Communications Biology (Dec 2020)
Unequal contribution of two paralogous CENH3 variants in cowpea centromere function
- Takayoshi Ishii,
- Martina Juranić,
- Shamoni Maheshwari,
- Fernanda de Oliveira Bustamante,
- Maximilian Vogt,
- Rigel Salinas-Gamboa,
- Steven Dreissig,
- Nial Gursanscky,
- Tracy How,
- Dmitri Demidov,
- Joerg Fuchs,
- Veit Schubert,
- Andrew Spriggs,
- Jean-Philippe Vielle-Calzada,
- Luca Comai,
- Anna M. G. Koltunow,
- Andreas Houben
Affiliations
- Takayoshi Ishii
- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research Gatersleben
- Martina Juranić
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Agriculture and Food
- Shamoni Maheshwari
- Plant Biology Department and Genome Center, University of California
- Fernanda de Oliveira Bustamante
- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research Gatersleben
- Maximilian Vogt
- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research Gatersleben
- Rigel Salinas-Gamboa
- UGA Laboratorio Nacional de Genómica para la Biodiversidad CINVESTAV
- Steven Dreissig
- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research Gatersleben
- Nial Gursanscky
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Agriculture and Food
- Tracy How
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Agriculture and Food
- Dmitri Demidov
- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research Gatersleben
- Joerg Fuchs
- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research Gatersleben
- Veit Schubert
- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research Gatersleben
- Andrew Spriggs
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Agriculture and Food
- Jean-Philippe Vielle-Calzada
- UGA Laboratorio Nacional de Genómica para la Biodiversidad CINVESTAV
- Luca Comai
- Plant Biology Department and Genome Center, University of California
- Anna M. G. Koltunow
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Agriculture and Food
- Andreas Houben
- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research Gatersleben
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-01507-x
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 3,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 12
Abstract
Takayoshi Ishii et al. report that two functional centromere-specific histone H3 (CENH3) paralogs with different centromere occupancy among different tissue types present in diploid cowpea. They demonstrate that CENH3.1 of cowpea is essential for normal plant growth and reproduction, while CENH3.2 is a gene likely to be undergoing early pseudogenization.
