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Genetic Resources and CropEvolutionAn International Journal ISSN 0925-9864 Genet Resour Crop EvolDOI 10.1007/s10722-014-0169-3
Chloroplast diversity indicates twoindependent maternal lineages incultivated grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.subsp. vinifera)
Rita Lózsa, Ning Xia, Tamás Deák &György Dénes Bisztray
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RESEARCH ARTICLE
Chloroplast diversity indicates two independent maternallineages in cultivated grapevine (Vitis vinifera L. subsp.vinifera)
Rita Lozsa • Ning Xia • Tamas Deak •
Gyorgy Denes Bisztray
Received: 7 February 2014 / Accepted: 25 August 2014
� Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Abstract Chloroplast markers are powerful tools for
research into relationships among grapevine (Vitis
vinifera L. subsp. vinifera) cultivars. However, the
high number of regions common to the chloroplast and
mitochondrion genomes described in grapevine could
interfere with correct phylogeny reconstruction. In this
study, we established a unique chloroplast marker
(UCM) set and investigated the chloroplast haplotype
diversity of 17 grapevine cultivars and seven Asian
Vitis species. Sequencing of four UCMs revealed four
haplotype groups in grapevine based on three nucle-
otide substitutions, three simple sequence repeats, and
one 54 nucleotide (nt) deletion in the trnC-petN
region. The constructed molecular-variance parsi-
mony and statistical parsimony networks indicated
that two independent maternal lineages of grapevine
cultivars originated from a core group of Asian Vitis
species. The presence and absence of a newly
discovered 54 nt deletion corresponded to the two
maternal lineages: deletion (D) and non-deletion (ND)
lineages. The D lineage consisted of three haplotypes,
represented by ‘Furmint’, ‘Gouais blanc’, and ‘Sau-
vignon blanc’. Ancient noble cultivars, such as ‘Pinot
noir’, ‘Riesling’, and ‘Afus ali’, belong to a single
haplotype group (ND) in which the deletion was
absent. Our results provide compelling evidence for
the dual maternal origin of grapevine, and suggest the
occurrence of an ancient hybridization event.
Keywords Chloroplast marker � Domestication �Haplotype � Grapevine � Vitis vinifera
Introduction
Grapevine (Vitis vinifera L. subsp. vinifera [syn. V.
vinifera subsp. sativa Hegi]; Robinson et al. 2012) is
among the most ancient domesticated plants and
has a history associated with humankind since the
Neolithicum (Forni 2012). Currently, several thousand
grapevine cultivars exist, exhibiting extreme morpho-
logical and genetic diversity and also a high hetero-
zygosity that has been maintained because of
vegetative propagation since ancient times (This
et al. 2006). Polymorphism of grapevine is so
prominent that a Russian ampelographer, Alexander
Mikhailovich Negrul, established three main groups
(proles) based on the morphology, physiology, and
geographic origin of the cultivars: proles orientalis
(Armenia, Azerbaijan, Central Asia, and Iran), proles
pontica (Balkan Peninsula, Georgia, Hungary, Mol-
dova, Romania, and Turkey), and proles occidentalis
(Western Europe) (Robinson et al. 2012). This
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R. Lozsa � N. Xia � T. Deak � G. D. Bisztray (&)
Department of Viticulture, Corvinus University of
Budapest, Villanyi str. 29-43, Budapest 1118, Hungary
e-mail: [email protected]
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grouping is supported to some extent by genetic data
(Myles et al. 2011; Bacilieri et al. 2013).
Some cultivars, such as ‘Gouais blanc’, ‘Pinot
noir’, ‘Riesling’, and ‘Afus ali’, likely have been
preserved through historical periods and some of them
developed high clonal variation owing to human
selection (Myles et al. 2011; Bacilieri et al. 2013). As a
result of long-term vegetative propagation, the genetic
distance between modern grapevine cultivars and the
wild form might represent separation for only a few
generations, unlike herbaceous plants where propaga-
tion is usually via sexually reproduced seeds (Janick
2005).
