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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-25132-2
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- European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program-Marie Skodowska-Curie [722338-PlantHUB]
- Swiss National Science Foundation [175556]
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This study discovered homologous genes involved in the control of distyly in distantly related taxa for the first time. Comparative analysis of transcriptomes revealed that brassinosteroids and auxin are the main hormones controlling style elongation in Primula veris and Fagopyrum esculentum, respectively. Shared biochemical pathways and the recruitment of genes related to the phytochrome-interacting factor (PIF) signaling network may underlie the expression of distyly in distantly related species.
Distyly, a floral dimorphism associated with heteromorphic self-incompatibility and controlled by the S-locus supergene, evolved independently multiple times. Comparative analyses of the first transcriptome atlas for the main distyly model, Primula veris, with other distylous species produced the following findings. A set of 53 constitutively expressed genes in P. veris did not include any of the housekeeping genes commonly used to normalize gene expression in qPCR experiments. The S-locus gene CYPT acquired its role in controlling style elongation via a change in expression profile. Comparison of genes differentially expressed between floral morphs revealed that brassinosteroids and auxin are the main hormones controlling style elongation in P. veris and Fagopyrum esculentum, respectively. Furthermore, shared biochemical pathways might underlie the expression of distyly in the distantly related P. veris, F. esculentum and Turnera subulata, suggesting a degree of correspondence between evolutionary convergence at phenotypic and molecular levels. Finally, we provide the first evidence supporting the previously proposed hypothesis that distyly supergenes of distantly related species evolved via the recruitment of genes related to the phytochrome-interacting factor (PIF) signaling network. To conclude, this is the first study that discovered homologous genes involved in the control of distyly in distantly related taxa.
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