Abstract
Rice(Oryza sativa)is a significant crop worldwide with a genome shaped by various evolutionary factors.Rice centromeres are crucial for chromo-some segregation,and contain some unreported genes.Due to the diverse and complex centromere region,a comprehensive understanding of rice centromere structure and function at the population level is needed.We constructed a high-quality centromere map based on the rice super pan-genome consisting of a 251-accession panel com-prising both cultivated and wild species of Asian and African rice.We showed that rice cen-tromeres have diverse satellite repeat CentO,which vary across chromosomes and subpopulations,reflecting their distinct evolutionary patterns.We also revealed that long terminal repeats(LTRs),especially young Gypsy-type LTRs,are abundant in the peripheral CentO-enriched regions and drive rice centromere expansion and evolution.Fur-thermore,high-quality genome assembly and com-plete telomere-to-telomere(T2T)reference genome enable us to obtain more centromeric genome in-formation despite mapping and cloning of cen-tromere genes being challenging.We investigated the association between structural variations and gene expression in the rice centromere.A centromere gene,OsMAB,which positively regu-lates rice tiller number,was further confirmed by expression quantitative trait loci,haplotype analysis and clustered regularly interspaced palindromic repeats(CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated protein 9 methods.By revealing the new insights into the evolutionary patterns and biological roles of rice centromeres,our finding will facilitate future research on centromere biology and crop improvement.
基金项目
centers of Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen()
highperformance computing centers of China National Rice Research Institute()
National Natural Science Foundation of China(32188102)
National Natural Science Foundation of China(32372148)
Innovation Program of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences()
Youth Innovation of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences(Y20230C36)
Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation(2023B1515020053)
Youth Program of Guangdong Basic and Applied Research(2021A1515111123)