Derivation of a phylogeny from chloroplast
genome (plastome) data is a popular approach to
reconstruct evolutionary relationships. The methods
that use organellar data for phylogeny reconstruction
are based on the hypothesis that the input data are
haploid and inherited uniparentally. In grapevine,
more than 40 % of the chloroplast genome is also
present in the mitochondrion genome (chondriome) at
least in part owing to lateral gene transfer between the
organelles. Theoretically, this could lead to an inac-
curate phylogeny reconstruction if unique chloroplast
markers (UCMs) are not used, because paralogous
regions evolve independently and could have higher
‘‘ploidity’’ and polymorphy (Goremykin et al. 2009).
Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), inser-
tions/deletions, and inversions in the chloroplast
genome are potentially informative characters for the
phylogenetic relationships of a given taxa (Shaw et al.
2005), but may be rare between closely related species
or at the infra-specific level because of the plastome’s
low mutation rate. Hypervariable chloroplast regions,
such as simple sequence repeats (cpSSRs), show
higher polymorphism at lower taxonomic levels, but
the risk of homoplasy is higher, especially when only
length polymorphism is examined. In V. vinifera,
cpSSRs are mostly mononucleotide (T or A) repeats
that have been extensively used in phylogenetic and
phylogeographic studies (Imazio et al. 2006; Arroyo-
Garcıa et al. 2006; Grassi et al. 2006; Peros et al. 2011;
Riahi et al. 2011).
In this work, we identified UCMs in silico and used
them to investigate relationships among ancient
grapevine cultivars and with Asian Vitis species that
are the closest relatives of V. vinifera (Zecca et al.
2012). Surprisingly, our results discriminated two
maternal lineages among grapevine cultivars that
originated independently from Asian Vitis species.
On the basis of our results, an ancient hybridization
event and dual maternal origin of grapevine are
hypothesized.
Materials and methods
Plant material
We sampled 163 grapevine cultivars originating from
several locations worldwide (Table 1) and seven
Asian Vitis species (Vitis amurensis Rupr., Vitis
armata Diels et Gilg, Vitis coignetiae Pulliat ex
Planch., Vitis flexuosa Thunb., Vitis piasezkii Maxim.,
Vitis romanetii Rom. Caill., and Vitis yeshanensis J.
X. Chen), and selected Muscadinia rotundifolia
Michx. as an outgroup. All accessions were sampled
from the germplasm collection of the Research
Institute for Viticulture and Oenology, University of
Pecs, Hungary, except for V. flexuosa and V. piasezkii
(obtained from the Botanical Garden of Corvinus
University of Budapest, Soroksar, Hungary), ‘Fur-
mint’ (T85 clone from Tokaj-Hetsz}ol}o Ltd, Tokaj,
Hungary), ‘Carina’, ‘Durif’, ‘Syrah’, ‘Dureza’,
‘Mondeuse blanche’, ‘Nebbiolo’, ‘Peloursin’, and
‘Roubinoy de Magaratch’ (from the INRA collection
of Vassal, Montpellier, France), and ‘Roubine’ (Julius
Kuhn Institute, Siebeldingen, Germany).
DNA extraction
Total DNA was extracted from leaf tissue based on the
method applied for Rosa roxburghii Tratt. (Xu et al.
2004) with minor modifications. Fresh or frozen leaf
tissue (50 mg) was homogenized in 1 mL washing
buffer [100 mM Tris–HCl (pH 8.0), 5 mM EDTA
(pH 8.0), 350 mM glucose, 2 % PVP, 0.4 %
b-mercaptoethanol (freshly added)] and kept on ice
for 30 min. Samples were centrifuged at 3,000 g in a
tabletop centrifuge for 10 min and then the superna-
tant was discarded. Next, 600 lL extraction buffer
[100 mM Tris–HCl (pH 8.0), 1.5 M NaCl, 50 mM
EDTA (pH 8.0), 3 % CTAB, 0.4 % b-mercap-
toethanol (freshly added)] supplemented with 1 lL
of 1 mg/mL RNAse was added to the pellet, vortexed,
and incubated at 65 �C for 30 min, then 60 lL of 5 M
potassium-acetate and 600 lL chloroform-isoamylal-
cohol were added. The samples were vortexed
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vigorously and then centrifuged for 10 min at 12,000 g.
The supernatant (600 lL) was aspirated and extracted
again with 600 lL chloroform-isoamylalcohol. The
supernatant (500 lL) was precipitated with 500 lL
isopropanol and 50 lL of 3 M sodium-acetate. DNA
was pelleted and washed twice with 70 % ethanol.
