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Abstract
Among the genus Actinidia, Actinidia arguta possesses the strongest cold resistance and produces fresh fruit with an intense flavor. To investigate genomic variation that may contribute to variation in phenotypic traits, we performed whole-genome re-sequencing of four A. arguta genotypes originating from different regions in China and identified the polymorphisms using InDel markers. In total, 4,710,650, 4,787,750, 4,646,026, and 4,590,616 SNPs and 1,481,002, 1,534,198, 1,471,304, and 1,425,393 InDels were detected in the ‘Ruby-3’, ‘Yongfeng male’, ‘Kuilv male’, and ‘Hongbei male’ genomes, respectively, compared with the reference genome sequence of cv ‘Hongyang’. A subset of 120 InDels were selected for re-sequencing validation. Additionally, genes related to non-synonymous SNPs and InDels in coding domain sequences were screened for functional analysis. The analysis of GO and KEGG showed that genes involved in cellular responses to water deprivation, sucrose transport, decreased oxygen levels and plant hormone signal transduction were significantly enriched in A. arguta. The results of this study provide insight into the genomic variation of kiwifruit and can inform future research on molecular breeding to improve cold resistance in kiwifruit.
Citation: Lin M, Fang J, Hu C, Qi X, Sun S, Chen J, et al. (2020) Genome-wide DNA polymorphisms in four Actinidia arguta genotypes based on whole-genome re-sequencing. PLoS ONE 15(4): e0219884. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0219884
Editor: Mathilde Causse, INRA, FRANCE
Received: July 2, 2019; Accepted: November 11, 2019; Published: April 10, 2020
Copyright: © 2020 Lin et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Data Availability: The minimal data set are within the paper and Suppporting Information files. All sequencing data files are available from the NCBI database (SRA accession number: SRP118582).
Funding: This study was supported by the National Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 31801820), Special Funds for Science and Technology Innovation Project of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (Grant No. CAAS - ASTIP - 2018 – ZFRI), and Henan Agriculture Research System (S2014-11).
Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Introduction
The genus Actinidia includes 52 species and 21 varieties. The Actinidia chinensis Planch. species complex consists of large-fruited varieties, such as cv ‘Hongyang’, that are grown commercially but typically exhibit poor cold resistance. Actinidia arguta, which is the second-most widely cultivated Actinidia species worldwide, is resistant to cold [1–3]. A. arguta is also the most widespread among all Actinidia species and is naturally distributed throughout most of China from the Changbai Mountains in northeast China (latitude 22°N) to the Dawei Mountains in southwest China (latitude 47°N) [4, 5]. In addition, A. arguta exhibits high nutritional value and hairless, edible skin, thus representing an excellent germplasm for breeding improvement. Cold hardiness is a quantitative trait induced by low temperature, and many cold-inducible genes are regulated by CBF transcription factors. In a previous study, CBF was cloned from the fruit of kiwifruit plants, and the expression of CBF was found to be increased when fruit was stored at low temperatures [6]. Proteomics analysis showed differences in proteins involved in photosynthesis, sugar metabolism, gene regulation, signal transduction, and stress resistance under low-temperature stress in A. arguta leaves [7]. Despite the extensive knowledge regarding the cold-related changes in A. arguta, the genetic components underlying these differences remain poorly understood, and associated genomic information for this species is lacking.
The basic chromosome number of kiwifruit (x = 29) is high compared with those of other horticultural crops, and the genus presents extensive inter-taxal and intra-taxal variations in ploidy [1]. The sequence of the kiwifruit variety cv ‘Hongyang’, which was the first species in Ericales to be sequenced, represents a valuable resource not only for biological discovery and crop improvement but also for evolutionary and comparative genomic analysis. The sequence assembly covers ~80% of the estimated genome size of 758 Mb [8], and its annotation revealed 39,040 predicted genes [9]. The genome annotation data of cv ‘Hongyang’ were updated in 2015, including 20 genes that were revised and 30 genes that were created (http://bdg.hfut.edu.cn/kir/index.html). Mining of microRNAs in the cv ‘Hongyang’ genome and transcriptome has led to the identification of 58 putative microRNAs in kiwifruit [10]. Li utilized this genome sequence to profile the biosynthesis and accumulation of anthocyanins [11]; however, compared with the genomes of other model plants, the study of the kiwifruit genome is still in its infancy, and little is known about the genomes of other species.
