Chloroplast and whole-genome sequencing shed light on the evolutionary history and phenotypic diversification of peanuts

Z Zheng, Z Sun, F Qi, Y Fang, K Lin, S Pavan… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Cultivated peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) is a widely grown oilseed crop worldwide;
however, the events leading to its origin and diversification are not fully understood. Here by …

Genome of tetraploid sour cherry (Prunus cerasus L.)'Montmorency'identifies three distinct ancestral Prunus genomes

CZ Goeckeritz, KE Rhoades, KL Childs… - Horticulture …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Sour cherry (Prunus cerasus L.) is a valuable fruit crop in the Rosaceae family and a hybrid
between progenitors closely related to extant Prunus fruticosa (ground cherry) and Prunus …

[HTML][HTML] Homoeologs in Allopolyploids: Navigating Redundancy as Both an Evolutionary Opportunity and a Technical Challenge—A Transcriptomics Perspective

G Aufiero, C Fruggiero, D D'Angelo, N D'Agostino - Genes, 2024 - mdpi.com
Allopolyploidy in plants involves the merging of two or more distinct parental genomes into a
single nucleus, a significant evolutionary process in the plant kingdom. Transcriptomic …

Dynamics of accessible chromatin regions and subgenome dominance in octoploid strawberry

C Fang, N Jiang, SJ Teresi, AE Platts… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Subgenome dominance has been reported in diverse allopolyploid species, where genes
from one subgenome are preferentially retained and are more highly expressed than those …

Phylogenomic profiles of whole-genome duplications in Poaceae and landscape of differential duplicate retention and losses among major Poaceae lineages

T Zhang, W Huang, L Zhang, DZ Li, J Qi… - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Poaceae members shared a whole-genome duplication called rho. However, little is known
about the evolutionary pattern of the rho-derived duplicates among Poaceae lineages and …

Contribution of homoeologous exchange to domestication of polyploid Brassica

T Wang, ADJ van Dijk, R Zhao, G Bonnema, X Wang - Genome Biology, 2024 - Springer
Background Polyploidy is widely recognized as a significant evolutionary force in the plant
kingdom, contributing to the diversification of plants. One of the notable features of …

Subgenomic Stability of Progenitor Genomes During Repeated Allotetraploid Origins of the Same Grass Brachypodium hybridum

W Mu, K Li, Y Yang, A Breiman, J Yang… - Molecular Biology …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Both homeologous exchanges and homeologous expression bias are generally found in
most allopolyploid species. Whether homeologous exchanges and homeologous …

Formation of Different Polyploids Through Disrupting Meiotic Crossover Frequencies Based on cntd1 Knockout in Zebrafish

Y Ou, H Li, J Li, X Dai, J He, S Wang… - Molecular Biology …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Polyploidy, a significant catalyst for speciation and evolutionary processes in both plant and
animal kingdoms, has been recognized for a long time. However, the exact molecular …

Structural variation reshapes population gene expression and trait variation in 2,105 Brassica napus accessions

Y Zhang, Z Yang, Y He, D Liu, Y Liu, C Liang, M Xie… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Although individual genomic structural variants (SVs) are known to influence gene
expression and trait variation, the extent and scale of SV impact across a species remain …

Homoeologous evolution of the allotetraploid genome of Poa annua L.

CW Benson, MR Sheltra, PJ Maughan, EN Jellen… - BMC genomics, 2023 - Springer
Background Poa annua (annual bluegrass) is an allotetraploid turfgrass, an agronomically
significant weed, and one of the most widely dispersed plant species on earth. Here, we …