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Retrotransposon-driven environmental regulation of FLC leads to adaptive response to herbicide

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The mobilization of retrotransposons yields major-effect mutations. Here, we report an adaptive retrotransposon insertion within the first intron of the Arabidopsis floral-repressor locus FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC) . The insertion-mutation augments the environmental sensitivity of FLC by affecting the balance between coding and non-coding transcript isoforms in response to environmental threads. We show that this balance is modulated epigenetically by DNA methylation and orchestrated by IBM2, a factor involved in the processing of intronic heterochromatin. The stress-sensitive allele of FLC has recently spread across populations subjected to recurrent chemical weeding, and we demonstrate that retrotransposon-driven acceleration of life cycle represents a rapid response to herbicide. Our findings illustrate how retrotransposition can create environmentally-sensitive alleles that facilitate adaptation to anthropogenic disturbances of the environment.
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hal-04301067 , version 1 (23-11-2023)

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Mathieu Raingeval, Basile Leduque, Pierre Baduel, Alejandro Edera, Fabrice Roux, et al.. Retrotransposon-driven environmental regulation of FLC leads to adaptive response to herbicide. 2023. ⟨hal-04301067⟩
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