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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-21127-1
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- EU-funded AgreenSkills+ fellowship
- ANR CROC [CE19-2014]
- Bettencourt-Schueller Foundation
- Czech Science Foundation [17-05341 S]
- ERDF project Plants as a tool for sustainable global development [CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000827]
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In wheat, meiotic recombination between homoeologues is suppressed through the action of multiple loci. The discovery of the Ph2 gene and validation of its function have provided insight into reducing homoeologous recombination. The role of the MSH7-3D protein in meiotic stabilization of allopolyploidy offers an opportunity to enhance genetic diversity in wheat through alien gene introgression.
Meiotic recombination is a critical process for plant breeding, as it creates novel allele combinations that can be exploited for crop improvement. In wheat, a complex allohexaploid that has a diploid-like behaviour, meiotic recombination between homoeologous or alien chromosomes is suppressed through the action of several loci. Here, we report positional cloning of Pairing homoeologous 2 (Ph2) and functional validation of the wheat DNA mismatch repair protein MSH7-3D as a key inhibitor of homoeologous recombination, thus solving a half-century-old question. Similar to ph2 mutant phenotype, we show that mutating MSH7-3D induces a substantial increase in homoeologous recombination (up to 5.5 fold) in wheat-wild relative hybrids, which is also associated with a reduction in homologous recombination. These data reveal a role for MSH7-3D in meiotic stabilisation of allopolyploidy and provides an opportunity to improve wheat's genetic diversity through alien gene introgression, a major bottleneck facing crop improvement. In the allohexaploid genome of wheat, meiotic recombination between homoeologues is suppressed through the action of several loci. Here, the authors report the cloning of the long sought-after gene Ph2 and show its function in reduction of homoeologous recombination.
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