Homoeologous exchanges, segmental allopolyploidy, and polyploid genome evolution

AS Mason, JF Wendel - Frontiers in Genetics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Polyploidy is a major force in plant evolution and speciation. In newly formed allopolyploids,
pairing between related chromosomes from different subgenomes (homoeologous …

Evolution and origin of bread wheat

AA Levy, M Feldman - The Plant Cell, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum, genome BBAADD) is a young hexaploid species formed
only 8,500–9,000 years ago through hybridization between a domesticated free-threshing …

Next generation breeding

D Barabaschi, A Tondelli, F Desiderio, A Volante… - Plant Science, 2016 - Elsevier
The genomic revolution of the past decade has greatly improved our understanding of the
genetic make-up of living organisms. The sequencing of crop genomes has completely …

Understanding and manipulating meiotic recombination in plants

C Lambing, FCH Franklin, CJR Wang - Plant physiology, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Meiosis is a specialized cell division, essential in most reproducing organisms to halve the
number of chromosomes, thereby enabling the restoration of ploidy levels during …

Meiosis evolves: adaptation to external and internal environments

K Bomblies, JD Higgins, L Yant - New Phytologist, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Meiosis is essential for the fertility of most eukaryotes and its structures and progression are
conserved across kingdoms. Yet many of its core proteins show evidence of rapid or …

Genetic Adaptation Associated with Genome-Doubling in Autotetraploid Arabidopsis arenosa

JD Hollister, BJ Arnold, E Svedin, KS Xue… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Genome duplication, which results in polyploidy, is disruptive to fundamental biological
processes. Genome duplications occur spontaneously in a range of taxa and problems such …

Exploiting the ZIP4 homologue within the wheat Ph1 locus has identified two lines exhibiting homoeologous crossover in wheat-wild relative hybrids

MD Rey, AC Martín, J Higgins, D Swarbreck, C Uauy… - Molecular …, 2017 - Springer
Despite possessing related ancestral genomes, hexaploid wheat behaves as a diploid
during meiosis. The wheat Ph1 locus promotes accurate synapsis and crossover of …

Wheat genetic resources in the post-genomics era: promise and challenges

A Rasheed, A Mujeeb-Kazi, FC Ogbonnaya… - Annals of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Background Wheat genetic resources have been used for genetic improvement since 1876,
when Stephen Wilson (Transactions and Proceedings of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh …

The challenge of evolving stable polyploidy: could an increase in “crossover interference distance” play a central role?

K Bomblies, G Jones, C Franklin, D Zickler, N Kleckner - Chromosoma, 2016 - Springer
Whole genome duplication is a prominent feature of many highly evolved organisms,
especially plants. When duplications occur within species, they yield genomes comprising …

Meiosis in polyploids and implications for genetic mapping: a review

NR Soares, M Mollinari, GK Oliveira, GS Pereira… - Genes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Plant cytogenetic studies have provided essential knowledge on chromosome behavior
during meiosis, contributing to our understanding of this complex process. In this review, we …