Environmental temperature has a huge impact on multiple meiosis processes in flowering plants. Polyploid plants derived from whole genome duplication are believed to have an enhanced abiotic stress tolerance. In this study, the impact of high temperatures on male meiosis in autotetraploid Arabidopsis thaliana was investigated. We found that autotetraploid Columbia (Col-0) plants generate a subpopulation of aberrant meiotic products under normal temperature, which is significantly increased under heat stress. Cytological studies revealed that, as the case in diploid Arabidopsis thaliana, assembly of microtubular cytoskeleton network, pairing and segregation of homologous chromosomes, and meiotic recombination in autotetraploid Arabidopsis are compromised under the high temperatures. Immunostaining of ?H2A.X and recombinase DMC1 suggested that heat stress inhibits formation of DNA double-strand breaks; additionally, it specifically destabilizes ASY1 and ASY4, but not SYN1 on chromosomes. The loading defects of ASY1 and ASY4 overlap in the syn1 mutant, which supports that the building of lateral element of synaptonemal complex occurs downstream of a SYN1-ASY4-ASY3 stepwise assembly of axis. Remarkably, heat-induced abnormalities of ASY1 and ASY4 co-localize on chromosomes of both diploid and autotetraploid Arabidopsis, suggesting that high temperatures interfere with ASY1-associated SC via an impacted stability of chromosome axis. Furthermore, ZYP1-dependent transverse filament of SC is disrupted by heat stress. Taken together, these findings suggest that polyploidization negatively contributes to instability of chromosomes and meiotic recombination in Arabidopsis thaliana under heat stress.
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