scholarly journals Chloroplast Genome Variation and Evolutionary Analysis of Olea europaea L.

Genes ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 879
Author(s):  
Erli Niu ◽  
Chengying Jiang ◽  
Wei Wang ◽  
Yu Zhang ◽  
Shenlong Zhu

Olive (Olea europaea L.) is a very important woody tree and favored by consumers because of the fruit’s high-quality olive oil. Chloroplast genome analysis will provide insights into the chloroplast variation and genetic evolution of olives. The complete chloroplast genomes of three accessions (O. europaea subsp. cuspidata isolate Yunnan, O. europaea subsp. europaea var. sylvestris, and O. europaea subsp. europaea var. frantoio) were obtained by next-generation sequencing technology. A total of 133 coding regions were identified in the three chloroplast genomes without rearrangement. O. europaea subsp. europaea var. sylvestris and O. europaea subsp. europaea var. frantoio had the same sequences (155,886 bp), while O. europaea subsp. cuspidata isolate Yunnan (155,531 bp) presented a large gap between rps16 and trnQ-UUG genes with six small gaps and fewer microsatellites. The whole chloroplast genomes of 11 O. europaea were divided into two main groups by a phylogenetic tree and O. europaea subsp. cuspidata formed a separate group (Cuspidata group) with the other subspecies (Mediterranean/North African group). Identification of consistency and diversity among O. europaea subspecies will benefit the exploration of domestication events and facilitate molecular-assisted breeding for O. europaea.


Genome ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 377-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angel García-Díaz ◽  
Ricardo Oya ◽  
Antonio Sánchez ◽  
Francisco Luque

The inheritance of mitochondrial and chloroplast genomes does not follow Mendelian laws, but proceeds by vegetative segregation. Most organisms show organelle homoplasmy, which is probably produced and maintained during sexual reproduction. We have tested the effect of prolonged vegetative multiplication in the maintenance of mitochondrial homoplasmy and the generation of heteroplasmy in cultivated olive trees, Olea europaea L. Seven trees, each representing a different variety of olive, were analysed by the study of an intergenic spacer region of the mitochondrial genome. A very high level of heteroplasmy was detected in all cases. We found multiple genome variants of the sequence analysed. The frequency of genomes with no changes in the spacer region was 11.5%. This means that 88.5% of genomes contain at least one change. The same spacer mitochondrial region was sequenced in several clones from four olive trees of a second generation of sexually reproduced trees. In these trees, many clones were identical and had no changes, which represents a clear reduction of the heteroplasmy (p < 0.001). Therefore, this work supports the relevance of the role of sexual reproduction in the maintenance of mitochondrial homoplasmy and also shows that mutations accumulate in a non-coding sequence of the mitochondrial genome when vegetative propagation is maintained for a long period of time.Key words: mitochondrial genome, homoplasmy, heteroplasmy, olive trees, vegetative reproduction, sexual reproduction.



1990 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Baldy


2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (67) ◽  
pp. 199-203
Author(s):  
Anfisa Paliy ◽  
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Oksana Grebennikova ◽  
Ivan Paliy ◽  
Tatyana Gubanova ◽  
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Grana ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 204-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Messora ◽  
Assunta Florenzano ◽  
Paola Torri ◽  
Anna Maria Mercuri ◽  
Innocenzo Muzzalupo ◽  
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2019 ◽  
Vol 677 ◽  
pp. 350-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Vilarrasa-Nogué ◽  
M.R. Teira-Esmatges ◽  
J.M. Villar ◽  
J. Rufat


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristiane Marangoni ◽  
Alexandre José Cichoski ◽  
Juliano Smanioto Barin


2011 ◽  
pp. 89-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Psarras ◽  
I. Kasapakis ◽  
E. Stefanoudaki ◽  
I. Papadakis ◽  
K.S. Chartzoulakis




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