中国野生稻及栽培稻核糖体DNA第一转录间隔区序列分析及其系统学意义

用 PCR技术从产于我国的 3种野生稻和亚洲栽培稻的 2个亚种中特异地扩增和测序了 r DNA的第一转录间隔区。普通野生稻 (Oryza rufipogon)、药用野生稻 (O.officinalis)、疣粒野生稻 (O.granu-lata)和栽培稻的两个亚种 (O.sativa ssp.indica,O.sativa ssp.japonica)的 ITS1序列为 1 93bp、1 94bp、2 1 8bp、1 94bp和 1 94bp,它们的 G/ C含量为 69.3%～ 72 .7% ,序列中位点趋异率为 1 .5%～ 1 0 .6%。序列的相似性比较和简约性分支分析的结果表明 ,普通野生稻与栽培稻的两个亚种之间的亲缘关系最为密切 ;药用野生稻与普通野生稻和与栽培稻的两个亚种的相似性都为 82 % ,说明它与 AA基因组有一定的亲缘关系 ;疣粒野生稻与普通野生稻、药用野生稻和栽培稻两个亚种的亲缘关系相对较远 ,它在稻属中可能是一个系统地位较独特的类群。以 ITS1序列构建的 3种野生稻和 2个栽培稻亚种的系统发育关系与前人用同工酶、叶绿体 DNA、线粒体 DNA和核 DNA资料重建的稻属的系统发育关系基本一致     

Distribution and Organization of AA Genome- specific and Tandemly Repetitive Sequences in Chinese Common Wild Rice and Cultivated Rice

Repetitive DNA sequences are useful molecular markers for studying plant genome evolution and species diversity. The authors report the isolation and characterization of repetitive DNA sequences (pOs139) from Oryza sativa cuhivars "Zhaiyeqing". By Southern blot analysis, the authors discovered that pOs139 sequences were organized not only tandemly, but also highly specifc for the AA genome of Oryza genus. Sequence analysis revealed that the clone pOs139 contains a 355 bp repetitive unit. The genomic DNA of 29 Chinese common wild accessions, and 43 cultivated rice accessions, were analyzed by Southern blot with pOs139 as a probe. The results illustrated that there was significant difference in hybridization patterns between japonica and indica subspecies. Hybridization bands of indica subspecies were much more than those of japonica, and the Chinese common wild rice was similar to indica in hybridization patterns. The copy number estimated by dot blot hybridization analysis indicated that a considerable degree of variation existed among different accessions of O. sativa and the Chinese common wild rice. It is interesting to note that japonica subspecies contains relatively low copy numbers of pOs139-related repetitive DNA sequences, while the indica and Chinese common wild rice contain relatively high copy numbers.     

野生稻和栽培稻的随机多态DNA(RAPD)分析

应用 RAPD方法对药用野生稻、普通野生稻、粳稻和籼稻进行基因组多态性分析。 1 2个随机引物共扩增出 1 3 2条 RAPD带 ,片段大小在 3 0 0～ 3 5 0 0 bp之间 ,其中有 1 0 6条表现出多态性 ,占总扩增片段的86.4%。根据遗传距离分析 ,用 UPGMA法构建了聚类树状图 ,结果表明 ,普通野生稻的遗传特性比药用野生稻更接近于栽培稻。     

稻属谷氨酰胺合成酶家族的系统分析

比较籼粳栽培稻和野生稻中谷氨酰胺合成酶(GS)基因和蛋白质的结果表明,水稻GS蛋白编码区序列高度保守,而非编码序列变异较大。GS2基因的进化比GS1基因保守。短药野生稻中GS基因进化主要是内含子的变异,但此种内含子的变异在籼粳栽培稻中幅度要小得多。     

