Polyploidy–A tool in adapting trees to future climate changes? A review of polyploidy in trees

A Ræbild, K Anamthawat-Jónsson… - Forest Ecology and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Polyploidy, or genome doubling, has occurred repeatedly through plant evolution. While
polyploid plants are used extensively in agriculture and horticulture, they have so far found …

Impact of whole-genome duplications on structural variant evolution in Cochlearia

T Hämälä, C Moore, L Cowan, M Carlile… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Polyploidy, the result of whole-genome duplication (WGD), is a major driver of eukaryote
evolution. Yet WGDs are hugely disruptive mutations, and we still lack a clear understanding …

Doubling down on polyploid discoveries: Global advances in genomics and ecological impacts of polyploidy

MS Barker, Y Jiao, KL Glennon - American Journal of Botany, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
All flowering plants are now recognized as diploidized paleopolyploids (Jiao et al., 2011;
One Thousand Plant Transcriptomes Initiative, 2019), and polyploid species comprise …

Global patterns of subgenome evolution in organelle-targeted genes of six allotetraploid angiosperms

J Sharbrough, JL Conover… - Molecular Biology …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Whole-genome duplications (WGDs) are a prominent process of diversification in
eukaryotes. The genetic and evolutionary forces that WGD imposes on cytoplasmic …

Evolutionary origin and establishment of a dioecious diploid‐tetraploid complex

L He, FY Guo, XJ Cai, HP Chen, CL Lian… - Molecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Polyploids recurrently emerge in angiosperms, but most polyploids are likely to go extinct
before establishment due to minority cytotype exclusion, which may be specifically a …

Phylogenomic analyses of Camellia support reticulate evolution among major clades

T Zan, YT He, M Zhang, T Yonezawa, H Ma… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2023 - Elsevier
Camellia (Theaceae) is a morphologically highly diverse genus of flowering plants and
includes many famous species with high economic value, and the phylogeny of this genus is …

Genomic evidence for climate-linked diversity loss and increased vulnerability of wild barley spanning 28 years of climate warming

Y Zhou, R Song, E Nevo, X Fu, X Wang, Y Wang… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
The information on how plant populations respond genetically to climate warming is scarce.
Here, landscape genomic and machine learning approaches were integrated to assess …

Little evidence for homoeologous gene conversion and homoeologous exchange events in Gossypium allopolyploids

JL Conover, CE Grover, J Sharbrough… - American Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Premise A complicating factor in analyzing allopolyploid genomes is the possibility of
physical interactions between homoeologous chromosomes during meiosis, resulting in …

Interspecific transfer of genetic information through polyploid bridges

F Kauai, Q Bafort, F Mortier… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Hybridization blurs species boundaries and leads to intertwined lineages resulting in
reticulate evolution. Polyploidy, the outcome of whole genome duplication (WGD), has more …

Evolutionary dynamics of chromatin structure and duplicate gene expression in diploid and allopolyploid cotton

G Hu, CE Grover, DL Vera, PY Lung… - Molecular Biology …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Polyploidy is a prominent mechanism of plant speciation and adaptation, yet the mechanistic
understandings of duplicated gene regulation remain elusive. Chromatin structure dynamics …