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Annals of Botany 90: 445-452, 2002
© 2002 Annals of Botany Company
Physical Localization of the 18S-5·8S-26S rDNA and Sequence Analysis of ITS Regions in Thinopyrum ponticum (Poaceae: Triticeae): Implications for Concerted Evolution
1 Key Laboratory of Crop Germplasm and Biotechnology, Institute of Crop Germplasm Resources, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, People’s Republic of China
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Received: 5 February 2002; Returned for revision: 30 May 2002; Accepted: 1 July 2002 Published electronically: 4 September 2002
Fluorescence in situ hybridization was used in Thinopyrum ponticum, a decaploid species, and its related diploid species, to investigate the distribution of the 18S-5·8S-26S rDNA. The distribution of rDNA was similar in all three diploid species (Th. bessarabicum, Th. elongatum and Pseudoroegneria stipifolia). Two pairs of loci were observed in each somatic cell at metaphase and interphase. One pair was located near the terminal end and the other in the interstitial regions of the short arms of one pair of chromosomes. However, all of the major loci in Th. ponticum were located on the terminal end of the short arms of chromosomes, and one chromosome had only one major locus. The maximum number of major loci detected on metaphase spreads was 20, which was the sum of that of its progenitors. The interstitial loci that exist in the possible diploid genome donor species were probably ‘lost’ during the evolutionary process of the decaploid species. A number of minor loci were also detected on whole regions of two pairs of homologous chromosomes. These results suggested that the position of rDNA loci in the Triticeae might be changeable rather than fixed. Positional changes of 18S-5·8S-26S rDNA loci between Th. ponticum and its candidate genome donors indicate that it is almost impossible to find a genome in the polyploid species that is completely identical to that of its diploid donors. The possible evolutionary significance of the distribution of the rDNA is also discussed. Internal transcribed spacer (ITS) regions of nuclear DNA in Th. ponticum were investigated by PCR amplification and sequencing. The sequence data from five positive clones selected at random, together with restriction site analysis, indicated that the ITS repeated units are nearly homogeneous in this autoallodecapolypoid species. Combined with in situ hybridization results, the data led to the conclusion that the ITS region has experienced interlocus as well as intralocus concerted evolution. Phylogenetic analyses showed that the sequences from Th. ponticum have concerted to the E genome repeat type.
Key words: Thinopyrum ponticum, Thinopyrum elongatum, Thinopyrum bessarabicum, Pseudoroegneria, 18S-5·8S-26S rDNA, fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), internal transcribed spacer (ITS), concerted evolution.
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