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An epigenetic basis of inbreeding depression in maize

文献类型: 外文期刊

作者: Han, Tongwen 1 ; Wang, Fang 1 ; Song, Qingxin 1 ; Ye, Wenxue 1 ; Liu, Tieshan 2 ; Wang, Liming 2 ; Chen, Z. Jeffrey 3 ;

作者机构: 1.Nanjing Agr Univ, State Key Lab Crop Genet & Germplasm Enhancement, 1 Weigang Rd, Nanjing 210095, Peoples R China

2.Shandong Acad Agr Sci, Maize Res Inst, Jinan 250100, Peoples R China

3.Univ Texas Austin, Dept Mol Biosci, Austin, TX 78712 USA

4.Univ Texas Austin, Ctr Computat Biol & Bioinformat, Austin, TX 78712 USA

期刊名称:SCIENCE ADVANCES ( 影响因子:14.143; 五年影响因子:16.45 )

ISSN: 2375-2548

年卷期: 2021 年 7 卷 35 期

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收录情况: SCI

摘要: Inbreeding depression is widespread across plant and animal kingdoms and may arise from the exposure of deleterious alleles and/or loss of overdominant alleles resulting from increased homozygosity, but these genetic models cannot fully explain the phenomenon. Here, we report epigenetic links to inbreeding depression in maize. Teosinte branched1/cycloidea/proliferating cell factor (TCP) transcription factors control plant development. During successive inbreeding among inbred lines, thousands of genomic regions across TCP-binding sites (TBS) are hypermethylated through the H3K9me2-mediated pathway. These hypermethylated regions are accompanied by decreased chromatin accessibility, increased levels of the repressive histone marks H3K27me2 and H3K27me3, and reduced binding affinity of maize TCP-proteins to TBS. Consequently, hundreds of TCP-target genes involved in mitochondrion, chloroplast, and ribosome functions are down-regulated, leading to reduced growth vigor. Conversely, random mating can reverse corresponding hypermethylation sites and TCP-target gene expression, restoring growth vigor. These results support a unique role of reversible epigenetic modifications in inbreeding depression.

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