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eLife, 2021 Eukaryotic life cycles alternate between haploid and diploid phases and in phylogenetically diverse unicellular eukaryotes, expression of paralogous homeodomain genes in gametes primes the haploid-to-diploid transition.
Tom Dierschke +5 more
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Methylome evolution in plants [PDF]
Genome Biology, 2016 Despite major progress in dissecting the molecular pathways that control DNA methylation patterns in plants, little is known about the mechanisms that shape plant methylomes over evolutionary time. Drawing on recent intra- and interspecific epigenomic studies, we show that methylome evolution over long timescales is largely a byproduct of genomic ...
Vidalis, Amaryllis +5 more
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Genome-Wide Insights Into the Organelle Translocation of Photosynthetic NDH-1 Genes During Evolution
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 Translocation of chloroplast-located genes to mitochondria or nucleus is considered to be a safety strategy that impedes mutation of photosynthetic genes and maintains their household function during evolution.
Jie Yu +4 more
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Evolution of plant senescence [PDF]
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2009 Senescence is integral to the flowering plant life-cycle. Senescence-like processes occur also in non-angiosperm land plants, algae and photosynthetic prokaryotes. Increasing numbers of genes have been assigned functions in the regulation and execution of angiosperm senescence.
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 An increase in environmental pollution resulting from toxic heavy metals and metalloids [e.g., cadmium (Cd), arsenic (As), and lead (Pb)] causes serious health risks to humans and animals.
Xuan Chen +11 more
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Epialleles in plant evolution [PDF]
Genome Biology, 2012 Heritable phenotypic differences caused by epigenetic modifications, rather than DNA sequence mutations, pose a challenge to our understanding of natural variation. Here, we review what is known about plant epialleles and the role of epigenetics in evolution.
Detlef Weigel, Vincent Colot
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The Times They Are A-Changin’: Heterochrony in Plant Development and Evolution
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2018 Alterations in the timing of developmental programs during evolution, that lead to changes in the shape, or size of organs, are known as heterochrony. Heterochrony has been widely studied in animals, but has often been neglected in plants.
Manuel Buendía-Monreal +1 more
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Evolutionary genomic insights into cyanobacterial symbioses in plants
Quantitative Plant Biology, 2022 Photosynthesis, the ability to fix atmospheric carbon dioxide, was acquired by eukaryotes through symbiosis: the plastids of plants and algae resulted from a cyanobacterial symbiosis that commenced more than 1.5 billion years ago and has chartered a ...
Sophie de Vries, Jan de Vries
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Decision-making in plants under competition
Nature Communications, 2017 Plants may respond to light competition by growing upwards, via physiological changes that maximise performance under low light, or by growing laterally. Here Gruntman et al.
Michal Gruntman +3 more
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Scientific Reports, 2022 Jasmonate ZIM-domain (JAZ) proteins are the key repressors of the jasmonic acid (JA) signal transduction pathway and play a crucial role in stress-related defense, phytohormone crosstalk and modulation of the growth-defense tradeoff.
Kumar Shrestha, Yinghua Huang
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