Cotoneaster integerrimus (Rosaceae) from the Balkans: Comparison
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Cotoneaster integerrimus represents a multiploid and facultative apomictic system of widely distributed mountain populations. 

  • apomixis
  • Balkans
  • clonality
  • Cotoneaster integerrimus
  • cytotype
  • genome size
  • polyploidy

1. Introduction

Genome size, as a fundamental biological characteristic of evolutionary significance, has implications on overall biodiversity [1]. The causes of genome size variation in plants are varied, but the most striking is polyploidization. The evolutionary significance of polyploidy has tremendous and far-reaching implications for plant diversity [2]. It is assumed that almost 50% of plant groups have been affected by at least a single polyploidization event throughout their evolutionary history [3]. Polyploidy recomposes genome structure, alters gene expression, induces phenotypic and physiological changes, and provide adaptive potential to the polyploid plant [4,5,6][4][5][6]. Allopolyploidy is considered to be more frequent than autopolyploidy [7], but both processes profoundly shape plant diversity, either independently or in concert ([8], and references therein).
One of the consequences of being a polyploid is breakdown of self-incompatibility, allowing a shift towards asexual reproductive mode [9,10,11][9][10][11]. Apomixis (asexual seed formation) represents an effective life strategy by which apomicts preserve and maintain hybrid and heterozygous genetic lineages, cytotypes with unbalanced chromosomes, enabling their long-term persistence and dispersal [12]. Apomixis is highly correlated with polyploidy and hybridity. However, it is still unclear as to which of these factors precedes and what exact genetic and developmental mechanisms regulate the emergence of apomixis [13].
Gametophytic apomixis, the most common type of asexual reproduction, represents the formation and development of unreduced megagametophyte (parthenogenesis) coupled with the fertilization of unreduced central cell (pseudogamy) [14,15][14][15]. As a consequence of bypassing meiosis and lack of genome recombination, apomicts have a genetic structure identical to the maternal plant, thus creating clonal populations. Apomictic polyploids show a greater colonization ability by occupying more extreme ecological niches and persisting in larger distribution areas (geographic parthenogenesis, [14]) than their diploid sexual relatives [16,17,18][16][17][18]. Although genetically uniform, apomicts acquire genetic variation over time via accumulation of spontaneous mutations and via residual sexuality fostering diversity within clonal populations [19,20,21][19][20][21]. One of the mechanisms enhancing genetic diversity of apomictic populations comes from crosses between asexual and related sexual lineages, resulting in offspring that have a predominant apomictic mode of reproduction [17,22,23][17][22][23]. Given the long-life cycle of woody species, apomictic reproduction and independence of mates is extremely important in the early stages of the establishment of new populations and colonization of new environments.
Genus Cotoneaster Medik. (Rosaceae, Spiroaeoideae, Pyreae, [24]) includes shrubs and some small trees that are distributed in Europe, North Africa, and temperate areas of Asia (except Japan) [25]. The species number varies greatly among authors and ranges from 50–70 [26], to ≈90 [27], to ≈400 [25]. Evolutionary history and diversification of Cotoneaster have been affected by homoploid and heteroploid hybridization, as well as autopolyploidy and apomixis [25,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35][25][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35]. Both classical chromosome countings and cytometric analyses confirmed a series of ploidy levels in the genus ranging from diploids to hexaploids, with a prevalence of tetraploids.
Apomixis has been proven to be the most frequent reproductive mode in Cotoneaster that was primarily inferred from embryological data [36[36][37][38],37,38], breeding experiments [39], and later by molecular analyses [31,33][31][33]. Recently, apomixis has been confirmed using flow cytometry and different reproductive pathways of seed formation in tetraploids of C. integerrimus Medik. [29,30][29][30].
Key information on embryo sac development of several tri- and tetraploid Cotoneaster species (C. rosea Edgew., C. nitens Rehd. & Wils., C. bullata Bois, C. obscura Rehd. & Wils., C. acutifolia var. villosula Rehd. & Wils., C. racemiflora var. soongorica Schneid.) was provided in 1962 [36], and for C. melanocarpus Fisch. ex Blytt much later [37,38][37][38]. These species showed a strong tendency towards apomictic reproduction, namely, apospory and rarely diplospory, and the early development of their embryo sacs had general similarities with the other apomictic rosaceous genera. The most frequent development of unreduced embryo sac implied degeneration of the primary megaspore mother cell in the earliest developmental stages of the ovule and its replacement with unreduced embryo sac originating from nucellar cells (apospory). In several cases, the unreduced embryo sac developed from archesporial cells following the degeneration of the primary megaspore mother cell (diplospory). The secondary mother megaspore cell also occurred and was developed from unreduced embryo sac or via meiosis [36]. The reduced embryo sacs were rarely observed in the studied species [36,37,38][36][37][38]. The authors did not provide data on the polar nuclei. Conclusion of those findings is that most polyploid species of Cotoneaster are apomictic [25,32][25][32]. Sexual reproduction is less represented in Cotoneaster and follows a common pattern of development of Polygonum type of embryo sac: seeds of diploid mothers have diploid embryo and triploid endosperm; seeds of tetraploid mothers have tetraploid embryo and hexaploid endosperm [29,30][29][30].
In recent studies, only a tetraploid cytotype in C. integerrimus populations from Central Europe was found [30,40][30][40]. The same authors [30] proved that facultative apomixis was the main reproductive mode, followed by autonomous apomixis and haploid parthenogenesis, while the proportion of sexuality was 10% in the studied sample. The authors showed that different reproductive pathways involved the interaction of reduced and unreduced gametes documented in both sexuals and asexuals.