The advent of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies has contributed to highly efficient determination of genome-wide genetic variation and genotyping through large-scale re-sequencing of whole genomes. More than 100 plant genomes, ranging in size from 64 Mb to over 5 Gb, have been sequenced to date[12]. These genomes include those of a number of horticulturally important fruit crops, such as apple[13], grape [14], Chinese white pear [15], papaya [16], strawberry [17], and peach [18]. In one study, 4.6 million single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were identified in 74 peach cultivars, including 10 wild varieties, via re-sequencing [18]. In another study, the genome-wide sequences of two apple cultivars were determined and analyzed to identify floral-associated traits[19]. Furthermore, numerous SNPs and structural variations (SVs) have been detected in grape through re-sequencing, allowing the discovery of ripening-related genes [20]. SNPs were first identified in kiwifruit using expressed sequence tag (EST) libraries. The frequency of SNPs in kiwifruit is estimated to be 2,515 SNPs/Mb, and a total of 32,764 SNPs were detected from a combination of four main species and seven different tissues [21]. A previous study identified a total of 12,586 SNP markers using double-digest RAD sequencing (ddRADseq) [22]. Although the A. chinensis genome has already been sequenced and annotated, the absence of diversity within the genome, including a limited number of SNPs and insertions or deletions (InDels), complicates molecular breeding and the identification of target traits. In this study, we re-sequenced four A. arguta varieties using the Illumina platform, compared sequence variations with the reference genome of cv ‘Hongyang’, and analyzed SNPs and InDels. This investigation of whole-genome variations improves our understanding of the cold resistance mechanism of kiwifruit at the molecular level and provides information regarding quantitative trait loci (QTLs) that are associated with cold resistance and can be used in molecular-assisted selection breeding.
Materials and methods
Plant materials
The experimental materials used for re-sequencing included four A. arguta genotypes (2n = 4x = 116). The ‘Ruby-3’ (female) genotype and the ‘Hongbei male’ genotype were originated from Henan Province (113°N, 34°E), China. The ‘Kuilv male’ genotype and ‘Yongfeng male’ were originated from Jilin Province (125°N, 43°E) and Liaoning Province (123°N, 42°E), China. All the experiment tree were planted in Zhengzhou Fruit Research Institute, kiwifruit germplasm resource nursery. Fruit in Ruby-3 and stamen in male of A. arguta were showed in Fig 1. Cv ‘Hongyang’ (2n = 58) was used as a reference to evaluate cold resistance. All the genotypes were planted at the Zheng Zhou Fruit Research Institute. The leaves of the four A. arguta genotypes were collected and used for the DNA extraction and re-sequencing analysis. The shoots of the four A. arguta genotypes and the ‘Hongyang’ variety were collected in the dormant period to assess cold hardiness. Eleven genotypes, including 7 A. arguta genotypes (‘Ruby-3’, ‘Kuilv’, ‘Xuxiang’, ‘Ruby-4’, ‘Hongbei male’, ‘LD134’, and ‘Hongbei’), 3 A. chinensis genotypes (‘Hort16A’, ‘Boshanbiyu’, and ‘Hongyang’), and 1 A. deliciosa genotype (‘Hayward’), were used to identify InDels.
Fruit and stamen in A. arguta, A: fruit in A. arguta, B: stamen in A. arguta male.
