Brassica napus is an economically important crop across different continents including
temperate and subtropical regions in Europe, Canada, South Asia, China and Australia. Its …

Climate change has become a serious threat all over the world, which creates a negative
impact on the growth, physiology and yield attributes of the crops. Drought stress is one of …

Polyploidization has provided much genetic variation for plant adaptive evolution, but the
mechanisms by which the molecular evolution of polyploid genomes establishes genetic …

Oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.) was formed~ 7500 years ago by hybridization between B.
rapa and B. oleracea, followed by chromosome doubling, a process known as …

Homoeologous exchanges (HE s) have been shown to generate novel gene combinations
and phenotypes in a range of polyploid species. Gene presence/absence variation (PAV) is …

Genomes at the species level are dynamic, with genes present in every individual (core) and
genes in a subset of individuals (dispensable) that collectively constitute the pan-genome …

Background Brassica oleracea is a valuable vegetable species that has contributed to
human health and nutrition for hundreds of years and comprises multiple distinct cultivar …

Polyploidy has contributed to the evolution of eukaryotes, particularly flowering plants. The
genomic consequences of polyploidy have been extensively studied, but the mechanisms …

Association genetics can quickly and efficiently delineate regions of the genome that control
traits and provide markers to accelerate breeding by marker-assisted selection. But most …

LepR3, found in the B rassica napus cv 'S urpass 400', provides race‐specific resistance to
the fungal pathogen L eptosphaeria maculans, which was overcome after great devastation …