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 …

Thriving under stress: how plants balance growth and the stress response

H Zhang, Y Zhao, JK Zhu - Developmental Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Defense against stress and active suppression of growth are two complementary strategies
by which plants respond to adverse environments. Although beneficial for plant survival …

Understanding the classics: the unifying concepts of transgressive segregation, inbreeding depression and heterosis and their central relevance for crop breeding

IJ Mackay, J Cockram, P Howell… - Plant Biotechnology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Transgressive segregation and heterosis are the reasons that plant breeding works.
Molecular explanations for both phenomena have been suggested and play a contributing …

The rice circadian clock regulates tiller growth and panicle development through strigolactone signaling and sugar sensing

F Wang, T Han, Q Song, W Ye, X Song, J Chu, J Li… - Plant Cell, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Circadian clocks regulate growth and development in plants and animals, but the role of
circadian regulation in crop production is poorly understood. Rice (Oryza sativa) grain yield …

DNA hypomethylation in tetraploid rice potentiates stress-responsive gene expression for salt tolerance

L Wang, S Cao, P Wang, K Lu… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Polyploidy is a prominent feature for genome evolution in many animals and all flowering
plants. Plant polyploids often show enhanced fitness in diverse and extreme environments …

From hybrid genomes to heterotic trait output: Challenges and opportunities

W Liu, Y Zhang, H He, G He, XW Deng - Current opinion in plant biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Heterosis (or hybrid vigor) has been widely used in crop seed breeding to improve many key
economic traits. Nevertheless, the genetic and molecular basis of this important …

Single-cell RNA-seq analysis reveals ploidy-dependent and cell-specific transcriptome changes in Arabidopsis female gametophytes

Q Song, A Ando, N Jiang, Y Ikeda, ZJ Chen - Genome biology, 2020 - Springer
Background Polyploidy provides new genetic material that facilitates evolutionary novelty,
species adaptation, and crop domestication. Polyploidy often leads to an increase in cell or …

Advances in research on the mechanism of heterosis in plants

X Wu, Y Liu, Y Zhang, R Gu - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Heterosis is a common biological phenomenon in nature. It substantially contributes to the
biomass yield and grain yield of plants. Moreover, this phenomenon results in high …

[HTML][HTML] Phytoremediation efficiency of poplar hybrid varieties with diverse genetic backgrounds in soil contaminated by multiple toxic metals (Cd, Hg, Pb, and As)

M Li, Q Heng, C Hu, Z Wang, Y Jiang, X Wang… - Ecotoxicology and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Fifteen poplar varieties were used in a field trial to investigate the phytoremediation
efficiency, stress resistance, and wood property of poplar hybrid varieties with diverse …

Large-scale genomic and transcriptomic profiles of rice hybrids reveal a core mechanism underlying heterosis

J **e, W Wang, T Yang, Q Zhang, Z Zhang, X Zhu, N Li… - Genome Biology, 2022 - Springer
Background Heterosis is widely used in agriculture. However, its molecular mechanisms are
still unclear in plants. Here, we develop, sequence, and record the phenotypes of 418 …