Electrolyte leakage tests
One-year-old shoots of the four A. arguta genotypes and the A. chinensis cv ‘Hongyang’ variety were collected in the dormant period, and all the shoots were cut into 20-cm sections and wrapped in plastic film. The samples were placed in a low-temperature incubator (Shanghai Hong Yun Experimental Equipment Factory, Shanghai, China). The A. arguta samples were subjected to temperatures of -10°C, -15°C, -20°C, -25°C, and -30°C, whereas the ‘Hongyang’ samples were subjected to temperatures -5°C, -10°C, -15°C, -20°C, and -25°C. The samples were kept at each low temperature for 8 h, followed by a thawing period of 1 h at room temperature. After the freezing treatment, cold hardiness was assessed using the electrolyte leakage method [23, 24]. The lethal temperature at 50% lethality (LT50) was calculated based on the logistic sigmoid function, y = K / (1+ae-bx), where y is the REL (Relative Electrolyte Leakage), x is the exposure temperature, a and b are the equation parameters, and k indicates extreme values when x is infinite. The data were calculated and analyzed and standard error were determined using Excel 2013 and SPSS 14.0.
DNA library construction and sequencing
Young leaf tissues were collected from the four A. arguta genotypes for DNA isolation. Total DNA was extracted using the Solarbio DNA Extraction Kit (Beijing Solarbio Science & Technology Co., Ltd, Beijing, China) according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Genomic re-sequencing was performed by Biomarker Technologies (Beijing, China), and the procedure, based on the standard Illumina protocol, was as follows: DNA fragments were generated using ultrasound; the DNA fragments were purified; the ends were repaired with poly-A at the 3′ ends; adaptors were ligated; and clusters were generated. Agarose gel electrophoresis was performed to select specific fragments, and a library was established through PCR amplification. After qualification of the library, sequencing was performed on the Illumina HiSeq 4000 platform.
The raw reads were subsequently evaluated, and low-quality reads (< 20), reads with adaptor sequences, and duplicate reads were filtered. The remaining clean reads were used for mapping. The A. chinensis ‘Hongyang’ genome was used as a reference [9]. The short reads were aligned using the Burrows Wheeler transformation (BWA, 0.7.10—r789) [25] with the default parameters, except that -M was activated (marking shorter split hits as secondary to make the results compatible with Picard tools software), and the threads for mapping were set to 8 (bwa mem -t 8 -M) to accelerate mapping.
SNP and InDel screening
The BWA mapping results were used to detect SNPs and InDels. Picard tools was employed to produce duplicates (http://sourceforge.net/projects/picard/) to limit the influence of PCR duplication. GATK software was used for SNP screening and InDel testing [26]. The raw data were translated into sequenced reads through base-calling; during the quality evaluation, the adapters were discarded, and low-quality sequences (quality < 30, or quality by depth < 2.0) were filtered to obtain clean reads. The detected SNPs were screened using the following criteria: coverage depth ≥ 5X, discard the alleles > 2.
Various gene analyses and DNA-Level functional annotation
The identified genes with SNPs and InDels were subjected to BLAST searches against functional databases [27]. The NCBI non-redundant (NR), Swiss-Prot, Gene Ontology (GO), Clusters of Orthologous Groups of proteins (COG), and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) annotation databases were used to analyze gene functions [28–30]. For the enrichment test, significance was evaluated based on a P-value ≤ 10−5 and an FDR value ≤ 0.01.
InDel primer design and validation
DNA was extracted using the Solarbio DNA Extraction Kit (Beijing Solarbio Science & Technology Co., Ltd, Beijing, China) according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Based on the re-sequencing results, we randomly searched every chromosome for InDels based on an insertion or deletion size ≥10 bp. The InDel primers were designed using Primer Premier 5.0; the parameters for InDel primer design were as follows: PCR product size: 200–500 bp; primer size: 18–24 bp; primer GC content: 40%-60%; and primer Tm: 55–60°C. In total, 120 primers were used, which are listed in S1 Table. PCR was performed using a PCR mix (Beijing ComWin Biotech Co., Ltd) in a 10-μl reaction volume with the following components: 5 μl of the PCR mix, 0.5 μl of each primer, 1 μl of template DNA, and 3 μl of ddH2O. The amplification program consisted of 35 cycles at 94°C for 5 min, 94°C for 30 s, 55°C for 30 s, and 72°C for 30 s, followed by 72°C for 10 min. PCR amplification was performed in a thermocycler (Bio-Rad). The PCR products were tested via 6% polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) under the following conditions: voltage: 80 V, and electrophoresis time: 2 h. Silver staining was performed, and the bands were photographed and analyzed. PopGen32 and NTsys 2.10e software were used to analyze the polymorphisms.
