Phylogenomic insights into the reticulate evolution of Camellia sect. Paracamellia Sealy (Theaceae)

  • Sheng-Yuan Qin 1,2,3 ,
  • Kai Chen 1 ,
  • Wen-Ju Zhang 4 ,
  • Xiao-Guo Xiang 1 ,
  • Zheng-Yu Zuo 2,3 ,
  • Cen Guo 2 ,
  • Yao Zhao 1 ,
  • Lin-Feng Li 4 ,
  • Yu-Guo Wang 4 ,
  • Zhi-Ping Song 4 ,
  • Ji Yang 4 ,
  • Xiao-Qiang Yang 1 ,
  • Jian Zhang 1 ,
  • Wei-Tao Jin 1 ,
  • Qiang Wen 5 ,
  • Song-Zi Zhao 5 ,
  • Jia-Kuan Chen 1,4 ,
  • De-Zhu Li 2 ,
  • Jun Rong , 1
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  • 1. Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Watershed Ecosystem Change and Biodiversity, Center for Watershed Ecology, Institute of Life Science and School of Life Sciences, Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330031 China
  • 2. Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, 650201 China
  • 3. Kunming College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, 650201 China
  • 4. Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Science and Ecological Engineering, Institute of Biodiversity Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200438 China
  • 5. Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Camellia Germplasm Conservation and Utilization, Jiangxi Academy of Forestry, Nanchang, 330013 China
rong_jun@hotmail.com

Received date: 17 May 2022

Accepted date: 09 Jan 2023

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2023 2023 Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Abstract

Polyploids are common in Camellia sect. Paracamellia, which contain many important oil crop species. However, their complex evolutionary history is largely unclear. In this study, 22 transcriptomes and 19 plastomes of related species of Camellia were sequenced and assembled, providing the most completed taxa sampling of Camellia sect. Oleifera and C. sect. Paracamellia. Phylogenetic trees were reconstructed with predicted single-copy nuclear genes and plastomes. Phylogenetic trees with nuclear genes demonstrated that C. sect. Oleifera should be merged into C. sect. Paracamellia. Cytonuclear discordance and network analyses suggested hybridizations among polyploid species and relatives. The divergence of major clades in C. sect. Paracamellia was dated to be during the middle to late Miocene from the ancestral Lingnan region, and a rapid diversification during the Quaternary was found, probably through hybridization and polyploidization. The tetraploid Camellia meiocarpa Hu may have originated from hybridization between closely related diploid species. The hexaploid Camellia oleifera C. Abel probably originated from hybridization between closely related diploid and tetraploid (e.g., C. meiocarpa) species. The octoploid Camellia vietnamensis T. C. Huang ex Hu could have originated from hybridization between hexaploid C. oleifera and the closely related diploid species. Hybridization and polyploidization played an important role in generating the rich variation of important fruit traits, especially increased fruit size in polyploid species.

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Sheng-Yuan Qin , Kai Chen , Wen-Ju Zhang , Xiao-Guo Xiang , Zheng-Yu Zuo , Cen Guo , Yao Zhao , Lin-Feng Li , Yu-Guo Wang , Zhi-Ping Song , Ji Yang , Xiao-Qiang Yang , Jian Zhang , Wei-Tao Jin , Qiang Wen , Song-Zi Zhao , Jia-Kuan Chen , De-Zhu Li , Jun Rong . Phylogenomic insights into the reticulate evolution of Camellia sect. Paracamellia Sealy (Theaceae)[J]. Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 2024 , 62(1) : 38 -54 . DOI: 10.1111/jse.12948

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