Abstract
Snapdragon (Antirrhinum majus L.), a member of the Plantaginaceae family, is an important model for plant genetics and molecular studies on plant growth and development, transposon biology and self-incompatibility. Here we report a near-complete genome assembly of A. majus cultivar JI7 (A. majus cv.JI7) comprising 510 Megabases (Mb) of genomic sequence and containing 37,714 annotated protein-coding genes. Scaffolds covering 97.12% of the assembled genome were anchored on eight chromosomes. Comparative and evolutionary analyses revealed that a whole-genome duplication event occurred in the Plantaginaceae around 46–49 million years ago (Ma). We also uncovered the genetic architectures associated with complex traits such as flower asymmetry and self-incompatibility, identifying a unique duplication of TCP family genes dated to around 46–49 Ma and reconstructing a near-complete ψS-locus of roughly 2 Mb. The genome sequence obtained in this study not only provides a representative genome sequenced from the Plantaginaceae but also brings the popular plant model system of Antirrhinum into the genomic age.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 174-183 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Nature Plants |
Volume | 5 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 1 2019 |
Externally published | Yes |
Funding
This work was supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDB27010302), the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2013CB945102), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31401045 and 31221063) and Y. Luo acknowledges the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences (no. 2017140). We thank F. Zhao and X. Zhou (Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, SIBS, CAS) for maintaining the genome website and S. Ou (Michigan State University) for technical help in LTR analysis.