Genome balance and dosage effect drive allopolyploid formation in Brassica

Autor: Yao Cao, Kanglu Zhao, Junxiong Xu, Lei Wu, Fangyuan Hao, Meiping Sun, Jing Dong, Getu Chao, Hong Zhang, Xiufeng Gong, Yangui Chen, Chunli Chen, Wei Qian, J. Chris Pires, Patrick P. Edger, Zhiyong Xiong
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120
ISSN: 1091-6490
0027-8424
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2217672120
Popis: Polyploidy is a major evolutionary force that has shaped plant diversity. However, the various pathways toward polyploid formation and interploidy gene flow remain poorly understood. Here, we demonstrated that the immediate progeny of allotriploid AAC Brassica (obtained by crossing allotetraploid Brassica napus and diploid Brassica rapa ) was predominantly aneuploids with ploidal levels ranging from near-triploidy to near-hexaploidy, and their chromosome numbers deviated from the theoretical distribution toward increasing chromosome numbers, suggesting that they underwent selection. Karyotype and phenotype analyses showed that aneuploid individuals containing fewer imbalanced chromosomes had higher viability and fertility. Within three generations of self-fertilization, allotriploids mainly developed into near or complete allotetraploids similar to B. napus via gradually increasing chromosome numbers and fertility, suggesting that allotriploids could act as a bridge in polyploid formation, with aneuploids as intermediates. Self-fertilized interploidy hybrids ultimately generated new allopolyploids carrying different chromosome combinations, which may create a reproductive barrier preventing allotetraploidy back to diploidy and promote gene flow from diploids to allotetraploids. These results suggest that the maintenance of a proper genome balance and dosage drove the recurrent conversion of allotriploids to allotetraploids, which may contribute to the formation and evolution of polyploids.
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