title: Diploid apomicts of the Boechera holboellii complex display large-scale chromosome substitutions and aberrant chromosomes.
abstract: We conducted a cytogenetic study of sexual lines of Boechera stricta and Boechera holboellii (2n = 14) and seven diploid apomictic accessions of their interspecific hybrid Boechera divaricarpa and B. holboellii (2n = 14 or 15). By studying chromosome morphology, rDNA repeats, genome painting, male meiosis, pollen morphology, and flow-cytometry seed screens, we revealed an unexpected plethora of chromosome forms, pairing behavior, and hybrid composition in all apomictic lines. Genome painting demonstrated that the apomicts are alloploid with variable numbers of B. stricta and B. holboellii-like chromosomes. We assume that large-scale homeologous chromosome substitutions took place in the apomictic hybrids that resulted from recurrent diploid-polyploid transitions through restitutional meiosis and polyploidy-diploid transitions through reductional meiosis. A second peculiarity was the presence of a largely heterochromatic chromosome (Het) in all apomictic accessions (2n = 14 and 15) and an additional smaller chromosome (Del) in the aneuploids (2n = 15). Both chromosomes share repetitive pericentromere repeats with those from the sexual B. stricta, suggesting that they originated from this species. Pairing and behavior at meiosis I of the Het share features with both Y and B chromosomes and suggest that the Del arose from a translocation event or homeologous recombination between a B. holboellii (or related taxon) and a B. stricta chromosome. Based on its presence exclusively in apomictic accessions, we propose that the Het chromosome plays a role in the genetic control of apomixis.
authors: Laboratory of Biochemistry, Wageningen University, Dreijenlaan 3, NL-6703 HA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
authors: Laksana
authors: L
authors: Kantama
authors: Timothy F
authors: TF
authors: Sharbel
authors: M Eric
authors: ME
authors: Schranz
authors: Thomas
authors: T
authors: Mitchell-Olds
authors: Sacco
authors: S
authors: de Vries
authors: Hans
authors: H
authors: de Jong
mesh_terms: D019607:Brassicaceae / Q000235:genetics*; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D032461:Chromosomes, Plant / Q000235:genetics*; D018744:DNA, Plant / Q000235:genetics; D004275:DNA, Ribosomal / Q000235:genetics; D004171:Diploidy; D014644:Genetic Variation; D007621:Karyotyping
chemical_list: D018744:DNA, Plant; D004275:DNA, Ribosomal
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