Genome triplication drove the diversification of Brassica plants

F Cheng, J Wu, X Wang - Horticulture research, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The genus Brassica belongs to the plant family Brassicaceae, which includes many
important crop species that are used as oilseed, condiments, or vegetables throughout the …

Genome-wide comparative analysis of the Brassica rapa gene space reveals genome shrinkage and differential loss of duplicated genes after whole genome …

JH Mun, SJ Kwon, TJ Yang, YJ Seol, M Jin, JA Kim… - Genome biology, 2009 - Springer
Background Brassica rapa is one of the most economically important vegetable crops
worldwide. Owing to its agronomic importance and phylogenetic position, B. rapa provides a …

Brassica carinata genome characterization clarifies U's triangle model of evolution and polyploidy in Brassica

X Song, Y Wei, D Xiao, K Gong, P Sun, Y Ren… - Plant …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Ethiopian mustard (Brassica carinata) in the Brassicaceae family possesses many excellent
agronomic traits. Here, the high-quality genome sequence of B. carinata is reported …

Comparative Genomics of Brassica oleracea and Arabidopsis thaliana Reveal Gene Loss, Fragmentation, and Dispersal after Polyploidy

CD Town, F Cheung, R Maiti, J Crabtree… - The Plant …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
We sequenced 2.2 Mb representing triplicated genome segments of Brassica oleracea,
which are each paralogous with one another and homologous with a segmentally …

The final piece of the Triangle of U: Evolution of the tetraploid Brassica carinata genome

WC Yim, ML Swain, D Ma, H An, KA Bird… - The Plant …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Ethiopian mustard (Brassica carinata) is an ancient crop with remarkable stress resilience
and a desirable seed fatty acid profile for biofuel uses. Brassica carinata is one of six …

Consequences of Whole-Genome Triplication as Revealed by Comparative Genomic Analyses of the Wild Radish Raphanus raphanistrum and Three Other …

GD Moghe, DE Hufnagel, H Tang, Y Xiao… - The Plant …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Polyploidization events are frequent among flowering plants, and the duplicate genes
produced via such events contribute significantly to plant evolution. We sequenced the …

Genome structural evolution in Brassica crops

Z He, R Ji, L Havlickova, L Wang, Y Li, HT Lee, J Song… - Nature Plants, 2021 - nature.com
The cultivated Brassica species include numerous vegetable and oil crops of global
importance. Three genomes (designated A, B and C) share mesohexapolyploid ancestry …

The Brassica oleracea genome reveals the asymmetrical evolution of polyploid genomes

S Liu, Y Liu, X Yang, C Tong, D Edwards… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Polyploidization has provided much genetic variation for plant adaptive evolution, but the
mechanisms by which the molecular evolution of polyploid genomes establishes genetic …

Impacts of allopolyploidization and structural variation on intraspecific diversification in Brassica rapa

X Cai, L Chang, T Zhang, H Chen, L Zhang, R Lin… - Genome biology, 2021 - Springer
Background Despite the prevalence and recurrence of polyploidization in the speciation of
flowering plants, its impacts on crop intraspecific genome diversification are largely …

Subgenome parallel selection is associated with morphotype diversification and convergent crop domestication in Brassica rapa and Brassica oleracea

F Cheng, R Sun, X Hou, H Zheng, F Zhang, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Brassica species, including crops such as cabbage, turnip and oilseed, display enormous
phenotypic variation. Brassica genomes have all undergone a whole-genome triplication …