Genome-wide methylome stability and parental effects in the worldwide distributed Lombardy poplar.

Black poplar Bud phenology DNA methylation Epigenetics Poplar Populus nigra Transgenerational plasticity

Journal

BMC biology
ISSN: 1741-7007
Titre abrégé: BMC Biol
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101190720

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
05 Feb 2024
Historique:
received: 30 03 2023
accepted: 04 01 2024
medline: 6 2 2024
pubmed: 6 2 2024
entrez: 5 2 2024
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Despite the increasing number of epigenomic studies in plants, little is known about the forces that shape the methylome in long-lived woody perennials. The Lombardy poplar offers an ideal opportunity to investigate the impact of the individual environmental history of trees on the methylome. We present the results of three interconnected experiments on Lombardy poplar. In the first experiment, we investigated methylome variability during a growing season and across vegetatively reproduced generations. We found that ramets collected over Europe and raised in common conditions have stable methylomes in symmetrical CG-contexts. In contrast, seasonal dynamics occurred in methylation patterns in CHH context. In the second experiment, we investigated whether methylome patterns of plants grown in a non-parental environment correlate with the parental climate. We did not observe a biological relevant pattern that significantly correlates with the parental climate. Finally, we investigated whether the parental environment has persistent carry-over effects on the vegetative offspring's phenotype. We combined new bud set observations of three consecutive growing seasons with former published bud set data. Using a linear mixed effects analysis, we found a statistically significant but weak short-term, parental carry-over effect on the timing of bud set. However, this effect was negligible compared to the direct effects of the offspring environment. Genome-wide cytosine methylation patterns in symmetrical CG-context are stable in Lombardy poplar and appear to be mainly the result of random processes. In this widespread poplar clone, methylation patterns in CG-context can be used as biomarkers to infer a common ancestor and thus to investigate the recent environmental history of a specific Lombardy poplar. The Lombardy poplar shows high phenotypic plasticity in a novel environment which enabled this clonal tree to adapt and survive all over the temperate regions of the world.

Sections du résumé

BACKGROUND BACKGROUND
Despite the increasing number of epigenomic studies in plants, little is known about the forces that shape the methylome in long-lived woody perennials. The Lombardy poplar offers an ideal opportunity to investigate the impact of the individual environmental history of trees on the methylome.
RESULTS RESULTS
We present the results of three interconnected experiments on Lombardy poplar. In the first experiment, we investigated methylome variability during a growing season and across vegetatively reproduced generations. We found that ramets collected over Europe and raised in common conditions have stable methylomes in symmetrical CG-contexts. In contrast, seasonal dynamics occurred in methylation patterns in CHH context. In the second experiment, we investigated whether methylome patterns of plants grown in a non-parental environment correlate with the parental climate. We did not observe a biological relevant pattern that significantly correlates with the parental climate. Finally, we investigated whether the parental environment has persistent carry-over effects on the vegetative offspring's phenotype. We combined new bud set observations of three consecutive growing seasons with former published bud set data. Using a linear mixed effects analysis, we found a statistically significant but weak short-term, parental carry-over effect on the timing of bud set. However, this effect was negligible compared to the direct effects of the offspring environment.
CONCLUSIONS CONCLUSIONS
Genome-wide cytosine methylation patterns in symmetrical CG-context are stable in Lombardy poplar and appear to be mainly the result of random processes. In this widespread poplar clone, methylation patterns in CG-context can be used as biomarkers to infer a common ancestor and thus to investigate the recent environmental history of a specific Lombardy poplar. The Lombardy poplar shows high phenotypic plasticity in a novel environment which enabled this clonal tree to adapt and survive all over the temperate regions of the world.

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pubmed: 38317114
doi: 10.1186/s12915-024-01816-1
pii: 10.1186/s12915-024-01816-1
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eng

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© 2024. The Author(s).

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Auteurs

An Vanden Broeck (A)

Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), Geraardsbergen, Belgium. An.vandenbroeck@inbo.be.

Tim Meese (T)

Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.

Pieter Verschelde (P)

Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), Geraardsbergen, Belgium.

Karen Cox (K)

Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), Geraardsbergen, Belgium.

Berthold Heinze (B)

Department of Forest Growth, Silviculture and Genetics, Austrian Federal Research Centre for Forests (BFW), Vienna, Austria.

Dieter Deforce (D)

Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.

Ellen De Meester (E)

Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.

Filip Van Nieuwerburgh (F)

Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.

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