RNA-seq in grain unveils fate of neo- and paleopolyploidization events in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

C Pont, F Murat, C Confolent, S Balzergue, J Salse - Genome biology, 2011 - Springer
Background Whole genome duplication is a common evolutionary event in plants. Bread
wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is a good model to investigate the impact of paleo-and …

An improved assembly and annotation of the allohexaploid wheat genome identifies complete families of agronomic genes and provides genomic evidence for …

BJ Clavijo, L Venturini, C Schudoma… - Genome …, 2017 - genome.cshlp.org
Advances in genome sequencing and assembly technologies are generating many high-
quality genome sequences, but assemblies of large, repeat-rich polyploid genomes, such as …

Separating homeologs by phasing in the tetraploid wheat transcriptome

KV Krasileva, V Buffalo, P Bailey, S Pearce, S Ayling… - Genome Biology, 2013 - Springer
Background The high level of identity among duplicated homoeologous genomes in
tetraploid pasta wheat presents substantial challenges for de novo transcriptome assembly …

Small-scale gene duplications played a major role in the recent evolution of wheat chromosome 3B

NM Glover, J Daron, L Pingault, K Vandepoele, E Paux… - Genome Biology, 2015 - Springer
Background Bread wheat is not only an important crop, but its large (17 Gb), highly
repetitive, and hexaploid genome makes it a good model to study the organization and …

Comparative analysis of syntenic genes in grass genomes reveals accelerated rates of gene structure and coding sequence evolution in polyploid wheat

ED Akhunov, S Sehgal, H Liang, S Wang… - Plant …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Cycles of whole-genome duplication (WGD) and diploidization are hallmarks of eukaryotic
genome evolution and speciation. Polyploid wheat (Triticum aestivum) has had a massive …

Comparative gene retention analysis in barley, wild emmer, and bread wheat pangenome lines reveals factors affecting gene retention following gene duplication

Y Jia, M Xu, H Hu, B Chapman, C Watt, B Buerte… - BMC biology, 2023 - Springer
Background Gene duplication is a prevalent phenomenon and a major driving force
underlying genome evolution. The process leading to the fixation of gene duplicates …

Chromosome-scale assembly of the bread wheat genome reveals thousands of additional gene copies

M Alonge, A Shumate, D Puiu, AV Zimin, SL Salzberg - Genetics, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) is a major food crop and an important plant system for
agricultural genetics research. However, due to the complexity and size of its allohexaploid …

Patterns and consequences of subgenome differentiation provide insights into the nature of paleopolyploidy in plants

M Zhao, B Zhang, D Lisch, J Ma - The Plant Cell, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Polyploidy is an important feature of plant genomes, but the nature of many polyploidization
events remains to be elucidated. Here, we demonstrate that the evolutionary fates of the …

Gene co-expression network analysis suggests the existence of transcriptional modules containing a high proportion of transcriptionally differentiated homoeologs in …

K Takahagi, K Inoue, K Mochida - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Genome duplications aid in the formation of novel molecular networks through regulatory
differentiation of the duplicated genes and facilitate adaptation to environmental change …

The fate of duplicated genes in a polyploid plant genome

A Roulin, PL Auer, M Libault, J Schlueter… - The Plant …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Polyploidy is generally not tolerated in animals, but is widespread in plant genomes and
may result in extensive genetic redundancy. The fate of duplicated genes is poorly …