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Nemati Z, Kazemi-Shahandashti SS, Garibay-Hernández A, Mock HP, Schmidt MHW, Usadel B, Blattner FR. Metabolomic and transcriptomic analyses of yellow-flowered crocuses to infer alternative sources of saffron metabolites. BMC Plant Biol 2024; 24:369. [PMID: 38711012 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-024-05036-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2024] [Accepted: 04/17/2024] [Indexed: 05/08/2024]
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BACKGROUND The increasing demand for saffron metabolites in various commercial industries, including medicine, food, cosmetics, and dyeing, is driven by the discovery of their diverse applications. Saffron, derived from Crocus sativus stigmas, is the most expensive spice, and there is a need to explore additional sources to meet global consumption demands. In this study, we focused on yellow-flowering crocuses and examined their tepals to identify saffron-like compounds. RESULTS Through metabolomic and transcriptomic approaches, our investigation provides valuable insights into the biosynthesis of compounds in yellow-tepal crocuses that are similar to those found in saffron. The results of our study support the potential use of yellow-tepal crocuses as a source of various crocins (crocetin glycosylated derivatives) and flavonoids. CONCLUSIONS Our findings suggest that yellow-tepal crocuses have the potential to serve as a viable excessive source of some saffron metabolites. The identification of crocins and flavonoids in these crocuses highlights their suitability for meeting the demands of various industries that utilize saffron compounds. Further exploration and utilization of yellow-tepal crocuses could contribute to addressing the growing global demand for saffron-related products.
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- Zahra Nemati
- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany.
- Present address: Institute of Medical Microbiology and hospital hygiene, Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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- Institute of Bio- and Geosciences (IBG-4: Bioinformatics), Bioeconomy Science Center (BioSC) , CEPLAS, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany
- Institute for Biological Data Science, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS), Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Molecular Biotechnology and Systems Biology, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany
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- Institute of Bio- and Geosciences (IBG-4: Bioinformatics), Bioeconomy Science Center (BioSC) , CEPLAS, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany
- Institute of Grapevine Breeding, Geisenheim University, Geisenheim, Germany
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- Institute of Bio- and Geosciences (IBG-4: Bioinformatics), Bioeconomy Science Center (BioSC) , CEPLAS, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany
- Institute for Biological Data Science, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS), Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany
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Sardouei-Nasab S, Nemati Z, Mohammadi-Nejad G, Haghi R, Blattner FR. Phylogenomic investigation of safflower (Carthamus tinctorius) and related species using genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS). Sci Rep 2023; 13:6212. [PMID: 37069212 PMCID: PMC10110540 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-33347-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2022] [Accepted: 04/12/2023] [Indexed: 04/19/2023] Open
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Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius, Asteraceae) is a source of high-quality edible oil growing in moisture-limited environments. Despite its economic importance, the relationships to close wild species in Carthamus and the presence and relationships of ecotypes within safflower are still not fully clarified. Here we use genotyping-by-sequencing to identify the wild progenitor of C. tinctorius, infer phylogenetic relationship within the series Carthamus and identify groups of closely related lineages within cultivated safflower. Phylogenetic and population genomic analyses found C. palaestinus to be the closest relative and single progenitor of C. tinctorius, which confirms the Levant as the area of domestication of the crop. Flow cytometry showed all analyzed samples of C. oxyacantha, C. palaestinus and C. tinctorius to be diploid (2n = 2x = 24) with 2C genome sizes of 2.4-2.7 pg. Analyses of a set of 114 worldwide distributed safflower accessions arrived at two to five genetic groups, which showed, however, no correlation with the geographic origins of these accessions. From this, we conclude that the trade of safflower seeds resulted in multiple introductions of genotypes from the Levant into other areas with suitable climate conditions for the plant, as well as exchange of genotypes among these areas.
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- Somayeh Sardouei-Nasab
- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), 06466, Gatersleben, Germany.
- Research and Technology Institute of Plant Production (RTIPP), Shahid-Bahonar University of Kerman, P.O.B, 76169-133, Kerman, Iran.
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), 06466, Gatersleben, Germany
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- Research and Technology Institute of Plant Production (RTIPP), Shahid-Bahonar University of Kerman, P.O.B, 76169-133, Kerman, Iran
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), 06466, Gatersleben, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), 06466, Gatersleben, Germany.
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Bagheri A, Maassoumi AA, Brassac J, Blattner FR. Dated Phylogeny of Astragalus Section Stereothrix (Fabaceae) and Allied Taxa in the Hypoglottis Clade. Biology (Basel) 2023; 12:biology12010138. [PMID: 36671830 PMCID: PMC9855906 DOI: 10.3390/biology12010138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2022] [Revised: 01/07/2023] [Accepted: 01/09/2023] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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The Astragalus subgenus Hypoglottis Bunge, which consists of several sections, is one of the taxonomically most complicated groups in the genus. The Astragalus section Stereothrix Bunge belongs to this subgenus and is a significant element of the Irano-Turanian floristic region. A molecular phylogenetic analysis of this section and its closely related taxa using nuclear ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacers (ITS) and external transcribed spacer (ETS) regions as well as plastid matK sequences were conducted. Parsimony analyses and Bayesian phylogenetic inference revealed that the section is not monophyletic in its current form, as some taxa belonging to closely related sections such as Hypoglottidei DC. and the Malacothrix Bunge group within the sect. Stereothrix render it paraphyletic. Moreover, species groups belonging to sect. Stereothrix are placed in different clades within the phylogenetic tree of subgenus Hypoglottis, which indicates polyphyly, i.e., multiple independent origins of taxa placed in the sect. Stereothrix. Molecular dating of the group estimated an age of 3.62 (1.73-5.62) My for this assemblage with the major diversification events happening during the last 2 My. Many species groups separated only within the last 0.5 to 1 My. Based on morphological and molecular data, we discuss the phylogenetic relationships of the groups and synonymy of species. In addition, the included taxa of sect. Hypoglottidei are not monophyletic and include species belonging to sects. Hololeuce, Koelziana, Malacothrix, Onobrychoideae, and Ornithodpodium group within the sect. Stereothrix taxa. We conclude that only an analysis including all groups and nearly all species of the sections within the Hypoglottis clade can finally result in an new evolutionary-based system for these taxa.
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- Ali Bagheri
- Department of Plant and Animal Biology, Faculty of Biological Science and Technology, University of Isfahan, Hezarjarib Street, Isfahan P.O. Box 81746-73441, Iran
- Correspondence: (A.B.); (F.R.B.)
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- Botany Research Division, Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Tehran P.O. Box 13185-116, Iran
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), D-06466 Gatersleben, Germany
- Institute of Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences, Martin Luther University, D-06120 Halle, Germany
- Julius Kühn Institute (JKI), D-06484 Quedlinburg, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), D-06466 Gatersleben, Germany
- German Centre of Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany
- Correspondence: (A.B.); (F.R.B.)
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Seidl A, Tremetsberger K, Pfanzelt S, Lindhuber L, Kropf M, Neuffer B, Blattner FR, Király G, Smirnov SV, Friesen N, Shmakov AI, Plenk K, Batlai O, Hurka H, Bernhardt KG. Genotyping-by-sequencing reveals range expansion of Adonis vernalis (Ranunculaceae) from Southeastern Europe into the zonal Euro-Siberian steppe. Sci Rep 2022; 12:19074. [PMID: 36352030 PMCID: PMC9646736 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-23542-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2022] [Accepted: 11/01/2022] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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The Euro-Siberian steppe flora consists of warm- and cold-adapted species, which may have responded differently to Pleistocene glacials and interglacials. Genotyping-by-sequencing individuals from across the distribution range of the pheasant's eye (Adonis vernalis), we aimed to gain insight into steppe florogenesis based on the species' evolutionary history. Although the primary area of origin of the species group comprising A. vernalis, A. villosa and A. volgensis is in Asia, our results indicate that recent populations of A. vernalis are not of Asian origin but evolved in the southern part of Europe during the Pleistocene, with Spanish populations clearly genetically distinct from the Southeastern European populations. We inferred that A. vernalis migrated eastwards from the sub-Mediterranean forest-steppes of Southeastern Europe into the continental forest-steppe zone. Eastern European populations had the highest private allelic richness, indicating long-term large population sizes in this region. As a thermophilic species, A. vernalis seems unlikely to have survived in the cold deserts of the Last Glacial Maximum in Western Siberia, so this region was likely (re)colonized postglacially. Overall, our results reinforce the importance of identifying the area of origin and the corresponding ecological requirements of steppe plants in order to understand the composition of today's steppe flora.
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- Anna Seidl
- grid.5173.00000 0001 2298 5320Institute of Botany, Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Gregor-Mendel-Straße 33, 1180 Vienna, Austria
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- grid.5173.00000 0001 2298 5320Institute of Botany, Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Gregor-Mendel-Straße 33, 1180 Vienna, Austria
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- grid.418934.30000 0001 0943 9907Experimental Taxonomy, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, 06466 Gatersleben, Germany ,Present Address: Botanical Garden München-Nymphenburg, 80638 Munich, Germany
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- grid.5173.00000 0001 2298 5320Institute of Botany, Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Gregor-Mendel-Straße 33, 1180 Vienna, Austria
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- grid.5173.00000 0001 2298 5320Institute for Integrative Nature Conservation Research, Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, 1180 Vienna, Austria
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- grid.10854.380000 0001 0672 4366School of Biology/Chemistry, Osnabrück University, 49076 Osnabrück, Germany
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- grid.418934.30000 0001 0943 9907Experimental Taxonomy, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, 06466 Gatersleben, Germany
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- grid.410548.c0000 0001 1457 0694Faculty of Forestry, University of Sopron, 9400 Sopron, Hungary
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- grid.77225.350000000112611077South-Siberian Botanical Garden, Altai State University, 656049 Barnaul, Russia
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- grid.10854.380000 0001 0672 4366Botanical Garden of the Osnabrück University, 49076 Osnabrück, Germany
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- grid.77225.350000000112611077South-Siberian Botanical Garden, Altai State University, 656049 Barnaul, Russia
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- grid.5173.00000 0001 2298 5320Institute for Integrative Nature Conservation Research, Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, 1180 Vienna, Austria
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- grid.260731.10000 0001 2324 0259Department of Biology, School of Arts and Science, National University of Mongolia, 14201 Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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- grid.10854.380000 0001 0672 4366School of Biology/Chemistry, Osnabrück University, 49076 Osnabrück, Germany
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- grid.5173.00000 0001 2298 5320Institute of Botany, Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Gregor-Mendel-Straße 33, 1180 Vienna, Austria
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Böhnert T, Luebert F, Merklinger FF, Harpke D, Stoll A, Schneider JV, Blattner FR, Quandt D, Weigend M. Plant migration under long-lasting hyperaridity - phylogenomics unravels recent biogeographic history in one of the oldest deserts on Earth. New Phytol 2022; 234:1863-1875. [PMID: 35274308 DOI: 10.1111/nph.18082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2021] [Accepted: 02/28/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The post-Miocene climatic histories of arid environments have been identified as key drivers of dispersal and diversification. Here, we investigate how climatic history correlates with the historical biogeography of the Atacama Desert genus Cristaria (Malvaceae). We analyze phylogenetic relationships and historical biogeography by using next-generation sequencing (NGS), molecular clock dating, Dispersal Extinction Cladogenesis and Bayesian sampling approaches. We employ a novel way to identify biogeographically meaningful regions as well as a rarely utilized program permitting the use of dozens of ancestral areas. Partial incongruence between the established taxonomy and our phylogenetic data argue for a complex historical biogeography with repeated introgression and incomplete lineage sorting. Cristaria originated in the central southern part of the Atacama Desert, from there the genus colonized other areas from the late Miocene onwards. The more recently diverged lineages appear to have colonized different habitats in the Atacama Desert during pluvial phases of the Pliocene and early Pleistocene. We show that NGS combined with near-comprehensive sampling can provide an unprecedented degree of phylogenetic resolution and help to correlate the historical biogeography of plant communities with cycles of arid and pluvial phases.
