GEPHE SUMMARY Print
Gephebase Gene
Entry Status
Published
GepheID
GP00000211
Main curator
Martin
PHENOTYPIC CHANGE
Trait Category
Trait State in Taxon A
Trifolium repens - cyanogenic
Trait State in Taxon B
Trifolium repens - acyanogenic
Ancestral State
Taxon A
Taxonomic Status
Taxon A
Common Name
white clover
Synonyms
white clover; creeping white clover; Trifolium repens L.; Triflorum repens
Rank
species
Lineage
Show more ... ophyta; Mesangiospermae; eudicotyledons; Gunneridae; Pentapetalae; rosids; fabids; Fabales; Fabaceae; Papilionoideae; 50 kb inversion clade; NPAAA clade; Hologalegina; IRL clade; Trifolieae; Trifolium
NCBI Taxonomy ID
is Taxon A an Infraspecies?
No
Taxon B
Common Name
white clover
Synonyms
white clover; creeping white clover; Trifolium repens L.; Triflorum repens
Rank
species
Lineage
Show more ... ophyta; Mesangiospermae; eudicotyledons; Gunneridae; Pentapetalae; rosids; fabids; Fabales; Fabaceae; Papilionoideae; 50 kb inversion clade; NPAAA clade; Hologalegina; IRL clade; Trifolieae; Trifolium
NCBI Taxonomy ID
is Taxon B an Infraspecies?
No
GENOTYPIC CHANGE
Generic Gene Name
CYP79D15
Synonyms
-
String
-
Sequence Similarities
Belongs to the cytochrome P450 family.
GO - Biological Process
-
GO - Cellular Component
-
UniProtKB
Trifolium repens
GenebankID or UniProtKB
Presumptive Null
Yes
Molecular Type
Aberration Type
Deletion Size
unknown
Molecular Details of the Mutation
Gene deletion
Experimental Evidence
Authors
Olsen KM; Hsu SC; Small LL
Abstract
White clover is polymorphic for cyanogenesis, with both cyanogenic and acyanogenic plants occurring in nature. This chemical defense polymorphism is one of the longest-studied and best-documented examples of an adaptive polymorphism in plants. It is controlled by two independently segregating genes: Ac/ac controls the presence/absence of cyanogenic glucosides; and Li/li controls the presence/absence of their hydrolyzing enzyme, linamarase. Whereas Li is well characterized at the molecular level, Ac has remained unidentified. Here we report evidence that Ac corresponds to a gene encoding a cytochrome P450 of the CYP79D protein subfamily (CYP79D15), and we describe the apparent molecular basis of the Ac/ac polymorphism. CYP79D orthologs catalyze the first step in cyanogenic glucoside biosynthesis in other cyanogenic plant species. In white clover, Southern hybridizations indicate that CYP79D15 occurs as a single-copy gene in cyanogenic plants but is absent from the genomes of ac plants. Gene-expression analyses by RT-PCR corroborate this finding. This apparent molecular basis of the Ac/ac polymorphism parallels our previous findings for the Li/li polymorphism, which also arises through the presence/absence of a single-copy gene. The nature of these polymorphisms may reflect white clover's evolutionary origin as an allotetraploid derived from cyanogenic and acyanogenic diploid progenitors.
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