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 …
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
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 …
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 …
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
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 …
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
Deleterious genetic variation is maintained in populations at low frequencies. Under a
model of stabilizing selection, rare (and presumably deleterious) genetic variants are …
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?
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 …
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 …
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 …
preferences and ultimately predict its ability to cope with novel environmental conditions …
Accelerating structure‐function mapping using the ViVa webtool to mine natural variation
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 …
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 …
metabolites in distantly related plant lineages, it is strong evidence of parallel phenotypic …