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ArticleNature genetics2024

A telomere-to-telomere cotton genome assembly reveals centromere evolution and a Mutator transposon-linked module regulating embryo development.

Gai Huang, Zhigui Bao, Li Feng, Jixian Zhai, Jonathan F Wendel, Xiaofeng Cao, Yuxian Zhu

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Article in Nature genetics, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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Gai HuangState Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China. ghuang@genetics.ac.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0426-9691
Zhigui BaoMax Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3601-460X
Li FengDepartment of Biology, School of Life Sciences, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3636-2962
Jixian ZhaiDepartment of Biology, School of Life Sciences, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0217-0666
Jonathan F WendelDepartment of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2258-5081
Xiaofeng CaoInstitute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9871-0753
Yuxian ZhuState Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China. zhuyx@whu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2371-5933

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National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 32201747National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 32388101
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Abstract

Assembly of complete genomes can reveal functional genetic elements missing from draft sequences. Here we present the near-complete telomere-to-telomere and contiguous genome of the cotton species Gossypium raimondii. Our assembly identified gaps and misoriented or misassembled regions in previous assemblies and produced 13 centromeres, with 25 chromosomal ends having telomeres. In contrast to satellite-rich Arabidopsis and rice centromeres, cotton centromeres lack phased CENH3 nucleosome positioning patterns and probably evolved by invasion from long terminal repeat retrotransposons. In-depth expression profiling of transposable elements revealed a previously unannotated DNA transposon (MuTC01) that interacts with miR2947 to produce trans-acting small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), one of which targets the newly evolved LEC2 (LEC2b) to produce phased siRNAs. Systematic genome editing experiments revealed that this tripartite module, miR2947-MuTC01-LEC2b, controls the morphogenesis of complex folded embryos characteristic of Gossypium and its close relatives in the cotton tribe. Our study reveals a trans-acting siRNA-based tripartite regulatory pathway for embryo development in higher plants.

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CentromereDNA Transposable ElementsEvolution, MolecularGenome, PlantGossypiumRNA, Small InterferingTelomereGene Expression Regulation, PlantMicroRNAsSeedsDNA Transposable ElementsMicroRNAsRNA, Small Interfering

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