Ancestral alliances: plant mutualistic symbioses with fungi and bacteria

FM Martin, S Uroz, DG Barker - Science, 2017 - science.org
BACKGROUND Among the extensive cortège of plant-associated microorganisms (the so-
called plant microbiota), mutualistic fungal and bacterial symbionts are striking examples of …

Speak, friend, and enter: signalling systems that promote beneficial symbiotic associations in plants

GED Oldroyd - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2013 - nature.com
Plants associate with a wide range of microorganisms, with both detrimental and beneficial
outcomes. Central to plant survival is the ability to recognize invading microorganisms and …

A chickpea genetic variation map based on the sequencing of 3,366 genomes

RK Varshney, M Roorkiwal, S Sun, P Bajaj… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Zero hunger and good health could be realized by 2030 through effective conservation,
characterization and utilization of germplasm resources. So far, few chickpea (Cicer …

A reference genome for pea provides insight into legume genome evolution

J Kreplak, MA Madoui, P Cápal, P Novák, K Labadie… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
We report the first annotated chromosome-level reference genome assembly for pea, Gregor
Mendel's original genetic model. Phylogenetics and paleogenomics show genomic …

Allele-aware chromosome-level genome assembly and efficient transgene-free genome editing for the autotetraploid cultivated alfalfa

H Chen, Y Zeng, Y Yang, L Huang, B Tang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Artificially improving traits of cultivated alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.), one of the most important
forage crops, is challenging due to the lack of a reference genome and an efficient genome …

The genome of cultivated peanut provides insight into legume karyotypes, polyploid evolution and crop domestication

W Zhuang, H Chen, M Yang, J Wang, MK Pandey… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
High oil and protein content make tetraploid peanut a leading oil and food legume. Here we
report a high-quality peanut genome sequence, comprising 2.54 Gb with 20 …

Gene duplication and evolution in recurring polyploidization–diploidization cycles in plants

X Qiao, Q Li, H Yin, K Qi, L Li, R Wang, S Zhang… - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
Background The sharp increase of plant genome and transcriptome data provide valuable
resources to investigate evolutionary consequences of gene duplication in a range of taxa …

Nuclear phylotranscriptomics and phylogenomics support numerous polyploidization events and hypotheses for the evolution of rhizobial nitrogen-fixing symbiosis in …

Y Zhao, R Zhang, KW Jiang, J Qi, Y Hu, J Guo, R Zhu… - Molecular plant, 2021 - cell.com
Fabaceae are the third largest angiosperm family, with 765 genera and∼ 19 500 species.
They are important both economically and ecologically, and global Fabaceae crops are …

Phylogenomics reveals multiple losses of nitrogen-fixing root nodule symbiosis

M Griesmann, Y Chang, X Liu, Y Song, G Haberer… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Access to nutrients such as nitrogen is required for plant growth. Legumes
and nine additional plant families benefit from the nitrogen-fixing root nodule (NFN) …

Widespread natural variation of DNA methylation within angiosperms

CE Niederhuth, AJ Bewick, L Ji, MS Alabady, KD Kim… - Genome biology, 2016 - Springer
Background DNA methylation is an important feature of plant epigenomes, involved in the
formation of heterochromatin and affecting gene expression. Extensive variation of DNA …