Pellets were resuspended in 50 lL distilled water.
Selection of chloroplast-specific markers
Given the high number of regions common to the
grapevine chloroplast and mitochondrion genomes
(Goremykin et al. 2009), the marker set was selected
only from predicted unique plastome regions. The
complete grapevine chloroplast genome (DQ424856)
(Jansen et al. 2006) and mitochondrion genomes
(NC_012119.1) (Goremykin et al. 2009) were aligned
online with PipMaker Advanced v2009-03-25-01
(Schwartz et al. 2000) and positions of the primer
sites of 17 chloroplast markers previously used in Vitis
were localized in the alignment (Fig. 1). The markers
comprised trnH-psbA, trnL-trnF, trnC-petN (Ren et al.
2011), ccmp5, ccmp3, ccmp10 (Arroyo-Garcıa et al.
2002), ccSSR-23, ccSSR-9 (Arroyo-Garcıa et al.
2006), VVCP14789, VVCP28926, VVCP50403,
VVCP13285, VVCP32585, VVCP67629,
VVCP69871, VVCP121638, and VVCP123308
(Peros et al. 2011). Those markers were predicted to
be UCMs that potentially amplify only one fragment
solely from the plastome. Figure 1 was generated from
the .pip file with Circos v0.64 (Krzywinski et al. 2009)
to visualize the marker positions. Ultimately, four
markers were selected for our study: trnC-petN (Shaw
et al. 2005), VVCP14789, VVCP28926, and
VVCP50403 (Peros et al. 2011) (see Table S1 for
additional details).
DNA amplification
Primers for the cpSSR markers VVCP14789,
VVCP28926, and VVCP50403 were described by
Peros et al. (2011) (see Table S1). Amplification was
performed with the proofreading Phusion High-Fidelity
DNA Polymerase (Thermo Scientific, Waltham, MA,
USA). Following the initial denaturation (98 �C for
30 s), amplification was performed in 35 cycles of
98 �C for 5 s, 53 �C for 10 s, and 72 �C for 10 s, with
final extension for 7 min at 72 �C. The trnC-petN
region was amplified with grapevine-specific primers
based on those used by Shaw et al. (2005) (For:
CAGTTCAAATCCGGGTG; Rev: CCAAGCGAG
ACTTACTATATCC). Polymerase chain reaction
(PCR) was conducted with Taq polymerase (MBI
Fermentas, Vilnius, Lithuania). After 3 min initial
denaturation at 94 �C, 35 cycles were performed with
the following conditions: 30 s at 94 �C, 30 s at 60 �C,
and 1 min at 72 �C, with final extension for 7 min at
72 �C. After PCR, one volume of 20 % polyethylene
glycol 6,000 (PEG; Sigma-Aldrich, Budapest, Hun-
gary) and 2.5 M NaCl (Molar Chemicals, Budapest,
Hungary) was added to the PCR reaction solution for
purification of the amplified fragments from the
primers prior to commercial direct sequencing
(Macrogen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Base-
Clear, Leiden, The Netherlands) (Lundin et al. 2010).
The mixtures were incubated for 20 min at room
temperature and then centrifuged at 20,0009g for
20 min at 4 �C. The pellets were washed twice with
70 % ethanol, dried, and resuspended in 25 lL
distilled water.
Sequence analysis
Sequence assembly and raw alignments were per-
formed using CLC Sequence Viewer 6.7.1. (CLC bio
A/S, Aarhus, Denmark). Alignments were corrected
manually using BioEdit 7.1.3.0. (Hall 1999). Obtained
sequences are available in GenBank (accession num-
bers: KC962565–KC962664).
For character-based sequence analysis a matrix was
constructed, in which indels in complex regions were
treated as single mutational events (one character), but
in mononucleotide repeat regions (SSRs) every gain or
loss of a base was counted as a single mutational event
(stepwise mutation model) (Banfer et al. 2006).
Although at higher taxonomic levels hypervariable
regions are excluded from analyses (Zecca et al.
2012), at the subspecies level, inclusion of
mononucleotide repeats is commonly accepted
(Arroyo-Garcıa et al. 2006; Imazio et al. 2006). This
allowed resolution of two haplotype groups, but did
not alter the network’s topology obtained from only
SNP and indel data (data not shown).
