ArticleThe Plant cell2021
Natural variation in plant telomere length is associated with flowering time.
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- Biogeographic cline is associated with the global plant telomere length variation.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
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- Telomere length associates with regenerative capacity in Brassica napus L.BMC plant biology · 2026Article
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- Topsicle: a method for estimating telomere length from whole genome long-read sequencing data.Genome biology · 2025Article
- Climate change and plant genomic plasticity.TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik · 2025Review
- Monkeyflower (Mimulus) uncovers the evolutionary basis of the eukaryote telomere sequence variation.PLoS genetics · 2025Article
- Repeated global adaptation across plant species.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- A Haplotype-resolved, Chromosome-scale Genome for Malus domestica Borkh. 'WA 38'.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2024Article
- Atlas of telomeric repeat diversity in Arabidopsis thaliana.Genome biology · 2024Article
- Arabidopsis AN3 and OLIGOCELLULA genes link telomere maintenance mechanisms with cell division and expansion control.Plant molecular biology · 2024Article
- Telomere Length Variation in Model Bryophytes.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The haplotype-resolved telomere-to-telomere carnation (Horticulture research · 2024Article
- Comparative Application of Terminal Restriction Fragment Analysis Tools to Large-Scale Genomic Assays.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- No end in sight: Mysteries of the telomeric variation in plants.American journal of botany · 2023Article
- Arabidopsis AN3 and OLIGOCELLULA genes link telomere maintenance mechanisms with cell division and expansion control.Research square · 2023Article
- A complete telomere-to-telomere assembly of the maize genome.Nature genetics · 2023Article
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Abstract
Telomeres are highly repetitive DNA sequences found at the ends of chromosomes that protect the chromosomes from deterioration duringcell division. Here, using whole-genome re-sequencing and terminal restriction fragment assays, we found substantial natural intraspecific variation in telomere length in Arabidopsis thaliana, rice (Oryza sativa), and maize (Zea mays). Genome-wide association study (GWAS) mapping in A. thaliana identified 13 regions with GWAS-significant associations underlying telomere length variation, including a region that harbors the telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) gene. Population genomic analysis provided evidence for a selective sweep at the TERT region associated with longer telomeres. We found that telomere length is negatively correlated with flowering time variation not only in A. thaliana, but also in maize and rice, indicating a link between life-history traits and chromosome integrity. Our results point to several possible reasons for this correlation, including the possibility that longer telomeres may be more adaptive in plants that have faster developmental rates (and therefore flower earlier). Our work suggests that chromosomal structure itself might be an adaptive trait associated with plant life-history strategies.
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