An evolutionary and functional genomics study of Noccaea caerulescens, a heavy metal hyperaccumulating plant species

Abstract

An evolutionary and functional genomics study of Noccaea caerulescens, a heavy metal hyperaccumulating plant species PhD thesis, Wageningen University, Wageningen, NL (2016) With references, and summary in English

Genetic analysis of metal hyperaccumulation and hypertolerance of Noccaea caerulescens

“…Since the first launch of a commercial NGS platform in 2005, genome-wide expression profile approaches have been adopted in a handful of studies of N. caerulescens, such as expression arrays (Mortel et al, 2008;Plessl et al, 2005) and RNA-seq , which mainly emphasized a few well-characterised accessions such as accessions La Calamine, Lellingen, Ganges and Monte Prinzera. Whole-genome re-sequencing DNA information has been developed for a small number of accessions as well (Wang, 2016).…”

“…This heritable intraspecific variation for metal hyperaccumulation and tolerance of N. caerulescens represents an example of local adaption in plants (Westerband et al, 2021). Gonneau et al (2014) suggested that metal-adapted populations appear to be recruited locally, for NM populations, which seems to the case for Pontaut and Vall de Varados populations as well (Wang, 2016). Unravelling the genetic basis of population differences in N. caerulescens not only enriches our understanding of plant evolutionary dynamics but also has practical implications for phytoremediation, phytomining, and biofortification of crops with essential nutrients.…”