i) The document discusses applying genomics tools and techniques like sequencing, mutation breeding, and tissue culture to assess genetic diversity in Ensete, conserve the Ensete gene pool, and support breeding. It aims to identify pathogens and soil biota, compare the Ensete genome to other species, and document and make information accessible.
ii) Genomics is revolutionizing the study of taxonomy, phylogeny, and diversity in crops. It enables exploiting biodiversity for breeding through tools like markers, mutation induction, and tissue culture.
iii) The research has impacts outside academia through legislation, breeding more sustainable varieties, sequencing whole genomes, risk assessment, and advising on biotechnology and food safety.
1. Genomics, mutation breeding
and society
Trude Schwarzacher and
Pat Heslop-Harrison
TS32@le.ac.uk
PHH@molcyt.com www.molcyt.com
Talk prepared for meeting May 2017 of
PatHH1
Slideshare
4. 2 End hunger, achieve food security, improve nutrition & promote
sustainable agriculture
15 Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial
ecosystems … halt biodiversity loss
5.
6. 1000 bp
800 bp
• Find and create the diversity for
breeding in crops, wild relatives and
by mutation
• Apply genomic tools to measure and
use biodiversity
• Use tissue culture to support breeding
Document and make information
accessible
Azhar M, Heslop-Harrison JS. Genomes,
diversity and resistance gene analogues in
Musa species. Cytogenetic and genome
research. 2008, 121: 59-66.
7. i) assess Ensete genetic diversity
ii) conserve the Ensete gene pool
iii) identify pathogens and soil biota
iv) compare Ensete genome and other species
iv) apply genomics tools and tissue culture to
support breeding and use biodiversity
v) document and make information accessible.
8.
9. Genomics changes study of
taxonomy, phylogeny, diversity
Revolutionizes crop genetics
and breeding
Exploits Musa as a reference
i) assess Ensete genetic diversity
ii) conserve the Ensete gene pool
iii) identify pathogens and soil biota
iv) compare Ensete genome and other
iv) apply genomics tools and tissue cult
support breeding and use biodiversity
v) document and make information acc
14. OBJECTIVES
Fundamental and Practical
Explain major structures and features
of the DNA in plant genomes
Understand the structure of
chromosomes and genomes
Explain the nature and origin of
molecular markers
Understand key events in evolution
and generation of diversity including
induced mutations
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15. OBJECTIVES
Fundamental and Practical
Manipulate and exploit diversity
Apply genomic knowledge to breeding
Develop markers for breeding –
genome, chromosome, gene …
Use superdomestication in breeding to
identify and provide solutions to
problems facing breeders and farmers
www.molcyt.com
17. • Dr Qing Liu, South China Botanical Garden
• Dr Adel Sepsi, EU Marie Curie Hungary
• Prof Roberto de la Herran, Granada, Spain
• Prof Lani Khalid, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• Dr V Arunachalam, Goa, India
• Dr Shwet Kamal, Solan, India
• Dr Ijaz Rasool Noorka, Sargodha, Pakistan
• Dr Zubeda Chaudhry, Mansehra, Pakistan
• Dr Yifei Liu, South China Botanical Garden
• Dr Sara Saraswathi, Tamil Nadu, India
• Dr Mateus Mondin, Sao Paulo, Brazil
• Prof Asha Nair, Kerala, India
• Dr Kazumi Furakawa, Numazu, Japan
• Dr Anath Das, Orissa, India
• Dr Xianhong Ge, Wuhan, China
• Dr Ana Claudia Araujo, EMBRAPA, Brasilia, Brazil
Senior Visitors, Post-docs and collaborators
• Professor Jenni
Harikrishna, Malaysia
• Dr Katja Richert-Poeggeler,
JKI, Germany
• Prof Rachel , UTAD,
Portugal
• Prof Thomas Schmidt and
Gerhard Menzel, Dresden
• Alex Vershinin, Russia
• Olena Alkhimova, Ukraine
• Nicolas Roux, Mathieu
Pinard, France
• Maria Madon, Malaysia
• Bob Greybosch, Nebraska
18. PhD students
• Iza Mohd Zaki, Malaysia, 2nd year
• Osamah Alisawi, Iraq, 3rd year
• Sarbast Mustafa, Kurdistan, 3rd year
• Rubar Salih, Kurdistan, 2017
• Nauf Alsayaid, 2015
• Jotyar Muhammed, Kurdistan, 2017
• Chetan Patokar, India, 2015
• Stuart Desjardins, 2015& John Bailey
• Farah Badakshi, India, 2014
• Worku Negash Mhiret, Ethiopia, 2014
• Celine Tomazewski, France, 2012
• Hojatollah Saeidi, Iran, 2010
• Faisal Nouroz, Pakistan, 2012
• Niaz Ali, Pakistan, 2012
• Azhar Mohammad, Malaysia
• Emmanuel Otwe, Ghana
• Navdeep Jamwal, India
• Manica Balant, Croatia
• Aude Aguzou, France
• Frederica Raccis, Italy
• Juceli Gouveia, Brazil
• Fabiola Carvalho, Brazil
• Natalia Melloni, Brazil
• Laetitia Gaspar, Portugal
• Ana Sofia Silva, Portugal
• Israr Ahmad, Pakistan
• Valentina Scrocca, Italy
• Christos Kyprianou, UK
• Acga Cheng, Malaysia
• Salwa Sirajuddin, Malaysia
• Emanuelle Ranieri, Italy
• Pedrdo Campoy, Spain
• Fengjiao Zhang, China
21. Analysis with RepeatExplorer
A978
Petunia
Ensete repetitive DNA distribution
Not huge abundance of repetitive sequences in Ensete – 25% of genome
Taraxacum
Bombarely, … Schwarzacher, Heslop-Harrison, … et
al. Insight into the evolution of the Solanaceae from
the parental genomes of Petunia hybrida. Nature
plants. 2016 May 27;2:16074.