2. Genome Size and Ploidy Level Variation

The flow cytometry (FCM) of 208 Cotoneaster integerrimus individuals from Bosnia and Herzegovina resulted in three distinct groups whose holoploid genome sizes (2C) corresponded to three different ploidy levels, namely, di-, tri- and tetraploid cytotypes (Table 1, Figure 1A). The two singular values corresponded to pentaploid (2C = 2.99 pg, 1Cx = 0.598 pg) and hexaploid cytotype (2C = 3.35 pg, 1Cx = 0.558 pg); thus, both values were excluded from further analyses. The 2C genome size mean values were 1.28 pg in diploids, 1.856 pg in triploids, and 2.481 pg in tetraploids. The significantly (F2, 207 = 10.98, p > 0.001) highest monoploid (1Cx) genome size value was recorded in diploid, and the lowest in triploid cytotype (Table 1).
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Figure 1. Absolute nuclear genome size (2C) of diploid, triploid, and tetraploid cytotypes (A) (boxes define 95th percentile interval; horizontal lines indicate mean value; whiskers indicate standard deviation: outliers are shown as circles), and geographical distribution of Cotoneaster integerrimus cytotypes and their frequency (%) per site/population (B). Site abbreviations (Site IDs) correspond to Table 2.
Table 1. Absolute genome size values and ploidy levels of Cotoneaster integerrimus cytotypes.
DNA Ploidy N 2C DNA CV % Cytometric Results1Cx DNA
Mean ± SD (pg) Min–Max (pg) Mean ± SD (pg) * Mean (Mbp **)
Hypothesized Pathways of Seed Formation
2x 20 1.280 ± 0.046 1.23–1.36 2.47 0.636 ± 0.015 a 622.00
Maternal ploidy a Embryopg ± SD Endosperm pg ± SD Embryo ploidy Endosperm ploidy Number of seeds Egg ploidy Polar nuclei ploidy/number
3x 7 1.856 ± 0.091 1.63–1.90 5.04 0.608 ± 0.030 b 594.62
4x 181 2.481 ± 0.060 2.36–2.73 2.45 0.621 ± 0.015 b 607.73
TOTAL 208          
* Mean ± SD (pg) followed by the same letter in superscript was not significantly different according to the Tukey’s HSD test; ** 1pg = 978 Mbp [41].
Table 2. Geographic origin of Cotoneaster mother individuals covering three cytotypes and corresponding sample sizes (N) for genome size/ploidy level, reproductive mode, and microsatellite analysis.
  Origin of Sample Number of Samples (N)
Site No. Site ID Locality East North Altitude (m) Diploids Triploids Tetraploids Total N per Site