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- Tim Böhnert
- Nees Institute for Biodiversity of Plants, University of Bonn, 53115, Bonn, Germany
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- Nees Institute for Biodiversity of Plants, University of Bonn, 53115, Bonn, Germany
- Facultad de Ciencias Agronómicas and Departamento de Silvicultura y Conservación de la Naturaleza, Universidad de Chile, 8820000, Santiago, Chile
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- Nees Institute for Biodiversity of Plants, University of Bonn, 53115, Bonn, Germany
- Sukkulenten-Sammlung Zürich/Grün Stadt Zürich, 8002, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), 06466, Gatersleben, Germany
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- Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Áridas Ceaza, 1720256, La Serena, Chile
- Instituto de Investigación Multidisciplinar en Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad de la Serena, 1720170, La Serena, Chile
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- Botany and Molecular Evolution and Entomology III, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Frankfurt, 60325, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), 06466, Gatersleben, Germany
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- Nees Institute for Biodiversity of Plants, University of Bonn, 53115, Bonn, Germany
- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), 06466, Gatersleben, Germany
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- Nees Institute for Biodiversity of Plants, University of Bonn, 53115, Bonn, Germany
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Žerdoner Čalasan A, Hurka H, German DA, Pfanzelt S, Blattner FR, Seidl A, Neuffer B. Pleistocene dynamics of the Eurasian steppe as a driving force of evolution: Phylogenetic history of the genus Capsella (Brassicaceae). Ecol Evol 2021; 11:12697-12713. [PMID: 34594532 PMCID: PMC8462161 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.8015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2021] [Revised: 07/06/2021] [Accepted: 07/29/2021] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Capsella is a model plant genus of the Brassicaceae closely related to Arabidopsis. To disentangle its biogeographical history and intrageneric phylogenetic relationships, 282 individuals of all five currently recognized Capsella species were genotyped using a restriction digest-based next-generation sequencing method. Our analysis retrieved two main lineages within Capsella that split c. one million years ago, with western C. grandiflora and C. rubella forming a sister lineage to the eastern lineage consisting of C. orientalis. The split was attributed to continuous latitudinal displacements of the Eurasian steppe belt to the south during Early Pleistocene glacial cycles. During the interglacial cycles of the Late Pleistocene, hybridization of the two lineages took place in the southwestern East European Plain, leading to the allotetraploid C. bursa-pastoris. Extant genetic variation within C. orientalis postdated any extensive glacial events. Ecological niche modeling showed that suitable habitat for C. orientalis existed during the Last Glacial Maximum around the north coast of the Black Sea and in southern Kazakhstan. Such a scenario is also supported by population genomic data that uncovered the highest genetic diversity in the south Kazakhstan cluster, suggesting that C. orientalis originated in continental Asia and migrated north- and possibly eastwards after the last ice age. Post-glacial hybridization events between C. bursa-pastoris and C. grandiflora/rubella in the southwestern East European Plain and the Mediterranean gave rise to C. thracica. Introgression of C. grandiflora/rubella into C. bursa-pastoris resulted in a new Mediterranean cluster within the already existing Eurasian C. bursa-pastoris cluster. This study shows that the continuous displacement and disruption of the Eurasian steppe belt during the Pleistocene was the driving force in the evolution of Capsella.
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- Department 5: Biology/Chemistry, BotanyUniversity of OsnabrückOsnabrückGermany
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- South‐Siberian Botanical GardenAltai State UniversityBarnaulRussia
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- Experimental TaxonomyLeibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK)Seeland‐GaterslebenGermany
- Munich Botanical GardenMünchenGermany
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- Experimental TaxonomyLeibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK)Seeland‐GaterslebenGermany
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- Institute of BotanyDepartment of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity ResearchUniversity of Natural Resources and Life SciencesVienna (BOKU)Austria
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- Department 5: Biology/Chemistry, BotanyUniversity of OsnabrückOsnabrückGermany
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Sassone AB, Hojsgaard DH, Giussani LM, Brassac J, Blattner FR. Genomic, karyological and morphological changes of South American garlics (Ipheion) provide insights into mechanisms of speciation in the Pampean region. Mol Ecol 2021; 30:3716-3729. [PMID: 34087027 DOI: 10.1111/mec.16009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2021] [Revised: 05/19/2021] [Accepted: 05/21/2021] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Speciation proceeds through mechanisms that promote reproductive isolation and shape the extent of genetic variation in natural populations, and thus its study is essential to understand the evolutionary processes leading to increased biodiversity. Chromosomal rearrangements are known to facilitate reproductive isolation by hybrid sterility and favour speciation events. The genus Ipheion (Amaryllidaceae, Allioideae) is unique as its species exhibit a remarkable karyological variability but lack population-level genetic data. To unveil the diversification processes acting upon the formation of new lineages within Ipheion in the Pampas of South America, we combined morphology and karyology approaches with genotyping-by-sequencing. Our phylogenomic and population genomics results supported the taxonomic division of Ipheion into three morphological and genetically well-differentiated groups. The origin of Ipheion uniflorum was traced back to its current southern distribution area in the southern Pampean region (in Argentina), from where it had expanded to the north reaching Uruguay. Our results further suggested that chromosome rearrangements and ploidy shifts had triggered speciation events, first during the origin of I. uniflorum and later during its subsequent diversification into I. recurvifolium and I. tweedieanum, in both cases reinforced by extrinsic factors and biogeographical settings. The current study illustrates the analytical power of multidisciplinary approaches integrating phylo- and population genomics with classic analyses to reveal evolutionary processes in plants.
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- Agostina B Sassone
- Instituto de Botánica Darwinion, CONICET-ANCEFN, Buenos Aires, Argentina.,Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany
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- Department of Systematics, Biodiversity, and Evolution of Plants, Albrecht-von-Haller Institute for Plant Sciences, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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- Instituto de Botánica Darwinion, CONICET-ANCEFN, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany
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Krak K, Caklová P, Kopecký D, Blattner FR, Mahelka V. Horizontally Acquired nrDNAs Persist in Low Amounts in Host Hordeum Genomes and Evolve Independently of Native nrDNA. Front Plant Sci 2021; 12:672879. [PMID: 34079572 PMCID: PMC8165317 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.672879] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2021] [Accepted: 04/22/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Nuclear ribosomal DNA (nrDNA) has displayed extraordinary dynamics during the evolution of plant species. However, the patterns and evolutionary significance of nrDNA array expansion or contraction are still relatively unknown. Moreover, only little is known of the fate of minority nrDNA copies acquired between species via horizontal transfer. The barley genus Hordeum (Poaceae) represents a good model for such a study, as species of section Stenostachys acquired nrDNA via horizontal transfer from at least five different panicoid genera, causing long-term co-existence of native (Hordeum-like) and non-native (panicoid) nrDNAs. Using quantitative PCR, we investigated copy number variation (CNV) of nrDNA in the diploid representatives of the genus Hordeum. We estimated the copy number of the foreign, as well as of the native ITS types (ribotypes), and followed the pattern of their CNV in relation to the genus' phylogeny, species' genomes size and the number of nrDNA loci. For the native ribotype, we encountered an almost 19-fold variation in the mean copy number among the taxa analysed, ranging from 1689 copies (per 2C content) in H. patagonicum subsp. mustersii to 31342 copies in H. murinum subsp. glaucum. The copy numbers did not correlate with any of the genus' phylogeny, the species' genome size or the number of nrDNA loci. The CNV was high within the recognised groups (up to 13.2 × in the American I-genome species) as well as between accessions of the same species (up to 4×). Foreign ribotypes represent only a small fraction of the total number of nrDNA copies. Their copy numbers ranged from single units to tens and rarely hundreds of copies. They amounted, on average, to between 0.1% (Setaria ribotype) and 1.9% (Euclasta ribotype) of total nrDNA. None of the foreign ribotypes showed significant differences with respect to phylogenetic groups recognised within the sect. Stenostachys. Overall, no correlation was found between copy numbers of native and foreign nrDNAs suggesting the sequestration and independent evolution of native and non-native nrDNA arrays. Therefore, foreign nrDNA in Hordeum likely poses a dead-end by-product of horizontal gene transfer events.
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- Karol Krak
- Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany, Prùhonice, Czechia
- Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague 6, Czechia
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- Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany, Prùhonice, Czechia
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- Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Experimental Botany, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Olomouc, Czechia
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- Experimental Taxonomy, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Gatersleben, Germany
- German Centre of Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle–Jena–Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany, Prùhonice, Czechia
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Seidl A, Tremetsberger K, Pfanzelt S, Blattner FR, Neuffer B, Friesen N, Hurka H, Shmakov A, Batlai O, Žerdoner Čalasan A, Vesselova PV, Bernhardt KG. The phylogeographic history of Krascheninnikovia reflects the development of dry steppes and semi-deserts in Eurasia. Sci Rep 2021; 11:6645. [PMID: 33758234 PMCID: PMC7988158 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-85735-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2020] [Accepted: 03/01/2021] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
Abstract
Constituting one of Earth's major biomes, steppes are characterised by naturally treeless extra-tropical vegetation. The formation of the Eurasian steppe belt, the largest steppe region in the world, began in Central Asia during the Neogene. In the glacial stages of the Pleistocene, steppe displaced forest vegetation, which in turn recolonised the area during the warmer interglacial periods, thus affecting the distribution of plants adapted to these habitats. Krascheninnikovia ceratoides (Chenopodiaceae) is a plant characteristic of dry steppe and semi-desert formations. Earlier studies showed that the ancestor of this autochthonous steppe element originated in Central Asia during the Miocene/Pliocene, i.e., in the same region and at the same time as the first appearance of steppe vegetation. However, as the extant lineages of Krascheninnikovia ceratoides diversified only 2.2 ± 0.9 Mya, it may represent a modern element of current dry steppe and semi-desert formations, rather than a component of the first steppe precursors of the Miocene. As such, it may have capitalised on the climatic conditions of the cold stages of the Quaternary to expand its range and colonise suitable habitats outside of its area of origin. To test this hypothesis, phylogeographic methods were applied to high-resolution genotyping-by-sequencing data. Our results indicate that Krascheninnikovia originated in western Central Asia and the Russian Altai, then spread to Europe in the West, and reached North America in the East. The populations of eastern Central Asia and North America belong to the same clade and are genetically clearly distinct from the Euro-Siberian populations. Among the populations west of the Altai Mountains, the European populations are genetically distinct from all others, which could be the result of the separation of populations east and west of the Urals caused by the Pleistocene transgressions of the Caspian Sea.
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- Anna Seidl
- grid.5173.00000 0001 2298 5320Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research, Institute of Botany, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Gregor-Mendel-Straße 33, 1180 Vienna, Austria
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- grid.5173.00000 0001 2298 5320Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research, Institute of Botany, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Gregor-Mendel-Straße 33, 1180 Vienna, Austria
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- grid.418934.30000 0001 0943 9907Experimental Taxonomy, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Corrensstraße 3, 06466 Gatersleben, Germany
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- grid.418934.30000 0001 0943 9907Experimental Taxonomy, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Corrensstraße 3, 06466 Gatersleben, Germany
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- grid.10854.380000 0001 0672 4366School of Biology/Chemistry, Osnabrück University, Barbarastraße 11, 49076 Osnabrück, Germany
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- grid.10854.380000 0001 0672 4366Botanical Garden of the Osnabrück University, Albrechtstraße 29, 49076 Osnabrück, Germany ,grid.448878.f0000 0001 2288 8774Department of Pharmaceutical and Natural Sciences, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Izmailovsky Boulevard, 8, Moscow, 105043 Russia
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- grid.10854.380000 0001 0672 4366School of Biology/Chemistry, Osnabrück University, Barbarastraße 11, 49076 Osnabrück, Germany
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- grid.77225.350000000112611077South Siberian Botanical Garden, Altai State University, Lenina 61, 656049 Barnaul, Russia
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- grid.260731.10000 0001 2324 0259Department of Biology, School of Arts and Science, National University of Mongolia, University street 3, 14201 Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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- grid.10854.380000 0001 0672 4366School of Biology/Chemistry, Osnabrück University, Barbarastraße 11, 49076 Osnabrück, Germany
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- Institute of Botany and Phytointroduction, Committee of Forestry and Wildlife, Ministry of Ecology, Geology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Timiryazeva Street 36D, 050040 Almaty, Kazakhstan
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- grid.5173.00000 0001 2298 5320Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research, Institute of Botany, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Gregor-Mendel-Straße 33, 1180 Vienna, Austria
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Achigan‐Dako EG, Degbey H, Hale I, Blattner FR. Georeferenced phylogenetic analysis of a global collection of wild and cultivated Citrullus species. Ecol Evol 2021; 11:1918-1936. [PMID: 33614013 PMCID: PMC7882934 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.7189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2020] [Accepted: 12/29/2020] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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The geographical origin of watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) remains debated. While a first hypothesis suggests the center of origin to be West Africa, where the endemic sister species C. mucosospermus thrives, a second hypothesis suggests northeastern Africa where the white-fleshed Sudanese Kordophan melon is cultivated. In this study, we infer biogeographical and haplotype genealogy for C. lanatus, C. mucosospermus, C. amarus, and C. colocynthis using noncoding cpDNA sequences (trnT-trnL and ndhF-rpl32 regions) from a global collection of 135 accessions. In total, we identified 38 haplotypes in C. lanatus, C. mucosospermus, C. amarus, and C. colocynthis; of these, 21 were found in Africa and 17 appear endemic to the continent. The least diverse species was C. mucosospermus (5 haplotypes) and the most diverse was C. colocynthis (16 haplotypes). Some haplotypes of C. mucosospermus were nearly exclusive to West Africa, and C. lanatus and C. mucosospermus shared haplotypes that were distinct from those of both C. amarus and C. colocynthis. The results support previous findings that revealed C. mucosospermus to be the closest relative to C. lanatus (including subsp. cordophanus). West Africa, as a center of endemism of C. mucosospermus, is an area of interest in the search of the origin of C. lanatus. This calls for further historical and phylogeographical investigations and wider collection of samples in West and northeastern Africa.
