The diversity and dynamics of sex determination in dioecious plants

AP Leite Montalvão, B Kersten, M Fladung… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The diversity of inflorescences among flowering plants is captivating. Such charm is not only
due to the variety of sizes, shapes, colors, and flowers displayed, but also to the range of …

Sexy ways: the methodical approaches to study plant sex chromosomes

R Hobza, V Bačovský, R Čegan… - Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Sex chromosomes have evolved in many plant species with separate sexes. Current plant
research is shifting from examining the structure of sex chromosomes to exploring their …

Subgenome dominance shapes novel gene evolution in the decaploid pitcher plant Nepenthes gracilis

F Saul, M Scharmann, T Wakatake, S Rajaraman… - Nature plants, 2023 - nature.com
Subgenome dominance after whole-genome duplication generates distinction in gene
number and expression at the level of chromosome sets, but it remains unclear how this …

Sex-chrom, a database on plant sex chromosomes

S Baránková, JP Pascual-Díaz, N Sultana… - The New …, 2020 - JSTOR
Sex determination and sex chromosomes have been studied extensively owing to their
importance in evolutionary biology. Species of dioecious plants, which may have sex …

Genome-wide identification and expression analysis of MADS-box transcription factors reveal their involvement in sex determination of hardy rubber tree (Eucommia …

X Zhang, X Wang, L Pan, W Guo, Y Li, W Wang - Frontiers in Genetics, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Eucommia ulmoides is a famous rubber-producing and medicinal tree species that produces
unisexual flowers on separate individuals from the earliest stage of stamen/pistil primordium …

Omics approaches in uncovering molecular evolution and physiology of botanical carnivory

A Baharin, TY Ting, HH Goh - Plants, 2023 - mdpi.com
Systems biology has been increasingly applied with multiple omics for a holistic
comprehension of complex biological systems beyond the reductionist approach that …

Using a handful of transcriptomes to detect sex-linked markers and develop molecular sexing assays in a species with homomorphic sex chromosomes

PA Saunders, C Ferre-Ortega, PL Hill… - Genome Biology and …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
To understand the biology of a species it is often crucial to be able to differentiate males and
females. However, many species lack easily identifiable sexually dimorphic traits. In those …

Detecting sex-linked genes using genotyped individuals sampled in natural populations

J Käfer, N Lartillot, GAB Marais, F Picard - Genetics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We propose a method, SDpop, able to infer sex-linkage caused by recombination
suppression typical of sex chromosomes. The method is based on the modeling of the allele …

植物性别决定基因及其表观遗传调控研究进展

罗兰莎, 宋雯佩, 化青珠, 李大卫, 梁红, 张宪智 - 植物学报, 2024 - chinbullbotany.com
雌雄异株植物的性别决定机制是繁殖生物学, 进化与生态学等多个学科的前沿热点问题. 近年来,
一些重要经济作物如芦笋(Asparagus officinalis), 猕猴桃(Actinidia spp.) 和杨树(Populus spp.) …

A convergent mechanism of sex determination in dioecious plants: Distinct sex-determining genes display converged regulation on floral B-class genes

X Zhang, L Pan, W Guo, Y Li, W Wang - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Sex determination in dioecious plants has been broadly and progressively studied with the
blooming of genome sequencing and editing techniques. This provides us with a great …