A minimum spanning network based on molecular-
variance parsimony was constructed with Arlequin 3.5
(Excoffier et al. 2005). A statistical parsimony
network was constructed with TCS 1.21 (Clement
et al. 2000). The same data matrix was used in both
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analyses. Gaps were treated as a fifth character and the
connection length was set to 20 steps. The obtained
haplotype networks were redrawn manually.
For phylogenetic analysis the optimal evolutionary
model was estimated with jModelTest v2.1.5 (Guin-
don and Gascuel 2003; Darriba et al. 2012) after
exclusion of indels from the alignments. All decision
theory methods suggested the same substitution model
for all loci. Phylogenetic congruence of the chloroplast
loci was tested and verified using Concaterpillar
v1.7.2 (Leigh et al. 2008) and therefore the concate-
nated sequence set was used for subsequent analyses.
Bayesian analysis was carried out with Beast v1.8.0
(Bouckaert et al. 2014). Data were partitioned into two
sets. First, all indels were excluded leaving one partition
of sequences containing only SNP variations. The
second partition contained indel (insertions, deletions,
and SSRs) data transcoded to a binary matrix. Indels in
complex regions were treated as single mutational
events (one character), but in mononucleotide repeat
regions (SSRs) every gain or loss of a base was counted
as a single mutational event (stepwise mutation model)
(Banfer et al. 2006). Bayesian inference analysis was
carried out using the F81 substitution model for the SNP
data and a simple stochastic Dollo model for binary
(indel) data. Bayesian inference analysis was carried out
in three independent runs each of 10,000,000 genera-
tions with trees sampled at an interval of 1,000
generations. The final target tree with posterior proba-
bility (PP) values for the clades was calculated with
TreeAnnotator v1.8.1 (included with Beast) with 10 %
of the trees defined as burn-in, and was visualized with
FigTree (http://tree.bio.ed.ac.uk/software/figtree/).
Maximum parsimony (MP) analysis was carried out
using the Phylip v3.69 software package (Felsenstein
1989), using the ‘seqboot’ program to generate 1,000
bootstrapped input data matrices and ‘dnapenny’ for MP
analysis. A 50 % majority rule consensus tree was cal-
culated from the generated MP trees using the ‘con-
sense’ program of the Phylip package.
Detection of deletion in the trnC-petN region
A 54 nt deletion was identified in sequences of the
trnC-petN region in numerous cultivars (Table 1)
(accession numbers: KJ857084–KJ857228). This
ccSSR-23 §
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Fig. 1 Circular
representation of
homologous regions
between grapevine plastome
and chondriome, and
localization of commonly
used markers on the
chloroplast genome. The
organelle genomes are
depicted on the periphery of
the figure, homologous
regions are connected with
light gray links. Nucleotide
positions are given for every
10 and 200 kb for the
plastome and chondriome,
respectively. Note that the
sizes of the genomes are not
proportional. Location of
the 17 widely used markers
are indicated on the
plastome. IR Inverted repeat
region, SSC small single
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single copy region. @
(Arroyo-Garcıa et al. 2002),
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2006), * (Peros et al. 2011),
# (Ren et al. 2011)
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deletion was large enough for it to be screened by
agarose gel electrophoresis. The PCR fragments
obtained with the trnC-petN primers were resolved on
a 2 % agarose gel in 1 9 TBE at 0.8 V/cm. Gels were
stained with ethidium bromide and size differences
among bands were detected visually in relation to
appropriate control samples.
Results
Selection of UCMs
In this study, we focused on the chloroplast diversity
of grapevine with consideration of the high amount
of genetic content in common between the organellar
genomes. We predicted regions that are specific to
the plastome by aligning the available reference
genomes of the chloroplast from ‘Syrah’ (Jansen
et al. 2006) and the mitochondrion from ‘Pinot noir’
(Goremykin et al. 2009) (Fig. 1). We examined
whether 17 markers (Peros et al. 2011; Ren et al.
2011) were located in a unique chloroplast segment
(Fig. 1). If a region surrounding the marker was
transferred to the chondriome, we also verified if the
transfer occurred in one piece, potentially allowing
amplification of the same region from both
organelles. If the transfer occurred in several pieces
the PCR reaction could be hindered.
