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- Title
Genetic Networks Controlling Structural Outcome of Glucosinolate Activation across Development.
- Authors
Wentzell, Adam M.; Boeye, Ian; Zhiyong Zhang; Kliebenstein, Daniel J.
- Abstract
Most phenotypic variation present in natural populations is under polygenic control, largely determined by genetic variation at quantitative trait loci (QTLs). These genetic loci frequently interact with the environment, development, and each other, yet the importance of these interactions on the underlying genetic architecture of quantitative traits is not well characterized. To better study how epistasis and development may influence quantitative traits, we studied genetic variation in Arabidopsis glucosinolate activation using the moderately sized Bayreuth xShahdara recombinant inbred population, in terms of number of lines. We identified QTLs for glucosinolate activation at three different developmental stages. Numerous QTLs showed developmental dependency, as well as a large epistatic network, centered on the previously cloned large-effect glucosinolate activation QTL, ESP. Analysis of Heterogeneous Inbred Families validated seven loci and all of the QTL xDPG (days post-germination) interactions tested, but was complicated by the extensive epistasis. A comparison of transcript accumulation data within 211 of these RILs showed an extensive overlap of gene expression QTLs for structural specifiers and their homologs with the identified glucosinolate activation loci. Finally, we were able to show that two of the QTLs are the result of whole-genome duplications of a glucosinolate activation gene cluster. These data reveal complex agedependent regulation of structural outcomes and suggest that transcriptional regulation is associated with a significant portion of the underlying ontogenic variation and epistatic interactions in glucosinolate activation.
- Subjects
GLUCOSINOLATES; GENETIC regulation; PHENOTYPES; BIOLOGICAL variation; LOCUS (Genetics); EPISTASIS (Genetics); ARABIDOPSIS
- Publication
PLoS Genetics, 2008, Vol 4, Issue 10, p1
- ISSN
1553-7390
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pgen.1000234