22. Figure M1-1: Dot plot of homoeologous BAC clones Musa balbisiana ‘MBP_81C12’ (horizontal) against Musa acuminata ‘MA4_82I11’
(vertical). The comparison of the BACs showed large homologous region with several gap-insertion pairs. The gaps showed transposon insertions
present in one BAC and absent in others. Different TEs are encircled and named. Several small insertions are not highlighted here.
Transposed MaN-hAT2
MaN-hAT1
MaN-hAT2
MbN-hAT3
MBT
MaMITE1
MAWA
Microsatellite
How do genomes differ?
Dotplot of 50kb of sequence
Menzel et al. 2014 and Nouroz et al. Mol Gen Genet 2017 subject to revision
23. Episomal forms of PVCV
Virions immunogold labeled
Viroplasm in PVCV infected P. parodii
IB
Mi
V
V
24. Centromere
DNA sequence
TE
Tandem repeat monomer
TE Transposable element
Single copy DNA
Spindle microtubules pulling apart
chromatids
Metaphase
chromosome
147bp plus 5-70bp linker = 150-220bp
Kinetochore
Heslop-Harrison JS, Schwarzacher T. 2013. Nucleosomes and centromeric DNA packaging. Proc Nat Acad Sci
USA. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1319945110. See also http://molcyt.org (Dec 2013)
25. • Project on Boesenbergia lead by Norzulaani
Khalid & Jennifer Ann Harikrishna
Genome sequence
Secondary products
Tissue culture changes
Epigenetics –
DNA and
chromatin
modification
Histone H3 dimethylated
lysine K4 (49-1004)
euchromatin mark
Labels ends of chromosomes:
centromeric heterochromatin
not stained
Histone H3 mono-methylated
lysine K9 (49-1006)
heterochromatin mark
26. Organelle sequences
from chloroplasts or
mitochondria
Sequences from
viruses
Transgenes introduced
with molecular biology
methods
Genes, regulatory and non-
coding low-copy sequences
Dispersed repeats
Repetitive DNA sequences
Nuclear
Genome
Tandem repeats
Satellite sequences
DNA transposonsRetrotransposons
Centromeric
repeats
Structural
components of
chromosomes
Telomeric
repeats
Simple sequence
repeats or
microsatellites
Repeated genes
Subtelomeric
repeats
45S and 5S
rRNA genes
Blocks of tandem
repeats at discrete
chromosomal loci
DNA sequence components of the nuclear genome
After Biscotti et al. Chromosome Research 2015
Other genes
Transposable elements
Autonomous/
non-autonomous
Dispersed repeats
that we don’t know
about – except each is
significant proportion
of genome
38. Precision farming
• Integration of genetics with agronomy
• Decision on crop requirements
• Biotic & abiotic stress resistances
• Yield, quality, post-harvest …
• Precision application of crop protection
chemicals (even lasers)
• Giant and micro-vehicles –
autonomous/intelligent/’big data’
39. Engagement
• Publication and websites
• Press –(cf Stephan’s comments Monday)
• Blog posts – eg Julie Sardos and Bougainville
collection mission
http://www.promusa.org/blogpost506-
Collecting-bananas-in-Bougainville
• Crowd sourcing: iNaturalist and feral banana
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42.
43. Dr Adugna Wakjira, DDG, Ethiopian Institute
of Agricultural Research (and co-
author/colleague)
“Our government recognizes biotechnology as
one of the transformative tools to accelerate
agricultural development … exemplified by
Parliament’s amendment to a more
progressive and permissive legislation of
biotechnology”
But needed quickly: training of new scientists
to deliver local solutions. Certainty needed
i) assess Ensete genetic diversity
ii) conserve the Ensete gene pool
iii) identify pathogens and soil biota
iv) compare Ensete genome and other species
iv) apply genomics tools and tissue culture to
support breeding and use biodiversity
v) document and make information accessible.
44. Socio-economic
• High value crops: niche bananas
• Urbanization of populations
• Larger farms
• Education – MSc level
• Genetic resource conservation
45.
46. Genomics, mutation breeding
and society
Trude Schwarzacher and
Pat Heslop-Harrison
TS32@le.ac.uk
PHH@molcyt.com www.molcyt.com
Talk prepared for meeting May 2017 of
PatHH1
Slideshare
47. Molecular Cytogenetics Group
www.molcyt.com
Pat Heslop-Harrison
Trude Schwarzacher
and colleagues
Impacts outside academia
Legislation: European Parliament & Commission
Breeding new, sustainable crop varieties
Sequencing of whole genomes
Discussing risk
assessment and
scientific advice
with EU Health
Commissioner
Dr Vytenis
Adriukaitis
We study genomes and evolution
mechanisms to find, measure and
exploit genetic variation in crops,
farm animals, and their wild
relatives
Developing superdomestication
strategies to exploit biodiversity
for sustainable agriculture
Work on hybrids and alien introgression with
novel quality / disease resistance characters
Wheat with virus
resistance
identified in the
group in breeding
trials
Diversity, wild genes
and recombination in
species and landraces
DNA
sequences
we find
confer
stress
resistance
in crops
New methods for
biotechnology
Food fraud and safety
detection
Reviewing research
programmes
Editing
Journals