Journal of Systematics and Evolution ›› 2023, Vol. 61 ›› Issue (4): 599-612.DOI: 10.1111/jse.12898

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  • 收稿日期:2022-02-05 修回日期:2022-05-30 出版日期:2023-07-01 发布日期:2023-07-25

Comparative analysis of 343 plastid genomes of Solanum section Petota: Insights into potato diversity, phylogeny, and species discrimination

Li‐Jun Yan1†, Zhi‐Guo Zhu1†, Pei Wang2†, Chao‐Nan Fu3, Xi‐Jin Guan1, Philip Kear4, Chun‐Zhi Zhang2, and Guang‐Tao Zhu1*   

  1. 1 Yunnan key Laboratory of Potato Biology, Engineering Research Center of Sustainable Development and Utilization of Biomass Energy, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming 650500, China;
    2 Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen 518120, China;
    3 CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, China;
    4 International Potato Center (CIP), CIP China Center for Asia Pacific, Beijing 100081, China
    These authors contributed equally to this work.
    *Author for correspondence. E‐mail: zhuguangtao@ynnu.edu.cn
  • Received:2022-02-05 Revised:2022-05-30 Online:2023-07-01 Published:2023-07-25

Abstract: Common potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) and its wild relatives belong to Solanum section Petota. This section's phylogeny and species delimitation are complicated due to various ploidy levels, high heterozygosity, and frequent interspecific hybridization. Compared to the nuclear genome, the plastid genome is more conserved, has a haploid nature, and has a lower nucleotide substitution rate, providing informative alternative insights into the phylogenetic study of section Petota. Here, we analyzed 343 potato plastid genomes from 53 wild and four cultivated species. The diversity of sequences and genomes was comprehensively analyzed. A total of 24 species were placed in a phylogenetic tree based on genomic data for the first time. Overall, our results not only confirmed most existing clades and species boundaries inferred by nuclear evidence but also provided some distinctive species clade belonging and the maternally inherited evidence supporting the hybrid origin of some species. Furthermore, the divergence times between the major potato clades were estimated. In addition, the species discriminatory power of universal barcodes, nuclear ribosomal DNA, and whole and partial plastid genomes and their combinations were thoroughly evaluated; the plastid genome performed best but had limited discriminatory power for all survey species (40%). Overall, our study provided not only new insights into phylogeny and DNA barcoding of potato but also provided valuable genetic data resources for further systematical research of Petota.

Key words: authentication, divergence time, DNA barcoding, maternal inheritance, plastid genome, potato