Molecular phylogeny of Anthyllis spp

For the genus Anthyllis (Fam. Fabaceae, tribe Loteae), with few exceptions, little information is available on the genetic variation among and within species. This genus contains 20 species distributed throughout Europe, Africa, and the Mediterranean basin. The most widespread species is A. vulneraria, and over 30 intraspecies taxa have been identified based on plant morphology. To study the molecular phylogeny of the genus, the sequences of the internal transcribed spacers ITS1 and ITS2 of the nuclear ribosomal DNA of 10 Anthyllis species, including 11 subspecies of A. vulneraria and three subspecies of A. montana, were obtained and analysed together with sequences of five other species of the genus obtained from GenBank. Our results suggest that the genus Anthyllis is not monophyletic and is divided in two main clades: the Anthyllis sensu strictu and the "tetraphylla clade". The former includes most of the Anthyllis species, and the latter includes three annual species more closely related to Lotus. All the taxa were also analysed according to seven chloroplast microsatellites, and these data closely confirm the results obtained with the ITS phylogeny.     

Molecular evolution and phylogenetic implications of internal transcribed spacer sequences of nuclear ribosomal DNA in the Phaseolus-Vigna complex.

Molecular phylogeny based on internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequences was studied to resolve the taxonomic contradiction in Vigna and its relation to Phaseolus. The ITS region of the 18S-26S nuclear ribosomal DNA repeat was sequenced for 29 Vigna species, selected from five of the nine subgenera, and 9 species of Phaseolus. The length of ITS-1 ranged from 187 to 243 bp and 217 to 290 bp, and that of ITS-2 from 187 to 219 bp and 225 to 243 bp, within Vigna and Phaseolus species, respectively. Phylogenies derived from ITS sequences based on maximum-parsimony and neighbor-joining methods gave trees essentially of similar topology. The ITS phylogeny was generally congruent with recent classifications based largely on morphological, biochemical, cytogenetical, and palynological features, except that subgenus Plectotropis of Neotropical origin was revealed to be closely related to subgenus Vigna instead of forming a link between African (subgenus Vigna) and Asiatic (subgenus Ceratotropis) vignas, and subgenus Sigmoidotropis, featuring morphological characters of both Vigna and Phaseolus, was placed as the sister group to the Phaseolus taxa. The ITS sequences were shown to be useful for identifying wild progenitors of V. mungo, V. radiata, V. umbellata, and V. unguiculata and for clarifying taxonomy-related problems in many previously controversial cases. This study also affirms that V. umbellata and V. angularis are the diploid progenitors of the only tetraploid species (V. glabrescens) known in the genus.     

云南元江普通野生稻中Pi-ta和Pib同源基因的克隆和分析

用高保真PCR技术从云南元江普通野生稻中克隆了抗稻瘟病Pi-ta同源基因的编码区及Pib基因的部分同源序列。Pi-ta同源基因的编码区序列与报道的栽培稻有99.7%的同源性。根据前人的结果,从元江普通野生稻的Pi-ta基因推导的氨基酸序列中918位点为丝氨酸,属于Pi-ta~-等位基因,不能对含有AVRPita基因的稻瘟病菌产生抗性。与Pi-ta基因相比,元江普通野生稻中的Pib同源基因第一外显子与栽培稻的相应序列间存在较大差异,其中有一段87 bp的DNA序列缺失,而且不能按正常的Pib基因序列的阅读框进行翻译。因此认为,元江普通野生稻不具有基于Pi-ta和Pib基因的抗稻瘟病遗传基础。     

稻属中一个高度保守和组成型表达酪氨酸／丝氨酸－酸酸双特性蛋白激酶基因的克隆与分析

从水稻中克隆了一个在稻属植物中高度保守和组成型表达的丝氨酸／苏氨酸蛋白激酶基因（OsSTK）。该基因包含两个外显子和一个114bp的小内含子序列,预测编码一个419个氨基酸的蛋白质。该基因推导的氨基酸序列与其它已知序列的一致性均低于52％。利用从不同种和类型的野生稻克隆的部分该基因序列构建的系统树与野生稻的分类和进化关系相一致。OSPKN-端拥有一段富含丝氨酸、碱性氨基酸和带电荷氨基酸的特异性导肽序列,其中包含“GDGDGDGDG”短重复序列。由于该基因蛋白激酶结构域中的VIb,VIII和XI亚结构域中同时具有酪氨酸蛋白激酶和丝氨酸／苏氨酸蛋白激酶的特性,推测该基因可能同时具有催化酪氨酸和丝氨酸、苏氨酸磷酸化的双重功能。     