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- Enoch G. Achigan‐Dako
- Laboratory of Genetics, Biotechnology, and Seed ScienceFaculty of Agronomic SciencesUniversity of Abomey‐CalaviCotonouBenin
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- Laboratory of Genetics, Biotechnology, and Seed ScienceFaculty of Agronomic SciencesUniversity of Abomey‐CalaviCotonouBenin
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- Department of Agriculture, Nutrition, and Food SystemsCollege of Life Sciences and AgricultureUniversity of New HampshireDurhamNHUSA
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop ResearchGaterslebenGermany
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Ulagappan K, Blattner FR, Nagel M. Integrated transcriptomic and metabolomic analyses of garlic shoot tips to provide insights into cryo-stress conditions. Cryobiology 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cryobiol.2020.10.140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Shahsavand Hassani H, R Blattner F, Houben A, Bӧrner A. Production and First Assessment of Iranian Secondary Tritipyrum Genotypes by GISH and AFLP Markers. Iran J Biotechnol 2020; 17:e1796. [PMID: 32671119 PMCID: PMC7357698 DOI: 10.30498/ijb.2019.91760] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
Abstract
Background Non-Iranian Primary Tritipyrum (2n=6x=42, AABBEbEb) set seed after Triticale (2n=6x=42, AABBRR) and Tritordeum (2n=6x=42, AABBHcHc) but, due to a few undesirable agronomic traits, it cannot fulfil the commercial expectations of farming. Objectives To remove these deficiencies, six hexaploid Tritipyrum lines were crossed with four Iranian bread wheat cultivars which led to the production of 107 (F1), 479 (F2), 768 (F3), and 1539 (F4) Iranian Secondary Tritipyrum Genotypes (ISTG) seeds. This study was carried out for selecting the plants potentially carry the 5Eb chromosome/s and are good candidates for salt tolerant by GISH and RFLP markers. Materials and Methods The procedure involved extracting the total DNA content of 209 plants, including non-Iranian primary Tritipyrum lines, Iranian wheat cultivars, Chinese Spring addition, and substitution lines for 5Eb and Iranian secondary Tritipyrum genotypes (ISTG: F1, F2, F3, F4). Genomic in situ Hybridization (GISH) on mitotic spreads of fertile new Iranian secondary Tritipyrum genotypes (ISTG) was carried out to demonstrate the feasibility of single Eb chromosomes. There were three trials of 18 Fragment Length Polymorphism (AFLP) EcoRI/MseI primers to identify the presence of the 5Eb chromosome in 105 ISTG plants, along with four wheat addition lines and substitution lines for the 5Eb chromosome. Results GISH on mitotic spreads demonstrated the feasibility of producing 75 plants out of 105 fertile new Iranian secondary Tritipyrum genotypes (ISTG) with 0-14 single Eb chromosomes. Among the mentioned markers, only the E36/M59 marker showed 43, 50, 30 and 47 identical bands, respectively, in contrast to 53 expected bands in all plants with the 5Eb chromosome which indicated 21, 33, 9 and 6 out of 75 ISTG plants, respectively, with the 5Eb chromosome. Conclusion This study indicated that 69 ISTG Tritipyrum plants were potentially carry the 5Eb chromosome/s and are good candidates for salt tolerant tests in comparison with Iranian modern bread wheat cultivars.
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- Hossein Shahsavand Hassani
- Department of Agronomy and Plant breeding, College of Agriculture, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman (SBUK), Kerman, Iran.,Department of Crop Production and Plant Breeding, College of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
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- Genebank Department, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Correns str. 3, D-06466, Gatersleben, Germany
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- Genebank Department, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Correns str. 3, D-06466, Gatersleben, Germany
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- Genebank Department, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Correns str. 3, D-06466, Gatersleben, Germany
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Bernhardt N, Brassac J, Dong X, Willing EM, Poskar CH, Kilian B, Blattner FR. Genome-wide sequence information reveals recurrent hybridization among diploid wheat wild relatives. Plant J 2020; 102:493-506. [PMID: 31821649 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.14641] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2019] [Revised: 11/13/2019] [Accepted: 11/28/2019] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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Many conflicting hypotheses regarding the relationships among crops and wild species closely related to wheat (the genera Aegilops, Amblyopyrum, and Triticum) have been postulated. The contribution of hybridization to the evolution of these taxa is intensely discussed. To determine possible causes for this, and provide a phylogeny of the diploid taxa based on genome-wide sequence information, independent data were obtained from genotyping-by-sequencing and a target-enrichment experiment that returned 244 low-copy nuclear loci. The data were analyzed using Bayesian, likelihood and coalescent-based methods. D statistics were used to test if incomplete lineage sorting alone or together with hybridization is the source for incongruent gene trees. Here we present the phylogeny of all diploid species of the wheat wild relatives. We hypothesize that most of the wheat-group species were shaped by a primordial homoploid hybrid speciation event involving the ancestral Triticum and Am. muticum lineages to form all other species except Ae. speltoides. This hybridization event was followed by multiple introgressions affecting all taxa except Triticum. Mostly progenitors of the extant species were involved in these processes, while recent interspecific gene flow seems insignificant. The composite nature of many genomes of wheat-group taxa results in complicated patterns of diploid contributions when these lineages are involved in polyploid formation, which is, for example, the case for tetraploid and hexaploid wheats. Our analysis provides phylogenetic relationships and a testable hypothesis for the genome compositions in the basic evolutionary units within the wheat group of Triticeae.
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- Nadine Bernhardt
- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), 06466, Gatersleben, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), 06466, Gatersleben, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, 50829, Cologne, Germany
- Plant Germplasm and Genomics Centre, Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 650201, Kunming, Yunnan, China
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- Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, 50829, Cologne, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), 06466, Gatersleben, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), 06466, Gatersleben, Germany
- Global Crop Diversity Trust, 53113, Bonn, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), 06466, Gatersleben, Germany
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, 04103, Leipzig, Germany
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Pérez-Escobar OA, Bogarín D, Schley R, Bateman RM, Gerlach G, Harpke D, Brassac J, Fernández-Mazuecos M, Dodsworth S, Hagsater E, Blanco MA, Gottschling M, Blattner FR. Resolving relationships in an exceedingly young Neotropical orchid lineage using Genotyping-by-sequencing data. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2020; 144:106672. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2019.106672] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2018] [Revised: 10/26/2019] [Accepted: 11/05/2019] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Nemati Z, Harpke D, Gemicioglu A, Kerndorff H, Blattner FR. Saffron (Crocus sativus) is an autotriploid that evolved in Attica (Greece) from wild Crocus cartwrightianus. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2019; 136:14-20. [PMID: 30946897 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2019.03.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2019] [Revised: 03/27/2019] [Accepted: 03/27/2019] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
Abstract
Crocus sativus, the saffron crocus, is the source of saffron, which is made from the dried stigmas of the plant. It is a male-sterile triploid lineage that ever since its origin has been propagated vegetatively. Its mode of evolution and area of origin are matters of long-lasting debates. Here we analyzed chloroplast genomes and genome-wide DNA polymorphisms obtained through genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) to infer the parent and area of origin of C. sativus. These data were complemented by genome size measurements and analyses of nuclear single-copy genes. We could place 99.3% of saffron GBS alleles in Crocus cartwrightianus, a species occurring in southeastern mainland Greece and on Aegean islands, identifying it as the sole progenitor of the saffron crocus. Phylogenetic and population assignment analyses together with chloroplast polymorphisms indicated the C. cartwrightianus population in the vicinity of Athens as most similar to C. sativus. We conclude that the crop is an autotriploid that evolved in Attica by combining two different genotypes of C. cartwrightianus. Triploid sterility and vegetative propagation prevented afterwards segregation of the favorable traits of saffron, resulting in worldwide cultivation of a unique clonal lineage.
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- Zahra Nemati
- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany; Dept. of Biology, University of Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany.
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Šarhanová P, Pfanzelt S, Brandt R, Himmelbach A, Blattner FR. SSR-seq: Genotyping of microsatellites using next-generation sequencing reveals higher level of polymorphism as compared to traditional fragment size scoring. Ecol Evol 2018; 8:10817-10833. [PMID: 30519409 PMCID: PMC6262739 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.4533] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2018] [Revised: 08/28/2018] [Accepted: 08/30/2018] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
Abstract
Microsatellites (or simple sequence repeats, SSR) are widely used markers in population genetics. Traditionally, genotyping was and still is carried out through recording fragment length. Now, next-generation sequencing (NGS) makes it easy to obtain also sequence information for the loci of interest. This avoids misinterpretations that otherwise could arise due to size homoplasy. Here, an NGS strategy is described that allows to genotype hundreds of individuals at many custom-designed SSR loci simultaneously, combining multiplex PCR, barcoding, and Illumina sequencing. We created three different datasets for which alleles were coded according to (a) length of the repetitive region, (b) total fragment length, and (c) sequence identity, in order to evaluate the eventual benefits from having sequence data at hand, not only fragment length data. For each dataset, genetic diversity statistics, as well as F ST and R ST values, were calculated. The number of alleles per locus, as well as observed and expected heterozygosity, was highest in the sequence identity dataset, because of single-nucleotide polymorphisms and insertions/deletions in the flanking regions of the SSR motif. Size homoplasy was found to be very common, amounting to 44.7%-63.5% (mean over all loci) in the three study species. Thus, the information obtained by next-generation sequencing offers a better resolution than the traditional way of SSR genotyping and allows for more accurate evolutionary interpretations.
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- Petra Šarhanová
- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK)GaterslebenGermany
- Present address:
Department of Botany and Biodiversity ResearchUniversity of ViennaViennaAustria
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- Institute of Biology and Environmental SciencesCarl von Ossietzky University OldenburgOldenburgGermany
- Present address:
Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK)GaterslebenGermany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK)GaterslebenGermany
- Present address:
Max Planck Genome Centre CologneCologneGermany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK)GaterslebenGermany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK)GaterslebenGermany
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Nemati Z, Blattner FR, Kerndorff H, Erol O, Harpke D. Phylogeny of the saffron-crocus species group, Crocus series Crocus (Iridaceae). Mol Phylogenet Evol 2018; 127:891-897. [PMID: 29936028 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.06.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2017] [Revised: 06/15/2018] [Accepted: 06/20/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Abstract
Phylogenetic relationships among the taxa of Crocus series Crocus are still unclear, preventing the understanding of species diversity and the evolution of the important spice saffron (Crocus sativus). Therefore, we analyzed sequences of two chloroplast (trnL-trnF, matK-trnK) and three nuclear (TOPO6, ribosomal DNA ETS and ITS) marker regions to infer phylogenetic relationships among all species belonging to series Crocus. Our phylogenetic analyses resolved the relationships among all taxa of the series. Crocus hadriaticus and the former C. pallasii subspecies appeared polyphyletic. The latter deserve elevating the subspecies to species rank, while for C. hadriaticus a detailed study of species boundaries is necessary. Multi-locus and also genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism data obtained through genotyping-by-sequencing placed C. sativus within C. cartwrightianus with no indication that other Crocus species contributed to the evolution of the triploid. Our analyses thus made an autotriploid origin of C. sativus from C. cartwrightianus very likely.