Sperm ploidy Number of sperms fecundating the endosperm Endosperm maternal: paternal genome ratio Endosperm/embryo fluorescence (mean ratio) Seed origin 1 Go
2x 1.28 ± 0.03Gornja Grkarica, Mt. Igman, Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H) 18.28833
1
3x 3x/2 3x 1 2m:1p 2.12 Pseudogamous Apomixis
4x 2.54 ± 0.07 3.84 ± 0.11 4x 6x 92 2x 2x/2 2x 1 2m:1p 1.53 Sexual
4x 3.80 ± 0.10 6.43 ± 0.21 6x 10x 22 c 4x 4x/2 2x 2 4m:1p 2.5 Sexual
4x 1.90 ± 0.01 3.19 ± 0.05 3x 5x 2 d 2x 2x/1 1x 1 4m:1p 1.7 Sexual
4x 2.56 ± 0.1 6.38 ± 0.15 4x 10x 148 4x 4x/2 1x or 2x 2 or 1 4m:1p 2.5 Pseudogamous Apomixis
4x 2.54 ± 0.01 7.51 ± 0.37 4x 12x 137 4x 4x/2 2x 2 2m:1p 2.98 Pseudogamous Apomixis
4x 2.55 ± 0.04 7.04 ± 0.25 4x 11x 22 4x 4x/2 3x 1 2.7m:1p 2.75 Pseudogamous Apomixis
4x 2.58 ± 0.12 5.83 ± 0.28 4x 9x 11 4x 4x/2 1x 1 8m:1p 2.17 Pseudogamous Apomixis
4x 2.53 ± 0.05 5.08 ± 0.17 4x 8x 32 4x 4x/2 - 0 4m:0p 4:1 Autonomous Apomixis
4x 2.55 ± 0.08 4.46 ± 0.17 4x 7x 9 4x           Not resolved
4x 1.28 ± 0.00 3.84 ± 0.04 2x 6x 2 2x 2x/2 1x or 2x 2 or 1     Haploid Parthenogenesis
          591              
a Maternal ploidy inferred from cytometric leaf measurements. b Embryo ploidy was increased compared to mother ploidy. c Biii hybrids. d Embryo ploidy was decreased compared to mother ploidy.

3.1. Seed Origin in Diploids

Diploids yielded exclusively sexually originated seeds having the same or increased ploidy level compared to the mother plant, which depended on sperm cell ploidies (Figure 2(S1,S2), Table 3). The profile 2x emb.:3x end. was as expected the most represented (103 seeds) and included both reduced female and male gametes. The profile 3x emb.:4x end. (eight seeds) was a result of interploid crosses between diploids and tetraploids. Those seeds originated from joint of reduced gametes (2x) from tetraploid males and a reduced egg cell (1x) of diploid mother.

3.2. Seed Origin in Triploids

All three analyzed triploid seeds had different profiles (Figure 2(S3,A1,A2), Table 3). The only sexual profile 3x emb.:4x end. from one seed included 2x male gamete and reduced (1x) egg cell (Table 3). The other two seeds were of apomictic origin. One included unreduced egg cell fecundated with reduced (1x) sperm cell creating 3x emb.:7x end. Profile, and the other included unreduced (3x) sperm cell creating 3x emb.:9x end. profile (Figure 2(A1,A2), Table 3).

