期刊
PLANT JOURNAL
卷 69, 期 6, 页码 1018-1029出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2011.04851.x
关键词
genome expansion; heterochromatin; LTR retrotransposon; Capsicum annuum; tandem repeat
资金
- Agricultural Genome Center [PJ008199012011]
- National Research Foundation [2010-0015105]
- Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology of the Republic of Korea
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2010-0015105] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
Although plant genome sizes are extremely diverse, the mechanism underlying the expansion of huge genomes that did not experience whole-genome duplication has not been elucidated. The pepper, Capsicum annuum, is an excellent model for studies of genome expansion due to its large genome size (2700 Mb) and the absence of whole genome duplication. As most of the pepper genome structure has been identified as constitutive heterochromatin, we investigated the evolution of this region in detail. Our findings show that the constitutive heterochromatin in pepper was actively expanded 20.07.5 million years ago through a massive accumulation of single-type Ty3/Gypsy-like elements that belong to the Del subgroup. Interestingly, derivatives of the Del elements, such as non-autonomous long terminal repeat retrotransposons and long-unit tandem repeats, played important roles in the expansion of constitutive heterochromatic regions. This expansion occurred not only in the existing heterochromatic regions but also into the euchromatic regions. Furthermore, our results revealed a repeat of unit length 1824 kb. This repeat was found not only in the pepper genome but also in the other solanaceous species, such as potato and tomato. These results represent a characteristic mechanism for large genome evolution in plants.
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