Deciphering peanut complex genomes paves a way to understand its origin and domestication

Y Pan, Y Zhuang, T Liu, H Chen, L Wang… - Plant biotechnology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Peanut (Arachis) is a key oil and protein crop worldwide with large genome. The genomes of
diploid and tetraploid peanuts have been sequenced, which were compared to decipher …

Understanding the Origin and Evolution of Tea (Camellia sinensis [L.]): Genomic Advances in Tea

ZB Zhang, T Xiong, JH Chen, F Ye, JJ Cao… - Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - Springer
Tea, which is processed by the tender shoots or leaves of tea plant (Camellia sinensis), is
one of the most popular nonalcoholic beverages in the world and has numerous health …

Comparative transcriptomic analysis unveils the deep phylogeny and secondary metabolite evolution of 116 Camellia plants

Q Wu, W Tong, H Zhao, R Ge, R Li, J Huang… - The Plant …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Camellia plants include more than 200 species of great diversity and immense economic,
ornamental, and cultural values. We sequenced the transcriptomes of 116 Camellia plants …

Species discrimination in Schima (Theaceae): Next‐generation super‐barcodes meet evolutionary complexity

XQ Yu, YZ Jiang, RA Folk, JL Zhao… - Molecular Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Plastid genome and nuclear ribosomal DNA (nrDNA) arrays, proposed recently as “super‐
barcodes,” might provide additional discriminatory power and overcome the limitations of …

Phylotranscriptomic analyses reveal multiple whole-genome duplication events, the history of diversification and adaptations in the Araceae

L Zhao, YY Yang, XJ Qu, H Ma, Y Hu, HT Li… - Annals of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims The Araceae are one of the most diverse monocot families
with numerous morphological and ecological novelties. Plastid and mitochondrial genes …

Phylogenomic insights into the origin and evolutionary history of evergreen broadleaved forests in East Asia under Cenozoic climate change

SY Qin, ZY Zuo, C Guo, XY Du, SY Liu, XQ Yu… - Molecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The evergreen versus deciduous leaf habit is an important functional trait for adaptation of
forest trees and has been hypothesized to be related to the evolutionary processes of the …

Nuclear phylogenomics of angiosperms and insights into their relationships and evolution

G Zhang, H Ma - Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Angiosperms (flowering plants) are by far the most diverse land plant group with over
300,000 species. The sudden appearance of diverse angiosperms in the fossil record was …

[HTML][HTML] Phylogenomics resolves the phylogeny of Theaceae by using low-copy and multi-copy nuclear gene makers and uncovers a fast radiation event contributing …

L Cheng, M Li, Q Han, Z Qiao, Y Hao, TS Balbuena… - Biology, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The Theaceae includes more than 300 species of great morphological
diversity and has immense economic, cultural, and ornamental values. However, the …

Impacts of climate change on species distribution patterns of Polyspora sweet in China

ZF Fan, BJ Zhou, CL Ma, C Gao, DN Han… - Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is an important driver of species distribution and biodiversity. Understanding
the response of plants to climate change is helpful to understand species differentiation and …

[HTML][HTML] Conservation of an Agrobacterium cT-DNA insert in Camellia section Thea reveals the ancient origin of tea plants from a genetically modified ancestor

K Chen, P Zhurbenko, L Danilov, T Matveeva… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Many higher plants contain cellular T-DNA (cT-DNA) sequences from
Agrobacterium and have been called “natural genetically modified organisms”(nGMOs) …