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ArticleCurrent biology : CB2011

Regenerant Arabidopsis lineages display a distinct genome-wide spectrum of mutations conferring variant phenotypes.

Caifu Jiang, Aziz Mithani, Xiangchao Gan, Eric J Belfield, John P Klingler, Jian-Kang Zhu, Jiannis Ragoussis, Richard Mott, Nicholas P Harberd

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Article in Current biology : CB, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers.

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9 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Caifu JiangDepartment of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3RB, UK.
Aziz Mithani
Xiangchao Gan
Eric J Belfield
John P Klingler
Jian-Kang Zhu
Jiannis Ragoussis
Richard Mott
Nicholas P Harberd
University of Oxford · GBKing Abdullah University of Science and Technology · SACentre for Human Genetics · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/F020759/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/F022697/1Wellcome Trust 090532
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multicellular organisms can be regenerated from totipotent differentiated somatic cell or nuclear founders [1-3]. Organisms regenerated from clonally related isogenic founders might a priori have been expected to be phenotypically invariant. However, clonal regenerant animals display variant phenotypes caused by defective epigenetic reprogramming of gene expression [2], and clonal regenerant plants exhibit poorly understood heritable phenotypic ("somaclonal") variation [4-7]. Here we show that somaclonal variation in regenerant Arabidopsis lineages is associated with genome-wide elevation in DNA sequence mutation rate. We also show that regenerant mutations comprise a distinctive molecular spectrum of base substitutions, insertions, and deletions that probably results from decreased DNA repair fidelity. Finally, we show that while regenerant base substitutions are a likely major genetic cause of the somaclonal variation of regenerant Arabidopsis lineages, transposon movement is unlikely to contribute substantially to that variation. We conclude that the phenotypic variation of regenerant plants, unlike that of regenerant animals, is substantially due to DNA sequence mutation.

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Genome, PlantMutationPhenotypeArabidopsisBase SequenceDNA Mutational AnalysisDNA Transposable ElementsMolecular Sequence DataMutation RateRegenerationSequence AlignmentDNA Transposable Elements

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PMID21802297
PMCPMC3162137
OpenAlexW2111518712

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