Epigenetics for crop improvement in times of global change

I Kakoulidou, EV Avramidou, M Baránek… - Biology, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Research on plant epigenetics aims to understand how endogenous,
biotic, and abiotic factors regulate plant development and growth independent of changes in …

Meiotic recombination: mixing it up in plants

Y Wang, GP Copenhaver - Annual Review of Plant Biology, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Meiosis halves diploid chromosome numbers to haploid levels that are essential for sexual
reproduction in most eukaryotes. Meiotic recombination ensures the formation of bivalents …

Nucleosomes and DNA methylation shape meiotic DSB frequency in Arabidopsis thaliana transposons and gene regulatory regions

K Choi, X Zhao, AJ Tock, C Lambing… - Genome …, 2018 - genome.cshlp.org
Meiotic recombination initiates from DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) generated by SPO11
topoisomerase-like complexes. Meiotic DSB frequency varies extensively along eukaryotic …

Patterns, mechanisms, and consequences of homoeologous exchange in allopolyploid angiosperms: a genomic and epigenomic perspective

SK Deb, PP Edger, JC Pires, MR McKain - New Phytologist, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Allopolyploids result from hybridization between different evolutionary lineages coupled with
genome doubling. Homoeologous chromosomes (chromosomes with common shared …

From molecules to populations: appreciating and estimating recombination rate variation

JV Peñalba, JBW Wolf - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Recombination is a central biological process with implications for many areas in the life
sciences. Yet we are only beginning to appreciate variation in the recombination rate along …

Chromosome-level assembly of Arabidopsis thaliana Ler reveals the extent of translocation and inversion polymorphisms

L Zapata, J Ding, EM Willing… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Resequencing or reference-based assemblies reveal large parts of the small-scale
sequence variation. However, they typically fail to separate such local variation into colinear …

Epigenetic activation of meiotic recombination near Arabidopsis thaliana centromeres via loss of H3K9me2 and non-CG DNA methylation

CJ Underwood, K Choi, C Lambing, X Zhao… - Genome …, 2018 - genome.cshlp.org
Eukaryotic centromeres contain the kinetochore, which connects chromosomes to the
spindle allowing segregation. During meiosis, centromeres are suppressed for inter …

[HTML][HTML] Counting on crossovers: controlled recombination for plant breeding

E Taagen, AJ Bogdanove, ME Sorrells - Trends in plant science, 2020 - cell.com
Crossovers (COs), that drive genetic exchange between homologous chromosomes, are
strongly biased toward subtelomeric regions in plant species. Manipulating the rate and …

An Ultra High-Density Arabidopsis thaliana Crossover Map That Refines the Influences of Structural Variation and Epigenetic Features

BA Rowan, D Heavens, TR Feuerborn, AJ Tock… - Genetics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Rowan et al. generated a dataset of over 17,000 meiotic crossovers (COs) from over 2000
F2 individuals from a single Arabidopsis thaliana cross. The unprecedented density of COs …

Functional mechanisms of microsatellite DNA in eukaryotic genomes

ATM Bagshaw - Genome biology and evolution, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Microsatellite repeat DNA is best known for its length mutability, which is implicated in
several neurological diseases and cancers, and often exploited as a genetic marker. Less …