Nuclear DNA amounts in angiosperms: targets, trends and tomorrow

MD Bennett, IJ Leitch - Annals of botany, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims The amount of DNA in an unreplicated gametic chromosome
complement is known as the C-value and is a key biodiversity character of fundamental …

Chromosome pairing in polyploid grasses

R Svačina, P Sourdille, D Kopecký… - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Polyploids are species in which three or more sets of chromosomes coexist. Polyploidy
frequently occurs in plants and plays a major role in their evolution. Based on their origin …

Cytogenetic features of rRNA genes across land plants: analysis of the Plant rDNA database

S Garcia, A Kovařík, AR Leitch, T Garnatje - The Plant Journal, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The online resource http://www. plantrdnadatabase. com/stores information on the number,
chromosomal locations and structure of the 5S and 18S‐5.8 S‐26S (35S) ribosomal DNA s …

Genome Size and GC Content Evolution of Festuca: Ancestral Expansion and Subsequent Reduction

P Šmarda, P Bureš, L Horová, B Foggi… - Annals of …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims Plant evolution is well known to be frequently associated
with remarkable changes in genome size and composition; however, the knowledge of long …

Evolutionary history of tall fescue morphotypes inferred from molecular phylogenetics of the Lolium-Festucaspecies complex

ML Hand, NOI Cogan, AV Stewart, JW Forster - BMC evolutionary biology, 2010 - Springer
Background The agriculturally important pasture grass tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea
Schreb. syn. Lolium arundinaceum (Schreb.) Darbysh.) is an outbreeding allohexaploid, that …

How much do we know about the frequency of hybridisation and polyploidy in the Mediterranean region?

I Marques, J Loureiro, D Draper, M Castro… - Plant …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Natural hybridisation and polyploidy are currently recognised as drivers of biodiversity,
despite early scepticism about their importance. The Mediterranean region is a biodiversity …

[HTML][HTML] Festulolium, a century of research and breeding and its increased relevance in meeting the requirements for multifunctional grassland agriculture

MW Humphreys, Z Zwierzykowski - Festulolium: From the Nature …, 2020 - books.google.com
Festulolium are grasses formed through interspecific hybridisation of ryegrass (Lolium) and
fescue (Festuca) species. The Lolium-Festuca genome complex represents a vast array of …

Temperature and precipitation, but not geographic distance, explain genetic relatedness among populations in the perennial grass Festuca rubra

M Šurinová, V Hadincová, V Vandvik… - Journal of Plant …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Aims Knowledge of genetic structure of natural populations and its determinants may
provide key insights into the ability of species to adapt to novel environments. In many …

Phylogenetic Relationships in the Festuca-Lolium Complex (Loliinae; Poaceae): New Insights from Chloroplast Sequences

Y Cheng, K Zhou, MW Humphreys… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The species within the Lolium/Festuca grass complex have dispersed and colonized large
areas of temperate global grasslands both naturally and by human intervention. The species …

Gene Capture from across the Grass Family in the Allohexaploid Elymus repens (L.) Gould (Poaceae, Triticeae) as Evidenced by ITS, GBSSI, and Molecular …

V Mahelka, D Kopecký - Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Four accessions of hexaploid Elymus repens from its native Central European distribution
area were analyzed using sequencing of multicopy (internal transcribed spacer, ITS) and …