Results
Evaluation of cold resistance
LT50 is used as a standard index to assess cold hardiness in plants [31]. According to our results, the REL at different temperatures showed an acceptable ‘S’ curve; therefore, LT50 could be calculated using the logistic sigmoid function method. According to the REL curve (Fig 2), A. arguta and A. chinensis showed an obvious difference at -25°C; the REL was approximately 60% for cv ‘Hongyang’, and it was approximately 40%-50% for the A. arguta genotypes, indicating that the shoots of A. arguta are more cold resistant than those of A. chinensis ‘Hongyang’ when the temperature is decreased to -25°C. The logistic regression analysis indicated that the LT50 of ‘Hongyang’ was -20.9°C, whereas the LT50 values were -25.0°C, -23.1°C, -31.1°C, and -29.7°C for ‘Ruby-3’, ‘Hongbei male’, ‘Yongfeng male’, and ‘Kuilv male’, respectively (Fig 2). The LT50 values follow the order ‘Yongfeng male’ > ‘Kuilv male’ > ‘Ruby-3’ > ‘Hongbei male’ > ‘Hongyang’. These results indicate that the LT50 value of A. arguta is higher in North China than that in Central China, and A. arguta exhibits greater cold resistance than A. chinensis.
Data are means (± SE) of three technical replicates.
Comparison of reads to the Actinidia chinensis ‘Hongyang’ reference genome
In this study, we performed genome re-sequencing of four A. arguta genotypes as follows. A total of 72,865,383, 58,671,207, 58,281,578, and 69,620,711 clean reads (150 bp) were generated for ‘Ruby-3’, ‘Hongbei male’, ‘Kuilv male’, and ‘Yongfeng male’, respectively; the distribution of each genome was widely uniform, and the sequence was random (S1 Fig), which indicated good sequence quality. The GC contents were all approximately 38% (i.e., slightly higher than that obtained using the cv ‘Hongyang’ genome). Approximately 67.68% of the reads mapped to the reference genome (Table 1). The double ‘Hongyang’ genome size was standardized to the A. arguta genome size, and the average depths were 16, 14, 15, and 20 in ‘Ruby-3’, ‘Hongbei male’, ‘Kuilv male’, and ‘Yongfeng male’, respectively. All sequencing data for the four A. arguta genotypes have been uploaded to NCBI (SRA accession number: SRP118582), and the accession numbers are SRX3209765, SRX3209753, SRX3209750, and SRX3205072 for ‘Ruby-3’, ‘Hongbei male’, ‘Kuilv male’, and ‘Yongfeng male’, respectively.
Analysis of SNPs and InDels
Highly reliable SNPs were identified in the four genotypes. In total, 4,710,650, 4,590,616, 4,646,026, and 4,787,750 SNPs were identified in ‘Ruby-3’, ‘Hongbei male’, ‘Kuilv male’, and ‘Yongfeng male’, respectively. The four genotypes exhibited overlapping and distinct SNPs (Fig 3), with approximately 1 million different SNPs between any two of the genotypes (Table 2), and all the samples displayed different heterozygous and homozygous SNP loci. A greater number of homozygous SNPs corresponds to a greater difference between the samples and the reference genome. The percentages of heterozygous and homozygous SNPs were approximately 30% and 70%, respectively (Table 3). According to the observed nucleotide substitution, the SNP type can be classified as a transition (A/G and T/C) or transversion (A/C, T/G, A/T, and G/C); the transition to transversion ratio (Ti/Tv) in the four varieties was 1.45. The distribution of SNP mutation types showed that C:G > T:A and T:A > C:G, accounting for the high ratio (Fig 4). The distribution of the SNPs in the functional regions of the four varieties was determined and was found to be similar among the varieties. The highest proportion was observed in intergenic regions, which accounted for ~22.63% of the SNPs, followed by downstream regions (15.62%) and upstream regions (13.35%), while SNPs in coding (CDS) regions accounted for 7.95%-8.21% of the SNPs (Table 4). Upstream regions included more SNPs than CDS regions.
