The ancient wave of polyploidization events in flowering plants and their facilitated adaptation to environmental stress

L Zhang, S Wu, X Chang, X Wang, Y Zhao… - Plant, cell & …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Flowering plants, or angiosperms, consist of more than 300,000 species, far more than any
other land plant lineages. The accumulated evidence indicates that multiple ancient …

Genetic contribution of paleopolyploidy to adaptive evolution in angiosperms

S Wu, B Han, Y Jiao - Molecular Plant, 2020 - cell.com
Ancient whole-genome duplications (WGDs or polyploidy) are prevalent in plants, and some
WGDs occurred during the timing of severe global environmental changes. It has been …

A genome triplication associated with early diversification of the core eudicots

Y Jiao, J Leebens-Mack, S Ayyampalayam, JE Bowers… - Genome biology, 2012 - Springer
Background Although it is agreed that a major polyploidy event, gamma, occurred within the
eudicots, the phylogenetic placement of the event remains unclear. Results To determine …

Genome duplication and the origin of angiosperms

S De Bodt, S Maere, Y Van de Peer - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2005 - cell.com
Despite intensive research, little is known about the origin of the angiosperms and their rise
to ecological dominance during the Early Cretaceous. Based on whole-genome analyses of …

Ancient WGD events as drivers of key innovations in angiosperms

PS Soltis, DE Soltis - Current opinion in plant biology, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•Polyploidy or whole-genome duplication (WGD) is a ubiquitous feature of plant
genomes.•Polyploidy is most frequent in angiosperms.•A complex pattern of polyploidy is …

The flowering world: a tale of duplications

Y Van de Peer, JA Fawcett, S Proost, L Sterck… - Trends in plant …, 2009 - cell.com
Flowering plants contain many genes, most of which were created during the past 200 or so
million years through small-and large-scale duplications. Paleo-polyploidy events, in …

Polyploidy and interspecific hybridization: partners for adaptation, speciation and evolution in plants

K Alix, PR Gérard, T Schwarzacher… - Annals of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Background Polyploidy or whole-genome duplication is now recognized as being present in
almost all lineages of higher plants, with multiple rounds of polyploidy occurring in most …

Multiple polyploidization events across Asteraceae with two nested events in the early history revealed by nuclear phylogenomics

CH Huang, C Zhang, M Liu, Y Hu, T Gao… - … Biology and Evolution, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Biodiversity results from multiple evolutionary mechanisms, including genetic variation and
natural selection. Whole-genome duplications (WGDs), or polyploidizations, provide …

Polyploidy and angiosperm diversification

DE Soltis, VA Albert, J Leebens‐Mack… - American journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Polyploidy has long been recognized as a major force in angiosperm evolution. Recent
genomic investigations not only indicate that polyploidy is ubiquitous among angiosperms …

Integrated syntenic and phylogenomic analyses reveal an ancient genome duplication in monocots

Y Jiao, J Li, H Tang, AH Paterson - The Plant Cell, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Unraveling widespread polyploidy events throughout plant evolution is a necessity for
inferring the impacts of whole-genome duplication (WGD) on speciation, functional …