The role of hybridization in plant speciation

PS Soltis, DE Soltis - Annual review of plant biology, 2009 - annualreviews.org
The importance of hybridization in plant speciation and evolution has been debated for
decades, with opposing views of hybridization as either a creative evolutionary force or …

Next-generation sequencing technologies and their implications for crop genetics and breeding

RK Varshney, SN Nayak, GD May, SA Jackson - Trends in biotechnology, 2009 - cell.com
Using next-generation sequencing technologies it is possible to resequence entire plant
genomes or sample entire transcriptomes more efficiently and economically and in greater …

[HTML][HTML] The Sorghum bicolor genome and the diversification of grasses

AH Paterson, JE Bowers, R Bruggmann, I Dubchak… - Nature, 2009 - nature.com
Sorghum, an African grass related to sugar cane and maize, is grown for food, feed, fibre
and fuel. We present an initial analysis of the∼ 730-megabase Sorghum bicolor (L.) …

The genome of the cucumber, Cucumis sativus L.

S Huang, R Li, Z Zhang, LI Li, X Gu, W Fan, WJ Lucas… - Nature …, 2009 - nature.com
Cucumber is an economically important crop as well as a model system for sex
determination studies and plant vascular biology. Here we report the draft genome …

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 …

Gene duplication and evolutionary novelty in plants

LE Flagel, JF Wendel - New Phytologist, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Duplication is a prominent feature of plant genomic architecture. This has led many
researchers to speculate that gene duplication may have played an important role in the …

Bias in plant gene content following different sorts of duplication: tandem, whole-genome, segmental, or by transposition

M Freeling - Annual review of plant biology, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Each mode of gene duplication (tandem, tetraploid, segmental, transpositional) retains
genes in a biased manner. A reciprocal relationship exists between plant genes retained …

SNP identification in crop plants

MW Ganal, T Altmann, MS Röder - Current opinion in plant biology, 2009 - Elsevier
In many plants, single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers are increasingly becoming
the marker system of choice. However, for many crop plants there are surprisingly low …

Genome assembly reborn: recent computational challenges

M Pop - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Research into genome assembly algorithms has experienced a resurgence due to new
challenges created by the development of next generation sequencing technologies …

[HTML][HTML] Gene and genome duplications: the impact of dosage-sensitivity on the fate of nuclear genes

PP Edger, JC Pires - Chromosome Research, 2009 - Springer
Whole genome duplications (WGDs) followed by diploidization, which includes gene loss,
have been an important recurrent process in the evolution of higher eukaryotes. Gene …