[HTML][HTML] Cold stress in plants: Strategies to improve cold tolerance in forage species

L Adhikari, R Baral, D Paudel, D Min, SO Makaju… - Plant Stress, 2022 - Elsevier
Cold stress (CS) affects the survivability, geographical distribution, and yield stability of
crops. Suitable management and agronomic practices can minimize the crop losses …

Reproductive transitions in plants and animals: selfing syndrome, sexual selection and speciation

AD Cutter - New Phytologist, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The evolution of predominant self‐fertilisation frequently coincides with the evolution of a
collection of phenotypes that comprise the 'selfing syndrome', in both plants and animals …

Contrasting rates of molecular evolution and patterns of selection among gymnosperms and flowering plants

AR De La Torre, Z Li, Y Van de Peer… - … biology and evolution, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The majority of variation in rates of molecular evolution among seed plants remains both
unexplored and unexplained. Although some attention has been given to flowering plants …

Demographic History and Natural Selection Shape Patterns of Deleterious Mutation Load and Barriers to Introgression across Populus Genome

S Liu, L Zhang, Y Sang, Q Lai, X Zhang… - Molecular biology …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Hybridization and resulting introgression are important processes sha** the tree of life
and appear to be far more common than previously thought. However, how the genome …

Robustness and the generalist niche of polyploid species: genome shock or gradual evolution?

KK Shimizu - Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
The prevalence of polyploidy in wild and crop species has stimulated debate over its
evolutionary advantages and disadvantages. Previous studies have focused on changes …

Evolution of selfing: recurrent patterns in molecular adaptation

KK Shimizu, T Tsuchimatsu - Annual Review of Ecology …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Selfing has evolved in animals, fungi, and plants, and since Darwin's pioneering study, it is
considered one of the most frequent evolutionary trends in flowering plants. Generally, the …

Hybrid origins and the earliest stages of diploidization in the highly successful recent polyploid Capsella bursa-pastoris

GM Douglas, G Gos, KA Steige… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Whole-genome duplication (WGD) events have occurred repeatedly during flowering plant
evolution, and there is growing evidence for predictable patterns of gene retention and loss …

Mating system variation in hybrid zones: facilitation, barriers and asymmetries to gene flow

M Pickup, Y Brandvain, C Fraïsse… - New …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Plant mating systems play a key role in structuring genetic variation both within and between
species. In hybrid zones, the outcomes and dynamics of hybridization are usually interpreted …

What can genome‐wide association studies tell us about the evolutionary forces maintaining genetic variation for quantitative traits?

EB Josephs, JR Stinchcombe, SI Wright - New Phytologist, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the evolutionary forces that shape genetic variation within species has long
been a goal of evolutionary biology. Integrating data for the genetic architecture of traits from …

Evidence for Widespread Positive and Negative Selection in Coding and Conserved Noncoding Regions of Capsella grandiflora

RJ Williamson, EB Josephs, AE Platts… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
The extent that both positive and negative selection vary across different portions of plant
genomes remains poorly understood. Here, we sequence whole genomes of 13 Capsella …