
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- Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all’Adige, Italy
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- Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all’Adige, Italy
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- Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all’Adige, Italy
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- Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all’Adige, Italy
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- Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all’Adige, Italy
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- Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all’Adige, Italy
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Ring L, Yeh SY, Hücherig S, Hoffmann T, Blanco-Portales R, Fouche M, Villatoro C, Denoyes B, Monfort A, Caballero JL, Muñoz-Blanco J, Gershenson J, Schwab W. Metabolic interaction between anthocyanin and lignin biosynthesis is associated with peroxidase FaPRX27 in strawberry fruit. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2013; 163:43-60. [PMID: 23835409 PMCID: PMC3762661 DOI: 10.1104/pp.113.222778] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2013] [Accepted: 07/03/2013] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Plant phenolics have drawn increasing attention due to their potential nutritional benefits. Although the basic reactions of the phenolics biosynthetic pathways in plants have been intensively analyzed, the regulation of their accumulation and flux through the pathway is not that well established. The aim of this study was to use a strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa) microarray to investigate gene expression patterns associated with the accumulation of phenylpropanoids, flavonoids, and anthocyanins in strawberry fruit. An examination of the transcriptome, coupled with metabolite profiling data from different commercial varieties, was undertaken to identify genes whose expression correlated with altered phenolics composition. Seventeen comparative microarray analyses revealed 15 genes that were differentially (more than 200-fold) expressed in phenolics-rich versus phenolics-poor varieties. The results were validated by heterologous expression of the peroxidase FaPRX27 gene, which showed the highest altered expression level (more than 900-fold). The encoded protein was functionally characterized and is assumed to be involved in lignin formation during strawberry fruit ripening. Quantitative trait locus analysis indicated that the genomic region of FaPRX27 is associated with the fruit color trait. Down-regulation of the CHALCONE SYNTHASE gene and concomitant induction of FaPRX27 expression diverted the flux from anthocyanins to lignin. The results highlight the competition of the different phenolics pathways for their common precursors. The list of the 15 candidates provides new genes that are likely to impact polyphenol accumulation in strawberry fruit and could be used to develop molecular markers to select phenolics-rich germplasm.
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Govindarajulu R, Liston A, Ashman TL. Sex-determining chromosomes and sexual dimorphism: insights from genetic mapping of sex expression in a natural hybrid Fragaria × ananassa subsp. cuneifolia. Heredity (Edinb) 2013; 110:430-8. [PMID: 23169558 PMCID: PMC3630810 DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2012.96] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2012] [Revised: 07/23/2012] [Accepted: 08/27/2012] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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We studied the natural hybrid (Fragaria × ananassa subsp. cuneifolia) between two sexually dimorphic octoploid strawberry species (Fragaria virginiana and Fragaria chiloensis) to gain insight into the dynamics of sex chromosomes and the genesis of sexual dimorphism. Male sterility is dominant in both the parental species and thus will be inherited maternally, but the chromosome that houses the sex-determining region differs. Thus, we asked whether (1) the cytotypic composition of hybrid populations represents one or both maternal species, (2) the sex-determining chromosome of the hybrid reflects the location of male sterility within the maternal donor species and (3) crosses from the hybrid species show less sexual dimorphism than the parental species. We found that F. × ananassa subsp. cuneifolia populations consisted of both parental cytotypes but one predominated within each population. Genetic linkage mapping of two crosses showed dominance of male sterility similar to the parental species, however, the map location of male sterility reflected the maternal donor in one cross, but not the other. Moreover, female function mapped to a single region in the first cross, but to two regions in the second cross. Aside from components of female function (fruit set and seed set), other traits that have been found to be significantly sexually dimorphic in the pure species were either not dimorphic or were dimorphic in the opposite direction to the parental species. These results suggest that hybrids experience some disruption of dimorphism in secondary sexual traits, as well as novel location and number of quantitative trait locus (QTL) affecting sex function.
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- R Govindarajulu
- Department of Biological Sciences, University
of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology,
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR,
USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University
of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Gaston A, Perrotte J, Lerceteau-Köhler E, Rousseau-Gueutin M, Petit A, Hernould M, Rothan C, Denoyes B. PFRU, a single dominant locus regulates the balance between sexual and asexual plant reproduction in cultivated strawberry. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2013; 64:1837-48. [PMID: 23554259 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ert047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Strawberry (Fragaria sp.) stands as an interesting model for studying flowering behaviour and its relationship with asexual plant reproduction in polycarpic perennial plants. Strawberry produces both inflorescences and stolons (also called runners), which are lateral stems growing at the soil surface and producing new clone plants. In this study, the flowering and runnering behaviour of two cultivated octoploid strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa Duch., 2n = 8× = 56) genotypes, a seasonal flowering genotype CF1116 and a perpetual flowering genotype Capitola, were studied along the growing season. The genetic bases of the perpetual flowering and runnering traits were investigated further using a pseudo full-sibling F1 population issued from a cross between these two genotypes. The results showed that a single major quantitative trait locus (QTL) named FaPFRU controlled both traits in the cultivated octoploid strawberry. This locus was not orthologous to the loci affecting perpetual flowering (SFL) and runnering (R) in Fragaria vesca, therefore suggesting different genetic control of perpetual flowering and runnering in the diploid and octoploid Fragaria spp. Furthermore, the FaPFRU QTL displayed opposite effects on flowering (positive effect) and on runnering (negative effect), indicating that both traits share common physiological control. These results suggest that this locus plays a major role in strawberry plant fitness by controlling the balance between sexual and asexual plant reproduction.
