Paternal leakage of plastids rescues inter-lineage hybrids in Silene nutans Number of Authors: 52024 (English)In: Annals of Botany, ISSN 0305-7364, E-ISSN 1095-8290, Vol. 133, no 3, p. 427-434Article in journal (Refereed) Published

Abstract [en]

• Background and Aims Organelle genomes are usually maternally inherited in angiosperms. However, biparental inheritance has been observed, especially in hybrids resulting from crosses between divergent genetic lineages. When it concerns the plastid genome, this exceptional mode of inheritance might rescue inter-lineage hybrids suffering from plastid–nuclear incompatibilities. Genetically differentiated lineages of Silene nutans exhibit strong postzygotic isolation owing to plastid–nuclear incompatibilities, highlighted by inter-lineage hybrid chlorosis and mortality. Surviving hybrids can exhibit variegated leaves, which might indicate paternal leakage of the plastid genome. We tested whether the surviving hybrids inherited the paternal plastid genome and survived thanks to paternal leakage.
• Methods We characterized the leaf phenotype (fully green, variegated or white) of 504 surviving inter-lineage hybrids obtained from a reciprocal cross experiment among populations of four genetic lineages (W1, W2, W3 and E1) of S. nutans from Western Europe and genotyped 560 leaf samples (both green and white leaves for variegated hybrids) using six lineage-specific plastid single nucleotide polymorphisms.
• Key Results A high proportion of the surviving hybrids (≤98 %) inherited the paternal plastid genome, indicating paternal leakage. The level of paternal leakage depended on cross type and cross direction. The E1 and W2 lineages as maternal lineages led to the highest hybrid mortality and to the highest paternal leakage from W1 and W3 lineages in the few surviving hybrids. This was consistent with E1 and W2 lineages, which contained the most divergent plastid genomes. When W3 was the mother, more hybrids survived, and no paternal leakage was detected.
• Conclusions By providing a plastid genome potentially more compatible with the hybrid nuclear background, paternal leakage has the potential to rescue inter-lineage hybrids from plastid–nuclear incompatibilities. This phenomenon might slow down the speciation process, provided hybrid survival and reproduction can occur in the wild.

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2024. Vol. 133, no 3, p. 427-434

Keywords [en]

Plastid genome, inter-lineage hybrids, paternal leakage, plastid-nuclear incompatibilities, reproductive isolation, Silene nutans, variegated leaf phenotype

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Genetics and Genomics Botany

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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-225398DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcad196ISI: 001135435300001PubMedID: 38141228Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85190131779OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-225398DiVA, id: diva2:1828988

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