Project description:Polyploidization and introgression are major events driving plant genome evolution and influencing crop breeding. However, the mechanisms underlying the higher-order chromatin organization of subgenomes and alien chromosomes are largely unknown. We probe the three-dimensional chromatin architecture of Aikang 58 (AK58), a widely-cultivated allohexaploid wheat variety carrying the 1RS/1BL translocation chromosome. The regions involved in inter-chromosomal interactions, both within and between subgenomes, have highly similar sequences. Subgenome-specific territories tend to be connected by subgenome-dominant homologous transposable elements (TEs). The alien 1RS chromosomal arm, which was introgressed from rye and differs from its wheat counterpart, has relatively few inter-chromosome interactions with wheat chromosomes. An analysis of local chromatin structures reveals topologically associating domain (TAD)-like regions covering 52% of the AK58 genome, the boundaries of which are enriched with active genes, zinc-finger factor-binding motifs, CHH methylation, and 24-nt small RNAs. The chromatin loops are mostly localized around TAD boundaries, and the number of gene loops is positively associated with gene activity. The present study reveals the impact of the genetic sequence context on the higher-order chromatin structure and subgenome stability in hexaploid wheat. Specifically, we characterized the sequence homology-mediated inter-chromosome interactions and the non-canonical role of subgenome-biased TEs. Our findings may have profound implications for future investigations of the interplay between genetic sequences and higher-order structures and their consequences on polyploid genome evolution and introgression-based breeding of crop plants.
2020-11-30 | GSE139020 | GEO
Project description:RNA-seq of broomcorn millet
| PRJNA1077764 | ENA
Project description:Transcriptome analysis of broomcorn millet smut
| PRJNA893337 | ENA
Project description:BAC pool sequencing of broomcorn millet
| PRJNA576359 | ENA
Project description:Transcriptome response to drought in broomcorn millet
| PRJNA751482 | ENA
Project description:Transcriptome sequencing of different ploidy broomcorn millet
Project description:Centromeric repetitive DNA sequences are highly variable during evolution, which are the hub for genome stability in almost all the eukaryotic organisms. However, how centromeric repeat sequences diverge rapidly among closely related species and populations, and how polyploidy contributed to the diversity of centromere among co-evolved subgenomes are largely unknown. Here, we applied the Brachypodium system to investigate the track of centromere evolution within this taxa, and their adaptation to alloploidization process. Subgenome divergent centromeric satellite repeat were discovered in tetraploid B. hybridum, and this divergent was originated form their two diploid progenitors. Furthermore, differential sequences influence the association sites with CENH3 nucleosomes on the monomer satellite repeats, and positioning of CENH3 nucleosomes on the satellite DNA are stable in each subgenome after alloploidization. Only minor intrasubgenomic variations were observed on these satellite repeats from diploid to tetraploid in B. hybridum, and no evident intersubgenomic transfer of centromeric satellite repeats after alloploidization. Pan-genome analysis reveals that the general principle of centromere dynamic within the populations in Brachypodium genomes with different polyploidy level. Our results provide an unprecedented information regarding the genomic and functional diversity of centromeric repeat DNA during evolution.
Project description:Common wheat (T. aestivum) converged three subgenomes adapted to different environments. The combinatorial interaction between transcription factors (TFs) and regulatory elements (REs) defines a regulatory circuit that underlies subgenome convergence and divergence. Compared to the relatively conserved gene composition across subgenomes, the intergenic regions with abundant REs is drastically diversified by almost complete TE turnovers, raising major questions regarding how subgenome convergent and divergent regulation is encoded in the highly diversified intergenic regions, and the impact of TE evolution on regulatory conservation and innovation. In the present study, we created genome-wide TF binding catalog to assemble an extensive wheat regulatory network comprising connections among 182 TFs. The different effects of ancient and recent TE insertions on regulatory specificity were observed. Subgenome asymmetric TE expansion is an important source of subgenome divergent TFBS, which help explain the vast occupancy difference across subgenomes. Interestingly, the ancient expansion of RLC_famc1.4-derived TFBS occurred in more than 25% triads promoters. A significant fraction of these TE-derived TFBS subjected to region-specific evolutionary selections, resulting in subgenome-balanced TF binding but unbalanced degeneration of flanking TE sequences. These TE-derived subgenome convergent and divergent regulation linked to subgenome conserved and diversified pathways, suggesting that TEs are an important regulatory driving force contributed to polyploid evolution. Overall, this study demonstrated the impact of TEs on shaping the plasticity and adaptation of common wheat, enriched the theories of TE-promoted transcriptional innovation from the evolutionary aspects of polyploid regulation since first reported by McClintock.