Characterization of Interspecific Hybrids Between Oryza sativa L. and Three Wild Rice Species of China by Genomic In Situ Hybridization

In the genus Oryza, interspecific hybrids are useful bridges for transferring the desired genes from wild species to cultivated rice （Oryza sativa L.）. In the present study, hybrids between O. sativa （AA genome） and three Chinese wild rices, namely O. rufipogon （AA genome）, O. officinalis （CC genome）, and O. meyeriana （GG genome）, were produced. Agricultural traits of the F1 hybrids surveyed were intermediate between their parents and appreciably resembled wild rice parents. Except for the O. sativa × O. rufipogon hybrid, the other F1 hybrids were completely sterile. Genomic in situ hybridization （GISH） was used for hybrid verification. Wild rice genomic DNAs were used as probes and cultivated rice DNA was used as a block. With the exception of O. rufipogon chromosomes, this method distinguished the other two wild rice and cultivated rice chromosomes at the stage of mitotic metaphase with different blocking ratios. The results suggest that a more distant phylogenetic relationship exists between O. meyeriana and O. sativa and that O. rufipogon and O. sativa share a high degree of sequence homology. The average mitotic chromosome length of O. officinalis and O. meyeriana was 1.25- and 1.51-fold that of O. sativa, respectively. 4＇,6＇-Diamidino- 2-phenylindole staining showed that the chromosomes of O. officinalis and O. meyeriana harbored more heterochromatin, suggesting that the C and G genomes were amplified with repetitive sequences compared with the A genome. Although chromocenters formed by chromatin compaction were detected with wild rice-specific signals corresponding to the C and G genomes in discrete domains of the F1 hybrid interphase nuclei, the size and number of O. meyeriana chromocenters were bigger and greater than those of O. officinalis. The present results provide an important understanding of the genomic relationships and a tool for the transfer of useful genes from three native wild rice species in China to cultivars.     

基于线粒体基因片段核苷酸多态性的亚洲栽培稻起源进化研究

亚洲栽培稻的祖先是普通野生稻,已成为世界公认的观点,然而亚洲栽培稻的2个亚种:粳稻和籼稻是一次起源还是二次起源仍存在很大争议,其起源地是国内还是国外依然是国际学者间争论的焦点。本文通过对184份亚洲栽培稻和203份普通野生稻3段基因序列cox3、cox1、orf 224和2段基因间序列ssv-39/178、rps2-trnfM的多样性研究,验证了以下观点:1)粳稻起源于中国,籼稻起源于中国和国外;2)亚洲栽培稻的起源为二次起源,即普通野生稻存在偏籼和偏粳2种类型,亚洲栽培稻的2个亚种籼稻和粳稻在进化过程中分别由偏籼型的普通野生稻和偏粳型的普通野生稻进化而来。     

Cloning and Analyses of a Dual Specific Serine􊄯Thronine Protein Kinase Gene with High Conservative and Constitutive Expression in Oryza (OsSTK)

A cytoplasmic serine􊄯thronine protein kinase gene (OsSTK), had been cloned from Oryza genus. It was found high conservative and constitutive expression in Oryza. OsSTK gene had two exons, separated by 114 bp short intron. The open reading frame of OsSTK gene that predicted encoded a 419 amino acids protein . The amino acid sequence of OsSTK had low identities ( less than 53% ) with any other known protein kinase . The phylogenetic tree based on the partial DNA sequences of OsSTK from different species and types of wild rice and cultivated rice, was close to the taxation system ofrice . Interestingly , OsSTK had a serine, including basic amino acids and charged amino acids abundant polypeptide with a “GDGDGDGDG”sequence at N- terminal that had not been found in any other genes. OsSTK may play dual specificity that phosphorylates both serine􊄯thronine and tyrosone, because the amino acids module of VIb , VIII and XI catalytic domain have both the serine􊄯thronine and tyrosine kinase characters .     

