1. Identification and characterization of inheritable structural variations induced by ion beam radiations in rice.
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Zheng Y, Li S, Huang J, Fu H, Zhou L, Furusawa Y, and Shu Q
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- Argon chemistry, Carbon chemistry, DNA Transposable Elements, Heterozygote, Homologous Recombination, Homozygote, Mutagenesis, Neon chemistry, Oryza genetics, Pilot Projects, Tandem Repeat Sequences, Chromosome Aberrations radiation effects, Genome, Plant radiation effects, Heavy Ions, Mutation, Oryza radiation effects, Radiation, Ionizing
- Abstract
High energy ion beams are effective physical mutagens for mutation induction in plants. Due to their high linear energy transfer (LET) property, they are known to generate single nucleotide variations (SNVs) and insertion/deletions (InDels, <50 bp) as well as structural variations (SVs). However, due to the technical difficulties to identify SVs, studies on ion beam induced SVs by genome sequencing have so far been limited in numbers and inadequate in nature, and knowledge of SVs is scarce with regards to their characteristics. In the present study, we identified and validated SVs in six M
4 plants (designated as Ar_50, Ar_100, C_150, C_200, Ne_50 and Ne_100 according to ion beam types and irradiation doses), two each induced by argon (40 Ar18+ ), carbon (12 C6+ ) and neon (20 Ne10+ ) ion beams and performed in depth analyses of their characteristics. In total, 22 SVs were identified and validated, consisting of 11 deletions, 1 duplication, and 4 intra-chromosomal and 6 inter-chromosomal translocations. There were several SVs larger than 1 kbp. The SVs were distributed across the whole genome with an aggregation with SNVs and InDels only in the Ne_50 mutants. An enrichment of a 11-bp wide G-rich DNA motif 'GAAGGWGGRGG' was identified around the SV breakpoints. Three mechanisms might be involved in the SV formation, i.e., the expansion of tandem repeats, transposable element insertion, and non-allelic homologous recombination. Put together, the present study provides a preliminary view of SVs induced by Ar, C and Ne ion beam radiations, and as a pilot study, it contributes to our understanding of how SVs might form after ion beam irradiation in rice., (Copyright © 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)- Published
- 2021
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