Doubling down on genomes: polyploidy and crop plants

S Renny‐Byfield, JF Wendel - American journal of botany, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Polyploidy, or whole genome multiplication, is ubiquitous among angiosperms. Many crop
species are relatively recent allopolyploids, resulting from interspecific hybridization and …

Molecular mechanisms of polyploidy and hybrid vigor

ZJ Chen - Trends in plant science, 2010 - cell.com
Hybrids such as maize (Zea mays) or domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris) grow bigger and
stronger than their parents. This is also true for allopolyploids such as wheat (Triticum spp.) …

Genetic and epigenetic mechanisms for gene expression and phenotypic variation in plant polyploids

ZJ Chen - Annu. Rev. Plant Biol., 2007 - annualreviews.org
Polyploidy, or whole-genome duplication (WGD), is an important genomic feature for all
eukaryotes, especially many plants and some animals. The common occurrence of …

Toward Sequencing Cotton (Gossypium) Genomes

ZJ Chen, BE Scheffler, E Dennis, BA Triplett… - Plant …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Despite rapidly decreasing costs and innovative technologies, sequencing of angiosperm
genomes is not yet undertaken lightly. Generating larger amounts of sequence data more …

Control of cotton fibre elongation by a homeodomain transcription factor GhHOX3

CM Shan, XX Shangguan, B Zhao, XF Zhang… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Cotton fibres are unusually long, single-celled epidermal seed trichomes and a model for
plant cell growth, but little is known about the regulation of fibre cell elongation. Here we …

Genomic and expression plasticity of polyploidy

S Jackson, ZJ Chen - Current opinion in plant biology, 2010 - Elsevier
Polyploidy or whole genome duplication (WGD) occurs throughout the evolutionary history
of many plants and some animals, including crops such as wheat, cotton, and sugarcane …

Homoeolog expression bias and expression level dominance in allopolyploids

CE Grover, JP Gallagher, EP Szadkowski, MJ Yoo… - New Phytologist, 2012 - JSTOR
Polyploidy is now recognized as a characteristic feature of all angiosperm genomes (Jiao et
al., 2011), and remains an important speciation process today (Wendel, 2000; Comai, 2005; …

How cotton fibers elongate: a tale of linear cell-growth mode

YM Qin, YX Zhu - Current opinion in plant biology, 2011 - Elsevier
Cotton fibers (cotton lint) are single-celled trichomes that differentiate from the ovule
epidermis. Unidirectional and fast-growing cells generally expand at the dome-shaped …

Gene expression changes and early events in cotton fibre development

JJ Lee, AW Woodward, ZJ Chen - Annals of botany, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Background Cotton is the dominant source of natural textile fibre and a significant oil crop.
Cotton fibres, produced by certain species in the genus Gossypium, are seed trichomes …

A comprehensive meta QTL analysis for fiber quality, yield, yield related and morphological traits, drought tolerance, and disease resistance in tetraploid cotton

JI Said, Z Lin, X Zhang, M Song, J Zhang - BMC genomics, 2013 - Springer
Background The study of quantitative trait loci (QTL) in cotton (Gossypium spp.) is focused
on traits of agricultural significance. Previous studies have identified a plethora of QTL …