4. Genotypic Variation in Cotoneaster integerrimus Populations

Five microsatellite loci were successfully amplified in the analyzed C. integerrimus populations and yielded a total of 99 alleles from 254 individuals (Table S2 could be found in https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/10/12/2798#supplementary).
A total of 92 multilocus genotypes (MLGs) were obtained from five loci (Ng, Table 4). Each of the studied diploids (N = 13) had a unique genotype (Table S2). The clonal genotypes (N = 32) were found within a polyploid pool of 241 individuals (Table S2). Each population contained at least one clonal genotype shared by a different number of individuals within a population, indicating clonal reproduction (Ni = 194, Table 4). The proportion of the detected clones (Ng/N) ranged from 0.1 to 0.91 (Table 4), reflecting the different level of clonal structure of populations. In each population, at least two individuals shared the same genotype (Table 4). Moreover, certain populations were completely clonal (Pu–Mt. Trebević, Si-Sinjajevina, He–Austria; Ng = 1, Table 4). In the majority of populations, the effective number of genotypes was higher than one, indicating the presence of unique genotypes in populations (Table 4). Different values of genotypic diversity of populations (Table 4) showed their diverse structure of clonal and unique genotypes, suggesting different ratios of sexuality and asexuality in populations.
Table 4. Genetic diversity measures for the analyzed Cotoneaster integerrimus populations derived from nuclear microsatellites.
Locality (Site ID) Number of Individuals Sampled (N) Number of Multilocus Genotypes Detected (Ng) Total Number of Individuals Belonging to a Clone (Ni) Total Number of Unique Genotypes per Population (Un) Effective Number of Genotypes (Eff) Proportion of Clones Detected (Ng/N) Genotypic Diversity (Div)
Gornja Grkarica (Go) 19 3 18 1 2.21 0.15 0.57
43.74528 1.95 ± 0.05 2x1350 -, -, - -, -, - 20, 98, 19 3x20, 98, 19
103 1x 1x/2 1x 1 2m:1p 1.52
Umoljani (Um)Sexual 24 21 2 Um Umoljani, Mt. Bjelašnica, B&H 18.22167 43.66194 1300 18, 108, 12 4, 3, 4 8, 27, 8 30, 138, 24
4 19 18 0.91 0.98 2x 1.91 ± 0.05 2.59 ± 0.06 3x 4x 8 b 1x 1x/2 2x 1 1m:1p 1.35 Sexual 3 Vr Vrbe, Čemerno, B&H 18.57167 43.17861 1090 -, -, - 1, -, - 19, -, 18 20, -, 18
3x 1.94 2.64
Vrbe (Vr) 18 7 12 6 4.37 0.39 0.81 3x 4x 1 1x 1x/2 2x 1 1m:1p
Bosiljna (Bo) 16 5 14 5 3.55 0.311.5 0.76Sexual 4 Bo Bosiljna, Mt. Čvrsnica, B&H 17.48806 43.51194 1319 -, -, - -, -, - 20, 7, 16 20, 7, 16
3x 1.85 3.93 3x 7x 1 3x 3x/2 1x 1 6m:1p 1.35 Pseudogamous Apomixis
Rujište (Ru) 19 4 17 4 2.39 0.21 0.61 5 Ru
Borova glava (Bg) 21Rujište, Mt. Prenj, B&H 17.95472 43.46194 1010 -, -, - 1, -, 1 17, 14, 18 18,14, 19
2 20 1 1.09 0.1 0.09 6 Bg Borova glava, Livno, B&H 17.12139 43.77861 1183 1, 3, - -, -, - 22, 28, 21 23, 31, 21
Sovićka vrata (So) 14 6 11 4 4.07 0.42 0.81 7 So Sovićka vrata, Blidinje, B&H 17.50472 43.59528 1220 -, -, - 1, -, 1
