Ancient WGD events as drivers of key innovations in angiosperms

PS Soltis, DE Soltis - Current opinion in plant biology, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•Polyploidy or whole-genome duplication (WGD) is a ubiquitous feature of plant
genomes.•Polyploidy is most frequent in angiosperms.•A complex pattern of polyploidy is …

Origin and early evolution of angiosperms

DE Soltis, CD Bell, S Kim… - Annals of the New York …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Contributions from paleobotany, phylogenetics, genomics, developmental biology, and
developmental genetics have yielded tremendous insight into Darwin's “abominable …

A TCP domain transcription factor controls flower type specification along the radial axis of the Gerbera (Asteraceae) inflorescence

SK Broholm, S Tähtiharju… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
Several key processes in plant development are regulated by TCP transcription factors.
CYCLOIDEA-like (CYC-like) TCP domain proteins have been shown to control flower …

The ABC model and its applicability to basal angiosperms

DE Soltis, AS Chanderbali, S Kim, M Buzgo… - Annals of …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Background Although the flower is the central feature of the angiosperms, little is known of
its origin and subsequent diversification. The ABC model has long been the unifying …

The immense diversity of floral monosymmetry and asymmetry across angiosperms

PK Endress - The Botanical Review, 2012 - Springer
Floral monosymmetry and asymmetry are traced through the angiosperm orders and
families. Both are diverse and widespread in angiosperms. The systematic distribution of the …

Exon skip** of AGAMOUS homolog PrseAG in develo** double flowers of Prunus lannesiana (Rosaceae)

Z Liu, D Zhang, D Liu, F Li, H Lu - Plant cell reports, 2013 - Springer
Key message Two transcript isoforms of AGAMOUS homologs, from single and double
flower Prunus lannesiana, respectively, showed different functions. Abstract The Arabidopsis …

[HTML][HTML] In vivo induction and characterization of polyploids in gerbera daisy

K Bhattarai, A Kareem, Z Deng - Scientia Horticulturae, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Cultivated gerbera (Gerbera hybrida; Asteraceae) is an economically important
flower worldwide. It is also used as a model plant for studying flower development and …

Virus‐induced gene silencing for Asteraceae—a reverse genetics approach for functional genomics in Gerbera hybrida

X Deng, P Elomaa, CX Nguyen… - Plant biotechnology …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Virus‐induced gene silencing (VIGS) is a natural defence mechanism in plants which leads
to sequence‐specific degradation of viral RNA. For identifying gene functions, Tobacco rattle …

Floral variation and floral genetics in basal angiosperms

PS Soltis, SF Brockington, MJ Yoo… - American Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Recent advances in phylogeny reconstruction and floral genetics set the stage for new
investigations of the origin and diversification of the flower. We review the current state of …

Patterns of MADS-box gene expression mark flower-type development in Gerbera hybrida(Asteraceae)

RAE Laitinen, S Broholm, VA Albert, TH Teeri… - BMC Plant …, 2006 - Springer
Background The inflorescence of the cut-flower crop Gerbera hybrida (Asteraceae) consists
of two principal flower types, ray and disc, which form a tightly packed head, or capitulum …