Potato(Solanum tuberosum)is the most consumed non-cereal food crop.Most commercial potato cultivars are autotetraploids with highly heterozygous genomes,severely hampering genetic analyses and improvement.By leveragin...Potato(Solanum tuberosum)is the most consumed non-cereal food crop.Most commercial potato cultivars are autotetraploids with highly heterozygous genomes,severely hampering genetic analyses and improvement.By leveraging the state-of-the-art sequencing technologies and polyploid graph binning,we achieved a chromosome-scale,haplotype-resolved genome assembly of a cultivated potato,Cooperation-88(C88).lntra-haplotype comparative analyses revealed extensive sequence and expression differences in this tetraploid genome.We identified haplotype-specific pericentromeres on chromosomes,suggesting a distinct evolutionary trajectory of potato homologous centromeres.Furthermore,we detected double reduction events that are unevenly distributed on haplotypes in 1021 of 1034 selfing progeny,a feature of autopolyploid inheritance.By distinguishing maternal and paternal haplotype sets in C88,we simulated the origin of heterosis in cultivated tetraploid with a survey of 3110 tetra-allelic loci with deleterious mutations,which were masked in the heterozygous condition bytwo parents.This study provides insights into the genomic architecture of autopolyploids and will guide their breeding.展开更多
基金supported by the Guangdong Major Project of Basic and Applied Basic Research(2021B0301030004)Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program(CAAS-ZDRW202101)to S.H.This work was also supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant nos.31561143006 to G.L.and 32001601 to Y.L.).
文摘Potato(Solanum tuberosum)is the most consumed non-cereal food crop.Most commercial potato cultivars are autotetraploids with highly heterozygous genomes,severely hampering genetic analyses and improvement.By leveraging the state-of-the-art sequencing technologies and polyploid graph binning,we achieved a chromosome-scale,haplotype-resolved genome assembly of a cultivated potato,Cooperation-88(C88).lntra-haplotype comparative analyses revealed extensive sequence and expression differences in this tetraploid genome.We identified haplotype-specific pericentromeres on chromosomes,suggesting a distinct evolutionary trajectory of potato homologous centromeres.Furthermore,we detected double reduction events that are unevenly distributed on haplotypes in 1021 of 1034 selfing progeny,a feature of autopolyploid inheritance.By distinguishing maternal and paternal haplotype sets in C88,we simulated the origin of heterosis in cultivated tetraploid with a survey of 3110 tetra-allelic loci with deleterious mutations,which were masked in the heterozygous condition bytwo parents.This study provides insights into the genomic architecture of autopolyploids and will guide their breeding.
