Importance of pollinator-mediated interspecific pollen transfer for angiosperm evolution

JI Moreira-Hernández… - Annual Review of Ecology …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Understanding how pollen moves between species is critical to understanding speciation,
diversification, and evolution of flowering plants. For co-flowering species that share …

Crucial factors for the feasibility of commercial hybrid breeding in food crops

EMS Ter Steeg, PC Struik, RGF Visser, P Lindhout - Nature Plants, 2022 - nature.com
There is an ongoing societal debate about plant breeding systems and their impact on
stakeholders in food systems. Hybrid breeding and hybrid seed have become controversial …

Convergent evolutionary patterns of heterostyly across angiosperms support the pollination-precision hypothesis

V Simón-Porcar, M Escudero, R Santos-Gally… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Since the insights by Charles Darwin, heterostyly, a floral polymorphism with morphs
bearing stigmas and anthers at reciprocal heights, has become a model system for the study …

Mating system variation in hybrid zones: facilitation, barriers and asymmetries to gene flow

M Pickup, Y Brandvain, C Fraïsse… - New …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Plant mating systems play a key role in structuring genetic variation both within and between
species. In hybrid zones, the outcomes and dynamics of hybridization are usually interpreted …

Cleave and Rescue gamete killers create conditions for gene drive in plants

G Oberhofer, ML Johnson, T Ivy, I Antoshechkin… - Nature Plants, 2024 - nature.com
Gene drive elements promote the spread of linked traits and can be used to change the
composition or fate of wild populations. Cleave and Rescue (ClvR) drive elements sit at a …

Beyond pollen: ovule ratios: evolutionary consequences of pollinator dependence and pollination efficiency for pollen and ovule production in angiosperms

LD Harder, SD Johnson - American Journal of Botany, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Premise The relative per‐flower production of ovules and pollen varies broadly with
angiosperm mating systems, with outcrossing types commonly producing more pollen grains …

Population genetics of the freshwater red alga Batrachospermum gelatinosum (Rhodophyta) I: Frequent intragametophytic selfing in a monoicous, haploid–diploid …

SJ Shainker‐Connelly, RM Crowell… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Life cycles with a prolonged haploid phase are thought to be correlated with greater rates of
selfing and asexual reproduction. In red algae, recent population genetic studies have …

Post-meiotic mechanism of facultative parthenogenesis in gonochoristic whiptail lizard species

DV Ho, D Tormey, A Odell, AA Newton, RR Schnittker… - Elife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
Facultative parthenogenesis (FP) has historically been regarded as rare in vertebrates, but
in recent years incidences have been reported in a growing list of fish, reptile, and bird …

Gene drive strategies of pest control in agricultural systems: Challenges and opportunities

M Legros, JM Marshall, S Macfadyen… - Evolutionary …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Recent advances in gene‐editing technologies have opened new avenues for genetic pest
control strategies, in particular around the use of gene drives to suppress or modify pest …

Does the evolution of self-fertilization rescue populations or increase the risk of extinction?

PO Cheptou - Annals of botany, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims As a major evolutionary transition in seed plants, the
evolution of plant mating systems has been much debated in evolutionary ecology. Over the …