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Extreme expansion of NBS-encoding genes in Rosaceae

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Title
Extreme expansion of NBS-encoding genes in Rosaceae
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BMC Genomic Data, May 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12863-015-0208-x
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YanXiao Jia, Yang Yuan, Yanchun Zhang, Sihai Yang, Xiaohui Zhang

Abstract

Nucleotide binding site leucine-rich repeats (NBS-LRR) genes encode a large class of disease resistance (R) proteins in plants. Extensive studies have been carried out to identify and investigate NBS-encoding gene families in many important plant species. However, no comprehensive research into NBS-encoding genes in the Rosaceae has been performed. In this study, five whole-genome sequenced Rosaceae species, including apple, pear, peach, mei, and strawberry, were analyzed to investigate the evolutionary pattern of NBS-encoding genes and to compare them to those of three Cucurbitaceae species, cucumber, melon, and watermelon. Considerable differences in the copy number of NBS-encoding genes were observed between Cucurbitaceae and Rosaceae species. In Rosaceae species, a large number and a high proportion of NBS-encoding genes were observed in peach (437, 1.52%), mei (475, 1.51%), strawberry (346, 1.05%) and pear (617, 1.44%), and apple contained a whopping 1303 (2.05%) NBS-encoding genes, which might be the highest number of R-genes in all of these reported diploid plant. However, no more than 100 NBS-encoding genes were identified in Cucurbitaceae. Many more species-specific gene families were classified and detected with the signature of positive selection in Rosaceae species, especially in the apple genome. Taken together, our findings indicate that NBS-encoding genes in Rosaceae, especially in apple, have undergone extreme expansion and rapid adaptive evolution. Useful information was provided for further research on the evolutionary mode of disease resistance genes in Rosaceae crops.

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Ethiopia 1 2%
United States 1 2%
Germany 1 2%
Unknown 52 95%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 22%
Researcher 10 18%
Student > Master 5 9%
Student > Bachelor 4 7%
Other 3 5%
Other 5 9%
Unknown 16 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 27 49%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 7 13%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 2%
Environmental Science 1 2%
Immunology and Microbiology 1 2%
Other 1 2%
Unknown 17 31%
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