Gustafsson, Cecilia and Willforss, Jakob and Lopes-Pinto, Fernando and Ortiz Rios, Rodomiro Octavio and Geleta, Mulatu
(2018).
Identification of genes regulating traits targeted for domestication of field cress (Lepidium campestre) as a biennial and perennial oilseed crop.
BMC genetics. 19
, 1-15
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Abstract
Background: The changing climate and the desire to use renewable oil sources necessitate the development of new oilseed crops. Field cress (Lepidium campestre) is a species in the Brassicaceae family that has been targeted for domestication not only as an oilseed crop that produces seeds with a desirable industrial oil quality but also as a cover/catch crop that provides valuable ecosystem services. Lepidium is closely related to Arabidopsis and display significant proportions of syntenic regions in their genomes. Arabidopsis genes are among the most characterized genes in the plant kingdom and, hence, comparative genomics of Lepidium-Arabidopsis would facilitate the identification of Lepidium candidate genes regulating various desirable traits.
Results: Homologues of 30 genes known to regulate vernalization, flowering time, pod shattering, oil content and quality in Arabidopsis were identified and partially characterized in Lepidium. Alignments of sequences representing field cress and two of its closely related perennial relatives: L. heterophyllum and L. hirtum revealed 243 polymorphic sites across the partial sequences of the 30 genes, of which 95 were within the predicted coding regions and 40 led to a change in amino acids of the target proteins. Within field cress, 34 polymorphic sites including nine nonsynonymous substitutions were identified. The phylogenetic analysis of the data revealed that field cress is more closely related to L. heterophyllum than to L. hirtum.
Conclusions: There is significant variation within and among Lepidium species within partial sequences of the 30 genes known to regulate traits targeted in the present study. The variation within these genes are potentially useful to speed-up the process of domesticating field cress as future oil crop. The phylogenetic relationship between the Lepidium species revealed in this study does not only shed some light on Lepidium genome evolution but also provides important information to develop efficient schemes for interspecific hybridization between different Lepidium species as part of the domestication efforts.
Authors/Creators: | Gustafsson, Cecilia and Willforss, Jakob and Lopes-Pinto, Fernando and Ortiz Rios, Rodomiro Octavio and Geleta, Mulatu | ||||
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Title: | Identification of genes regulating traits targeted for domestication of field cress (Lepidium campestre) as a biennial and perennial oilseed crop | ||||
Series Name/Journal: | BMC genetics | ||||
Year of publishing : | 2018 | ||||
Volume: | 19 | ||||
Page range: | 1-15 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 15 | ||||
Publisher: | BioMed Central | ||||
ISSN: | 1471-2156 | ||||
Language: | English | ||||
Publication Type: | Research article | ||||
Refereed: | Yes | ||||
Article category: | Scientific peer reviewed | ||||
Version: | Published version | ||||
Copyright: | Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 | ||||
Full Text Status: | Public | ||||
Subjects: | (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 4 Agricultural Sciences > 401 Agricultural, Forestry and Fisheries > Agricultural Science (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 4 Agricultural Sciences > 404 Agricultural Biotechnology > Genetics and Breeding | ||||
Agrovoc terms: | oil crops, Brassicaceae, plant genetics, domestication | ||||
Keywords: | Domestication, Field cress, Lepidium campestre, Pod shattering, Vernalization | ||||
URN:NBN: | urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-e-4912 | ||||
Permanent URL: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-e-4912 | ||||
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ID Code: | 15500 | ||||
Faculty: | LTV - Fakulteten för landskapsarkitektur, trädgårds- och växtproduktionsvetenskap | ||||
Department: | (LTJ, LTV) > Department of Plant Breeding (from 130101) | ||||
Deposited By: | SLUpub Connector | ||||
Deposited On: | 04 Jun 2018 13:06 | ||||
Metadata Last Modified: | 09 Sep 2020 14:17 |
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