Evolutionary relationships among rice species with AA genome based on SINE insertion analysis

Previous studies based on morphological and molecular markers indicated that there are two cultivated and five wild rice species within the Oryza genus with the AA genome. In the cultivated rice species, Oryza sativa, a retroposon named p-SINE1 has been identified. Some of the p-SINE1 members characterized previously showed interspecific insertion polymorphisms in the species with the AA genome. In this study, we identified new p-SINE1 members showing interspecific insertion polymorphisms from representative strains of four wild rice species with the AA genome: O. barthii, O. glumaepatula, O. longistaminata, and O. meridionalis. Some of these members were present only in strains of one species, whereas the others were present in strains of two or more species. The p-SINE1 insertion patterns in the strains of the Asian and African cultivated rice species O. sativa and O. glaberrima were very similar to those of the Asian and African wild rice species O. rufipogon and O. barthii, respectively. This is consistent with the previous hypothesis that O. sativa and O. glaberrima are derived from specific wild rice species. Phylogenetic analysis based on the p-SINE1 insertion patterns showed that the strains of each of the five wild rice species formed a cluster. The strains of O. longistaminata appear to be distantly related to those of O. meridionalis. The strains of these two species appear to be distantly related to those of three other species, O. rufipogon, O. barthii and O. glumaepatula. The latter three species are closely related to one another with O. barthii and O. glumaepatula being most closely related. A phylogenetic tree including a hypothetical ancestor with all loci empty for p-SINE1 insertion showed that the strains of O. longistaminata are related most closely to the hypothetical ancestor. This indicates that O. longistaminata and O. meridionalis diverged early on, whereas the other species diverged relatively recently, and suggests that the Oryza genus with AA genome might have originated in Africa, rather than in Asia.     

Phylogenetic relationships among A-genome species of the genus Oryza revealed by intron sequences of four nuclear genes

The A-genome group in Oryza consists of eight diploid species and is distributed world-wide. Here we reconstructed the phylogeny among the A-genome species based on sequences of nuclear genes and MITE (miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements) insertions. Thirty-seven accessions representing two cultivated and six wild species from the A-genome group were sampled. Introns of four nuclear single-copy genes on different chromosomes were sequenced and analysed by both maximum parsimony (MP) and Bayesian inference methods. All the species except for Oryza rufipogon and Oryza nivara formed a monophyletic group and the Australian endemic Oryza meridionalis was the earliest divergent lineage. Two subspecies of Oryza sativa (ssp. indica and ssp. japonica) formed two separate monophyletic groups, suggestive of their polyphyletic origin. Based on molecular clock approach, we estimated that the divergence of the A-genome group occurred c. 2.0 million years ago (mya) while the two subspecies (indica and japonica) separated c. 0.4 mya. Intron sequences of nuclear genes provide sufficient resolution and are informative for phylogenetic inference at lower taxonomic levels.     

Origin and relationships of Saintpaulia (Gesneriaceae) based on ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequences

Phylogenetic relationships of eight species of Saintpaulia H. Wendl., 19 species of Streptocarpus Lindl. (representing all major growth forms within the genus), and two outgroups (Haberlea rhodopensis Friv., Chirita spadiciformis W. T. Wang) were examined using comparative nucleotide sequences from the two internal transcribed spacers (ITS) of nuclear ribosomal DNA. The length of the ITS 1 region ranged from 228 to 249 base pairs (bp) and the ITS 2 region from 196 to 245 bp. Pairwise sequence divergence across both spacers for ingroup and outgroup species ranged from 0 to 29%. Streptocarpus is not monophyletic, and Saintpaulia is nested within Streptocarpus subgenus Streptocarpella. Streptocarpus subgenus Streptocarpus is monophyletic. The ITS sequence data demonstrate that the unifoliate Streptocarpus species form a clade, and are also characterized by a unique 47-bp deletion in ITS 2. The results strongly support the monophyly of (1) Saintpaulia, and (2) Saintpaulia plus the African members of the subgenus Streptocarpella of Streptocarpus. The data suggest the evolution of Saintpaulia from Streptocarpus subgenus Streptocarpella. The differences in flower and vegetative characters are probably due to ecological adaptation leading to a relatively rapid radiation of Saintpaulia.     