Eight markers were predicted to lie in chloroplast-
specific regions in one copy (trnH-psbA, VVCP14789,
ccmp5, VVCP28926, trnC-petN, ccSSR-9,
VVCP50403, and trnL-trnF). An additional two
markers were located on the border of a unique and
a non-unique region (ccmp3 and ccSSR-23), therefore
a single PCR product could be obtained in these cases.
These markers were specified as UCMs.
The ccmp10 marker is located in the inverted repeat
(IR) region, thus two loci could be amplified from the
chloroplast (Fig. 1). Therefore, this marker was
excluded from the UCMs.
The remaining six markers (VVCP13285,
VVCP32585, VVCP67629, VVCP69871, VVCP121638,
and VVCP123308) were transferred to the mitochon-
drion genome in one piece. Therefore, these markers
were also excluded from further analysis.
Based on the in silico predictions we chose four
UCMs for detailed investigation: one that was used
successfully in Vitis (trnC-petN) (Ren et al. 2011;
Liu et al. 2013) and three hypervariable cpSSR
markers that were specifically designed for Vitis
(VVCP14789 [atpF-atpH], VVCP28926 [rpoB-trnC],
and VVCP50403 [trnT-trnL]) (Peros et al. 2011).
Establishing haplotype groups
We chose 17 widely cultivated and/or ancient cultivars
with diverse geographic origins (Table 1, bold acces-
sions), which are ancestors of many other cultivars
(http://www.vivc.de), and seven Asian Vitis species
and M. rotundifolia as an outgroup for investigation of
the four selected UCMs (trnC-petN, VVCP14789,
VVCP28926, and VVCP50403). We sequenced in
total 1,680 nt of the four noncoding intergenic spacers
of the plastome for the 17 representative accessions.
We detected several polymorphisms in V. vinifera
[three SNPs, three SSRs (mononucleotide repeats),
and a 54 nt deletion] and additional SNPs in the other
species (Fig. 2). Four haplotype groups were resolved
in V. vinifera, and an additional four groups among
the Vitis spp. and M. rotundifolia. Five species (V.
amurensis, V. armata, V. flexuosa, V. piasezkii, and V.
yeshanensis) were indistinguishable from each other
with this marker set.
A minimum spanning network was constructed for
the haplotype groups with molecular-variance parsi-
mony using the software Arlequin. Most Asian Vitis
species formed a core group, except for V. romanetii
and V. coignetiae, which each differed in one SNP
from the central haplotype (Fig. 2a). Surprisingly, the
four haplogroups of V. vinifera were descended from
this core group in two independent lineages. Because
the two lineages were easily distinguished by the pre-
sence or absence of a 54 nt deletion in the trnC-petN
region, we designated the deletion-containing haplo-
groups as D1, D2, and D3, and the group lacking the
deletion as non-deletion (ND) (Fig. 2).
Eastern (countries to the east and south of Asia
Minor) cultivars (‘Afus ali’ and ‘Tsolikovri’) and
Western (countries from Austria to Portugal) cultivars
(‘Carignan blanc’, ‘Pinot’, ‘Riesling’, and ‘Syrah’)
were classified in the ND group (Table 1, cf.
Figure 2). Eastern European–Balkanian (EEB; Mol-
dova, Ukraine, Hungary, and countries of the Balkan
Peninsula except Turkey) cultivars were absent from
the ND group.
In the deletion (D) lineage, the haplotype group D1
differed from the core group in a 54 nt deletion in the
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trnC-petN region, one SNP, and one mononucleotide
repeat position (SSR). This group comprised ancient
French cultivars (‘Cabernet franc’, ‘Chenin’, ‘Dureza’,
‘Sauvignon blanc’, and ‘Tannat’). The D2 group was
derived from D1 based on two SSR loci containing
three polymorphic characters (repeat units). The D2
group contained both EEB (‘Batuta neagra’, ‘Furmint’,
and ‘Rkatsiteli’) and Western cultivars (‘Folle
V. amurensis V. armata
V. flexuosa V. piasezkii
V. yeshanensis
Afus ali Carignan blanc
Pinot noir Riesling
Syrah Tsolikovri
V. coignetiae V. romanetii
M. rotundifolia
Batuta neagra Folle blanche
Furmint Merlot
Rkatsiteli
Gouais blanc
Cabernet franc Chenin Dureza
Sauvignon blanc Tannat
V. vinifera
Afus ali Carignan blanc
Pinot noir Riesling
Syrah Tsolikovri
Cabernet franc Chenin Dureza
Sauvignon blanc Tannat
Batuta neagra Folle blanche
Furmint Merlot
Rkatsiteli
Gouais blanc
M. rotundifolia
V. romanetii V. coignetiae
V. amurensis V. armata
V. flexuosa V. piasezkii
V. yeshanensis
SNP 14669 SNP 30119
SNP 14793
SNP 50627
DEL 30133-30186
SSR 14789-14800
SSR 28926-28938 SSR 28926-28938
SSR 28926-28938
SSR 28926-28938
SSR 50408-50419
SNP 28707
V. vinifera
25
A B
Fig. 2 Parsimony-based haplotype networks of grapevine
cultivars and Vitis species based on SNPs, indels, and cpSSRs.