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- Zahra Nemati
- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany; São Romão, São Brás de Alportel, Portugal
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- Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany.
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Pourkheirandish M, Kanamori H, Wu J, Sakuma S, Blattner FR, Komatsuda T. Elucidation of the origin of 'agriocrithon' based on domestication genes questions the hypothesis that Tibet is one of the centers of barley domestication. Plant J 2018; 94:525-534. [PMID: 29469199 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.13876] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2017] [Revised: 02/12/2018] [Accepted: 02/14/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Wild barley forms a two-rowed spike with a brittle rachis whereas domesticated barley has two- or six-rowed spikes with a tough rachis. Like domesticated barley, 'agriocrithon' forms a six-rowed spike; however, the spike is brittle as in wild barley, which makes the origin of agriocrithon obscure. Haplotype analysis of the Six-rowed spike 1 (vrs1) and Non-brittle rachis 1 (btr1) and 2 (btr2) genes was conducted to infer the origin of agriocrithon barley. Some agriocrithon barley accessions (eu-agriocrithon) carried Btr1 and Btr2 haplotypes that are not found in any cultivars, implying that they are directly derived from wild barley through a mutation at the vrs1 locus. Other agriocrithon barley accessions (pseudo-agriocrithon) carried Btr1 or Btr2 from cultivated barley, thus implying that they originated from hybridization between six-rowed landraces carrying btr1Btr2 and Btr1btr2 genotypes followed by recombination to produce Btr1Btr2. All materials we collected from Tibet belong to pseudo-agriocrithon and thus do not support the Tibetan Plateau as being a center of barley domestication. Tracing the evolutionary history of these allelic variants revealed that eu-agriocrithon represents six-rowed barley lineages that were selected by early farmers, once in south-eastern Turkmenistan (vrs1.a1) and again in the eastern part of Uzbekistan (vrs1.a4).
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- Mohammad Pourkheirandish
- National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, 305-8602, Japan
- Faculty of Science, Plant Breeding Institute, The University of Sydney, Cobbitty, NSW, 2570, Australia
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- National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, 305-8602, Japan
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- National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, 305-8602, Japan
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- National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, 305-8602, Japan
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Research (IPK), Gatersleben, D-06466, Germany
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- National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, 305-8602, Japan
- Institute of Crop Science, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Tsukuba, 305-8518, Japan
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Bernhardt N, Brassac J, Kilian B, Blattner FR. Dated tribe-wide whole chloroplast genome phylogeny indicates recurrent hybridizations within Triticeae. BMC Evol Biol 2017; 17:141. [PMID: 28622761 PMCID: PMC5474006 DOI: 10.1186/s12862-017-0989-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2017] [Accepted: 06/03/2017] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Triticeae, the tribe of wheat grasses, harbours the cereals barley, rye and wheat and their wild relatives. Although economically important, relationships within the tribe are still not understood. We analysed the phylogeny of chloroplast lineages among nearly all monogenomic Triticeae taxa and polyploid wheat species aiming at a deeper understanding of the tribe's evolution. We used on- and off-target reads of a target-enrichment experiment followed by Illumina sequencing. RESULTS The read data was used to assemble the plastid locus ndhF for 194 individuals and the whole chloroplast genome for 183 individuals, representing 53 Triticeae species and 15 genera. We conducted Bayesian and multispecies coalescent analyses to infer relationships and estimate divergence times of the taxa. We present the most comprehensive dated Triticeae chloroplast phylogeny and review previous hypotheses in the framework of our results. Monophyly of Triticeae chloroplasts could not be confirmed, as either Bromus or Psathyrostachys captured a chloroplast from a lineage closely related to a Bromus-Triticeae ancestor. The most recent common ancestor of Triticeae occurred approximately between ten and 19 million years ago. CONCLUSIONS The comparison of the chloroplast phylogeny with available nuclear data in several cases revealed incongruences indicating past hybridizations. Recent events of chloroplast capture were detected as individuals grouped apart from con-specific accessions in otherwise monopyhletic groups.
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- Nadine Bernhardt
- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany.
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany
- Present address: Crop Trust, Bonn, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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Stoll A, Harpke D, Schütte C, Stefanczyk N, Brandt R, Blattner FR, Quandt D. Development of microsatellite markers and assembly of the plastid genome in Cistanthe longiscapa (Montiaceae) based on low-coverage whole genome sequencing. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0178402. [PMID: 28575007 PMCID: PMC5456083 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0178402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2016] [Accepted: 05/12/2017] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Cistanthe longiscapa is an endemic annual herb and characteristic element of the Chilean Atacama Desert. Principal threats are the destruction of its seed deposits by human activities and reduced germination rates due to the decreasing occurrence of precipitation events. To enable population genetic and phylogeographic analyses in this species we performed paired-end shotgun sequencing (2x100 bp) of genomic DNA on the Illumina HiSeq platform and identified microsatellite (SSR) loci in the resulting sequences. From 29 million quality-filtered read pairs we obtained 549,174 contigs (average length 614 bp; N50 = 904). Searching for SSRs revealed 10,336 loci with microsatellite motifs. Initially, we designed primers for 96 loci, which were tested for PCR amplification on three C. longiscapa individuals. Successfully amplifying loci were further tested on eight individuals to screen for length variation in the resulting amplicons, and the alleles were exemplarily sequenced to infer the basis for the observed length variation. Finally we arrived at 26 validated SSR loci for population studies in C. longiscapa, which resulted in 146 bi-allelic SSR markers in our test sample of eight individuals. The genomic sequences were also used to assemble the plastid genome of C. longiscapa, which provides an additional set of maternally inherited genetic markers.
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- Alexandra Stoll
- Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Áridas (CEAZA)–Universidad La Serena, La Serena, Chile
- Nees Institute for Biodiversity of Plants, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany
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- Nees Institute for Biodiversity of Plants, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Nees Institute for Biodiversity of Plants, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany
- German Centre of Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Nees Institute for Biodiversity of Plants, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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Mahelka V, Krak K, Kopecký D, Fehrer J, Šafář J, Bartoš J, Hobza R, Blavet N, Blattner FR. Multiple horizontal transfers of nuclear ribosomal genes between phylogenetically distinct grass lineages. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2017; 114:1726-1731. [PMID: 28137844 PMCID: PMC5320982 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1613375114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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The movement of nuclear DNA from one vascular plant species to another in the absence of fertilization is thought to be rare. Here, nonnative rRNA gene [ribosomal DNA (rDNA)] copies were identified in a set of 16 diploid barley (Hordeum) species; their origin was traceable via their internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequence to five distinct Panicoideae genera, a lineage that split from the Pooideae about 60 Mya. Phylogenetic, cytogenetic, and genomic analyses implied that the nonnative sequences were acquired between 1 and 5 Mya after a series of multiple events, with the result that some current Hordeum sp. individuals harbor up to five different panicoid rDNA units in addition to the native Hordeum rDNA copies. There was no evidence that any of the nonnative rDNA units were transcribed; some showed indications of having been silenced via pseudogenization. A single copy of a Panicum sp. rDNA unit present in H. bogdanii had been interrupted by a native transposable element and was surrounded by about 70 kbp of mostly noncoding sequence of panicoid origin. The data suggest that horizontal gene transfer between vascular plants is not a rare event, that it is not necessarily restricted to one or a few genes only, and that it can be selectively neutral.
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MESH Headings
- Cell Nucleus/genetics
- DNA, Plant/chemistry
- DNA, Plant/genetics
- DNA, Ribosomal/chemistry
- DNA, Ribosomal/genetics
- DNA, Ribosomal Spacer/chemistry
- DNA, Ribosomal Spacer/genetics
- Diploidy
- Evolution, Molecular
- Gene Transfer, Horizontal
- Genes, Plant/genetics
- Hordeum/classification
- Hordeum/genetics
- Phylogeny
- Poaceae/classification
- Poaceae/genetics
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
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- Václav Mahelka
- Institute of Botany, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice 25243, Czech Republic;
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- Institute of Botany, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice 25243, Czech Republic
- Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague 6 16500, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Experimental Botany, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Olomouc 78371, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Botany, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice 25243, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Experimental Botany, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Olomouc 78371, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Experimental Botany, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Olomouc 78371, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Experimental Botany, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Olomouc 78371, Czech Republic
- Institute of Biophysics, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno 61265, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Experimental Botany, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Olomouc 78371, Czech Republic
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- Experimental Taxonomy, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, D-06466 Gatersleben, Germany
- German Centre of Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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Bagheri A, Maassoumi AA, Rahiminejad MR, Blattner FR. Molecular Phylogeny and Morphological Analysis Support a New Species and New Synonymy in Iranian Astragalus (Leguminosae). PLoS One 2016; 11:e0149726. [PMID: 26960159 PMCID: PMC4784885 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0149726] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2015] [Accepted: 02/03/2016] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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As a result of a taxonomic and phylogenetic revision of Astragalus section Hymenostegis we identified a new species of Astragalus from northwestern Iran, namely A. remotispicatus spec. nov., which is described and illustrated here. It is morphologically similar to A. karl-heinzii in possessing a lax inflorescence. Phylogenetic inference of the nuclear ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region support A. remotispicatus as a clearly distinct species within the lax-inflorescence group of this section. Also the placement of A. sciureus var. subsessilis was found to be wrong and this taxon should be treated as a synonym within A. kohrudicus.
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- Ali Bagheri
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran
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- Department of Botany, Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands, Tehran, Iran
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany
- German Centre of Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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Vu GTH, Schmutzer T, Bull F, Cao HX, Fuchs J, Tran TD, Jovtchev G, Pistrick K, Stein N, Pecinka A, Neumann P, Novak P, Macas J, Dear PH, Blattner FR, Scholz U, Schubert I. Comparative Genome Analysis Reveals Divergent Genome Size Evolution in a Carnivorous Plant Genus. Plant Genome 2015; 8:eplantgenome2015.04.0021. [PMID: 33228273 DOI: 10.3835/plantgenome2015.04.0021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2015] [Accepted: 08/19/2015] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The C-value paradox remains incompletely resolved after >40 yr and is exemplified by 2,350-fold variation in genome sizes of flowering plants. The carnivorous Lentibulariaceae genus Genlisea, displaying a 25-fold range of genome sizes, is a promising subject to study mechanisms and consequences of evolutionary genome size variation. Applying genomic, phylogenetic, and cytogenetic approaches, we uncovered bidirectional genome size evolution within the genus Genlisea. The Genlisea nigrocaulis Steyerm. genome (86 Mbp) has probably shrunk by retroelement silencing and deletion-biased double-strand break (DSB) repair, from an ancestral size of 400 to 800 Mbp to become one of the smallest among flowering plants. The G. hispidula Stapf genome has expanded by whole-genome duplication (WGD) and retrotransposition to 1550 Mbp. Genlisea hispidula became allotetraploid after the split from the G. nigrocaulis clade ∼29 Ma. Genlisea pygmaea A. St.-Hil. (179 Mbp), a close relative of G. nigrocaulis, proved to be a recent (auto)tetraploid. Our analyses suggest a common ancestor of the genus Genlisea with an intermediate 1C value (400-800 Mbp) and subsequent rapid genome size evolution in opposite directions. Many abundant repeats of the larger genome are absent in the smaller, casting doubt on their functionality for the organism, while recurrent WGD seems to safeguard against the loss of essential elements in the face of genome shrinkage. We cannot identify any consistent differences in habitat or life strategy that correlate with genome size changes, raising the possibility that these changes may be selectively neutral.
