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Divergence of TERMINAL FLOWER1-like genes in Rosaceae

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Biologia Plantarum

Abstract

Rosaceae is a large family, however, our understanding of its phylogeny is based largely on morphological observations. To understand the relationship between subfamilies Rosoideae, Amygdaloideae, Maloideae and Spiraeoideae at a molecular level, we isolated and compared the plant phosphatidyl ethanolamine-binding protein-like genes TERMINAL FLOWER1 (TFL1)-like and CENTRORADIALIS (CEN)-like, which are involved in the control of shoot meristem identity and flowering time. A comparison of gene structures and phylogenetic tree analyses by the Neighbor-Joining method showed that each of the two TFL1-like (MdTFL1-1 and MdTFL1-2) and CEN-like genes (MdCENa and MdCENb) in Maloideae were classified into two distinct clades. The TFL1-like and CEN-like genes of Gillenia in Spiraeoideae belonged to monophyletic Maloideae groups, suggesting that Gillenia and Maloideae have a common near ancestor. However, the Gillenia TFL1-like gene does not contain the insertion sequence of the third intron that is found in MdTFL1-2-like genes of the members of Maloideae such as apple, Korean whitebeam, quince, and Siberian mountain ash. Therefore, after the Maloideae ancestor genome became polyploid through hybridization between Gillenia-like species or genome doubling, an insertion sequence of the third intron of MdTFL1-2-like genes was generated.

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Abbreviations

CEN :

CENTRORADIALIS

FT :

FLOWERING LOCUS T

MFT :

MOTHER OF FT AND TFL1

PEBP:

phosphatidyl ethanolamine-binding protein

TFL1 :

TERMINAL FLOWER1

PCR:

polymerase chain reaction

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  1. Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University, Morioka, Iwate, 020-8550, Japan

    N. Mimida, J. Li, C. Zhang, H. Oshino, K. Takagishi, A. Suzuki & S. Komori

  2. Apple Research Station, National Institute of Fruit Tree Science, Morioka, Iwate, 020-0123, Japan

    S. Moriya, Y. Moriya-Tanaka, H. Iwanami, C. Honda & M. Wada

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Acknowledgement: This work was supported by a grant-in-aid (No. 15208004) from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Japan.

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Mimida, N., Li, J., Zhang, C. et al. Divergence of TERMINAL FLOWER1-like genes in Rosaceae . Biol Plant 56, 465–472 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10535-012-0113-3

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