Genome triplication drove the diversification of Brassica plants

F Cheng, J Wu, X Wang - Horticulture research, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The genus Brassica belongs to the plant family Brassicaceae, which includes many
important crop species that are used as oilseed, condiments, or vegetables throughout the …

[HTML][HTML] Plant speciation through chromosome instability and ploidy change: cellular mechanisms, molecular factors and evolutionary relevance

N De Storme, A Mason - Current Plant Biology, 2014 - Elsevier
Plant speciation and diversification strongly rely on structural changes in the nuclear
genome, both at the whole ploidy and individual chromosome level. Phylogenetic …

BRAD V3. 0: an upgraded Brassicaceae database

H Chen, T Wang, X He, X Cai, R Lin… - Nucleic Acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Brassicaceae Database (BRAD version 3.0, BRAD V3. 0; http://brassicadb. cn)
has evolved from the former Brassica Database (BRAD V2. 0), and represents an important …

The Brassica oleracea genome reveals the asymmetrical evolution of polyploid genomes

S Liu, Y Liu, X Yang, C Tong, D Edwards… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Polyploidization has provided much genetic variation for plant adaptive evolution, but the
mechanisms by which the molecular evolution of polyploid genomes establishes genetic …

Impacts of allopolyploidization and structural variation on intraspecific diversification in Brassica rapa

X Cai, L Chang, T Zhang, H Chen, L Zhang, R Lin… - Genome biology, 2021 - Springer
Background Despite the prevalence and recurrence of polyploidization in the speciation of
flowering plants, its impacts on crop intraspecific genome diversification are largely …

Improved Brassica rapa reference genome by single-molecule sequencing and chromosome conformation capture technologies

L Zhang, X Cai, J Wu, M Liu, S Grob… - Horticulture …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Brassica rapa comprises several important cultivated vegetables and oil crops. Current
reference genome assemblies of Brassica rapa are quite fragmented and not highly …

The genome sequence of allopolyploid Brassica juncea and analysis of differential homoeolog gene expression influencing selection

J Yang, D Liu, X Wang, C Ji, F Cheng, B Liu, Z Hu… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The Brassica genus encompasses three diploid and three allopolyploid genomes, but a
clear understanding of the evolution of agriculturally important traits via polyploidy is lacking …

Subgenome parallel selection is associated with morphotype diversification and convergent crop domestication in Brassica rapa and Brassica oleracea

F Cheng, R Sun, X Hou, H Zheng, F Zhang, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Brassica species, including crops such as cabbage, turnip and oilseed, display enormous
phenotypic variation. Brassica genomes have all undergone a whole-genome triplication …

Transcriptome and methylome profiling reveals relics of genome dominance in the mesopolyploid Brassica oleracea

IAP Parkin, C Koh, H Tang, SJ Robinson, S Kagale… - Genome biology, 2014 - Springer
Background Brassica oleracea is a valuable vegetable species that has contributed to
human health and nutrition for hundreds of years and comprises multiple distinct cultivar …

Brassica carinata genome characterization clarifies U's triangle model of evolution and polyploidy in Brassica

X Song, Y Wei, D Xiao, K Gong, P Sun, Y Ren… - Plant …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Ethiopian mustard (Brassica carinata) in the Brassicaceae family possesses many excellent
agronomic traits. Here, the high-quality genome sequence of B. carinata is reported …