PMID- 36483968 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20221210 IS - 1664-462X (Print) IS - 1664-462X (Electronic) IS - 1664-462X (Linking) VI - 13 DP - 2022 TI - Oat chromosome and genome evolution defined by widespread terminal intergenomic translocations in polyploids. PG - 1026364 LID - 10.3389/fpls.2022.1026364 [doi] LID - 1026364 AB - Structural chromosome rearrangements involving translocations, fusions and fissions lead to evolutionary variation between species and potentially reproductive isolation and variation in gene expression. While the wheats (Triticeae, Poaceae) and oats (Aveneae) all maintain a basic chromosome number of x=7, genomes of oats show frequent intergenomic translocations, in contrast to wheats where these translocations are relatively rare. We aimed to show genome structural diversity and genome relationships in tetraploid, hexaploid and octoploid Avena species and amphiploids, establishing patterns of intergenomic translocations across different oat taxa using fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) with four well-characterized repetitive DNA sequences: pAs120, AF226603, Ast-R171 and Ast-T116. In A. agadiriana (2n=4x=28), the selected probes hybridized to all chromosomes indicating that this species originated from one (autotetraploid) or closely related ancestors with the same genomes. Hexaploid amphiploids were confirmed as having the genomic composition AACCDD, while octoploid amphiploids showed three different genome compositions: AACCCCDD, AAAACCDD or AABBCCDD. The A, B, C, and D genomes of oats differ significantly in their involvement in non-centromeric, intercalary translocations. There was a predominance of distal intergenomic translocations from the C- into the D-genome chromosomes. Translocations from A- to C-, or D- to C-genome chromosomes were less frequent, proving that at least some of the translocations in oat polyploids are non-reciprocal. Rare translocations from A- to D-, D- to A- and C- to B-genome chromosomes were also visualized. The fundamental research has implications for exploiting genomic biodiversity in oat breeding through introgression from wild species potentially with contrasting chromosomal structures and hence deleterious segmental duplications or large deletions in amphiploid parental lines. CI - Copyright (c) 2022 Tomaszewska, Schwarzacher and Heslop-Harrison. FAU - Tomaszewska, Paulina AU - Tomaszewska P AD - Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom. AD - Department of Genetics and Cell Physiology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland. FAU - Schwarzacher, Trude AU - Schwarzacher T AD - Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom. AD - Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization/Guangdong Provincial, Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China. FAU - Heslop-Harrison, J S Pat AU - Heslop-Harrison JSP AD - Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom. AD - Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization/Guangdong Provincial, Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20221122 PL - Switzerland TA - Front Plant Sci JT - Frontiers in plant science JID - 101568200 PMC - PMC9725029 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Avena OT - amphiploids OT - chromosome rearrangements OT - genome identification OT - intergenomic translocations OT - polyploidy OT - repetitive DNA motifs OT - structural variation COIS- The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. EDAT- 2022/12/10 06:00 MHDA- 2022/12/10 06:01 PMCR- 2022/01/01 CRDT- 2022/12/09 04:15 PHST- 2022/08/23 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/10/14 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/12/09 04:15 [entrez] PHST- 2022/12/10 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/12/10 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2022/01/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.3389/fpls.2022.1026364 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Front Plant Sci. 2022 Nov 22;13:1026364. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2022.1026364. eCollection 2022.