a Molecular-variance-based minimum spanning network, in
which M. rotundifolia served as the outgroup. Differences are
indicated by the connections between groups, except for the
outgroup, for which the length is 25 characters. b A statistical
parsimony-based network, in which the most probable outgroup
is the Vitis spp. haplotype (represented by the square box), thus
M. rotundifolia is not connected to the network. Missing
haplotypes are indicated by small circles
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blanche’ and ‘Merlot’). Containing the haplotype most
distinct from the core group, the D3 group differed
from the D2 group in one SNP and was represented by
‘Gouais blanc’, an ancient French cultivar.
A statistical parsimony network was generated
using the software TCS (Fig. 2b). The network
contained no loops, thus indicating the absence of
homoplasy. Based on this analysis, the Asian Vitis core
group was the most probable outgroup, thus M. rotun-
difolia was not connected in the network. The ND and
D lineages were well separated and originated inde-
pendently from the Asian core group, thus supporting
the results of the molecular-variance parsimony ana-
lysis. The D lineage included three missing haplotypes
and was not linear, as the D1 group was separated from
D2 and D3. The ND lineage contained only one
missing haplotype. The ND haplotype group was
closer than D1 or D2 to the core group.
Phylogenetic analysis
We conducted Bayesian inference and MP analyses on
the eight haplotype groups and generated a Bayesian
tree with PP values complemented with bootstrap (BS)
values (Fig. 3). Indels were deleted from the align-
ments, coded as a binary character for the Bayesian
inference analysis and inserted as a separate partition
in the sequence data set for the analyses.
Consistent with the parsimony networks, the D and
ND lineages of V. vinifera were resolved in the
Bayesian tree. The highest PP value (0.99) was
obtained for the D group, which did not contain the
ND haplotype. D1 was separated from D2 and D3
(both PP = 0.75). This result was in accordance with
the statistical parsimony network (Fig. 2b), in which
the same topology was observed. All Asian Vitis
species were grouped (PP = 0.88). The ND haplotype
grouped with the Asian Vitis clade, although with little
support (PP = 0.51). In the MP analysis all BS values
were less than 95 %.
A novel easy-to-use deletion marker
The 54 nt deletion (from nt 30,133 to 30,186) in
the trnC-petN plastome region resulted in a size
difference between PCR products and enabled
screening of samples by agarose gel electrophoresis.
We screened 163 cultivars including ancient Eastern,
EEB, and Western accessions for the absence or
presence of the deletion (Table 1). Approximately
85 % of the samples yielded a short fragment length.
Sequencing of the fragments for all 163 accessions
(Table 1) proved that all of the short fragments
contained the same deletion, thus excluding possible
homoplasy.
Eastern and Western cultivars were present in both
groups [see ‘Asyl kara’ (ND), ‘Sultanina’ (D), ‘Tein-
turier’ (ND), and ‘Traminer’ (D)], whereas EEB
cultivars (e.g., ‘Heftakilo’, ‘Kovidinka’, ‘Papsapka’,
‘Tsitsa kaprei’, and ‘Varnenska gimza’) were present
exclusively in the D group. Interestingly, some
cultivars that belonged to the same conculta (colour
variants of the same cultivar; e.g., ‘Gamay blanc’ and
‘Gamay noir’, ‘Carignan blanc’, and ‘Carignan noir’)
were placed in different lineages.
