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The Genomic Impact of Mycoheterotrophy in Orchids

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FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
卷 12, 期 -, 页码 -

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FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.632033

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mycorrhiza; photosynthesis; metabolic evolution; mycoheterotrophy; orchids; transcriptome; Epipogium aphyllum; Neottia nidus-avis

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  1. National Science Center, Poland [2015/18/A/NZ8/00149]
  2. Saclay Plant Sciences-SPS [ANR-17-EUR-0007]

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Mycoheterotrophic plants have lost the ability to photosynthesize and receive nutrients from soil fungi independently in various land plant lineages, most commonly in the Orchidaceae family. Transcriptome analysis of two mycoheterotrophic orchids revealed unexpected retention of genes associated with photosynthesis, and altered expression profiles compared to autotrophic species, indicating significant changes in metabolic pathways during the shift from autotrophy to mycoheterotrophy.
Mycoheterotrophic plants have lost the ability to photosynthesize and obtain essential mineral and organic nutrients from associated soil fungi. Despite involving radical changes in life history traits and ecological requirements, the transition from autotrophy to mycoheterotrophy has occurred independently in many major lineages of land plants, most frequently in Orchidaceae. Yet the molecular mechanisms underlying this shift are still poorly understood. A comparison of the transcriptomes of Epipogium aphyllum and Neottia nidus-avis, two completely mycoheterotrophic orchids, to other autotrophic and mycoheterotrophic orchids showed the unexpected retention of several genes associated with photosynthetic activities. In addition to these selected retentions, the analysis of their expression profiles showed that many orthologs had inverted underground/aboveground expression ratios compared to autotrophic species. Fatty acid and amino acid biosynthesis as well as primary cell wall metabolism were among the pathways most impacted by this expression reprogramming. Our study suggests that the shift in nutritional mode from autotrophy to mycoheterotrophy remodeled the architecture of the plant metabolism but was associated primarily with function losses rather than metabolic innovations.

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