Prediction of plant organismal complexity based on transcription factor annotation: an AI approach
Varshney, D.; Tajjar, M. H.; de Vries, J.; Hutter, F.; Rensing, S. A.
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How morphological complexity evolves is still enigmatic. While there is evidence in algae and plants as well as animals that diversification of the repertoire of transcription factors (TF) is causative for evolution of organismal complexity, there are many examples from lineages that follow their own way of complexity evolution, for example by expansion of particular families. For land plants, correlation of the size of the TF complement with number of cell types (as a proxy for morphological complexity) has been shown, and several families were identified as candidates to drive complexity evolution. Here, we expand a previously available dataset of cell type numbers from 12 to 82 proteomes and introduce a four class body plan scheme. We find that the total TF complement correlates with the number of cell types of Archaeplastida (primary plastid bearing plants and algae). We used TabPFN (Tabular Prior-data Fitted Network) for binary (uni- vs. multicellularity) as well as for four class Bauplan classification. TabPFN is able to predict the morphological complexity with high accuracy. This approach allows to determine organismal complexity based on the gene space of an organism. Based on our results, we can confirm that plant morphological evolution is driven by gain and expansion of TF families.
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