Organellar microcapture to extract nuclear and plastid DNA from recalcitrant wood specimens and trace evidence.

Nucleus isolation Organellar microcapture Plastid isolation Single-cell sequencing Wood identification

Journal

Plant methods
ISSN: 1746-4811
Titre abrégé: Plant Methods
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101245798

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
20 Apr 2022
Historique:
received: 16 11 2021
accepted: 03 04 2022
entrez: 21 4 2022
pubmed: 22 4 2022
medline: 22 4 2022
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Illegal logging is a global crisis with significant environmental, economic, and social consequences. Efforts to combat it call for forensic methods to determine species identity, provenance, and individual identification of wood specimens throughout the forest products supply chain. DNA-based methodologies are the only tools with the potential to answer all three questions and the only ones that can be calibrated "non-destructively" by using leaves or other plant tissue and take advantage of publicly available DNA sequence databases. Despite the potential that DNA-based methods represent for wood forensics, low DNA yield from wood remains a limiting factor because, when compared to other plant tissues, wood has few living DNA-containing cells at functional maturity, it often has PCR-inhibiting extractives, and industrial processing of wood degrades DNA. To overcome these limitations, we developed a technique-organellar microcapture-to mechanically isolate intact nuclei and plastids from wood for subsequent DNA extraction, amplification, and sequencing. Here we demonstrate organellar microcapture wherein we remove individual nuclei from parenchyma cells in wood (fresh and aged) and leaves of Carya ovata and Tilia americana, amyloplasts from Carya wood, and chloroplasts from kale (Brassica sp.) leaf midribs. ITS (773 bp), ITS1 (350 bp), ITS2 (450 bp), and rbcL (620 bp) were amplified via polymerase chain reaction, sequenced, and heuristic searches against the NCBI database were used to confirm that recovered DNA corresponded to each taxon. Organellar microcapture, while too labor-intensive for routine extraction of many specimens, successfully recovered intact nuclei from wood samples collected more than sixty-five years ago, plastids from fresh sapwood and leaves, and presents great potential for DNA extraction from recalcitrant plant samples such as tissues rich in secondary metabolites, old specimens (archaeological, herbarium, and xylarium specimens), or trace evidence previously considered too small for analysis.

Sections du résumé

BACKGROUND BACKGROUND
Illegal logging is a global crisis with significant environmental, economic, and social consequences. Efforts to combat it call for forensic methods to determine species identity, provenance, and individual identification of wood specimens throughout the forest products supply chain. DNA-based methodologies are the only tools with the potential to answer all three questions and the only ones that can be calibrated "non-destructively" by using leaves or other plant tissue and take advantage of publicly available DNA sequence databases. Despite the potential that DNA-based methods represent for wood forensics, low DNA yield from wood remains a limiting factor because, when compared to other plant tissues, wood has few living DNA-containing cells at functional maturity, it often has PCR-inhibiting extractives, and industrial processing of wood degrades DNA. To overcome these limitations, we developed a technique-organellar microcapture-to mechanically isolate intact nuclei and plastids from wood for subsequent DNA extraction, amplification, and sequencing.
RESULTS RESULTS
Here we demonstrate organellar microcapture wherein we remove individual nuclei from parenchyma cells in wood (fresh and aged) and leaves of Carya ovata and Tilia americana, amyloplasts from Carya wood, and chloroplasts from kale (Brassica sp.) leaf midribs. ITS (773 bp), ITS1 (350 bp), ITS2 (450 bp), and rbcL (620 bp) were amplified via polymerase chain reaction, sequenced, and heuristic searches against the NCBI database were used to confirm that recovered DNA corresponded to each taxon.
CONCLUSION CONCLUSIONS
Organellar microcapture, while too labor-intensive for routine extraction of many specimens, successfully recovered intact nuclei from wood samples collected more than sixty-five years ago, plastids from fresh sapwood and leaves, and presents great potential for DNA extraction from recalcitrant plant samples such as tissues rich in secondary metabolites, old specimens (archaeological, herbarium, and xylarium specimens), or trace evidence previously considered too small for analysis.

Identifiants

pubmed: 35443731
doi: 10.1186/s13007-022-00885-z
pii: 10.1186/s13007-022-00885-z
pmc: PMC9019980
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

51

Subventions

Organisme : U.S. Department of State
ID : 19318814Y0010

Informations de copyright

© 2022. The Author(s).

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Auteurs

Adriana Costa (A)

Department of Sustainable Bioproducts, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, USA.
Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, WI, USA.

Giovanny Giraldo (G)

Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.
Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, WI, USA.

Amy Bishell (A)

Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, WI, USA.

Tuo He (T)

Department of Wood Anatomy and Utilization Chinese Research Institute of Wood Industry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China.
Wood Collections (WOODPEDIA), Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China.

Grant Kirker (G)

Department of Sustainable Bioproducts, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, USA.
Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, WI, USA.

Alex C Wiedenhoeft (AC)

Department of Sustainable Bioproducts, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, USA. alex.c.wiedenhoeft@usda.gov.
Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. alex.c.wiedenhoeft@usda.gov.
Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, WI, USA. alex.c.wiedenhoeft@usda.gov.
Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA. alex.c.wiedenhoeft@usda.gov.
Departamento de Ciências Biológicas (Botânica), Universidade Estadual Paulista-Botucatu, São Paulo, Brasil. alex.c.wiedenhoeft@usda.gov.

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