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- Giang T H Vu
- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Corrensstrasse 3, 06466, Gatersleben, Germany
- Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research (MPIPZ), Carl-von-Linné-Weg 10, 50829, Köln, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Corrensstrasse 3, 06466, Gatersleben, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Corrensstrasse 3, 06466, Gatersleben, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Corrensstrasse 3, 06466, Gatersleben, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Corrensstrasse 3, 06466, Gatersleben, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Corrensstrasse 3, 06466, Gatersleben, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Corrensstrasse 3, 06466, Gatersleben, Germany
- Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, 2 Yurii Gagarin Street, Sofia, 1113, Bulgaria
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Corrensstrasse 3, 06466, Gatersleben, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Corrensstrasse 3, 06466, Gatersleben, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research (MPIPZ), Carl-von-Linné-Weg 10, 50829, Köln, Germany
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- Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, 370 05, Cˇeske Budejovicé, Czech Republic
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- Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, 370 05, Cˇeske Budejovicé, Czech Republic
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- Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, 370 05, Cˇeske Budejovicé, Czech Republic
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- MRC Lab. of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Ave., Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0QH, UK
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Corrensstrasse 3, 06466, Gatersleben, Germany
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, 04103, Leipzig, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Corrensstrasse 3, 06466, Gatersleben, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Corrensstrasse 3, 06466, Gatersleben, Germany
- Faculty of Science and Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk Univ., 61137, Brno, Czech Republic
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Brassac J, Blattner FR. Species-Level Phylogeny and Polyploid Relationships in Hordeum (Poaceae) Inferred by Next-Generation Sequencing and In Silico Cloning of Multiple Nuclear Loci. Syst Biol 2015; 64:792-808. [PMID: 26048340 PMCID: PMC4538882 DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syv035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2014] [Accepted: 06/02/2015] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Polyploidization is an important speciation mechanism in the barley genus Hordeum. To analyze evolutionary changes after allopolyploidization, knowledge of parental relationships is essential. One chloroplast and 12 nuclear single-copy loci were amplified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in all Hordeum plus six out-group species. Amplicons from each of 96 individuals were pooled, sheared, labeled with individual-specific barcodes and sequenced in a single run on a 454 platform. Reference sequences were obtained by cloning and Sanger sequencing of all loci for nine supplementary individuals. The 454 reads were assembled into contigs representing the 13 loci and, for polyploids, also homoeologues. Phylogenetic analyses were conducted for all loci separately and for a concatenated data matrix of all loci. For diploid taxa, a Bayesian concordance analysis and a coalescent-based dated species tree was inferred from all gene trees. Chloroplast matK was used to determine the maternal parent in allopolyploid taxa. The relative performance of different multilocus analyses in the presence of incomplete lineage sorting and hybridization was also assessed. The resulting multilocus phylogeny reveals for the first time species phylogeny and progenitor-derivative relationships of all di- and polyploid Hordeum taxa within a single analysis. Our study proves that it is possible to obtain a multilocus species-level phylogeny for di- and polyploid taxa by combining PCR with next-generation sequencing, without cloning and without creating a heavy load of sequence data.
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- Jonathan Brassac
- Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), D-06466 Gatersleben, Germany;
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- Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), D-06466 Gatersleben, Germany; German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany
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Nürk NM, Uribe-Convers S, Gehrke B, Tank DC, Blattner FR. Oligocene niche shift, Miocene diversification - cold tolerance and accelerated speciation rates in the St. John's Worts (Hypericum, Hypericaceae). BMC Evol Biol 2015; 15:80. [PMID: 25944090 PMCID: PMC4422466 DOI: 10.1186/s12862-015-0359-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2014] [Accepted: 04/22/2015] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Background Our aim is to understand the evolution of species-rich plant groups that shifted from tropical into cold/temperate biomes. It is well known that climate affects evolutionary processes, such as how fast species diversify, species range shifts, and species distributions. Many plant lineages may have gone extinct in the Northern Hemisphere due to Late Eocene climate cooling, while some tropical lineages may have adapted to temperate conditions and radiated; the hyper-diverse and geographically widespread genus Hypericum is one of these. Results To investigate the effect of macroecological niche shifts on evolutionary success we combine historical biogeography with analyses of diversification dynamics and climatic niche shifts in a phylogenetic framework. Hypericum evolved cold tolerance c. 30 million years ago, and successfully colonized all ice-free continents, where today ~500 species exist. The other members of Hypericaceae stayed in their tropical habitats and evolved into ~120 species. We identified a 15–20 million year lag between the initial change in temperature preference in Hypericum and subsequent diversification rate shifts in the Miocene. Conclusions Contrary to the dramatic niche shift early in the evolution of Hypericum most extant species occur in temperate climates including high elevations in the tropics. These cold/temperate niches are a distinctive characteristic of Hypericum. We conclude that the initial release from an evolutionary constraint (from tropical to temperate climates) is an important novelty in Hypericum. However, the initial shift in the adaptive landscape into colder climates appears to be a precondition, and may not be directly related to increased diversification rates. Instead, subsequent events of mountain formation and further climate cooling may better explain distribution patterns and species-richness in Hypericum. These findings exemplify important macroevolutionary patterns of plant diversification during large-scale global climate change. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12862-015-0359-4) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Nicolai M Nürk
- Centre for Organismal Studies Heidelberg, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 345, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Institute for Bioinformatics & Evolutionary Studies, University of Idaho, 875 Perimeter MS 3051, Moscow, ID, 83844-3051, USA.
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- Institute of Special Botany, Johannes Gutenberg University, Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzelweg 9a, 55099, Mainz, Germany.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Institute for Bioinformatics & Evolutionary Studies, University of Idaho, 875 Perimeter MS 3051, Moscow, ID, 83844-3051, USA.
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- Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Research (IPK), Correnzstrasse 3, 06466, Gatersleben, Germany. .,German Centre of Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5e, 04103, Leipzig, Germany.
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Jakob SS, Rödder D, Engler JO, Shaaf S, Ozkan H, Blattner FR, Kilian B. Evolutionary history of wild barley (Hordeum vulgare subsp. spontaneum) analyzed using multilocus sequence data and paleodistribution modeling. Genome Biol Evol 2014; 6:685-702. [PMID: 24586028 PMCID: PMC3971598 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evu047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Studies of Hordeum vulgare subsp. spontaneum, the wild progenitor of cultivated barley, have mostly relied on materials collected decades ago and maintained since then ex situ in germplasm repositories. We analyzed spatial genetic variation in wild barley populations collected rather recently, exploring sequence variations at seven single-copy nuclear loci, and inferred the relationships among these populations and toward the genepool of the crop. The wild barley collection covers the whole natural distribution area from the Mediterranean to Middle Asia. In contrast to earlier studies, Bayesian assignment analyses revealed three population clusters, in the Levant, Turkey, and east of Turkey, respectively. Genetic diversity was exceptionally high in the Levant, while eastern populations were depleted of private alleles. Species distribution modeling based on climate parameters and extant occurrence points of the taxon inferred suitable habitat conditions during the ice-age, particularly in the Levant and Turkey. Together with the ecologically wide range of habitats, they might contribute to structured but long-term stable populations in this region and their high genetic diversity. For recently collected individuals, Bayesian assignment to geographic clusters was generally unambiguous, but materials from genebanks often showed accessions that were not placed according to their assumed geographic origin or showed traces of introgression from cultivated barley. We assign this to gene flow among accessions during ex situ maintenance. Evolutionary studies based on such materials might therefore result in wrong conclusions regarding the history of the species or the origin and mode of domestication of the crop, depending on the accessions included.
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- Sabine S Jakob
- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany
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Vu GTH, Cao HX, Watanabe K, Hensel G, Blattner FR, Kumlehn J, Schubert I. Repair of Site-Specific DNA Double-Strand Breaks in Barley Occurs via Diverse Pathways Primarily Involving the Sister Chromatid. Plant Cell 2014; 26:2156-2167. [PMID: 24876253 PMCID: PMC4079375 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.114.126607] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2014] [Revised: 04/24/2014] [Accepted: 05/07/2014] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair mechanisms differ in their requirements for a homologous repair template and in the accuracy of the result. We aimed to quantify the outcome of repair of a single targeted DSB in somatic cells of young barley (Hordeum vulgare) plants. Amplicon sequencing of three reporter constructs revealed 47 to 58% of reads as repaired via nonhomologous end-joining (NHEJ) with deletions and/or small (1 to 3 bp) insertions. Alternative NHEJ revealed 2 to 5 bp microhomology (15.7% of cases) or new replication-mediated short duplications at sealed breaks. Although deletions outweigh insertions in barley, this bias was less pronounced and deleted sequences were shorter than in Arabidopsis thaliana. Between 17 and 33% of reads likely represent restoration of the original sequence. Depending on the construct, 20 to 33% of reads arose via gene conversion (homologous recombination). Remarkably, <1 to >8% of reads apparently display synthesis-dependent strand annealing linked with NHEJ, inserting 4 to 61 bp, mostly originating from the surrounding of breakpoints. Positional coincidence of >81% of sister chromatid exchanges with target loci is unprecedented for higher eukaryotes and indicates that most repair events for staggered DSBs, at least in barley, involve the sister chromatid and occur during S or G2 phase of the cell cycle.
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- Giang T H Vu
- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, D-06466 Gatersleben, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, D-06466 Gatersleben, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, D-06466 Gatersleben, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, D-06466 Gatersleben, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, D-06466 Gatersleben, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, D-06466 Gatersleben, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, D-06466 Gatersleben, Germany Faculty of Science and Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, CZ-61137 Brno, Czech Republic
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Mascher M, Richmond TA, Gerhardt DJ, Himmelbach A, Clissold L, Sampath D, Ayling S, Steuernagel B, Pfeifer M, D'Ascenzo M, Akhunov ED, Hedley PE, Gonzales AM, Morrell PL, Kilian B, Blattner FR, Scholz U, Mayer KFX, Flavell AJ, Muehlbauer GJ, Waugh R, Jeddeloh JA, Stein N. Barley whole exome capture: a tool for genomic research in the genus Hordeum and beyond. Plant J 2013; 76:494-505. [PMID: 23889683 PMCID: PMC4241023 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.12294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2013] [Accepted: 07/19/2013] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Advanced resources for genome-assisted research in barley (Hordeum vulgare) including a whole-genome shotgun assembly and an integrated physical map have recently become available. These have made possible studies that aim to assess genetic diversity or to isolate single genes by whole-genome resequencing and in silico variant detection. However such an approach remains expensive given the 5 Gb size of the barley genome. Targeted sequencing of the mRNA-coding exome reduces barley genomic complexity more than 50-fold, thus dramatically reducing this heavy sequencing and analysis load. We have developed and employed an in-solution hybridization-based sequence capture platform to selectively enrich for a 61.6 megabase coding sequence target that includes predicted genes from the genome assembly of the cultivar Morex as well as publicly available full-length cDNAs and de novo assembled RNA-Seq consensus sequence contigs. The platform provides a highly specific capture with substantial and reproducible enrichment of targeted exons, both for cultivated barley and related species. We show that this exome capture platform provides a clear path towards a broader and deeper understanding of the natural variation residing in the mRNA-coding part of the barley genome and will thus constitute a valuable resource for applications such as mapping-by-sequencing and genetic diversity analyzes.
