Genome size variation among accessions of Arabidopsis thaliana

Annals of Botany

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 317-321

  Schmuths, Heike ^a   Meister, Armin ^a   Horres, Ralf ^a   Bachmann, Konrad ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; C value; Flow cytometry; Genome size; Geographic correlation; Intraspecific variation; Tetraploid

Indexed keywords

FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENOME; POPULATION GENETICS;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; WORLD;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

PLANT DNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOME; PLANT SEED; PLOIDY;

ARABIDOPSIS; DNA, PLANT; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENOME, PLANT; PLOIDIES; SEEDS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 2542487363     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mch037     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Alonso-Blanco C, Koornneef M. 2000. Naturally occurring variation in Arabidopsis: an underexploited resource for plant genetics. Trends in Plant Science 5: 22-29.
2. Arabidopsis Genome Initiative. 2000. Analysis of the genome sequence of the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Nature 408: 796-815.
3. Arumuganathan K, Earle ED. 1991. Nuclear DNA content of some important plant species. Plant Molecular Biology Reporter 9: 208-218.
4. Barow M, Meister A. 2002. Lack of correlation between AT frequency and genome size in higher plants and the effect of non-randomness of base sequences on dye binding. Cytometry 47: 1-7.
5. Barow M, Meister A. 2003. Endopolyploidy in seed plants is differently correlated to systematics, organ, life strategy and genome size. Plant, Cell and Environment 26: 571-584.
6. Beemster GTS, De Vusser K, De Tavernier E, De Bock K, Inzé D. 2002. Variation in growth rate between Arabidopsis ecotypes is correlated with cell division and A-type cyclin-dependent kinase activity. Plant Physiology 129: 854-864.
7. Bennett MD. 1987. Variation in genomic form in plants and its ecological implications. New Phytologist 106: 177-200.
8. Bennett MD, Smith JB. 1991. Nuclear DNA amounts in angiosperms. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B - Biological Sciences 334: 309-345.
9. Bennett MD, Leitch IJ, Price HJ, Johnston JS. 2003. Comparisons with Caenorhabditis (∼100 Mb) and Drosophila (∼175 Mb) using flow cytometry show genome size in arabidopsis to be ∼157 Mb and thus ∼25 % larger than the Arabidopsis Genome Initiative estimate of ∼125 Mb. Annals of Botany 91: 1-11.
10. Bennetzen JL. 2002. Mechanisms and rates of genome expansion and contraction in flowering plants. Genetica 115: 29-36.
11. Dolezel J, Greilhuber J, Lucretti S, Meister A, Lysak MA, Nardi L, Obermayer R. 1998. Plant genome size estimation by flow cytometry: inter-laboratory comparison. Annals of Botany 82 (Suppl. A): 17-26.
12. Francis DM, Hulbert SH, Michelmore RW. 1990. Genome size and complexity of the obligate fungal pathogen, Bremia lactucae. Experimental Mycology 14: 299-309.
13. Galbraith DW, Harkins KR, Knapp S. 1991. Systemic endopolyploidy in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Physiology 96: 985-989.
14. Greilhuber J. 1998. Intraspecific variation in genome size: a critical reassessment. Annals of Botany 82 (Suppl. A): 27-35.
15. Kondorosi E, Roudier F, Gendreau E. 2000. Plant cell-size control: growing by ploidy? Current Opinion in Plant Biology 3: 488-492.
16. Krisai R, Greilhuber J. 1997. Cochlearia pyrenaica DC. das Löffelkraut, in Oberösterreich (mit Anmerkungen zur Karyologie und zur Genomgrösse). Beiträge zur Naturkunde Oberösterreichs 5: 151-160.
17. Laibach F. 1951. Über sommer- und winteranuelle Rassen von Ambidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. Ein Beitrag zur Ätiologie der Blütenbildung. Beiträge zur Biologie der Pflanzen 28: 173-210.
18. Leutwiler LS, Hough-Evans BR, Meyerowitz EM. 1984. The DNA of Arabidopsis thaliana. Molecular and General Genetics 194: 15-23.
19. Marie D, Brown SC. 1993. A cytometric exercise in plant DNA histograms, with 2C-values for 70 species. Biology of Cell 78: 41-51.
20. Melaragno JE, Mehrotra B, Coleman AW. 1993. Relationship between endoploidy and cell size in epidermal tissue of Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 5: 1661-1668.
21. Mitchell-Olds T. 2001. Arabidopsis thaliana and its wild relatives: a model system for ecology and evolution. Trends in Ecology 16: 693-700.
22. Reeves G, Francis D, Davies MS, Rogers HJ, Hodkinson TR. 1998. Genome size is negatively correlated with altitude in natural populations of Dactylis polygama. Annals of Botany 82 (Suppl. A): 99-105.
23. SPSS. 1999. SPSS for Windows. Chicago, IL: SPSS Inc.
24. Schmid KJ, Rosleff Sörensen T, Stracke R, Törjék O, Altman T, Mitchell-Olds T, Weisshaar B. 2003. Large-scale identification and analysis of genome-wide single-nucleotide-polymorphisms for mapping in Arabidopsis thaliana. Genome Research 13: 1250-1257.
25. Schmuths H, Hoffman MH, Bachmann K. 2004. Geographic distribution and recombination of genomic fragments on the short arm of chromosome 2 of Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Biology (in press).
26. Soltis DE, Soltis PS. 1995. The dynamic nature of polyploid genomes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 92: 8089-8091.
27. Strasburger E, Noll F, Schenk H, Schimper AFW. 1991. Lehrbuch der Botanik für Hochschulen. 33. Auflage. Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer.
28. Turpeinen T, Kulmala J, Nevo E. 1999. Genome size variation in Hordeum spontaneum populations. Genome 42: 1049-1099.
29. Vilhar B, Greilhuber J, Koce JD, Temsch EM, Dermastia M. 2001. Plant genome size measurement with DNA image cytometry. Annals of Botany 87: 719-728.
30. Wendel JF. 2000. Genome evolution in polyploids. Plant Molecular Biology 42: 225-249.