In total, 1,481,002, 1,425,393, 1,534,198, and 1,534,198 InDels were detected in ‘Ruby-3’, ‘Hongbei male’, ‘Kuilv male’, and ‘Yongfeng male’, respectively. The types of InDels are presented in Table 5. The InDel length distributions in the whole genome and in the CDS region are shown in Fig 5. Along with InDels longer than 10 bp, InDels with a length of one, two, or three bp accounted for a large proportion of all InDels, accounting for 70.42%, 75.86%, 65.26%, and 70.33% of the InDels in ‘Ruby-3’, ‘Hongbei male’, ‘Kuilv male’, and ‘Yongfeng male’, respectively. A total of 1,005,226 InDels were unique in A. arguta relative to ‘Hongyang’ (Fig 6). Approximately 1.75% of the InDels were located in CDS regions. In contrast to the results for SNPs in CDS regions, few InDels were present in these regions, suggesting few insertions or deletions in A. arguta relative to A. chinensis. However, InDels occupied 15% of upstream regions, including promoter regions (S2 Fig).
Gene categories, functional annotation, and differences
Mutations that occur in CDS regions may cause changes in gene function. By examining the non-synonymous SNP mutations and InDels in CDS regions, we identified potential differences in functional genes between A. arguta and A. chinensis. In total, 22,112, 22,443, 22,077, and 21,935 genes were analyzed in ‘Ruby-3’, ‘Yongfeng male’, ‘Hongbei male’, and ‘Kuilv male’, respectively, using public databases, including the NCBI, NR, Swiss-Prot protein, GO categories, COG, and KEGG databases. Detailed information regarding the functional annotation can be found in S2 Table. All the functionally annotated genes were classified into GO categories. The GO enrichment classification suggested that the genes from the biological process (BP), cellular component (CC), and molecular function (MF) categories could be divided into 20, 16, and 16 groups, respectively (Fig 7). Based on these categories, a clearly understanding of the genomic characteristics of these kiwifruit genotypes could be obtained. The most abundant components of the BP category were “metabolic process”, “cellular process”, and “biological regulation”. In the CC category, the most abundant components were “cell part” and “cell”, followed by “organelle” and “membrane”. Regarding the BP terms, many genes were classified into the “catalytic activity” and “binding” categories. The GO category analysis also indicated that the genes involved in the cellular response to water deprivation (GO: 0042631), sucrose transport (GO: 0015770), endosome transport via the multivesicular body sorting pathway (GO: 0032509), the response to decreased oxygen levels (GO: 0036293), the response to oxygen levels (GO: 0070482), and the regulation of cellular carbohydrate metabolic processes (GO: 0010675) were significantly enriched in the four genotypes (S3 and S4 Tables).
(A) GO classification of differentially expressed genes in ‘Ruby-3’. (B) GO classification of differentially expressed genes in ‘Yongfeng male’. (C) GO classification of differentially expressed genes in ‘Kuilv male’. (D) GO classification of differentially expressed genes in ‘Hongbei male’.
The KEGG pathway analysis showed enrichment of genes involved in 128 pathways, and 13 pathways were significantly enriched (P-value <0.05) (Table 6), including plant hormone signal transduction (ko04075), porphyrin and chlorophyll metabolism (ko00860), and photosynthesis (ko00195). Under the application of a significance threshold of a P-value <0.01, the only metabolic pathway that was enriched was 2-oxocarboxylic acid metabolism. In total, 747, 534, 576, and 674 genes involved in the above pathways were detected, respectively.
