Although sex is a fundamental component of eukaryotic reproduction, the genetic systems
that control sex determination are highly variable. In many organisms the presence of sex …

Although individuals in most flowering plant species, and in many haploid plants, have both
sex functions, dioecious species—in which individuals have either male or female functions …

Plant sex chromosomes can be vastly different from those of the few historical animal model
organisms from which most of our understanding of sex chromosome evolution is derived …

Sex determination systems in plants can involve either female or male heterogamety (ZW or
XY, respectively). Here we used Illumina short reads, Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) …

Sex chromosomes are particularly interesting regions of the genome for both molecular
genetics and evolutionary studies; yet, for most species, we lack basic information, such as …

In a minority of flowering plants, separate sexes are genetically determined by sex
chromosomes. The Y chromosome has a non-recombining region that degenerates, causing …

Background The expanding number and global distributions of herbicide resistant weedy
species threaten food, fuel, fiber and bioproduct sustainability and agroecosystem longevity …

Suppressed recombination allows divergence between homologous sex chromosomes and
the functionality of their genes. Here, we reveal patterns of the earliest stages of sex …

Main conclusion The present review discusses the roles of repetitive sequences played in
plant sex chromosome evolution, and highlights epigenetic modification as potential …

Structurally and functionally diverged sex chromosomes have evolved in many animals as
well as in some plants. Sex chromosomes represent a specific genomic region (s) with …