Asymmetry of investment in crop research leads to knowledge gaps and lost opportunities to
accelerate genetic gain through identifying new sources and combinations of traits and …

Simple Summary Research on plant epigenetics aims to understand how endogenous,
biotic, and abiotic factors regulate plant development and growth independent of changes in …

INTRODUCTION The centromeres of eukaryotic chromosomes assemble the multiprotein
kinetochore complex and thereby position attachment to the spindle microtubules, allowing …

Age-related osteoporosis is characterized by the deterioration in bone volume and strength,
partly due to the dysfunction of bone marrow mesenchymal stromal/stem cells (MSCs) …

Transposable elements (TEs) are genomic parasites that selfishly replicate at the expense of
host fitness. Fifty years of evolutionary studies of TEs have concentrated on the deleterious …

Allopolyploids result from hybridization between different evolutionary lineages coupled with
genome doubling. Homoeologous chromosomes (chromosomes with common shared …

Eukaryotic centromeres contain the kinetochore, which connects chromosomes to the
spindle allowing segregation. During meiosis, centromeres are suppressed for inter …

DNA methylation and histone H1 mediate transcriptional silencing of genes and
transposable elements, but how they interact is unclear. In plants and animals with mosaic …

During meiosis, crossover rates are not randomly distributed along the chromosome and
their location may have a strong impact on the functioning and evolution of the genome. To …

Crossovers (COs), that drive genetic exchange between homologous chromosomes, are
strongly biased toward subtelomeric regions in plant species. Manipulating the rate and …