Validation of InDels
To validate the InDels identified in this study, 120 InDels were selected and converted into InDel markers. In the PCR analysis, 81 of the 120 primer pairs exhibited appropriate amplification using genomic DNA from the four A. arguta varieties and ‘Hongyang’ as the template; 64 of these 81 primer pairs revealed identifiable polymorphisms among these five varieties based on PAGE analysis. To test the InDel distribution in the other varieties, the diploid A. chinensis ‘Boshanbiyu’, tetraploid A. arguta ‘Ruby-4’, ‘Hongbei’, and ‘LD134’, and hexaploid A. deliciosa ‘Xuxiang’ and ‘Hayward’ genotypes as well as three re-sequenced genotypes (‘Ruby-3’, ‘Kuilv male’, and ‘Hongbei male’) were selected for the identification of InDel polymorphisms (Table 6). In total, 14 InDel markers were selectively amplified (Fig 8), resulting in 43 polymorphic loci among the 11 germplasm resources, with an average of 2.87 loci per primer. Shannon’s diversity index ranged from 0.25 to 0.64, with a mean value of 0.47. The cluster analysis showed that all the varieties could be divided into two categories, with a genetic similarity coefficient of 0.39; one category was composed of A. arguta, and the other category consisted of the A. chinensis complex.
The varieties from left to right are ‘Ruby-3’, ‘Kuilv’, ‘Xuxiang’, ‘Ruby-4’, ‘Hongbei male’, ‘Hort16A’, ‘LD134’, ‘Hongbei’, ‘Boshanbiyu’, ‘Hongyang’, and ‘Hayward’.
Discussion
The kiwifruit genome is complex and exhibits variations in ploidy. Actinidia species of different ploidies show diverse traits, which are controlled by their unique genomes. The species examined in the present study, A. arguta (2n = 4x = 116), also exhibits excellent characteristics. According to our results, the average LT50 of A. arguta was -27.2°C, while that of A. chinensis cv ‘Hongyang’ was -20.9°C, indicating that A. arguta shows better cold resistance than A. chinensis. Chat evaluated plant survival and growth recovery to illustrate that A. arguta appeared to be more tolerant to cold than A. chinensis [32]. The examination of cold damage to kiwifruit in the natural environment showed that A. arguta exhibited a better survival ability than A. chinensis and A. deliciosa [33], which is consistent with our conclusion in previous work. However, little genetic information is available for A. arguta, and this type of information is vital for exploiting molecular markers of desired traits to develop functional genes. In this study, we re-sequenced the genomes of A. arguta ‘Ruby-3’, ‘Hongbei male’, ‘Kuilv male’, and ‘Yongfeng male’.
Because genomic information for tetraploid A. arguta is lacking, ‘Hongyang’ was used as the reference genome in this study. The mapped reads covered approximately 68% of the reference genome (Table 1); however, whether this variety is autotetraploid or allotetraploid is unclear, and the unmapped sequences may be due to differences in ploidy (e.g., tetraploid versus diploid), or the varieties may differ from ‘Hongyang’. Polyploidization events in plants can result in new functions. For example, the sub-genomes of bread wheat display limited gene loss or rearrangement, and cell- and stage-dependent dominance is observed, including in gene families related to baking quality. In Brassica napus, however, dynamic shuffling and loss-of-polyploidy events have been reported [34][35]. In our study, the unknown genome of A. arguta is still a large challenge. In this study, SNPs, InDels, and gene functions were analyzed based on the mapped sequence to obtain a better general understanding of A. arguta. We analyzed 73% of total reads and found numerous differences in the SNPs and InDels detected in A. arguta and A. chinensis. Among the SNPs and InDels detected in A. arguta and A. chinensis, differences were observed in more than 5 million SNPs and 1 million InDels in the different A. arguta varieties. These findings offer an overview of the A. arguta genome and provide genomic resources for future studies investigating specific characteristics and genetic differentiation. In addition, the results may be particularly useful for the development of excellent cold-resistant trait genes.