Puhova ravan (Pu) 20 1 20 1 116, 4, 13 0.0517, 4, 14
0 8 Pu Puhova ravan, Mt. Trebević, B&H 18.43833 43.82861 1450 -, -, - -, -, - 20, 55, 20 20, 55, 20
9
Čavljak (Ca) 19 5 16 4 1.57 0.26 0.38 Ca Čavljak, Mt. Ozren, B&H 18.43833 43.91194 1237 -, -, - -, -, - 21, 75, 19 21, 75, 19
Devečanske stijene (De) 19 6 10 De Devečanske stijene, Mt. Vlašić, B&H 17.62139 44.27889 1752 1, 2, 1 -, -, - 18, 57, 18 19, 59, 19
16 11 Rt Mt. Rtanj, Serbia 21.88917 43.77861 1282 -, -, - 1 *, -, 1 8 *, -, 8 9, -, 9
12 Mu Mt. Mučanj, Serbia 20.03889 43.54528 1530 -, -, - -, -, - 7 *, 36, 7 7, 36, 7
13 Pr Premužićeva staza, Mt. Velebit, Croatia 14.98722 44.76222 1613 -, -, - 1 *, -, 1 3 *, 2, 3 4, 2, 4
6 2.63 0.31 0.65
Mt. Rtanj (Rt) 9 4 7 4 3 0.44 0.75
Mt. Mučanj (Mu) 7 2 7 2 1.86 0.28 0.47
Premužićeva staza (Pr) 4 3 2 3 2.66 1 0.83
Vošac (Vo) 9 4 7 3 2.07 0.33 14 Vo Vošac, Mt. Biokovo, Croatia 17.05472 43.31194 1320 -, -, - 1 *, -, 1 8 *, 58, 8 9, 58, 9
0.58
Mt. Sinjajevina (Si) 5 1 5 1 1 0.20 0 15 Si Mt. Sinjajevina, Monte Negro 19.33861 42.96167 1773 -, -, - -, -, - 5 *, -, 5 5, -, 5
Hechenberg-Ostgipfel (He) 5 1 5 1 1 0.20 0 16 He Hechenberg-Ostgipfel von Kranebitten, Innsbruck, Austria 11.31972 47.27972 1390 -, -, - -, -, - 5 *, -, 5 5, -, 5
Rotenfels (Ro) 5 3 3 3 2.27 0.60 0.70 17 Ro Rotenfels, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany 7.818611 49.83028 232 -, -, - -, -, - 5 *, 6, 5
Monte Ventosola (Mo) 4 3 2 3 2.66 0.755, 6, 5
0.83 18 Mo Monte Ventosola, Monte Sibillini, Umbria, Italy 13.17028 42.77833 1493 -, -, - -, -, - 4 *, 8, 4 4, 8, 4
Mt. Suva Gora (Su) 7 19 Su Mt. Suva Gora, Northern Macedonia 21.25583 41.84472 1184 -, -, - -, -, - 7 *, -, 7 7, -, 7
20 Ol Mt. Olympus, Greece 22.37278 40.07778 1935 -, -, - -, -, - 5 *, -, 5 5, -, 5
21 Pa Mt. Pangaion, Greece 24.07333 40.92778 1662 -, -, - -, -, - 5 *, -, 5 5, -, 5
    Total N per cytotype 20, 113, 13 10, 3, 9 243, 475, 232 273, 591, 254
* Ploidy level was inferred from microsatellite data.
Geographic distribution of cytotypes showed a clear prevalence of tetraploids (89% in the total sample) in each population except the Umoljani (Um) in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Table 2, Figure 1B). The sample for Figure 1B encompassed the ploidies obtained from flow cytometry as well as the estimated ploidy levels from microsatellite data for 65 individuals (explained in Table 2 and the Material and Methods section). Diploids (7.3% in total sample) were recorded in only three populations with a single individual in Borova glava (Bg) and Devečani (De), and 18 individuals in Umoljani (Um) (Table 2, Figure 1B). Triploids (3.7% in total sample) were observed in seven populations and were represented with just one individual in six populations (Vrbe-Vr, Rujište-Ru, Sovićka vrata-So, Vošac-Vo, Premužićeva staza-Pr, Rtanj-Rt) and four individuals in the population Umoljani (Table 2).

