Inheritance through the cytoplasm

MF Camus, B Alexander-Lawrie, J Sharbrough… - Heredity, 2022 - nature.com
Most heritable information in eukaryotic cells is encoded in the nuclear genome, with
inheritance patterns following classic Mendelian segregation. Genomes residing in the …

Cucumis sativus Chromosome Evolution, Domestication, and Genetic Diversity: Implications for Cucumber Breeding

Y Weng - Plant Breeding Reviews, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Cucumber, Cucumis sativus L. is an important vegetable crop worldwide. Among the~ 66
species in the genus Cucumis, cucumber is the only one with 2n= 2x= 14 chromosomes …

Insights into the Evolution of Mitochondrial Genome Size from Complete Sequences of Citrullus lanatus and Cucurbita pepo (Cucurbitaceae)

AJ Alverson, XX Wei, DW Rice, DB Stern… - Molecular biology …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
The mitochondrial genomes of seed plants are unusually large and vary in size by at least
an order of magnitude. Much of this variation occurs within a single family, the …

Origins and recombination of the bacterial-sized multichromosomal mitochondrial genome of cucumber

AJ Alverson, DW Rice, S Dickinson, K Barry… - The Plant …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Members of the flowering plant family Cucurbitaceae harbor the largest known mitochondrial
genomes. Here, we report the 1685-kb mitochondrial genome of cucumber (Cucumis …

Deep phylogenetic incongruence in the angiosperm clade Rosidae

M Sun, DE Soltis, PS Soltis, X Zhu, JG Burleigh… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Analysis of large data sets can help resolve difficult nodes in the tree of life and also
reveal complex evolutionary histories. The placement of the Celastrales–Oxalidales …

A multi-locus chloroplast phylogeny for the Cucurbitaceae and its implications for character evolution and classification

A Kocyan, LB Zhang, H Schaefer, SS Renner - … phylogenetics and evolution, 2007 - Elsevier
Cucurbitaceae contain c. 800 species in 130 genera and are among the economically most
important families of plants. We inferred their phylogeny based on chloroplast DNA …

Melon

M Pitrat - Vegetables I: Asteraceae, Brassicaceae …, 2008 - Springer
Melon (Cucumis melo L.) belongs to the Cucurbitaceae family, which includes several other
vegetables of economic importance such as cucumber, watermelon, squash, pumpkin and …

Phylogenomic conflict analyses of the plastid and mitochondrial genomes via deep genome skimming highlight their independent evolutionary histories: A case study …

TT Xue, SB Janssens, BB Liu, SX Yu - Molecular Phylogenetics and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Phylogenomic conflicts are widespread among genomic data, with most previous studies
primarily focusing on nuclear datasets instead of organellar genomes. In this study, we …

Phylogeography of maritime pine inferred with organelle markers having contrasted inheritance

C Burban, RJ Petit - Molecular Ecology, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Range‐wide variation of maritime pine was studied at maternally inherited and paternally
inherited markers (mitochondrial DNA and chloroplast DNA). While chloroplast DNA exhibits …

Antioxidant enzymatic activities and gene expression associated with heat tolerance in the stems and roots of two cucurbit species (“Cucurbita maxima” and “ …

N Ara, K Nakkanong, W Lv, J Yang, Z Hu… - International journal of …, 2013 - mdpi.com
The elucidation of heat tolerance mechanisms is required to combat the challenges of global
warming. This study aimed to determine the antioxidant enzyme responses to heat stress, at …