Gene retention, fractionation and subgenome differences in polyploid plants

F Cheng, J Wu, X Cai, J Liang, M Freeling, X Wang - Nature plants, 2018 - nature.com
All natural plant species are evolved from ancient polyploids. Polyloidization plays an
important role in plant genome evolution, species divergence and crop domestication. We …

Patterns and processes of diploidization in land plants

Z Li, MTW McKibben, GS Finch… - Annual review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Most land plants are now known to be ancient polyploids that have rediploidized.
Diploidization involves many changes in genome organization that ultimately restore …

The multiple fates of gene duplications: deletion, hypofunctionalization, subfunctionalization, neofunctionalization, dosage balance constraints, and neutral variation

JA Birchler, H Yang - The Plant Cell, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Gene duplications have long been recognized as a contributor to the evolution of genes with
new functions. Multiple copies of genes can result from tandem duplication, from …

[HTML][HTML] Origin and evolution of the octoploid strawberry genome

PP Edger, TJ Poorten, R VanBuren, MA Hardigan… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Cultivated strawberry emerged from the hybridization of two wild octoploid species, both
descendants from the merger of four diploid progenitor species into a single nucleus more …

[HTML][HTML] Impacts of allopolyploidization and structural variation on intraspecific diversification in Brassica rapa

X Cai, L Chang, T Zhang, H Chen, L Zhang, R Lin… - Genome biology, 2021 - Springer
Background Despite the prevalence and recurrence of polyploidization in the speciation of
flowering plants, its impacts on crop intraspecific genome diversification are largely …

Improved Brassica rapa reference genome by single-molecule sequencing and chromosome conformation capture technologies

L Zhang, X Cai, J Wu, M Liu, S Grob… - Horticulture …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Brassica rapa comprises several important cultivated vegetables and oil crops. Current
reference genome assemblies of Brassica rapa are quite fragmented and not highly …

Impact of transposable elements on polyploid plant genomes

CM Vicient, JM Casacuberta - Annals of Botany, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Background The growing wealth of knowledge on whole-plant genome sequences is
highlighting the key role of transposable elements (TEs) in plant evolution, as a driver of …

Subgenome dominance in an interspecific hybrid, synthetic allopolyploid, and a 140-year-old naturally established neo-allopolyploid monkeyflower

PP Edger, R Smith, MR McKain, AM Cooley… - The Plant …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Recent studies have shown that one of the parental subgenomes in ancient polyploids is
generally more dominant, having retained more genes and being more highly expressed, a …

The long and short of doubling down: polyploidy, epigenetics, and the temporal dynamics of genome fractionation

JF Wendel, D Lisch, G Hu, AS Mason - Current opinion in genetics & …, 2018 - Elsevier
We consider the rapidly advancing discipline of plant evolutionary genomics, with a focus on
the evolution of polyploid genomes. In many lineages, polyploidy is followed by 'biased …

[HTML][HTML] Single-cell transcriptome reveals dominant subgenome expression and transcriptional response to heat stress in Chinese cabbage

X Sun, D Feng, M Liu, R Qin, Y Li, Y Lu, X Zhang… - Genome Biology, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Background Chinese cabbage (Brassica rapa ssp. pekinensis) experienced a
whole-genome triplication event and thus has three subgenomes: least fractioned, medium …