The spinach YY genome reveals sex chromosome evolution, domestication, and introgression history of the species

X Ma, L Yu, M Fatima, WH Wadlington… - Genome biology, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Background Spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.) is a dioecious species with an XY sex
chromosome system, but its Y chromosome has not been fully characterized. Our knowledge …

Construction of high-density genetic maps defined sex determination region of the Y chromosome in spinach

L Yu, X Ma, B Deng, J Yue, R Ming - Molecular Genetics and Genomics, 2021 - Springer
Spinach (Spinacia olracea L.) is a dioecious leafy vegetable with a highly repetitive genome
of around 990 Mb, which is challenging for de-novo genome assembly. In our study, a …

Genomic analyses provide insights into spinach domestication and the genetic basis of agronomic traits

X Cai, X Sun, C Xu, H Sun, X Wang, C Ge… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Spinach is a nutritious leafy vegetable belonging to the family Chenopodiaceae. Here we
report a high-quality chromosome-scale reference genome assembly of spinach and …

Molecular evidence for recent divergence of X- and Y-linked gene pairs in Spinacia oleracea L.

Y Okazaki, S Takahata, H Hirakawa, Y Suzuki… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Dioecy has evolved recently and independently from cosexual populations in many
angiosperm lineages, providing opportunities to understand the evolutionary process …

Molecular insights into the non-recombining nature of the spinach male-determining region

T Kudoh, M Takahashi, T Osabe, A Toyoda… - Molecular genetics and …, 2018 - Springer
Spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.) is a dioecious plant with male heterogametic sex
determination and homomorphic sex chromosomes (XY). The dioecism is utilized for …

Draft genome of spinach and transcriptome diversity of 120 Spinacia accessions

C Xu, C Jiao, H Sun, X Cai, X Wang, C Ge… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Spinach is an important leafy vegetable enriched with multiple necessary nutrients. Here we
report the draft genome sequence of spinach (Spinacia oleracea, 2n= 12), which contains …

Construction of a high-density genetic map and the X/Y sex-determining gene mapping in spinach based on large-scale markers developed by specific-locus …

W Qian, G Fan, D Liu, H Zhang, X Wang, J Wu, Z Xu - BMC genomics, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Background Cultivated spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.) is one of the most widely
cultivated types of leafy vegetable in the world, and it has a high nutritional value. Spinach is …

Evolution of the spinach sex-linked region within a rarely recombining pericentromeric region

H She, Z Liu, S Li, Z Xu, H Zhang, F Cheng… - Plant …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Sex chromosomes have evolved independently in many different plant lineages. Here, we
describe reference genomes for spinach (Spinacia oleracea) X and Y haplotypes by …

Preservation of the Y transcriptome in a 10-million-year-old plant sex chromosome system

R Bergero, D Charlesworth - Current Biology, 2011 - cell.com
Classical genetic studies discovered loss of genes from the ancient sex chromosome
systems of several animals (genetic degeneration), and complete genome sequencing …

A rapid method for assembly of single chromosome and identification of sex determination region based on single‐chromosome sequencing

N Li, J Zhou, W Zhang, W Liu, B Wang, H She… - New …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The sex‐determining‐region (SDR) may offer the best prospects for studying sex‐
determining gene, recombination suppression, and chromosome heteromorphism …