Gametophyte genome activation occurs at pollen mitosis I in maize

Author:

Nelms BradORCID,Walbot Virginia

Abstract

AbstractFlowering plants alternate between multicellular haploid (gametophyte) and diploid (sporophyte) generations. One consequence of this life cycle is that plants face substantial selection during the haploid phase1–3. Pollen actively transcribes its haploid genome4, providing phenotypic diversity even among pollen grains from a single plant. Currently, the timing that pollen precursors first establish this independence is unclear. Starting with an endowment of transcripts from the diploid parent, when do haploid cells generated by meiosis begin to express genes? Here, we follow the shift to haploid expression in maize pollen using allele-specific RNA-sequencing (RNA-Seq) of single pollen precursors. We observe widespread biallelic expression for 11 days after meiosis, indicating that transcripts synthesized by the diploid sporophyte persist long into the haploid phase. Subsequently, there was a rapid and global conversion to monoallelic expression at pollen mitosis I (PMI), driven by active new transcription from the haploid genome. Genes expressed during the haploid phase showed reduced rates of nonsynonymous relative to synonymous substitutions (dn/ds) if they were expressed after PMI, but not before, consistent with purifying selection acting on the haploid gametophyte. This work establishes the timing with which haploid selection may act in pollen and provides a detailed time-course of gene expression during pollen development.

Publisher

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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