Discussion
The literature on grapevine cultivar classification into
chloroplast haplotype groups is often controversial. It
is a common phenomenon that different studies
classify the same cultivar into different haplotype
groups, even if the same marker set was used (e.g.,
Arroyo-Garcıa et al. 2006 vs Peros et al. 2011). Biases
in plant collections, sampling, data handling, and
homoplasy are among the many possible reasons
behind this phenomenon. Additional complications
could arise when usage of non-unique (multilocus)
markers results in non-haploid data, given that the
plastome data are treated a priori as haploid in
M. rotundifolia
V. coignetiae
V. romanetii
V. amurensis
ND
D3
D2
D1
0,75
0,99
0,79
0,51
0,88
0,35
87
51
100
<50
Fig. 3 Bayesian tree of the eight haplotypes with PP comple-
mented with bootstrap (BS) values from MP analysis where
applicable. PP values are between 0 and 1, BS values are
between 1 and 100
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experimental procedures and bioinformatic analysis
pipelines. In grapevine, the high amount of genetic
content common to the chloroplast and mitochondrion
genomes raises the possibility of such a problem
(Goremykin et al. 2009). Hence, we chose UCMs to
investigate chloroplast diversity of grapevine cultivars
and their relationship with Vitis species.
We checked in silico 17 plastid markers previously
used in Vitis and found that some of the markers
indeed were located in regions that have been
transferred to the chondriome, and in addition one
marker (ccmp10) comprised two copies in the plas-
tome. Thus, PCR products for these markers likely
come from at least two loci. For example, the ccmp10
marker, which is located in the rps19–rp12 intergenic
spacer in the IR region, is highly polymorphic
(Arroyo-Garcıa et al. 2002) possibly owing to its
duplication. Interestingly, this marker was originally
designed (Weising and Gardner 1999) based on the
chloroplast genome of Nicotiana tabacum L. (Shino-
zaki et al. 1986), where this marker is on the border of
the large single copy and IR regions, potentially
yielding a single PCR product. Based on our predic-
tions, we recommend using non-UCMs with reserva-
tions or omitting them from grapevine studies.
We sequenced in total 1,680 nt of four noncoding
chloroplast intergenic spacers for eight Vitis species
and 17 grapevine cultivars. The cultivars were chosen
to represent ancient grapevines from several
geographic regions. For example, ‘Pinot noir’,
‘Rkatsiteli’, ‘Gouais blanc’, and ‘Cabernet franc’ are
all very ancient and are parents of numerous important
cultivars (Robinson et al. 2012).
Grapevine is commonly considered to have been
domesticated from Vitis vinifera L. subsp. sylvestris
(C.C.Gmel.) Hegi, which we did not analysed. This is
a highly diverse taxon that comprises morphologically
and genetically distinct geographic populations and its
taxonomic status remains uncertain (Ekhvaia and
Akhalkatsi 2010; Myles et al. 2011; Zecca et al. 2012).
We identified four haplogroups among V. vinifera
cultivars that could be distinguished by the most
polymorphic VVCP28926 marker alone. This marker
lies in the rpoB-trnC region, which is highly informa-
tive in angiosperms, even among closely related
species (Shaw et al. 2005). The four grapevine
haplogroups belong to two maternal lineages, desig-
nated ND and D. The ND group was uniform with
regard to the markers used and was identical to the
‘Syrah’ reference genome sequence (Jansen et al. 2006).
In contrast, the D group comprised three haplotypes: D1,
D2, and D3. D3, which harbored one additional SNP,
was represented by ‘Gouais blanc’ only.
According to character-based parsimony analyses,
the ND and D maternal lineages are related indepen-
dently to a central group of Asian Vitis species (Fig. 2),
which could indicate an ancient hybridization event
prior to domestication. Interspecific hybridization has
played an important role in the history of some
domesticated plant species, such as rice, apple, and
potato (Coart and Van Glabeke 2006; Takahashi et al.
2008; Gavrilenko et al. 2013). The high heterozygosity
of grapevine (Myles et al. 2011; Bacilieri et al. 2013)
and the finding that both maternal lineages are
represented among ancient cultivars from the center
of domestication (‘Rkatsiteli’ and ‘Tsolikouri’) also
support the hybridization theory. Given that we
identified more subgroups in the D lineage relative to
the ND lineage, despite the limited number of cultivars
analyzed, it is possible that the primary genetic pool
carried the deletion and that the ND haplotype
originated from a single introgression event. Lineage
D could have originated from V. v. subsp. sylvestris or
an unsampled population of an ancestral Vitis species
or species complex, not necessarily an extant popula-
tion. Another, but less likely, explanation is that
chloroplast capture (Stegemann et al. 2012), when
plastids are transmitted from one species to another
during grafting, could conceivably occur naturally
between sympatric species, although this phenomenon
has not been described in Vitis.