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- Amèlia Gaston
- INRA, UMR 1332 de Biologie du fruit et Pathologie, F-33140 Villenave d'Ornon, France
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Davik J, Koehler G, From B, Torp T, Rohloff J, Eidem P, Wilson RC, Sønsteby A, Randall SK, Alsheikh M. Dehydrin, alcohol dehydrogenase, and central metabolite levels are associated with cold tolerance in diploid strawberry (Fragaria spp.). PLANTA 2013; 237:265-77. [PMID: 23014928 DOI: 10.1007/s00425-012-1771-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2012] [Accepted: 09/11/2012] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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The use of artificial freezing tests, identification of biomarkers linked to or directly involved in the low-temperature tolerance processes, could prove useful in applied strawberry breeding. This study was conducted to identify genotypes of diploid strawberry that differ in their tolerance to low-temperature stress and to investigate whether a set of candidate proteins and metabolites correlate with the level of tolerance. 17 Fragaria vesca, 2 F. nilgerrensis, 2 F. nubicola, and 1 F. pentaphylla genotypes were evaluated for low-temperature tolerance. Estimates of temperatures where 50 % of the plants survived (LT₅₀) ranged from -4.7 to -12.0 °C between the genotypes. Among the F. vesca genotypes, the LT₅₀ varied from -7.7 °C to -12.0 °C. Among the most tolerant were three F. vesca ssp. bracteata genotypes (FDP821, NCGR424, and NCGR502), while a F. vesca ssp. californica genotype (FDP817) was the least tolerant (LT₅₀) -7.7 °C). Alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH), total dehydrin expression, and content of central metabolism constituents were assayed in select plants acclimated at 2 °C. The LT₅₀ estimates and the expression of ADH and total dehydrins were highly correlated (r(adh) = -0.87, r (dehyd) = -0.82). Compounds related to the citric acid cycle were quantified in the leaves during acclimation. While several sugars and acids were significantly correlated to the LT₅₀ estimates early in the acclimation period, only galactinol proved to be a good LT₅₀ predictor after 28 days of acclimation (r(galact) = 0.79). It is concluded that ADH, dehydrins, and galactinol show great potential to serve as biomarkers for cold tolerance in diploid strawberry.
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- Jahn Davik
- Bioforsk-Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research, Kvithamar, 7500 Stjordal, Norway.
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Isobe SN, Hirakawa H, Sato S, Maeda F, Ishikawa M, Mori T, Yamamoto Y, Shirasawa K, Kimura M, Fukami M, Hashizume F, Tsuji T, Sasamoto S, Kato M, Nanri K, Tsuruoka H, Minami C, Takahashi C, Wada T, Ono A, Kawashima K, Nakazaki N, Kishida Y, Kohara M, Nakayama S, Yamada M, Fujishiro T, Watanabe A, Tabata S. Construction of an integrated high density simple sequence repeat linkage map in cultivated strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa) and its applicability. DNA Res 2012; 20:79-92. [PMID: 23248204 PMCID: PMC3576660 DOI: 10.1093/dnares/dss035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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The cultivated strawberry (Fragaria× ananassa) is an octoploid (2n = 8x = 56) of the Rosaceae family whose genomic architecture is still controversial. Several recent studies support the AAA′A′BBB′B′ model, but its complexity has hindered genetic and genomic analysis of this important crop. To overcome this difficulty and to assist genome-wide analysis of F. × ananassa, we constructed an integrated linkage map by organizing a total of 4474 of simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers collected from published Fragaria sequences, including 3746 SSR markers [Fragaria vesca expressed sequence tag (EST)-derived SSR markers] derived from F. vesca ESTs, 603 markers (F. × ananassa EST-derived SSR markers) from F. × ananassa ESTs, and 125 markers (F. × ananassa transcriptome-derived SSR markers) from F. × ananassa transcripts. Along with the previously published SSR markers, these markers were mapped onto five parent-specific linkage maps derived from three mapping populations, which were then assembled into an integrated linkage map. The constructed map consists of 1856 loci in 28 linkage groups (LGs) that total 2364.1 cM in length. Macrosynteny at the chromosome level was observed between the LGs of F. × ananassa and the genome of F. vesca. Variety distinction on 129 F. × ananassa lines was demonstrated using 45 selected SSR markers.
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- Sachiko N Isobe
- Kazusa DNA Research Institute, 2-6-7 Kazusa-kamatari, Kisarazu, Chiba 292-0818, Japan.
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Njuguna W, Liston A, Cronn R, Ashman TL, Bassil N. Insights into phylogeny, sex function and age of Fragaria based on whole chloroplast genome sequencing. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2012; 66:17-29. [PMID: 22982444 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.08.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2012] [Revised: 08/20/2012] [Accepted: 08/30/2012] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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The cultivated strawberry is one of the youngest domesticated plants, developed in France in the 1700s from chance hybridization between two western hemisphere octoploid species. However, little is known about the evolution of the species that gave rise to this important fruit crop. Phylogenetic analysis of chloroplast genome sequences of 21 Fragaria species and subspecies resolves the western North American diploid F. vesca subsp. bracteata as sister to the clade of octoploid/decaploid species. No extant tetraploids or hexaploids are directly involved in the maternal ancestry of the octoploids. There is strong geographic segregation of chloroplast haplotypes in subsp. bracteata, and the gynodioecious Pacific Coast populations are implicated as both the maternal lineage and the source of male-sterility in the octoploid strawberries. Analysis of sexual system evolution in Fragaria provides evidence that the loss of male and female function can follow polyploidization, but does not seem to be associated with loss of self-incompatibility following genome doubling. Character-state mapping provided insight into sexual system evolution and its association with loss of self-incompatibility and genome doubling/merger. Fragaria attained its circumboreal and amphitropical distribution within the past one to four million years and the rise of the octoploid clade is dated at 0.372-2.05 million years ago.
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- Wambui Njuguna
- Department of Horticulture, Oregon State University, ALS 4017, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA.
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