Mitochondrial genome of the nonphotosynthetic mycoheterotrophic plant Hypopitys monotropa, its structure, gene expression and RNA editingстатья
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Аннотация:Heterotrophic plants – the plants that lost the ability to photosynthesis – are characterized by a 21 number of changes at all levels of organization. Heterotrophic plants divide into two large 22 categories – parasitic and mycoheterotrophic. The question of to what extent these changes are 23 similar in these two categories is still open. Plastid genomes of non-photosynthetic plants are 24 well characterized and they demonstrate similar patterns of reduction in both groups. In contrast, 25 little is known about mitochondrial genomes of mycoheterotrophic plants. We report the 26 structure of the mitochondrial genome of Hypopitys monotropa, a mycoheterotrophic member of 27 Ericaceae, and the expression of mitochondrial genes. In contrast to its highly reduced plastid 28 genome, the mitochondrial genome of H. monotropa is larger than that of its photosynthetic 29 relative Vaccinium macrocarpon, its complete size is ~810 Kbp. We found an unusually long 30 repeat-rich structure of the genome that suggests the existence of linear fragments. Despite this 31 unique feature, the gene content of the H. monotropa mitogenome is typical of flowering plants. 32 No acceleration of substitution rates is observed in mitochondrial genes, in contrast to previous 33 observations on parasitic non-photosynthetic plants. Transcriptome sequencing revealed trans-34 splicing of several genes and RNA editing in 33 genes of 38. Notably, we did not find any traces 35 of horizontal gene transfer from fungi, in contrast to plant parasites which extensively integrate 36 genetic material from their hosts.