Journal
PLANT CELL TISSUE AND ORGAN CULTURE
Volume 119, Issue 3, Pages 511-522Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11240-014-0551-z
Keywords
Citrus; Somatic hybrid; Allotetraploid; Epigenetics; DNA methylation
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31272133, 31125024]
- Ministry of Education of China [IRT13065, 20120146130004]
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Citrus somatic hybrids produced in the past years provide a novel opportunity to study the immediate effects of allopolyploidization on genome structure and methylation. Here, we present a first attempt to investigate the alterations in genome structure and methylation in three sets of citrus somatic allotetraploids and their diploid parents using amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) and methylation-sensitive amplified polymorphism (MSAP) techniques. Our results indicate that all the allotetraploids mainly have the AFLP and MSAP banding patterns containing specific bands from both parents plus some alterations. The incidences of the AFLP polymorphic bands in allotetraploids show a range from 4.61 to 7.88 %, while from 12.50 to 15.67 % of the sites are methylated. In addition, the proportions of callus-parent-specific DNA structure and methylation alterations are much greater than those of leaf-parent-specific alterations in the somatic hybrids. Furthermore, we find that the somatic hybrids take on a greater divergence from the callus parent and a closer relationship to leaf parent in all groups of plants by dendrogram analysis based on AFLP or MSAP data. Taken together, our results suggest that somatic hybrids are very useful in elucidating the immediate changes that occur in newly synthesized allotetraploid.
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