Genome triplication drove the diversification of Brassica plants

F Cheng, J Wu, X Wang - Horticulture research, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The genus Brassica belongs to the plant family Brassicaceae, which includes many
important crop species that are used as oilseed, condiments, or vegetables throughout the …

Cabbage family affairs: the evolutionary history of Brassicaceae

A Franzke, MA Lysak, IA Al-Shehbaz, MA Koch… - Trends in plant …, 2011 - cell.com
Life without the mustard family (Brassicaceae) would be a world without many crop species
and the model organism Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) that has revolutionized our …

Global Brassicaceae phylogeny based on filtering of 1,000-gene dataset

KP Hendriks, C Kiefer, IA Al-Shehbaz, CD Bailey… - Current biology, 2023 - cell.com
The mustard family (Brassicaceae) is a scientifically and economically important family,
containing the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana and numerous crop species that feed …

The Brassica oleracea genome reveals the asymmetrical evolution of polyploid genomes

S Liu, Y Liu, X Yang, C Tong, D Edwards… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Polyploidization has provided much genetic variation for plant adaptive evolution, but the
mechanisms by which the molecular evolution of polyploid genomes establishes genetic …

The genome of the mesopolyploid crop species Brassica rapa

Brassica rapa Genome Sequencing Project … - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
We report the annotation and analysis of the draft genome sequence of Brassica rapa
accession Chiifu-401-42, a Chinese cabbage. We modeled 41,174 protein coding genes in …

Transcriptome and methylome profiling reveals relics of genome dominance in the mesopolyploid Brassica oleracea

IAP Parkin, C Koh, H Tang, SJ Robinson, S Kagale… - Genome biology, 2014 - Springer
Background Brassica oleracea is a valuable vegetable species that has contributed to
human health and nutrition for hundreds of years and comprises multiple distinct cultivar …

The emerging biofuel crop Camelina sativa retains a highly undifferentiated hexaploid genome structure

S Kagale, C Koh, J Nixon, V Bollina, WE Clarke… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Camelina sativa is an oilseed with desirable agronomic and oil-quality attributes for a viable
industrial oil platform crop. Here we generate the first chromosome-scale high-quality …

Homoeologous shuffling and chromosome compensation maintain genome balance in resynthesized allopolyploid Brassica napus

Z **ong, RT Gaeta, JC Pires - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2011 - pnas.org
Polyploidy has contributed to the evolution of eukaryotes, particularly flowering plants. The
genomic consequences of polyploidy have been extensively studied, but the mechanisms …

Deciphering the Diploid Ancestral Genome of the Mesohexaploid Brassica rapa

F Cheng, T Mandáková, J Wu, Q **e, MA Lysak… - The Plant …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
The genus Brassica includes several important agricultural and horticultural crops. Their
current genome structures were shaped by whole-genome triplication followed by extensive …

Genomic Changes in Resynthesized Brassica napus and Their Effect on Gene Expression and Phenotype

RT Gaeta, JC Pires, F Iniguez-Luy, E Leon… - The Plant …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Many previous studies have provided evidence for genome changes in polyploids, but there
are little data on the overall population dynamics of genome change and whether it causes …