Sugar beet breeding

JM McGrath, L Panella - Plant breeding reviews, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Sugar beet is a recent crop developed solely for the extraction of the sweetener, sucrose.
Breeding and improvement of Beta vulgaris for sugar has a rich historical record. Sugar beet …

The plastic genome: The impact of transposable elements on gene functionality and genomic structural variations

M Fambrini, G Usai, A Vangelisti, F Mascagni… - Genesis, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Transposable elements (TEs) are DNA sequences that can change their position within
genomes. TEs are present in most organisms and can be an important genomic component …

FlexiDot: highly customizable, ambiguity-aware dotplots for visual sequence analyses

KM Seibt, T Schmidt, T Heitkam - Bioinformatics, 2018‏ - academic.oup.com
FlexiDot is a cross-platform dotplot suite generating high quality self, pairwise and all-
against-all visualizations. To improve dotplot suitability for comparison of consensus and …

DNA methylation of retrotransposons, DNA transposons and genes in sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.)

F Zakrzewski, M Schmidt, M Van Lijsebettens… - The Plant …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
The methylation of cytosines shapes the epigenetic landscape of plant genomes,
coordinates transgenerational epigenetic inheritance, represses the activity of transposable …

Repeat turnover meets stable chromosomes: repetitive DNA sequences mark speciation and gene pool boundaries in sugar beet and wild beets

N Schmidt, K Sielemann, S Breitenbach… - The Plant …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Sugar beet and its wild relatives share a base chromosome number of nine and similar
chromosome morphologies. Yet, interspecific breeding is impeded by chromosome and …

SINE jum** contributes to large-scale polymorphisms in the pig genomes

C Chen, E D'Alessandro, E Murani, Y Zheng, D Giosa… - Mobile DNA, 2021‏ - Springer
Background Molecular markers based on retrotransposon insertion polymorphisms (RIPs)
have been developed and are widely used in plants and animals. Short interspersed …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in molecular interactions on the Rhizoctonia solani-sugar beet pathosystem

V Rafiei, H Velez, C Dixelius, G Tzelepis - Fungal Biology Reviews, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Rhizoctonia solani is a soilborne pathogen with a broad host range. An anastomosis group
(AG) system based on hyphal fusions has been established to distinguish between different …

Genetic diversity and genome-wide association study of 13 agronomic traits in 977 Beta vulgaris L. germplasms

D Liu, W Tan, H Wang, W Li, J Fu, J Li, Y Zhou, M Lin… - BMC genomics, 2023‏ - Springer
Abstract Background Sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) is an economically essential sugar crop
worldwide. Its agronomic traits are highly diverse and phenotypically plastic, influencing …

Short interspersed nuclear elements (SINEs) are abundant in Solanaceae and have a family‐specific impact on gene structure and genome organization

KM Seibt, T Wenke, K Muders, B Truberg… - The Plant …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Short interspersed nuclear elements (SINEs) are highly abundant non‐autonomous
retrotransposons that are widespread in plants. They are short in size, non‐coding, show …

Repeat Composition of CenH3-chromatin and H3K9me2-marked heterochromatin in Sugar Beet (Beta vulgaris)

T Kowar, F Zakrzewski, J Macas, A Kobližková… - BMC plant biology, 2016‏ - Springer
Abstract Background Sugar beet (Beta vulgaris) is an important crop of temperate climate
zones, which provides nearly 30% of the world's annual sugar needs. From the total genome …