A marker-based strategy for the assessment of epigenetic instability in oil palm

Jaligot Estelle, Rival Alain, Beulé Thierry, Tregear James, Finnegan Jean. 2007. A marker-based strategy for the assessment of epigenetic instability in oil palm. In : MPOB International Palm Oil Congress (PIPOC 2007), 26 to 30 August 2007, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. MPOB. s.l. : s.n., 12 p. MPOB International Palm Oil Congress, Kuala Lumpur, Malaisie, 26 Août 2007/30 Août 2007.

Résumé : Plant tissues from the mantled somaclonal variant of oil palm have been found to display both large-scale perturbations of genomic methylation levels and sequence-specific DNA methylation pattern changes when compared to their true-to-type counterparts. Concomitantly, several markers showing phenotype-specific transcription patterns have been identified in our group. Some of them are likely to be indicators of the altered physiological state of abnormal cultures, others are possible targets of epigenetic misregulations of flower development. We now aim to establish the exact link between the expression of these candidate marker genes and the mantled somaclonal variation state, through the exploration of their global epigenetic behaviour. This will be achieved using three complementary approaches applied to normal and abnormal tissues: i) the evaluation of transcription levels through quantitative or semi-quantitative techniques (semi-quantitative RT-PCR, real-time PCR); ii) the determination of sequence-wide DNA methylation patterns (bisulfite sequencing) and iii) the identification of the chromatin regulatory environment of these genes (Chromatin Immuno-Precipitation: ChIP). These combined strategies will ultimately help to elucidate the epigenetic mechanisms which give rise to the mantled somaclonal variant. Also, we will be able to identify which of the candidate markers which are indeed consistently linked with the abnormal state. This work will provide the basis for a molecular detection test of the variant phenotype.

Classification Agris : F60 - Physiologie et biochimie végétale
F30 - Génétique et amélioration des plantes

Auteurs et affiliations

• Jaligot Estelle, CIRAD-BIOS-UMR DAP (FRA) ORCID: 0000-0002-9252-5271
• Rival Alain, CIRAD-BIOS-UMR DAP (FRA) ORCID: 0000-0001-6304-3268
• Beulé Thierry, CIRAD-BIOS-UMR DAP (FRA)
• Tregear James, IRD (FRA)
• Finnegan Jean, CSIRO (AUS)

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