Research advances in and prospects of ornamental plant genomics

T Zheng, P Li, L Li, Q Zhang - Horticulture Research, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The term 'ornamental plant'refers to all plants with ornamental value, which generally have
beautiful flowers or special plant architectures. China is rich in ornamental plant resources …

Gene duplication and evolution in recurring polyploidization–diploidization cycles in plants

X Qiao, Q Li, H Yin, K Qi, L Li, R Wang, S Zhang… - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
Background The sharp increase of plant genome and transcriptome data provide valuable
resources to investigate evolutionary consequences of gene duplication in a range of taxa …

Genetic contribution of paleopolyploidy to adaptive evolution in angiosperms

S Wu, B Han, Y Jiao - Molecular Plant, 2020 - cell.com
Ancient whole-genome duplications (WGDs or polyploidy) are prevalent in plants, and some
WGDs occurred during the timing of severe global environmental changes. It has been …

Widespread whole genome duplications contribute to genome complexity and species diversity in angiosperms

R Ren, H Wang, C Guo, N Zhang, L Zeng, Y Chen… - Molecular plant, 2018 - cell.com
Gene duplications provide evolutionary potentials for generating novel functions, while
polyploidization or whole genome duplication (WGD) doubles the chromosomes initially and …

Network approaches for plant phylogenomic synteny analysis

T Zhao, ME Schranz - Current opinion in plant biology, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•Network approaches can be used to investigate synteny between many
species.•We present a generalized approach for elucidating plant phylogenomic …

Convergent evolution of plant prickles by repeated gene co-option over deep time

JW Satterlee, D Alonso, P Gramazio, KM Jenike, J He… - Science, 2024 - science.org
An enduring question in evolutionary biology concerns the degree to which episodes of
convergent trait evolution depend on the same genetic programs, particularly over long …

Genomic evidence for rediploidization and adaptive evolution following the whole-genome triplication

X Feng, Q Chen, W Wu, J Wang, G Li, S Xu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Whole-genome duplication (WGD), or polyploidy, events are widespread and
significant in the evolutionary history of angiosperms. However, empirical evidence for …

[HTML][HTML] The origin of land plants is rooted in two bursts of genomic novelty

AMC Bowles, U Bechtold, J Paps - Current Biology, 2020 - cell.com
Over the last 470 Ma, plant evolution has seen major evolutionary transitions, such as the
move from water to land and the origins of vascular tissues, seeds, and flowers [1]. These …

The final piece of the Triangle of U: Evolution of the tetraploid Brassica carinata genome

WC Yim, ML Swain, D Ma, H An, KA Bird… - The Plant …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Ethiopian mustard (Brassica carinata) is an ancient crop with remarkable stress resilience
and a desirable seed fatty acid profile for biofuel uses. Brassica carinata is one of six …

Genome expansion of Arabis alpina linked with retrotransposition and reduced symmetric DNA methylation

EM Willing, V Rawat, T Mandáková, F Maumus… - Nature plants, 2015 - nature.com
Despite evolutionary conserved mechanisms to silence transposable element activity, there
are drastic differences in the abundance of transposable elements even among closely …