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- Martin Mascher
- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK)Corrensstr. 3, D-06466, Stadt Seeland (OT) Gatersleben, Germany
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- Roche NimbleGen, Inc.500 South Rosa Road, Madison, WI, 53719, USA
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK)Corrensstr. 3, D-06466, Stadt Seeland (OT) Gatersleben, Germany
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- The Genome Analysis Centre, Norwich Research ParkNorwich, NR4 7UH, UK
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- The Genome Analysis Centre, Norwich Research ParkNorwich, NR4 7UH, UK
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- The Genome Analysis Centre, Norwich Research ParkNorwich, NR4 7UH, UK
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK)Corrensstr. 3, D-06466, Stadt Seeland (OT) Gatersleben, Germany
- † Present address:The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK
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- MIPS/IBIS, Helmholtz Zentrum MünchenD-85764, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Roche NimbleGen, Inc.500 South Rosa Road, Madison, WI, 53719, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State UniversityManhattan, KS, 66506, USA
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- The James Hutton InstituteInvergowrie, Dundee, DD2 5DA, UK
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- Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of MinnesotaSt. Paul, MN, 55108, USA
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- Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of MinnesotaSt. Paul, MN, 55108, USA
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK)Corrensstr. 3, D-06466, Stadt Seeland (OT) Gatersleben, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK)Corrensstr. 3, D-06466, Stadt Seeland (OT) Gatersleben, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK)Corrensstr. 3, D-06466, Stadt Seeland (OT) Gatersleben, Germany
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- MIPS/IBIS, Helmholtz Zentrum MünchenD-85764, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of MinnesotaSt. Paul, MN, 55108, USA
- Department of Plant Biology, University of MinnesotaSt. Paul, MN, 55108, USA
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- The James Hutton InstituteInvergowrie, Dundee, DD2 5DA, UK
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK)Corrensstr. 3, D-06466, Stadt Seeland (OT) Gatersleben, Germany
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Marques A, Banaei-Moghaddam AM, Klemme S, Blattner FR, Niwa K, Guerra M, Houben A. B chromosomes of rye are highly conserved and accompanied the development of early agriculture. Ann Bot 2013; 112:527-34. [PMID: 23739836 PMCID: PMC3718213 DOI: 10.1093/aob/mct121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2013] [Accepted: 04/16/2013] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS Supernumerary B chromosomes (Bs) represent a specific type of selfish genetic element. As Bs are dispensable for normal growth, it is expected to observe B polymorphisms among populations. To address whether Bs maintained in geographically distinct populations of cultivated and weedy rye are polymorphic, the distribution patterns and the transcriptional activity of different B-located repeats were analysed. METHODS Bs of cultivated and weedy rye from seven origins were analysed by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) with probes specific for the pericentromeric and interstitial regions as well as the B-specific non-disjunction control region. The DNA replication, chromatin composition and transcription behaviour of the non-disjunction regions were determined. To address whether the B-marker repeats E3900 and D1100 have diverged genotypes of different origin at the sequence level, the genomic sequences of both repeats were compared between cultivated rye and weedy rye from five different origins. KEY RESULTS B chromosomes in cultivated and weedy rye have maintained a similar molecular structure at the level of subspecies. The high degree of conservation of the non-disjunction control region regarding its transcription activity, histone composition and replication underlines the functional importance of this chromosome region for the maintenance of Bs. The conserved chromosome structure suggests a monophyletic origin of the rye B. As Bs were found in different countries, it is likely that Bs were frequently present in the seed material used in early agriculture. CONCLUSIONS The surprisingly conserved chromosome structure suggests that although the rye Bs experienced rapid evolution including multiple rearrangements at the early evolutionary stages, this process has slowed significantly and may have even ceased during its recent evolution.
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- André Marques
- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Corrensstr. 3, D-06466 Gatersleben, Germany
- Laboratory of Plant Cytogenetics and Evolution, Department of Botany, UFPE, Brazil
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Corrensstr. 3, D-06466 Gatersleben, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Corrensstr. 3, D-06466 Gatersleben, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Corrensstr. 3, D-06466 Gatersleben, Germany
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- Laboratory of Plant Breeding, Faculty of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Japan
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- Laboratory of Plant Cytogenetics and Evolution, Department of Botany, UFPE, Brazil
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Corrensstr. 3, D-06466 Gatersleben, Germany
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Guicking D, Kröger-Kilian T, Weising K, Blattner FR. Single nucleotide sequence analysis: a cost- and time-effective protocol for the analysis of microsatellite- and indel-rich chloroplast DNA regions. Mol Ecol Resour 2013; 8:62-5. [PMID: 21585719 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-8286.2007.01883.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We present a simple method to screen for DNA sequence variation in microsatellite- and indel-rich regions of the chloroplast genome. The single nucleotide sequence (SNS) analysis provides a trade-off between the time- and cost-effective, but less informative and homoplasy-sensitive electrophoretic detection of microsatellite and indel size variation on the one hand, and more costly, but also more accurate methods like DNA sequencing on the other. The principle of the SNS method is to sequence one instead of all four nucleotides of a target region amplified by polymerase chain reaction. By careful selection of the respective nucleotide, almost the same amount of information can be retrieved from these partial sequences as could be from complete sequences; however, only a third to a fourth of the money and time resources are needed.
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- Daniela Guicking
- Plant Molecular Systematics, University of Kassel, D-34109 Kassel, Germany, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Science (IPK), D-06466 Gatersleben, Germany
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Harpke D, Meng S, Rutten T, Kerndorff H, Blattner FR. Phylogeny of Crocus (Iridaceae) based on one chloroplast and two nuclear loci: ancient hybridization and chromosome number evolution. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2012; 66:617-27. [PMID: 23123733 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.10.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2012] [Revised: 08/30/2012] [Accepted: 10/08/2012] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Crocus consists of about 100 species distributed from western Europe and northern Africa to western China, with the center of diversity on the Balkan Peninsula and in Asia Minor. Our study focuses on clarifying phylogenetic relationships and chromosome number evolution within the genus using sequences of the chloroplast trnL-F region, the nuclear ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region, and a part of the nuclear single-copy gene pCOSAt103. In a combined dataset of ITS and trnL-F sequences, 115 individuals representing 110 taxa from both subgenera and all sections and series of Crocus were analyzed with Bayesian phylogenetic inference. For pCOSAt103 79 individuals representing 74 Crocus taxa were included, and for the majority of them PCR amplicons were cloned and up to eight clones per individual were sequenced to detect allopolyploidization events. Romulea species were included as outgroup in both analyses. Characteristics of seed surface structures were evaluated by scanning electron microscopy. Phylogenetic analysis of ITS/trnL-F data resulted in a monophyletic genus Crocus, probably monophyletic sections Crocus and Nudiscapus, and inferred monophyly for eight of the 15 series of the genus. The C. biflorus aggregate, thought to be consisting of closely related subspecies, was found to be polyphyletic, the taxa occurring within three major clades in the phylogenetic tree. Cloning of pCOSAt103 resulted in the detection of homoeologous copies in about one third of the taxa of section Nudiscapus, indicating an allotetraploid origin of this section. Reconstruction of chromosome number evolution along the phylogenetic tree using a probabilistic and a parsimony approach arrived at partly contradictory results. Both analyses agreed however on the occurrence of multiple polyploidization and dysploidy events. B chromosomes evolved at least five times independently within the genus, preferentially in clades characterized by karyotype changes.
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- Dörte Harpke
- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Research (IPK), D-06466 Gatersleben, Germany.
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Kohl S, Hollmann J, Blattner FR, Radchuk V, Andersch F, Steuernagel B, Schmutzer T, Scholz U, Krupinska K, Weber H, Weschke W. A putative role for amino acid permeases in sink-source communication of barley tissues uncovered by RNA-seq. BMC Plant Biol 2012; 12:154. [PMID: 22935196 PMCID: PMC3495740 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-12-154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2012] [Accepted: 08/22/2012] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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BACKGROUND The majority of nitrogen accumulating in cereal grains originates from proteins remobilised from vegetative organs. However, interactions between grain filling and remobilisation are poorly understood. We used transcriptome large-scale pyrosequencing of flag leaves, glumes and developing grains to identify cysteine peptidase and N transporter genes playing a role in remobilisation and accumulation of nitrogen in barley. RESULTS Combination of already known and newly derived sequence information reduced redundancy, increased contig length and identified new members of cysteine peptidase and N transporter gene families. The dataset for N transporter genes was aligned with N transporter amino acid sequences of rice and Arabidopsis derived from Aramemnon database. 57 AAT, 45 NRT1/PTR and 22 OPT unigenes identified by this approach cluster to defined subgroups in the respective phylogenetic trees, among them 25 AAT, 8 NRT1/PTR and 5 OPT full-length sequences. Besides, 59 unigenes encoding cysteine peptidases were identified and subdivided into different families of the papain cysteine peptidase clade. Expression profiling of full-length AAT genes highlighted amino acid permeases as the group showing highest transcriptional activity. HvAAP2 and HvAAP6 are highly expressed in vegetative organs whereas HvAAP3 is grain-specific. Sequence similarities cluster HvAAP2 and the putative transporter HvAAP6 together with Arabidopsis transporters, which are involved in long-distance transfer of amino acids. HvAAP3 is closely related to AtAAP1 and AtAAP8 playing a role in supplying N to developing seeds. An important role in amino acid re-translocation can be considered for HvLHT1 and HvLHT2 which are specifically expressed in glumes and flag leaves, respectively. PCA and K-means clustering of AAT transcript data revealed coordinate developmental stages in flag leaves, glumes and grains. Phloem-specific metabolic compounds are proposed that might signal high grain demands for N to distantly located plant organs. CONCLUSIONS The approach identified cysteine peptidases and specific N transporters of the AAT family as obviously relevant for grain filling and thus, grain yield and quality in barley. Up to now, information is based only on transcript data. To make it relevant for application, the role of identified candidates in sink-source communication has to be analysed in more detail.
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- Stefan Kohl
- Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung (IPK), Gatersleben, D-06466, Germany
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- Christian-Albrechts-Universität (CAU), Kiel, D-24118, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung (IPK), Gatersleben, D-06466, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung (IPK), Gatersleben, D-06466, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung (IPK), Gatersleben, D-06466, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung (IPK), Gatersleben, D-06466, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung (IPK), Gatersleben, D-06466, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung (IPK), Gatersleben, D-06466, Germany
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- Christian-Albrechts-Universität (CAU), Kiel, D-24118, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung (IPK), Gatersleben, D-06466, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung (IPK), Gatersleben, D-06466, Germany
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Brassac J, Jakob SS, Blattner FR. Progenitor-derivative relationships of Hordeum polyploids (Poaceae, Triticeae) inferred from sequences of TOPO6, a nuclear low-copy gene region. PLoS One 2012; 7:e33808. [PMID: 22479447 PMCID: PMC3316500 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033808] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2011] [Accepted: 02/22/2012] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Polyploidization is a major mechanism of speciation in plants. Within the barley genus Hordeum, approximately half of the taxa are polyploids. While for diploid species a good hypothesis of phylogenetic relationships exists, there is little information available for the polyploids (4×, 6×) of Hordeum. Relationships among all 33 diploid and polyploid Hordeum species were analyzed with the low-copy nuclear marker region TOPO6 for 341 Hordeum individuals and eight outgroup species. PCR products were either directly sequenced or cloned and on average 12 clones per individual were included in phylogenetic analyses. In most diploid Hordeum species TOPO6 is probably a single-copy locus. Most sequences found in polyploid individuals phylogenetically cluster together with sequences derived from diploid species and thus allow the identification of parental taxa of polyploids. Four groups of sequences occurring only in polyploid taxa are interpreted as footprints of extinct diploid taxa, which contributed to allopolyploid evolution. Our analysis identifies three key species involved in the evolution of the American polyploids of the genus. (i) All but one of the American tetraploids have a TOPO6 copy originating from the Central Asian diploid H. roshevitzii, the second copy clustering with different American diploid species. (ii) All hexaploid species from the New World have a copy of an extinct close relative of H. californicum and (iii) possess the TOPO6 sequence pattern of tetraploid H. jubatum, each with an additional copy derived from different American diploids. Tetraploid H. bulbosum is an autopolyploid, while the assumed autopolyploid H. brevisubulatum (4×, 6×) was identified as allopolyploid throughout most of its distribution area. The use of a proof-reading DNA polymerase in PCR reduced the proportion of chimerical sequences in polyploids in comparison to Taq polymerase.
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- Taxonomy and Evolutionary Biology, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany
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Shutov AD, Blattner FR, Kakhovskaya IA, Müntz K. New aspects of the molecular evolution of legumains, Asn-specific cysteine proteinases. J Plant Physiol 2012; 169:319-321. [PMID: 22196948 DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2011.11.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2011] [Revised: 10/24/2011] [Accepted: 11/07/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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The molecular evolution of asparagine-specific cysteine proteinases, called legumains, from plants and animals was analyzed using newly available related amino acid sequences from lower eukaryotes, bacteria and Archaea. The results suggest that genuine legumains originate from prokaryote pro-legumains. The evolutionary roots of genuine legumains from plants and animals descend from Parabasalia and Alveolata before developing into their respective separate branches headed by Chlorophyta and Placozoa. The branch of legumain-like plant/animal glycosylphosphatidyl inositol transamidases separated from the general evolutionary stem of legumains at the level of lower eukaryotes. Modeling of the 3D structure of a plant genuine legumain underlined the previously suggested similarity of the active site geometry of legumains with caspases, which are Asp-specific bacterial and eukaryote proteinases.
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- Andrei D Shutov
- Laboratory of Plant Biochemistry, State University of Moldova, Mateevici Str. 60, MD-2009 Kishinev, Republic of Moldova.
