文献类型： 外文期刊

作者： Xu, Xin ¹ ; Yu, Yang ¹ ; Jiang, Bingjun ¹ ; Cao, Dong ¹ ; Zhang, Lixin ¹ ; Jia, Hongchang ¹ ; Sun, Xuegang ¹ ; Chen, Li ¹ ; Yuan, Shan ¹ ; Chen, Fulu ¹ ; Lu, Zefu ¹ ; Liu, Yanhong ¹ ; Naser, Mahmoud ¹ ; Wu, Tingting ¹ ; Wu, Cunxiang ¹ ; Zhang, Qingzhu ⁴ ; Sun, Shi ¹ ; Han, Tianfu ¹ ;

作者机构： 1.Chinese Acad Agr Sci, Inst Crop Sci, State Key Lab Crop Gene Resources & Breeding, Beijing 100081, Peoples R China

2.Beijing Acad Agr & Forestry Sci, Inst Biotechnol, Beijing Key Lab Agr Genet Resources & Biotechnol, Beijing 100097, Peoples R China

3.Chinese Acad Agr Sci, Oil Crops Res Inst, Wuhan 430062, Hubei, Peoples R China

4.Northeast Forestry Univ, Coll Life Sci, Harbin 150040, Heilongjiang, Peoples R China

5.Chinese Acad Agr Sci, Natl Nanfan Res Inst, Sanya 572000, Hainan, Peoples R China

关键词： Soybean; Hemizygote-dependent dominance; Flowering time; siRNA; DNA methylation

期刊名称：CROP JOURNAL （ 影响因子：5.6； 五年影响因子：6.0 ）

ISSN： 2095-5421

年卷期： 2025 年 13 卷 3 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： In plants, numerous non-Mendelian inherited dominant effects, including over-, incomplete-, and codominance, are frequently observed, yet they remain insufficiently understood. A novel phenotype has been identified in specific soybean transformants overexpressing a single 35S::GmFT2a copy: superearly flowering dominance is exclusively observed in hemizygotes, not in homozygotes. Homozygous individual exhibits siRNA-mediated DNA methylation, causing epigenetic transcriptional silencing, whereas no such effect occurs in hemizygotes. Intriguingly, two distinct rounds of DNA methylation establishment occur, each mediated by a different mechanism. The homozygotes that derived from the hemizygous mother plants carrying 35S::GmFT2a locus was associated with the initiation of CHHcontext DNA methylation at 35S promoters mediated by 21 and 22 nucleotide (nt) siRNAs. Subsequently, 24 nt siRNAs contribute to additional CHG- and CG-context DNA methylation at 35S promoters during the homozygosity of genes in plants already homozygous in maternal lineage. Reducing DNA methylation levels can be achieved by generating a hemizygous genotype through a crossing experiment with a recessive genotype. This research has unveiled a phenomenon: hemizygote-dependent dominance resulting from transcriptional silencing in homozygote offsprings. It provides new insights into the molecular mechanism underlying dominant effects. (c) 2025 Crop Science Society of China and Institute of Crop Science, CAAS. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NCND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).