Journal
DNA RESEARCH
Volume 24, Issue 6, Pages 597-607Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/dnares/dsx028
Keywords
tomato; reciprocal hybridization; MeDIP-seq; siRNAs
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31272159, 31572118]
- Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China [LZ12C15001]
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Wide hybridization is a common and efficient breeding strategy for enhancing crop yield and quality. An interesting phenomenon is that the reciprocal hybrids usually show different phenotypes, and its underlying mechanism is not well understood. Here, we reported our comparative analysis of the DNA methylation patterns in Solanum lycopersicum, Solanum pimpinellifolium and their reciprocal hybrids by methylated DNA immunoprecipitation sequencing. The reciprocal hybrids had lower levels of DNA methylation in CpG islands and LTR retroelements when compared with those of their parents. Importantly, remarkable differences in DNA methylation patterns, mainly in introns and CDS regions, were revealed between the reciprocal hybrids. These different methylated regions were mapped to 79 genes, 14 of which were selected for analysis of gene expression levels. While there was an inverse correlation between DNA methylation and gene expression in promoter regions, the relationship was complicated in gene body regions. Further association analysis revealed that there were 15 differentially methylated genes associated with siRNAs, and that the methylation levels of these genes were inversely correlated with respective siRNAs. All these data raised the possibility that the direction of hybridization induced the divergent epigenomes leading to changes in the transcription levels of reciprocal hybrids.
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