Impact of polyploidy on plant tolerance to abiotic and biotic stresses

VE Tossi, LJ Martínez Tosar, LE Laino… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Polyploidy, defined as the coexistence of three or more complete sets of chromosomes in an
organism's cells, is considered as a pivotal moving force in the evolutionary history of …

Genomics of evolutionary novelty in hybrids and polyploids

G Nieto Feliner, J Casacuberta, JF Wendel - Frontiers in genetics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
It has long been recognized that hybridization and polyploidy are prominent processes in
plant evolution. Although classically recognized as significant in speciation and adaptation …

Dynamic genome evolution in a model fern

DB Marchant, G Chen, S Cai, F Chen, P Schafran… - Nature Plants, 2022 - nature.com
The large size and complexity of most fern genomes have hampered efforts to elucidate
fundamental aspects of fern biology and land plant evolution through genome-enabled …

Chromosome-level genome assembly of bunching onion illuminates genome evolution and flavor formation in Allium crops

N Liao, Z Hu, J Miao, X Hu, X Lyu, H Fang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The Allium genus is cultivated globally as vegetables, condiments, or medicinal plants and
is characterized by large genomes and strong pungency. However, the genome evolution …

An improved de novo assembly and annotation of the tomato reference genome using single-molecule sequencing, Hi-C proximity ligation and optical maps

PS Hosmani, M Flores-Gonzalez, H van de Geest… - biorxiv, 2019 - biorxiv.org
The original Heinz 1706 reference genome was produced by a large team of scientists from
across the globe from a variety of input sources that included 454 sequences in addition to …

Genomic impact of stress-induced transposable element mobility in Arabidopsis

D Roquis, M Robertson, L Yu, M Thieme… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Transposable elements (TEs) have long been known to be major contributors to plant
evolution, adaptation and crop domestication. Stress-induced TE mobilization is of particular …

The dynamism of transposon methylation for plant development and stress adaptation

M Ramakrishnan, L Satish, R Kalendar… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Plant development processes are regulated by epigenetic alterations that shape nuclear
structure, gene expression, and phenotypic plasticity; these alterations can provide the plant …

Systematic survey of plant LTR-retrotransposons elucidates phylogenetic relationships of their polyprotein domains and provides a reference for element classification

P Neumann, P Novák, N Hoštáková, J Macas - Mobile DNA, 2019 - Springer
Background Plant LTR-retrotransposons are classified into two superfamilies, Ty1/copia and
Ty3/gypsy. They are further divided into an enormous number of families which are, due to …

Plant biosynthetic gene clusters in the context of metabolic evolution

SJ Smit, BR Lichman - Natural Product Reports, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to 2022 Plants produce a wide range of structurally and biosynthetically
diverse natural products to interact with their environment. These specialised metabolites …

Retrotransposons in plant genomes: structure, identification, and classification through bioinformatics and machine learning

S Orozco-Arias, G Isaza, R Guyot - International journal of molecular …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Transposable elements (TEs) are genomic units able to move within the genome of virtually
all organisms. Due to their natural repetitive numbers and their high structural diversity, the …