Polyploidy: an evolutionary and ecological force in stressful times

Y Van de Peer, TL Ashman, PS Soltis, DE Soltis - The Plant Cell, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Polyploidy has been hypothesized to be both an evolutionary dead-end and a source for
evolutionary innovation and species diversification. Although polyploid organisms …

Patterns and processes of diploidization in land plants

Z Li, MTW McKibben, GS Finch… - Annual review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Most land plants are now known to be ancient polyploids that have rediploidized.
Diploidization involves many changes in genome organization that ultimately restore …

GenomeScope 2.0 and Smudgeplot for reference-free profiling of polyploid genomes

TR Ranallo-Benavidez, KS Jaron, MC Schatz - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
An important assessment prior to genome assembly and related analyses is genome
profiling, where the k-mer frequencies within raw sequencing reads are analyzed to estimate …

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 …

Triticum population sequencing provides insights into wheat adaptation

Y Zhou, X Zhao, Y Li, J Xu, A Bi, L Kang, D Xu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Bread wheat expanded its habitat from a core area of the Fertile Crescent to global
environments within~ 10,000 years. The genetic mechanisms of this remarkable …

Wheat chromatin architecture is organized in genome territories and transcription factories

L Concia, A Veluchamy, JS Ramirez-Prado… - Genome Biology, 2020 - Springer
Background Polyploidy is ubiquitous in eukaryotic plant and fungal lineages, and it leads to
the co-existence of several copies of similar or related genomes in one nucleus. In plants …

The duplication of genomes and genetic networks and its potential for evolutionary adaptation and survival during environmental turmoil

M Ebadi, Q Bafort, E Mizrachi, P Audenaert… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - pnas.org
The importance of whole-genome duplication (WGD) for evolution is controversial. Whereas
some view WGD mainly as detrimental and an evolutionary dead end, there is growing …

Polyploid phylogenetics

CJ Rothfels - New Phytologist, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Polyploidy is a dominant feature of extant plant diversity. However, major research
questions, including whether polyploidy is important to long‐term evolution or is just …

Nested whole-genome duplications coincide with diversification and high morphological disparity in Brassicaceae

N Walden, DA German, EM Wolf, M Kiefer… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Angiosperms have become the dominant terrestrial plant group by diversifying for~ 145
million years into a broad range of environments. During the course of evolution, numerous …