Journal
PLOS ONE
Volume 7, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036442
Keywords
-
Categories
Funding
- Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology
- National Basic Research Program of China [2012CB113901, 2012CB113906]
- National High Technology R&D Program of China [2012AA100201]
- China International Science and Technology Cooperation [2010DFA31730]
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Polyploidization, both ancient and recent, is frequent among plants. A two-step theory'' was proposed to explain the meso-triplication of the Brassica A'' genome: Brassica rapa. By accurately partitioning of this genome, we observed that genes in the less fractioned subgenome (LF) were dominantly expressed over the genes in more fractioned subgenomes (MFs: MF1 and MF2), while the genes in MF1 were slightly dominantly expressed over the genes in MF2. The results indicated that the dominantly expressed genes tended to be resistant against gene fractionation. By re-sequencing two B. rapa accessions: a vegetable turnip (VT117) and a Rapid Cycling line (L144), we found that genes in LF had less non-synonymous or frameshift mutations than genes in MFs; however mutation rates were not significantly different between MF1 and MF2. The differences in gene expression patterns and on-going gene death among the three subgenomes suggest that two-step'' genome triplication and differential subgenome methylation played important roles in the genome evolution of B. rapa.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available