期刊
NEW PHYTOLOGIST
卷 207, 期 4, 页码 1181-1197出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/nph.13429
关键词
cotton (Gossypium spp.); fibre development; long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs); methylation; polyploidization
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31230056, 31201251]
- Huazhong Agricultural University Independent Scientific & Technological Innovation Foundation [2014bs03]
Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are transcripts of at least 200bp in length, possess no apparent coding capacity and are involved in various biological regulatory processes. Until now, no systematic identification of lncRNAs has been reported in cotton (Gossypium spp.). Here, we describe the identification of 30550 long intergenic noncoding RNA (lincRNA) loci (50566 transcripts) and 4718 long noncoding natural antisense transcript (lncNAT) loci (5826 transcripts). LncRNAs are rich in repetitive sequences and preferentially expressed in a tissue-specific manner. The detection of abundant genome-specific and/or lineage-specific lncRNAs indicated their weak evolutionary conservation. Approximately 76% of homoeologous lncRNAs exhibit biased expression patterns towards the At or Dt subgenomes. Compared with protein-coding genes, lncRNAs showed overall higher methylation levels and their expression was less affected by gene body methylation. Expression validation in different cotton accessions and coexpression network construction helped to identify several functional lncRNA candidates involved in cotton fibre initiation and elongation. Analysis of integrated expression from the subgenomes of lncRNAs generating miR397 and its targets as a result of genome polyploidization indicated their pivotal functions in regulating lignin metabolism in domesticated tetraploid cotton fibres. This study provides the first comprehensive identification of lncRNAs in Gossypium.
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