Genome sequencing reveals the genetic architecture of heterostyly and domestication history of common buckwheat

JA Fawcett, R Takeshima, S Kikuchi, E Yazaki… - Nature Plants, 2023 - nature.com
Common buckwheat, Fagopyrum esculentum, is an orphan crop domesticated in southwest
China that exhibits heterostylous self-incompatibility. Here we present chromosome-scale …

Convergent evolutionary patterns of heterostyly across angiosperms support the pollination-precision hypothesis

V Simón-Porcar, M Escudero, R Santos-Gally… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Since the insights by Charles Darwin, heterostyly, a floral polymorphism with morphs
bearing stigmas and anthers at reciprocal heights, has become a model system for the study …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic analyses of the Linum distyly supergene reveal convergent evolution at the molecular level

J Gutiérrez-Valencia, M Fracassetti, EL Berdan… - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Supergenes govern multi-trait-balanced polymorphisms in a wide range of systems;
however, our understanding of their origins and evolution remains incomplete. The …

Subgenome dominance shapes novel gene evolution in the decaploid pitcher plant Nepenthes gracilis

F Saul, M Scharmann, T Wakatake, S Rajaraman… - Nature plants, 2023 - nature.com
Subgenome dominance after whole-genome duplication generates distinction in gene
number and expression at the level of chromosome sets, but it remains unclear how this …

Haplotype‐resolved genome assembly provides insights into the evolution of S‐locus supergene in distylous Nymphoides indica

J Yang, H Xue, Z Li, Y Zhang, T Shi, X He… - New …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Distyly has evolved independently in numerous animal‐pollinated angiosperm lineages.
Understanding of its molecular basis has been restricted to a few species, primarily Primula …

Genomic evidence supports the genetic convergence of a supergene controlling the distylous floral syndrome

Z Zhao, Y Zhang, M Shi, Z Liu, Y Xu, Z Luo… - New …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Heterostyly, a plant sexual polymorphism controlled by the S‐locus supergene, has evolved
numerous times among angiosperm lineages and represents a classic example of …

The Snapdragon Genomes Reveal the Evolutionary Dynamics of the S-Locus Supergene

S Zhu, Y Zhang, L Copsy, Q Han… - Molecular Biology …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The genus Antirrhinum has been used as a model to study self-incompatibility extensively.
The multi-allelic S-locus, carrying a pistil S-RNase and dozens of S-locus F-box (SLF) …

A hemizygous supergene controls homomorphic and heteromorphic self-incompatibility systems in Oleaceae

P Raimondeau, S Ksouda, W Marande, AL Fuchs… - Current Biology, 2024 - cell.com
Self-incompatibility (SI) has evolved independently multiple times and prevents self-
fertilization in hermaphrodite angiosperms. Several groups of Oleaceae such as jasmines …

The genomes of Darwin's primroses reveal chromosome‐scale adaptive introgression and differential permeability of species boundaries

RL Stubbs, S Theodoridis, E Mora‐Carrera… - New …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Introgression is an important source of genetic variation that can determine species
adaptation to environmental conditions. Yet, definitive evidence of the genomic and adaptive …

Probing of plant transcriptomes reveals the hidden genetic diversity of the family Secoviridae

VK Sidharthan, V Reddy, G Kiran, V Rajeswari… - Archives of …, 2024 - Springer
Secoviruses are single-stranded RNA viruses that infect plants. In the present study, we
identified 61 putative novel secoviral genomes in various plant species by mining publicly …