Retrotransposon insertion polymorphisms in six rice genes and their evolutionary history

Retrotransposons are abundant in higher plant genomes. Although retrotransposons associated with plant genes have been identified, little is known about their evolutionary conservation at the level of species and subspecies. In the present study, we investigated the phylogenetic distribution of long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposon, long interspersed nuclear element (LINE) and short interspersed nuclear element (SINE) insertions in six genes in 95 cultivated and wild rice genotypes. These six genes are likely to be functional based on nonsynonymous (Ka) to synonymous (Ks) substitution ratios which were found to be significantly <1. Different conservation patterns of these retrotransposons in genes were observed in cultivated and wild rice species. Four out of seven retrotransposon insertions appear to predate the ancestral Oryza AA genome. Two of these insertions in genes 4 and 5 occurred early in the evolutionary history of Oryza. Two retrotransposon insertions in gene 1 arose after the divergence of Asian cultivated rice from its wild ancestor. Furthermore, the retrotransposon insertion in gene 3 appears to have occurred in the ancestral lineage leading to temperate japonicas. Conservation of retrotransposon insertions in genes in specific groups, species, and lineages might be related to their specific function.     

MONOPHYLY OF ANEUPLOID ASTRAGALUS (FABACEAE): EVIDENCE FROM NUCLEAR RIBOSOMAL DNA INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER SEQUENCES

Evolutionary relationships within Astragalus L. (Fabaceae) were inferred from nucleotide sequence variation in nuclear ribosomal DNA of both New World and Old World species. The internal transcribed spacer regions (ITS) of 18S–26S nuclear ribosomal DNA from representatives of 26 species of Astragalus, three species of Oxytropis DC., and two outgroup taxa were analyzed by polymerase chain reaction amplification and direct DNA sequencing. The length of the ITS 1 region within these taxa varied from 221 to 231 bp, while ITS 2 varied in length from 207 to 217 bp. Of the aligned, unambiguous positions, approximately 34% were variable in each spacer region. In pairwise comparisons among Astragalus species and outgroup taxa, sequence divergence at these sites ranged from 0 to 18.8% in ITS 1 and from 0 to 21.7% in ITS 2. Parsimony analyses of these sequences resulted in a well-resolved phylogeny that is highly concordant with previous cytogenetic and chloroplast DNA evidence for a major phylogenetic division in the genus. These data suggest that the New World aneuploid species of Astragalus form a monophyletic but morphologically cryptic group derived from euploid species of Old World (Eurasian) origin, which are consequently paraphyletic.     

Isolation and molecular evolutionary analysis of a cytochrome c gene from Oryza sativa (rice)

A cytochrome c gene, OsCc-1, from rice (Oryza sativa) has been isolated and analyzed. The OsCc-1 gene encodes a cytochrome c protein that is typical of higher-plant cytochrome c proteins. OsCc-1 consists of three exons separated by two introns that are 817 and 747 bp in length, respectively. From genomic DNA hybridization analysis, OsCc-1 appears to be one of possibly two cytochrome c genes in several Asian, American, and Indian rice species and varieties surveyed. A single, unique cytochrome c gene appears to be present in one African cultivated rice species. We performed comparative molecular evolutionary analyses of OsCc-1 and other cytochrome c genes. We calculated a unit evolutionary period of 19.4 Myr for cytochrome c DNA sequences, which agrees closely with previous estimates based on protein sequence comparisons.     

