Comparative analyses of DNA repeats and identification of a novel Fesreba centromeric element in fescues and ryegrasses

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-020-02495-0" target="_blank" >http://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-020-02495-0</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12870-020-02495-0" target="_blank" >10.1186/s12870-020-02495-0</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Comparative analyses of DNA repeats and identification of a novel Fesreba centromeric element in fescues and ryegrasses

Original language description

Background: Cultivated grasses are an important source of food for domestic animals worldwide. Increased knowledge of their genomes can speed up the development of new cultivars with better quality and greater resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses. The most widely grown grasses are tetraploid ryegrass species (Lolium) and diploid and hexaploid fescue species (Festuca). In this work, we characterized repetitive DNA sequences and their contribution to genome size in five fescue and two ryegrass species as well as one fescue and two ryegrass cultivars. Results: Partial genome sequences produced by Illumina sequencing technology were used for genome-wide comparative analyses with the RepeatExplorer pipeline. Retrotransposons were the most abundant repeat type in all seven grass species. The Athila element of the Ty3/gypsy family showed the most striking differences in copy number between fescues and ryegrasses. The sequence data enabled the assembly of the long terminal repeat (LTR) element Fesreba, which is highly enriched in centromeric and (peri)centromeric regions in all species. A combination of fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) with a probe specific to the Fesreba element and immunostaining with centromeric histone H3 (CENH3) antibody showed their co-localization and indicated a possible role of Fesreba in centromere function. Conclusions: Comparative repeatome analyses in a set of fescues and ryegrasses provided new insights into their genome organization and divergence, including the assembly of the LTR element Fesreba. A new LTR element Fesreba was identified and found in abundance in centromeric regions of the fescues and ryegrasses. It may play a role in the function of their centromeres.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10608 - Biochemistry and molecular biology

Project

<a href="/en/project/EF16_019%2F0000827" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000827: Plants as a tool for sustainable global development</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

BMC Plant Biology

ISSN

1471-2229

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

20

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

280

UT code for WoS article

000542955600002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85086691346