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Ashtiyani RK, Moghaddam AMB, Schubert V, Rutten T, Fuchs J, Demidov D, Blattner FR, Houben A. AtHaspin phosphorylates histone H3 at threonine 3 during mitosis and contributes to embryonic patterning in Arabidopsis. Plant J 2011; 68:443-54. [PMID: 21749502 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2011.04699.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Post-translational histone modifications regulate many aspects of chromosome activity. Threonine 3 of histone H3 is highly conserved, but the significance of its phosphorylation is unclear, and the identity of the corresponding kinase in plants is unknown. Therefore, we characterized the candidate kinase in Arabidopsis thaliana, called AtHaspin. Recombinant AtHaspin in vitro phosphorylates histone H3 at threonine 3. Reduction of H3 threonine 3 phosphorylation level and reduced chromatin condensation in interphase nuclei by AtHaspin RNAi supports the proposition that this kinase is involved in histone H3 phosphorylation in vivo in mitotic cells. In addition, we provide a developmental function for a Haspin kinase. At the whole plant level, altered expression of the kinase induced pleiotropic phenotypes with defects in floral organs and vascular tissue. It reduced fertility and modified adventitious shoot apical meristems that then gave rise to plants with multi-rosettes and multi-shoots. Haspin mutant embryos frequently showed alteration in division plane orientation that could be traced back to the earliest divisions of embryo development, thus Haspin contributes to embryonic patterning.
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- Raheleh Karimi Ashtiyani
- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Corrensstr. 3, 06466 Gatersleben, Germany
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Benor S, Fuchs J, Blattner FR. Genome size variation in Corchorus olitorius (Malvaceae s.l.) and its correlation with elevation and phenotypic traits. Genome 2011; 54:575-85. [PMID: 21745142 DOI: 10.1139/g11-021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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In this study, we report genome size variations in Corchorus olitorius L. (Malvaceae s.l.), a crop species known for its morphological plasticity and broad geographical distribution, and Corchorus capsularis L., the second widely cultivated species in the genus. Flow cytometric analyses were conducted with several tissues and nuclei isolation buffers using 69 accessions of C. olitorius and 4 accessions of C. capsularis, representing different habitats and geographical origins. The mean 2C nuclear DNA content (± SD) of C. olitorius was estimated to be 0.918 ± 0.011 pg, with a minimum of 0.882 ± 0.004 pg, and a maximum of 0.942 ± 0.004 pg. All studied plant materials were found to be diploid with 2n = 14. The genome size is negatively correlated with days to flowering (r = -0.29, p < 0.05) and positively with seed surface area (r = 0.38, p < 0.05). Moreover, a statistically significant positive correlation was detected between genome size and growing elevation (r = 0.59, p < 0.001) in wild populations. The mean 2C nuclear DNA content of C. capsularis was estimated to be 0.802 ± 0.008 pg. In comparison to other economically important crop species, the genome sizes of C. olitorius and C. capsularis are much smaller, and therewith closer to that of rice. The relatively small genome sizes will be of general advantage for any efforts into genomics or sequencing approaches of these species.
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- Solomon Benor
- Taxonomy and Evolutionary Biology, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany.
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Thomashow MF, Nutter R, Postle K, Chilton MD, Blattner FR, Powell A, Gordon MP, Nester EW. Recombination between higher plant DNA and the Ti plasmid of Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2010; 77:6448-52. [PMID: 16592915 PMCID: PMC350302 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.77.11.6448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The Ti plasmid sequences (T-DNA) from the octopine-producing crown gall tumor A6S/2 were isolated by molecular cloning, using the bacteriophage lambda vector Charon 4A. Analysis of the cloned DNA segments indicates that the Ti plasmid sequences are covalently joined to plant nuclear DNA. These data demonstrate that genetic recombination between a eukaryote and a prokaryote can occur as a natural phenomenon.
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- M F Thomashow
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195
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Jakob SS, Heibl C, Rödder D, Blattner FR. Population demography influences climatic niche evolution: evidence from diploid American Hordeum species (Poaceae). Mol Ecol 2010; 19:1423-38. [PMID: 20456231 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294x.2010.04582.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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In this study, we explore the interplay of population demography with the evolution of ecological niches during or after speciation in Hordeum. While large populations maintain a high level of standing genetic diversity, gene flow and recombination buffers against fast alterations in ecological adaptation. Small populations harbour lower allele diversity but can more easily shift to new niches if they initially survive under changed conditions. Thus, large populations should be more conservative regarding niche changes in comparison to small populations. We used environmental niche modelling together with phylogenetic, phylogeographic and population genetic analyses to infer the correlation of population demography with changes in ecological niche dimensions in 12 diploid Hordeum species from the New World, forming four monophyletic groups. Our analyses found both shifts and conservatism in distinct niche dimensions within and among clades. Speciation due to vicariance resulted in three species with no pronounced climate niche differences, while species originating due to long-distance dispersals or otherwise encountering genetic bottlenecks mostly revealed climate niche shifts. Niche convergence among clades indicates a niche-filling pattern during the last 2 million years in South American Hordeum. We provide evidence that species, which did not encounter population reductions mainly showed ecoclimatic niche conservatism, while major niche shifts occurred in species which have undergone population bottlenecks. Our data allow the conclusion that population demography influences adaptation and niche shifts or conservatism in South American Hordeum species.
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- Sabine S Jakob
- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Research (IPK), Corrensstr. 3, D-06466 Gatersleben, Germany.
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Schallau A, Arzenton F, Johnston AJ, Hähnel U, Koszegi D, Blattner FR, Altschmied L, Haberer G, Barcaccia G, Bäumlein H. Identification and genetic analysis of the APOSPORY locus in Hypericum perforatum L. Plant J 2010; 62:773-84. [PMID: 20202173 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2010.04188.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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The introduction of apomixis - seed formation without fertilization - into crop plants is a long-held goal of breeding research, since it would allow for the ready fixation of heterozygosity. The genetic basis of apomixis, whether of the aposporous or the diplosporous type, is still only poorly understood. Hypericum perforatum (St John's wort), a plant with a small genome and a short generation time, can be aposporous and/or parthenogenetic, and so represents an interesting model dicot for apomixis research. Here we describe a genetic analysis which first defined and then isolated a locus (designated HAPPY for Hypericum APOSPORY) associated with apospory. Amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) profiling was used to generate a cleaved amplified polymorphic sequence (CAPS) marker for HAPPY which co-segregated with apospory but not with parthenogenesis, showing that these two components of apomixis are independently controlled. Apospory was inherited as a dominant simplex gene at the tetraploid level. Part of the HAPPY sequence is homologous to the Arabidopsis thaliana gene ARI7 encoding the ring finger protein ARIADNE7. This protein is predicted to be involved in various regulatory processes, including ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation. While the aposporous and sexual alleles of the HAPPY component HpARI were co-expressed in many parts of the plant, the gene product of the apomict's allele is truncated. Cloning HpARI represents the first step towards the full characterization of HAPPY and the elucidation of the molecular mechanisms underlying apomixis in H. perforatum.
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- Anna Schallau
- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Corrensstrasse 3, 06466 Gatersleben, Germany
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Kotseruba V, Pistrick K, Blattner FR, Kumke K, Weiss O, Rutten T, Fuchs J, Endo T, Nasuda S, Ghukasyan A, Houben A. The evolution of the hexaploid grass Zingeriakochii (Mez) Tzvel. (2n=12) was accompanied by complex hybridization and uniparental loss of ribosomal DNA. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2010; 56:146-55. [PMID: 20060916 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.01.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2009] [Revised: 12/16/2009] [Accepted: 01/03/2010] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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In the grass tribe Poeae a small group of taxa occur with an exceptionally low chromosome number of 2n=2x=4 belonging to the closely related genera Colpodium and Zingeria. To understand the formation of polyploids in this group we analyzed the evolution of allohexaploid Zingeriakochii (2n=12) and its presumable ancestral species. Genomic insitu hybridization demonstrated that Z.kochii evolved from an interspecific hybrid involving species closely related to contemporary Z.biebersteiniana (2n=4) and Colpodiumversicolor (2n=4) and a third unknown species. Following allopolyploidization of Z.kochii the biebersteiniana-like parental chromosomes underwent loss of ribosomal DNA. No interlocus homogenization of 45S rDNA took place in Z.kochii and phylogenetic analysis showed that C.versicolor contributed its genome to Z.kochii relatively recently. Insitu hybridization was particularly effective in understanding the allopolyploid evolution in Zingeria while the analysis of ITS sequences alone would have resulted in a wrong interpretation of the allopolyploid history of the genus.
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Jakob SS, Blattner FR. Two extinct diploid progenitors were involved in allopolyploid formation in the Hordeum murinum (Poaceae: Triticeae) taxon complex. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2009; 55:650-9. [PMID: 19850141 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.10.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2009] [Revised: 10/12/2009] [Accepted: 10/13/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Wall barley (Hordeum murinum) occurs with three subspecies, naturally distributed from southern Central Asia through the Mediterranean region to northwestern Europe, but now is an invasive weed in many parts of the world. Subspecies glaucum is diploid, while subspp. murinum and leporinum are tetraploids, the latter also occurring with a hexaploid cytotype. Earlier analyses were inconclusive regarding auto- or allopolyploid origins of subspp. murinum and leporinum. We analyzed the phylogeny of the taxon group using amplified fragment length polymorphisms (AFLP), sequences of cloned PCR products of the nuclear ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacer region (ITS), a part of the nuclear single-copy gene topoisomerase 6 (Topo6) spanning two introns, and sequences of the chloroplast trnL-F region together with length variation at six chloroplast microsatellite loci, including multiple individuals of each subspecies and cytotype, covering the entire natural distribution area of the species. Phylogenetic analyses with all used markers differentiate diploid and polyploids. Sequences of both nuclear regions indicated that diploid subsp. glaucum was involved in tetraploid formation together with a now extinct species belonging to the same Hordeum genome group (Xu). Furthermore, AFLP and ITS analyses suggest that a third, though closely related extinct taxon contributed to hexaploid formation. No method was able to discern tetraploid subspp. murinum and leporinum, which we attribute to the young age of subsp. murinum. None of the used molecular markers revealed a strong geographic pattern of genetic variation that would allow comprehensive phylogeographic analysis, most probably due to the very effective seed dispersal of the taxa.
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- Sabine S Jakob
- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Research (IPK), D-06466 Gatersleben, Germany
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Baier C, Guicking D, Prinz K, Fey-Wagner C, Wöhrmann T, Weising K, Debener T, Schie S, Blattner FR. Isolation and characterization of 11 new microsatellite markers for Macaranga (Euphorbiaceae). Mol Ecol Resour 2009; 9:1049-52. [PMID: 21564836 DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2009.02567.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We provide primer sequences for 11 new polymorphic microsatellite markers developed in the tropical ant-plant genus Macaranga (Euphorbiaceae), after enrichment cloning of Macaranga tanarius and Macaranga hypoleuca. Allele numbers per locus ranged from two to 16 among 20 accessions of M. tanarius, and from three to 10 among 22 accessions of M. hypoleuca. Observed and expected heterozygosities ranged from 0.150 to 0.900 and from 0.375 to 0.894 in M. tanarius, and from 0.545 to 1.000 and from 0.434 to 0.870 in M. hypoleuca, respectively. Six of the 11 primer pairs successfully cross-amplified polymorphic polymerase chain reaction products in Macaranga winkleri.
