Genomic and epigenetic insights into the molecular bases of heterosis

ZJ Chen - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2013 - nature.com
Heterosis, also known as hybrid vigour, is widespread in plants and animals, but the
molecular bases for this phenomenon remain elusive. Recent studies in hybrids and …

Doubling down on genomes: polyploidy and crop plants

S Renny‐Byfield, JF Wendel - American journal of botany, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Polyploidy, or whole genome multiplication, is ubiquitous among angiosperms. Many crop
species are relatively recent allopolyploids, resulting from interspecific hybridization and …

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 …

The genome sequence of allopolyploid Brassica juncea and analysis of differential homoeolog gene expression influencing selection

J Yang, D Liu, X Wang, C Ji, F Cheng, B Liu, Z Hu… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The Brassica genus encompasses three diploid and three allopolyploid genomes, but a
clear understanding of the evolution of agriculturally important traits via polyploidy is lacking …

[HTML][HTML] Karyotype stability and unbiased fractionation in the paleo-allotetraploid Cucurbita genomes

H Sun, S Wu, G Zhang, C Jiao, S Guo, Y Ren, J Zhang… - Molecular plant, 2017 - cell.com
The Cucurbita genus contains several economically important species in the Cucurbitaceae
family. Here, we report high-quality genome sequences of C. maxima and C. moschata and …

Polyploidy: pitfalls and paths to a paradigm

DE Soltis, CJ Visger, DB Marchant… - American journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Investigators have long searched for a polyploidy paradigm—rules or principles that might
be common following polyploidization (whole‐genome duplication, WGD). Here we attempt …

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 …

Polyploidy and its effect on evolutionary success: old questions revisited with new tools

A Madlung - Heredity, 2013 - nature.com
Polyploidy, the condition of possessing more than two complete genomes in a cell, has
intrigued biologists for almost a century. Polyploidy is found in many plants and some animal …

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 …

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 …