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Title: The Kalanchoe genome provides insights into convergent evolution and building blocks of crassulacean acid metabolism

Journal Article · · Nature Communications
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  1. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
  2. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  3. HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, AL (United States)
  4. USDOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), Walnut Creek, CA (United States)
  5. Fujian Agriculture and Forestry Univ., Fujian (China)
  6. Univ. of Nevada, Reno, NV (United States)
  7. Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA (United States)
  8. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
  9. Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb, IL (United States)
  10. Univ. of Liverpool, Liverpool (United Kingdom)
  11. Univ. of Oxford, Oxford (United Kingdom)
  12. Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL (United States)
  13. Pacific Biosciences, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  14. Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)
  15. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Newcastle Univ., Newcastle upon Tyne (United Kingdom)
  16. Fujian Agriculture and Forestry Univ., Fujian (China); Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL (United States)
  17. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Ancon (Republic of Panama)
  18. HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, AL (United States); USDOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), Walnut Creek, CA (United States)

Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) is a water-use efficient adaptation of photosynthesis that has evolved independently many times in diverse lineages of flowering plants. We hypothesize that convergent evolution of protein sequence and temporal gene expression underpins the independent emergences of CAM from C3 photosynthesis. To test this hypothesis, we generate a de novo genome assembly and genome-wide transcript expression data for Kalanchoë fedtschenkoi, an obligate CAM species within the core eudicots with a relatively small genome (~260 Mb). Our comparative analyses identify signatures of convergence in protein sequence and re-scheduling of diel transcript expression of genes involved in nocturnal CO2 fixation, stomatal movement, heat tolerance, circadian clock, and carbohydrate metabolism in K. fedtschenkoi and other CAM species in comparison with non-CAM species. These findings provide new insights into molecular convergence and building blocks of CAM and will facilitate CAM-into-C3 photosynthesis engineering to enhance water-use efficiency in crops.

Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC05-00OR22725; AC02-05CH11231
OSTI ID:
1413629
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1435095
Journal Information:
Nature Communications, Vol. 8, Issue 1; ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher:
Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 96 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

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