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- Christina Baier
- Leibniz-Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), 06466 Gatersleben, Germany, Plant Molecular Systematics, University of Kassel, 34109 Kassel, Germany, Institute for Plant Genetics, University of Hannover, 30419 Hannover, Germany
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Jakob SS, Martinez-Meyer E, Blattner FR. Phylogeographic analyses and paleodistribution modeling indicate pleistocene in situ survival of Hordeum species (Poaceae) in southern Patagonia without genetic or spatial restriction. Mol Biol Evol 2009; 26:907-23. [PMID: 19168565 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msp012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Although many phylogeographic studies have been conducted to analyze the impact of the ice age on species history of Northern Hemisphere mountain plants, such studies are nearly absent for plants of the Southern Hemisphere, particularly for lowland vegetation units. These species should have been primarily influenced by climate cooling and changes in precipitation regime instead of glaciers covering their distribution areas. It is thought that New World lowland species generally evaded climate changes by equatorial migration during Pleistocene cold cycles and recolonized their habitats at higher latitudes when climate warmed up again. In contrast to Eurasia, latitudinal orientation of the major mountain ranges in the Americas made these migrations easily possible. In the huge steppe of the Patagonian plains and adjacent Andes of southern South America thrives a group of three sympatrically distributed diploid species of the barley genus Hordeum, which originated during the last 1.3 million years (My) from a common progenitor. To get insights into the speciation mode of the taxa and to test the hypothesis of longitudinal migration of steppe vegetation during the Pleistocene, we conducted population genetic and phylogeographic analyses based on sequences of the chloroplast trnL-F region from 922 individuals. We found a high number of chloroplast haplotypes shared among species, which indicate speciation through vicariance events. Analysis of the distribution of genetic diversity within and among species inferred an origin of Hordeum comosum in the Central Argentine Andes, whereas Hordeum patagonicum and Hordeum pubiflorum originated in southern Patagonia. The extant occurrence of H. comosum in southern Patagonia and H. pubiflorum northward along the Argentine Andes was caused by reciprocal migration after the origin of the species. Surprisingly, molecular data provided no evidence for range shifts toward the north during the last glacial maximum and recolonization of southerly habitats afterward, but indicated in situ survival of large populations of Hordeum species within their extant distribution ranges even in southernmost Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. Ecoclimatic niche modeling used to reconstruct the potential paleodistribution areas of the species during the last glacial maximum shows that climate conditions were sufficient for the species to survive Pleistocene cold cycles in Patagonia without significant geographic restrictions. Molecular data together with ecological niche modeling indicate stable geographic distribution areas in two of the three species for at least the Holocene. As the Hordeum species are characteristic taxa of different steppe habitats, we speculate that the Patagonian steppe might be an old vegetation unit occurring for up to 4.5 My in southern South America.
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- Sabine S Jakob
- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany.
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The origin and activity of 45S rDNA located on micro B chromosomes of the daisy Brachycome dichromosomatica were analysed. The internal transcribed spacer 2 (ITS2) of the 45S rRNA gene was sequenced for micro B, large B, and A chromosomes of B. dichromosomatica cytodeme A2, and conserved differences were identified between sequences originating from A and both types of B chromosomes. Phylogenetic analysis did not identify a species containing an ITS2 sequence more similar to either of the B chromosome sequences than the B. dichromosomatica A chromosome sequences. Thus, an origin of the B chromosomes from A chromosomes at a time prior to the divergence of the 4 cytodemes of B. dichromosomatica is suggested. The frequent (70%) nucleolar non-association of micro B chromosomes suggests inactivity of micro B 45S rDNA.
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- Sylvia Marschner
- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), 06466 Gatersleben, Germany
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Jakob SS, Ihlow A, Blattner FR. Combined ecological niche modelling and molecular phylogeography revealed the evolutionary history ofHordeum marinum(Poaceae) - niche differentiation, loss of genetic diversity, and speciation in Mediterranean Quaternary refugia. Mol Ecol 2007; 16:1713-27. [PMID: 17402985 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294x.2007.03228.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The Hordeum marinum species group consists of two annual grasses of western Eurasian saline meadows or marshes. The two grasses split in the Quaternary about two million years ago. Hordeum marinum and the diploid of Hordeum gussoneanum (2x) co-occur throughout the Mediterranean basin, while the autotetraploid cytotype of H. gussoneanum (4x) overlaps with its diploid progenitor geographically only in the utmost Eastern Mediterranean, extending from there eastwards into Asia. Using chloroplast sequences of the trnL-F region, six newly developed chloroplast microsatellite loci, ecological predictive models based on climate data, and the present geographical distribution of the two species we analysed differentiation processes in the H. marinum group. The chloroplast data indicated clear differences in the history of both species. For H. marinum we found a subdivision between genetically variable populations from the Iberian Peninsula and the more uniform populations from the remaining Mediterranean. As an explanation, we assume Pleistocene fragmentation of an earlier widespread population and survival in an Iberian and a Central Mediterranean glacial refuge. Chloroplast variation was completely absent within the cytotypes of H. gussoneanum, indicating a severe and recent genetic bottleneck. Due to this lack of chloroplast variation only the combination of ecological habitat modelling with molecular data analyses allowed conclusions about the history of this taxon. The distribution areas of the two cytotypes of H. gussoneanum overlap today in parts of Turkey, indicating an area with similar climate conditions during polyploid formation. However, after its origin the polyploid cytotype underwent a pronounced ecological shift, compared to its diploid progenitor, allowing it to colonize mountainous inland habitats between the Mediterranean basin and Afghanistan. The extant sympatric occurrence of H. marinum and H. gussoneanum 2x in the Mediterranean region is interpreted as a result of secondary contact after fast Holocene range expansion out of different ice age refugia.
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- Sabine S Jakob
- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Sciences (IPK), Corrensstr. 3, D-06466 Gatersleben, Germany.
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Berr A, Pecinka A, Meister A, Kreth G, Fuchs J, Blattner FR, Lysak MA, Schubert I. Chromosome arrangement and nuclear architecture but not centromeric sequences are conserved between Arabidopsis thaliana and Arabidopsis lyrata. Plant J 2006; 48:771-83. [PMID: 17118036 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2006.02912.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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In contrast to the situation described for mammals and Drosophila, chromosome territory (CT) arrangement and somatic homologous pairing in interphase nuclei of Arabidopsis thaliana (n = 5) are predominantly random except for a more frequent association of the chromosomes bearing a homologous nucleolus organizer region. To find out whether this chromosome arrangement is also characteristic for other species of the genus Arabidopsis, we investigated Arabidopsis lyrata ssp. lyrata (n = 8), one of the closest relatives of A. thaliana. First, we determined the size of each chromosome and chromosome arm, the sequence type of centromeric repeats and their distribution between individual centromeres and the position of the 5S/45S rDNA arrays in A. lyrata. Then we demonstrated that CT arrangement, homologous pairing and sister chromatid alignment of distinct euchromatic and/or heterochromatic regions within A. lyrata interphase nuclei are similar to that in A. thaliana nuclei. Thus, the arrangement of interphase chromosomes appears to be conserved between both taxa that diverged about 5 million years ago. Since the chromosomes of A. lyrata resemble those of the presumed ancestral karyotype, a similar arrangement of interphase chromosomes is also to be expected for other closely related diploid species of the Brassicaceae family.
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- Alexandre Berr
- Leibniz-Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Corrensstrasse 3, D-06466 Gatersleben, Germany
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Bänfer G, Moog U, Fiala B, Mohamed M, Weising K, Blattner FR. A chloroplast genealogy of myrmecophytic Macaranga species (Euphorbiaceae) in Southeast Asia reveals hybridization, vicariance and long-distance dispersals. Mol Ecol 2006; 15:4409-24. [PMID: 17107473 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294x.2006.03064.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Macaranga (Euphorbiaceae) includes about 280 species with a palaeotropic distribution. The genus not only comprises some of the most prominent pioneer tree species in Southeast Asian lowland dipterocarp forests, it also exhibits a substantial radiation of ant-plants (myrmecophytes). Obligate ant-plant mutualisms are formed by about 30 Macaranga species and 13 ant species of the genera Crematogaster or Camponotus. To improve our understanding of the co-evolution of the ants and their host plants, we aim at reconstructing comparative organellar phylogeographies of both partners across their distributional range. Preliminary evidence indicated that chloroplast DNA introgression among closely related Macaranga species might occur. We therefore constructed a comprehensive chloroplast genealogy based on DNA sequence data from the noncoding ccmp2, ccmp6, and atpB-rbcL regions for 144 individuals from 41 Macaranga species, covering all major evolutionary lineages within the three sections that contain myrmecophytes. A total of 88 chloroplast haplotypes were identified, and grouped into a statistical parsimony network that clearly distinguished sections and well-defined subsectional groups. Within these groups, the arrangement of haplotypes followed geographical rather than taxonomical criteria. Thus, up to six chloroplast haplotypes were found within single species, and up to seven species shared a single haplotype. The spatial distribution of the chloroplast types revealed several dispersals between the Malay Peninsula and Borneo, and a deep split between Sabah and the remainder of Borneo. Our large-scale chloroplast genealogy highlights the complex history of migration, hybridization, and speciation in the myrmecophytes of the genus Macaranga. It will serve as a guideline for adequate sampling and data interpretation in phylogeographic studies of individual Macaranga species and species groups.
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- Gudrun Bänfer
- Plant Molecular Systematics, University of Kassel, D-34109 Kassel, Germany
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Jakob SS, Blattner FR. A Chloroplast Genealogy of Hordeum (Poaceae): Long-Term Persisting Haplotypes, Incomplete Lineage Sorting, Regional Extinction, and the Consequences for Phylogenetic Inference. Mol Biol Evol 2006; 23:1602-12. [PMID: 16754643 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msl018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 168] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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To analyze reasons for inconclusive results of earlier chloroplast phylogenies in the grass genus Hordeum, we established a genealogy of chloroplast haplotypes by sequencing the trnL-trnF region in 875 individuals, covering all 31 species of the genus. Although the outcomes of phenetic and parsimony analyses of 88 haplotypes were ambiguous, a network approach showed that in Hordeum ancient chloroplast types co-occur with their descendants. Moreover, we found up to 18 different chloroplast haplotypes within a single species and up to 6 species sharing single haplotypes. Persisting polymorphisms together with incomplete lineage sorting occurred preferentially in the rapidly speciating New World taxa of the genus, where ancient chloroplast types have survived for at least 4 Myr. Lineages-through-time plots and a high number of missing chloroplast haplotypes indicated far-reaching extinction of chloroplast lineages in Europe and particularly the Mediterranean. Survival of these lineages in East Asia and North America resulted in chloroplast relationships that markedly differed from nuclear estimations of species relationships. Thus, even for the deepest splits in the genus, reaching back more than 9 Myr, no safe phylogenetic inference from chloroplast data is possible in Hordeum. The chloroplast genealogy, however, revealed biogeographic patterns and indicated processes involved in speciation in Hordeum. We conclude that the described phenomena are not restricted to Hordeum and that the knowledge of the chloroplast relationships within a genus is indispensable to prevent misinterpretation of phylogeographic data within single species.
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- Sabine S Jakob
- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Science (IPK), D-06466 Gatersleben, Germany
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Sykorová E, Fajkus J, Mezníková M, Lim KY, Neplechová K, Blattner FR, Chase MW, Leitch AR. Minisatellite telomeres occur in the family Alliaceae but are lost in Allium. Am J Bot 2006; 93:814-23. [PMID: 21642143 DOI: 10.3732/ajb.93.6.814] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Although telomere sequences are considered to be highly conserved, there are switch-points in plant telomere evolution that are congruent with species' phylogenies. When Asparagales diverged, the Arabidopsis-type telomeric minisatellite repeat (TTTAGGG)(n) was first replaced by a human-type (TTAGGG)(n) repeat, and both were lost in Allium cepa (Alliaceae). We aimed to discover (1) when this loss occurred during divergence of Alliaceae and, (2) if (TTAGGG)(n) repeats were replaced by other known telomeric minisatellites. Slot-blot hybridization, fluorescent in situ hybridization, BAL31 digestion, asymmetric PCR, and cloning were used to identify and localize candidate telomeric sequences in species of Nothoscordum, Miersia, Ipheion, Tulbaghia, Gethyum, Gilliesia, Leucocoryne, Tristagma, and representatives of the three major Allium clades. Alliaceae genera other than Allium have human (TTAGGG)-type telomeric repeats that form telomeres. In Allium, only Tetrahymena-type (TTGGGG) repeats were ubiquitous in the genome, but they were not localized to telomeres. Likewise, the consensus telomeric repeats in Arabidopsis, human, Bombyx (TTAGG), Chlamydomonas (TTTTAGGG), and Oxytricha (TTTTGGGG) are absent in Allium telomeres. Alliaceae with human-type telomeres share telomere structures with related Asparagales species. We demonstrate that in the Allium ancestor human-type telomeric repeats were lost from telomeres and were not replaced by any investigated alternative minisatellite repeats. However, human and other types of minisatellite telomeric repeats are interspersed in some Allium genomes and their genomic signatures coincide with Allium clades.
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- Eva Sykorová
- Institute of Biophysics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Královopolská 135, 61265 Brno, Czech Republic
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