Abstract
Strawberry is an emerging model for studying polyploid genome evolution and rapid domestication of fruit crops. Here we report haplotype-resolved genomes of two wild octoploids (Fragaria chiloensis and Fragaria virginiana), the progenitor species of cultivated strawberry. Substantial variation is identified between species and between haplotypes. We redefine the four subgenomes and track the genetic contributions of diploid species by additional sequencing of the diploid F. nipponica genome. We provide multiple lines of evidence that F. vesca and F. iinumae, rather than other described extant species, are the closest living relatives of these wild and cultivated octoploids. In response to coexistence with quadruplicate gene copies, the octoploid strawberries have experienced subgenome dominance, homoeologous exchanges and coordinated expression of homoeologous genes. However, some homoeologues have substantially altered expression bias after speciation and during domestication. These findings enhance our understanding of the origin, genome evolution and domestication of strawberries.
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Data availability
All the raw genome sequencing data have been submitted to the National Genomics Data Center (https://ngdc.cncb.ac.cn/), and the accession number is CRA005392. All the genome assemblies reported in this paper have been deposited in the Genome Warehouse of the National Genomics Data Center (https://ngdc.cncb.ac.cn/gwh), and the accession numbers are GWHDEDQ00000000 (F. chiloensis), GWHDEDR00000000 (F. virginiana) and GWHDEDN00000000 (F. nipponica). All the genome assembly and annotation files are also available in the Genome Database for Rosaceae (GDR) (https://www.rosaceae.org/Analysis/16216791,16216792,16216793).
Code availability
The scripts used for HEB category analysis for each quadruplet in this paper are available on GitHub (https://github.com/jinxin112233/HEB_categories). Bash commands for studying wild strawberry genomes have been uploaded on GitHub (https://github.com/jinxin112233/WSG).
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This study was financially supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (grant no. 2018YFD1000107), CAS Pioneer Hundred Talents, and the open research project of the ‘Cross-Cooperative Team’ of the Germplasm Bank of Wild Species to A.Z., by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln to J.P.M, and by the National Science Foundation of China (grant no. 31860534) to J.R.
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A.Z. and J.R. conceived the project. A.Z., J.P.M. and J.R. designed the research. J.R., H.W. and H.D. collected and cared for the plant materials. H.D., C.Z. and F.L. sampled the plant tissues for genome and transcriptome sequencing. X.J., A.Z. and H.D. performed the computational analyses. X.J., J.P.M. and A.Z. wrote the manuscript with input from all authors.
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Extended Data Fig. 1 Morphological identification of the sequenced Fragaria species.
(a) Morphological features of F. chiloensis, F. virginiana, F. nipponica, and the cultivar ‘Camarosa’. Scale bar, 1 cm. (b) Seedings of F. chiloensis, F. virginiana, F. nipponica in the greenhouse.
Extended Data Fig. 2 Ploidy level estimation.
Smudge plots showing the ploidy level estimation for the sequenced F. chiloensis, F. virginiana and F. nipponica plants.
Extended Data Fig. 3 Hi-C interaction maps of the haplotype2 of the octoploid F. chiloensis.
(a), F. virginiana (b) and diploid F. nipponica (c). Note: Low to high densities of interaction signals were scaled with colours from orange to deep red.
Extended Data Fig. 4 Graphical alignment of F. vesca genome with F. chiloensis genome, the F. virginiana genome, and the F. nipponica genome.
Macrosynteny between the F. vesca genome and the F. chiloensis (a) and the F. virginiana genome (b). Syntenic gene pairs are denoted by black points. (c) Macrosynteny between the F. nipponica genome and the F. vesca genome. Syntenic gene pairs are denoted by gray line.
Extended Data Fig. 5 Mapping-based subgenome assignments of the F. chiloensis and F. virginiana chromosomes.
Note: The top and bottom line of box plot represent 25th and 75th percentiles, the centre line is the median and whiskers are the full data range. Different lowercase letters indicate the significance of differences in mapping rates among subgenomes, using one-way ANOVA with Duncan’s multiple range test (df = 27; P < 0.05).
Extended Data Fig. 6 Identification of specific subgenome k-mers (K = 13 and frequency = 50) F. virginiana (hap1) based on the subgenomic assignment originally proposed in the ‘Camarosa’ genome by Edger et al., (2019) and Hardigan et al., (2021).
The difference of chromosome assignments (2 C, 2D, 5 C, 5D, 6 C, 6D) are shown. Note: n = number of specific k-mer on each subgenome.
Extended Data Fig. 7 Identification of F. chiloensis(hap1), F. chiloensis(hap2), F. virginiana(hap1) and F. virginiana(hap2) subgenome specific LTR-RTs based on new subgenome assignment and subgenome assignment by Edger et al., (2019) and Hardigan et al., (2021).
Note: n = number of specific LTR-RTs on each subgenome.
Extended Data Fig. 8 Genetic distance matrix between diploid species and each subgenome based on 21 k-mer calculation.
(homoeologous exchange regions were filtered).
Extended Data Fig. 9 Phylogenomic analysis of the octoploid subgenomes.
(a) Total of 6345 single copy gene were identified and 122 single copy gene located in homoeologous exchange regions (HEs) were filtered. (b) Coalescent-based analysis of 6223 genes from four diploid species and each subgenome of the F. virginiana genome. (c) Summary of phylogenetic positions of the four octoploid subgenomes. Different colour indicates the number of kept homologous gene clade with diploid species.
Extended Data Fig. 10 Expression dominance.
The distribution of HEB between all gene pairs in the red fruits of F. chiloensis, F. virginiana and ‘Camarosa’.
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Jin, X., Du, H., Zhu, C. et al. Haplotype-resolved genomes of wild octoploid progenitors illuminate genomic diversifications from wild relatives to cultivated strawberry. Nat. Plants 9, 1252–1266 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-023-01473-2
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