Harnessing crop wild diversity for climate change adaptation

AJ Cortés, F López-Hernández - Genes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Warming and drought are reducing global crop production with a potential to substantially
worsen global malnutrition. As with the green revolution in the last century, plant genetics …

Global role of crop genomics in the face of climate change

M Pourkheirandish, AA Golicz, PL Bhalla… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The development of climate change resilient crops is necessary if we are to meet the
challenge of feeding the growing world's population. We must be able to increase food …

Incomplete dominance of deleterious alleles contributes substantially to trait variation and heterosis in maize

J Yang, S Mezmouk, A Baumgarten, ES Buckler… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Deleterious alleles have long been proposed to play an important role in patterning
phenotypic variation and are central to commonly held ideas explaining the hybrid vigor …

[HTML][HTML] The evolution of metabolism: How to test evolutionary hypotheses at the genomic level

F Scossa, AR Fernie - Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 2020 - Elsevier
The origin of primordial metabolism and its expansion to form the metabolic networks extant
today represent excellent systems to study the impact of natural selection and the potential …

Deleterious mutations and the rare allele burden on rice gene expression

Z Lye, JY Choi, MD Purugganan - Molecular Biology and …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Deleterious genetic variation is maintained in populations at low frequencies. Under a
model of stabilizing selection, rare (and presumably deleterious) genetic variants are …

[HTML][HTML] Ancestral sequence reconstruction-An underused approach to understand the evolution of gene function in plants?

F Scossa, AR Fernie - Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 2021 - Elsevier
Whilst substantial research effort has been placed on understanding the interactions of plant
proteins with their molecular partners, relatively few studies in plants-by contrast to work in …

Systems genetics of plant adaptation to environmental stresses

SC Groen, MD Purugganan - American journal of botany, 2016 - JSTOR
ON THE NATURE OF THINGS: ESSAYS AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY detriment of
the genetic diversity of crop landraces, their wild relatives, and many other wild species (eg …

Temporal fitness fluctuations in experimental Arabidopsis thaliana populations

J Hu, L Lei, J De Meaux - PLoS One, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Understanding the genetics of lifetime fitness is crucial to understand a species' ecological
preferences and ultimately predict its ability to cope with novel environmental conditions …

Accelerating structure‐function mapping using the ViVa webtool to mine natural variation

MO Hamm, BL Moss, AR Leydon, HP Gala… - Plant …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Thousands of sequenced genomes are now publicly available capturing a significant
amount of natural variation within plant species; yet, much of these data remain inaccessible …

In defense of Apocynaceae: inference on evolution of pyrrolizidine alkaloids from evolution of an enzyme in their biosynthetic pathway, homospermidine synthase

CR Smith, E Kaltenegger, J Teisher, AJ Moore… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Premise When enzymes encoded by paralogous genes produce identical specialized
metabolites in distantly related plant lineages, it is strong evidence of parallel phenotypic …