The genomic variations identified at the whole-genome level in the four A. arguta genotypes that may result in amino acid changes, such as SNPs and InDels, were mainly caused by positive selection during adaptation to environmental changes during the evolutionary process. The observed genome polymorphisms were mainly located in intergenic, upstream, and downstream regions, and similarities were observed among the genotypes (Table 3). Changes in these regions may influence gene expression, but not gene function [36]. Regarding the substitution of bases, the transition to transversion ratio (Ti/Tv) observed in the four varieties was ~1.45 in our study. This high ratio maintains the structure of the DNA double helix, as shown in rice, in which the Ti/Tv ratio is approximately 2.0–2.5 [37]. The ratio of homozygosity to heterozygosity was approximately 2.20 in ‘Ruby-3’ and ‘Hongbei male’ and approximately 2.37 and 2.40 in ‘Kuilv male’ and ‘Yongfeng male’, respectively. A. arguta from northern China exhibited greater differences than A. arguta from the middle of China. The SNP frequency observed in the current study was about 8,643 SNPs/Mb, which is higher than the reported value of 2,515 SNPs/Mb [21], but lower than the value of 15,260 SNPs/Mb observed in Brassica rapa [38]. The InDel polymorphism frequency was found to be ~48 InDels/Mb in this study. Among other plants, the frequency of short InDels was found to be 151 InDels/Mb (1–100 bp in size) in Arabidopsis thaliana [39], approximately 1,050 InDels/Mb in rice [40], and 434 InDels/Mb in B. rapa when the InDel size was limited to 1–5 bp [41], the InDel density was limited to 1–100 bp, and the frequency was limited to 4,830 InDels/Mb [38]. In A. arguta, the frequency (1–100 bp) was lower than those observed in these other species. It is likely that the deep sequencing approach used in these previous studies influenced the number of InDels identified. In the present study, 41 polymorphic loci were detected among the different varieties, and the InDel primers revealed a high rate of polymorphism. The InDel primers were designed based on the re-sequencing data, and 20.8% of the primers were specifically amplified in ‘Hongyang’. In tetraploid and hexaploid species, there are more than two polymorphic loci, which may show different InDels in the sub-genome. The validation data further implied that the InDel primers were effective in different kiwifruit species and may be used to identify phenotypes.
The genome polymorphisms revealed in this study provide comprehensive information, which can be beneficial for gene function identification. In the different genes, such as CBF gene (Achn233741) [42], which is a transcription factor involved in cold tolerance, Fructose-1-6-bisphosphatase (Achn002191), which participating in sucrose synthesis, they all belong to GO term of the response to cold. Genes associated with the GO categories of the response to decreased oxygen levels (GO: 0036293) and the response to oxygen levels (GO: 0070482) were enriched, implying some divergence between A. arguta and A. chinensis.
Since the 1980s, A. arguta cultivation has been introduced in several regions of Europe, including Belgium, Italy, France, and Iran [32, 33, 43]. In New Zealand, A. arguta has shown good cold resistance and is used as a stock for improving cold resistance [44]. Qi examined the thickness of the collenchyma and found that collenchyma thickness was closely related to cold resistance [45]. In the present study, four entire genomes of A. arguta were re-sequenced to increase our understanding of plant traits, which could benefit further transcriptome analyses to identify functional genes.
Supporting information
S1 Fig. The distribution of coverage depth in chromosomes.
A: ‘Ruby-3’, B: ‘Hongbei male’, C: ‘Yongfeng male’, D: ‘Kuilv male’.
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S2 Fig. Original gel images of polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of 14 InDel primers in 11 varieties.
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S2 Table. Functional annotation of different unigenes in different databases.
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S3 Table. GO enrichment analysis of the four genotypes.
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S4 Table. The genes of the GO category related to cold resistance.
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