Project description:The colonization of land by streptophyte algae, ancestors of embryophyte plants, was a fundamental event in the history of life on earth. Bryophytes are early diversifying land plants that mark the transition from freshwater to terrestrial ecosystems. The amphibious liverwort Riccia fluitans can thrive in aquatic and terrestrial environments and thus represents an ideal organism to investigate this major transition. Therefore, we aimed to establish a transformation protocol for R. fluitans to make it amenable for genetic analyses. An Agrobacterium transformation procedure using R. fluitans callus tissue allows to generate stably transformed plants within 10 weeks. Furthermore, for comprehensive studies spanning all life stages, we demonstrate that the switch from vegetative to reproductive development can be induced by both flooding and poor nutrient availability. Interestingly, a single R. fluitans plant can consecutively adapt to different growth environments and forms distinctive and reversible features of the thallus, photosynthetically active tissue that is thus functionally similar to leaves of vascular plants. The morphological plasticity affecting vegetative growth, air pore formation, and rhizoid development realized by one genotype in response to two different environments makes R. fluitans ideal to study the adaptive molecular mechanisms enabling the colonialization of land by aquatic plants.
Project description:Riccia fluitans L. is the most common species in Riccia genus. To investigate intraspecific variations on mitochondrial genomes of R. fluitans, we completed mitochondrial genome of R. fluitans. Its length is 185,640 bp, longer than that of NC_043906 by 19 bp and it contains 74 genes (42 protein-coding genes, 3 rRNAs, 28 tRNAs, and 1 pseudogene). 18 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and 19 insertions and deletions are identified, higher than that of Marchantia polymorpha subsp. ruderalis. One non-synonymous SNP is found in ccmFN. Phylogenetic trees show that R. fluitans is clustered with Dumortiera hirsuta, requiring additional mitogenome to clarify the phylogenetic relationship.
Project description:Here, we present the Nanopore-only genome sequence of Aneurinibacillus sp. Ricciae_BoGa-3. It was isolated from Riccia fluitans ecotype BoGa-3 and its source was Botanical Garden Osnabrück (Germany). The complete circular genome is 4,981,254 bp with a GC content of 44.8%.