3. Flow Cytometric Seed Screening

Only unambiguous results of flow cytometric seed screening (FCSS) are presented. Approximately one quarter of analyzed seeds had minor additional peaks corresponding to doubled nuclear DNA levels mirroring endoreplicated embryo and/or endosperm nuclei. In total, the reproductive mode was characterized for 591 seeds from three C. integerrimus cytotypes (Table 2).
In general, inferred pathways of sexual and asexual seed formation showed great diversity and included both reduced and unreduced gametes within each cytotype (Figure 2, Table 3). The tetraploid cytotype was the most abundant, and it consequently resulted in the highest number of reproductive pathways, predominantly apomictic. Diploids involved only sexual reproduction (Table 3). The triploid cytotype was represented with only three seeds, one of sexual and two of apomictic origin (Table 3). In any case, sexual and asexual seed formation was clearly distinguished.
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Figure 2. Flow cytometric histograms (log abscissa) of Cotoneaster integerrimus seed formation from sexual (S1–S6) or asexual (A1–A9) origin. The first fluorescence peaks correspond to the internal standard (ST, Oryza sativa L. ssp. japonica ‘Nipponbare’), the second ones to the embryo, and the third ones to the endosperm (blue: 2x mother, red: 3x mother, green: 4x mother).
Table 3. Flow cytometric seed screening results and hypothesized pathways of seed formation and reproduction modes in analyzed Cotoneaster integerrimus populations.
3x
1.94
5.72 3x 9x
3
4
2
1.81
0.71
0.52
Mt. Olympus (Ol) 5 4 2 4 3.57 0.8 0.90
Mt. Pangaion (Pa) 5 4 2 4 3.57 0.8 0.90
  254 92 194 81      
While the majority of clonal genotypes (N = 29) were geographically restricted within a single or two populations, the two clonal genotypes occurred at multiple sites (Table S2). The more widespread clonal genotype occurred in populations Bo–Borova glava (N = 20), Go–Mt. Igman (N = 9), Ru–Rujište (N = 9), So–Sovićka vrata (N = 2), and Um–Umoljani (N = 1), which was equivalent to 17% of all polyploids. The second clonal genotype was less widespread and was shared by plants from three populations: So–Sovićka vrata (N = 4), Um–Umoljani (N = 1), and Vr–Vrbe (N = 3). One hundred and thirty-seven (56.8%) individuals belonged to 25 spatially limited clonal genotypes, while other individuals possessed unique genotypes.
Principal coordinate analysis (PCoA) based on Jaccard distances was applied on C. integerrimus polyploid MLGs (Figure 3). PCoA revealed the pattern of grouping of MLGs dispersed along the first (PCo1) and the second (PCo2) coordinates (Figure 3). A weak regional geographic pattern of separation among MLGs groups was evident. The MLGs from western Balkans formed three groups along the PCo1: the first group consisted of MLGs from Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bg, Bo, Ru, Go, So, Um, Vr) and Croatia (Vo); the second consisted of several Bosnian MLGs (Go and Pu); and the third one was the most heterogeneous and consisted of MLGs originating from Bosnia and Herzegovina (Ca, De, Pr, Um, Vr), Croatia (Pr), and Montenegro (Si). MLGs from Italy (Mo), Austria (He), and Germany (Ro) were intermingled with Balkan MLGs. The southern Balkan MLGs from Greece (Ol and Pa) and North Macedonia (Su) clustered into a separate group along the second coordinate (Figure 3). Serbian MLGs (Mu and Rt) formed a group neighboring the southern Balkan cluster. Certain MLGs from De and Um populations were interspersed within the southern Balkan cluster.
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Figure 3. Principal coordinate analysis of the Jaccard distance matrix of multilocus genotypes of Cotoneaster integerrimus polyploids according to nuclear microsatellite data. Population abbreviations correspond to those in the Table 4. The numbers in the brackets denote the number of clones.

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