Evolutionary Genomics of Weedy Rice in the USA

Red rice is an interfertiie, weedy form of cultivated rice (Oryza sativa L.) that competes aggressively with the cropin the southern US, reducing yields and contaminating harvests. No wild Oryza species occur In North America andthe weed has been proposed to have evolved through multiple mechanisms, including "de-domestication" of UScrop cultivars, accidental introduction of Asian weeds, and hybridization between US crops and Asian wild/weedyOryza strains. The phenotype of US red rice ranges from "crop mimics", which share some domestication traitswith the crop, to strains closely resembling Asian wild Oryza species. Assessments of genetic diversity haveindicated that many weed strains are closely related to Asian taxa (including indica and aus rice varieties, whichhave never been cultivated in the US, and the Asian crop progenitor O. rufipogon), whereas others show geneticsimilarity to the tropical japonica varieties cultivated in the southern US. Herein, we review what is known aboutthe evolutionary origins and genetic diversity of US red rice and describe an ongoing research project to furthercharacterize the evolutionary genomics of this aggressive weed.     

Multilocus analysis of nucleotide variation of Oryza sativa and its wild relatives: severe bottleneck during domestication of rice

Varying degrees of reduction of genetic diversity in crops relative to their wild progenitors occurred during the process of domestication. Such information, however, has not been available for the Asian cultivated rice (Oryza sativa) despite its importance as a staple food and a model organism. To reveal levels and patterns of nucleotide diversity and to elucidate the genetic relationship and demographic history of O. sativa and its close relatives (Oryza rufipogon and Oryza nivara), we investigated nucleotide diversity data from 10 unlinked nuclear loci in species-wide samples of these species. The results indicated that O. rufipogon and O. nivara possessed comparable levels of nucleotide variation ((sil) = 0.0077 approximately 0.0095) compared with the relatives of other crops. In contrast, nucleotide diversity of O. sativa was as low as (sil) = 0.0024 and even lower ((sil) = 0.0021 for indica and 0.0011 for japonica), if we consider the 2 subspecies separately. Overall, only 20-10% of the diversity in the wild species was retained in 2 subspecies of the cultivated rice (indica and japonica), respectively. Because statistic tests did not reject the assumption of neutrality for all 10 loci, we further used coalescent to simulate bottlenecks under various lengths and population sizes to better understand the domestication process. Consistent with the dramatic reduction in nucleotide diversity, we detected a severe domestication bottleneck and demonstrated that the sequence diversity currently found in the rice genome could be explained by a founding population of 1,500 individuals if the initial domestication event occurred over a 3,000-year period. Phylogenetic analyses revealed close genetic relationships and ambiguous species boundary of O. rufipogon and O. nivara, providing additional evidence to treat them as 2 ecotypes of a single species. Lowest linkage disequilibrium (LD) was found in the perennial O. rufipogon where the r(2) value dropped to a negligible level within 400 bp, and the highest in the japonica rice where LD extended to the entirely sequenced region ( approximately 900 bp), implying that LD mapping by genome scans may not be feasible in wild rice due to the high density of markers needed.     

中国苋属nrDNA的ITS序列分析及其系统学意义

运用ＰＣＲ直接测序法,对苋属（Ａｍａｒａｎｒｈｕｓ Ｌ．）１５个种及外类群鸡冠花（Ｃｅｌｏｓｉａ ｃｒｉｓｔａｔａ Ｌ．）ｎｒＤＮＡ的ＩＴＳ区（包括ＩＴＳ－１,５．８５ｒＤＮＡ和ＩＴＳ－２）进行序列测定。结果表明苋属植物的ＩＴＳ序列总长度为６２９－６３２ｂｐ,长度变异仅发生在ＩＴＳ－１区（２５０－２５３ｂｐ）。采用ＰＡＵＰ软件进行系统发育分析表明：分布于中国的苋属植物可分为３组,即刺苋组（ｓｅｃｇ