The phylogenetic trees obtained by Bayesian
inference and MP analyses were in agreement with
the statistical parsimony network in terms of the D
clade, for which the same topology was observed
(Figs. 2b, 3). The ND group was consistently sepa-
rated from the D clade, although its relatedness to the
other Vitis species is uncertain on account of the low
statistical support. However, it must be borne in mind
that the applicability of our marker set is limited for
evolutionary model-based phylogenetic assessment
because it is mostly based on hypervariable regions
that evolve faster than other regions, and furthermore
it resolves V. vinifera but not the other species, leaving
the latter conclusions somewhat speculative.
In the trnC-petN region, we identified a 54 nt
deletion for the first time in V. vinifera. This deletion
was absent in the investigated Vitis species and in
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other Vitis species investigated in previous studies
(Ren et al. 2011). This region tends to contain
relatively large deletions (Shaw et al. 2005), and the
deletions are more than twice as rare in angiosperms as
nucleotide substitutions (Shaw et al. 2007). The
identified deletion can be easily screened by agarose
gel electrophoresis. We tested the utility of the trnC-
petN marker by screening 163 grapevine cultivars for
the deletion and classified them into the D or ND
lineages. We excluded possible homoplasy by
sequencing this region in all accessions. We found
that only 15 % of the sampled cultivars belonged to
the ND group, whereas 85 % contained the deletion.
The 54 nt deletion in the trnC-petN region is
suitable for assessment of certain pedigrees or of
relationships between cultivars. For example, the ND
group contains several related cultivars, e.g., ‘Pinot
noir’, ‘Mondeause blanche’, ‘Syrah’, ‘Durif’, and
‘Carina’ belong to the same family; ‘Goldriesling’,
‘Perlriesling’, and ‘Rieslingtraminer’ are offspring of
‘Riesling’. We also observed some interesting
pedigrees by screening for the deletion: ‘Gamay noir’
and ‘Gamay blanc’ are siblings (‘Gouais blanc’ 9
‘Pinot’) (Robinson et al. 2012), but they were classi-
fied to different lineages in the present study. This
could mean that the mother was ‘Gouais blanc’ for
‘Gamay noir’ and ‘Pinot’ for ‘Gamay blanc’. ‘Zwei-
gelt’ is known to have been raised from the cross of
‘Blaufrankisch’ and ‘St Laurent’ (Maletic et al. 1999);
however, both parents were classified in the D group,
whereas ‘Zweigelt’ carries an ND haplotype. ‘Gouais
blanc’ (haplotype D3) is proven to be a parent of
‘Riesling’ (Robinson et al. 2012); our results show that
it could be the paternal parent of ‘Riesling’ as the two
cultivars belong to different chloroplast lineages. This
finding is particularly interesting, because ‘Gouais’—
on the basis of a single chloroplast SNP— is proven to
be the maternal parent of several important varieties
(Hunt et al. 2010), which we found to be classified in
the D lineage (‘Chardonnay’, ‘Gamay noir’, and
‘Aligote’) (Table 1). Although these results could be
the outcome of errors in germplasm collections or
sampling, they could also provide important informa-
tion on sometimes incorrect pedigrees.
To determine the history of domesticated plants is a
difficult task, and current findings usually complicate
existing models and result in additional uncertainties.
Our work is the first that examines the plastome
diversity with consideration of inter-organellar gene
transfer and indicates possible ambiguities in chloro-
plast marker studies in grapevine. The results provide
convincing evidence for the existence of two inde-
pendent maternal lineages in grapevine and suggest
the occurrence of an ancient hybridization event.
Acknowledgments Funding was provided by the Corvinus
University of Budapest and by the New Szechenyi Plan of the
Hungarian Government (project KTIA_AIK_12-1-2013-0001).
We thank Endre Sebestyen, Anita Lozsa, and Peter Bodor for
their help and useful comments and Pal Kozma, Sandrine Lalet,
Adam Guthermut, and Erika Maul for providing materials.
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