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Gene turnover in the common ancestor of all C4 grasses

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Understanding how plants evolve more efficient photosynthesis is important in a warming world where improving crop productivity and resilience is a global priority. By generating the first reference genomes for an early‐diverging group of grasses called the Aristidoideae, we were able to reconstruct the genetic makeup of the last common ancestor of all
Lara Pereira, Ahmed S. Alenazi, Sahr Mian, Ilia J. Leitch, Pascal‐Antoine Christin, Colin P. Osborne, Luke T. Dunning   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of plant breeding on the responsiveness of maize and wheat varieties to an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal symbiont

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Field inoculation with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) offers a promising route to improve sustainable agriculture and food production, yet results are often variable. We investigated the mycorrhizal growth response of maize and wheat varieties recommended for farmers and found substantial variation under greenhouse conditions.
Ido Rog, Marco Malinowski, Dylan Baumann, Raphaël Boussageon, Stefanie Lutz, Marcel G. A. van der Heijden   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Polyploidy : a biological force from cells to ecosystems [PDF]

, 2020
Polyploidy, resulting from the duplication of the entire genome of an organism or cell, greatly affects genes and genomes, cells and tissues, organisms, and even entire ecosystems.
Ashman, Tia-Lynn, Soltis, Pamela S., Soltis, Douglas E., Van de Peer, Yves, Fox, Donald T.   +4 more
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Transport engineering as a strategy to realize rapeseed's potential as a protein‐rich food

Pest Management Science, EarlyView.
The heavily pesticide‐dependent rapeseed is an under‐utilized protein source for food owing to anti‐nutritional glucosinolates. Transport engineering technology may reduce glucosinolates in seeds while increasing defense in vegetative parts. Abstract Rapeseed is the world's second‐largest oilseed crop, and the low‐value press cake that remains after ...
Jakob Skytte Thorsen, Deyang Xu, Barbara Ann Halkier   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Wider geographic distribution and higher diversity of hexaploids than tetraploids in Carassius species complex reveal recurrent polyploidy effects on adaptive evolution

Scientific Reports, 2017
Polyploidy roles on adaptive evolution and ecological novelty have been extensively studied in plants but remained unclear in vertebrates owing to the rare polyploidy incidences.
Xiao-Li Liu, Fang-Fang Jiang, Zhong-Wei Wang, Xi-Yin Li, Zhi Li, Xiao-Juan Zhang, Fan Chen, Jian-Feng Mao, Li Zhou, Jian-Fang Gui   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Polyploidy in gymnosperms – Insights into the genomic and evolutionary consequences of polyploidy in Ephedra

, 2020
While polyploidization is recognized as a major evolutionary driver for ferns and angiosperms, little is known about its impact in gymnosperms, where polyploidy is much less frequent. We explore Ephedra to evaluate (i) the extent of genome size diversity
Min, Ya, Pellicer, Jaume, Sousa, Aretuza, Loera, Israel, Metzgar, Jordan, Leitch, Ilia J., Ickert-Bond, Stefanie M., Leitch, Ilia J., Hidalgo, Oriane   +8 more
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Safety Evaluation of an Aqueous Root and Leaf Extract of Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera)

Phytotherapy Research, EarlyView.
Sensoril, an aqueous root and leaf extract of ashwagandha showed no evidence of mutagenicity in the in vitro Ames assay, was negative in the in vitro micronucleus, in vivo mammalian bone marrow chromosome aberration assays, and was well tolerated in the rat at up to 4000 mg/kg BW/day when administered orally for a period of 90 days. The data from these
Mukesh Summan, Candace L. Doepker, Gregory P. Brorby   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Creating insect neopolyploid lines to study animal polyploid evolution

Evolutionary Applications
Whole‐genome duplication (polyploidy) poses many complications but is an important driver for eukaryotic evolution. To experimentally study how many challenges from the cellular (including gene expression) to the life history levels are overcome in ...
Saminathan Sivaprakasham Murugesan, Leo W. Beukeboom, Eveline C. Verhulst, Kelley Leung   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Brassica diversity through the lens of polyploidy: genomic evolution, introgression, and homoeologous exchange

Horticultural Plant Journal
Polyploidy, or whole-genome duplication, is an important evolutionary process that has shaped the genomes and traits of many plants, including numerous important crops.
Tianpeng Wang, Aalt D.J. van Dijk, Xu Cai, Jian Wu, Guusje Bonnema, Xiaowu Wang   +5 more
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Mesenchymal Stem Cells From a Klinefelter Syndrome Patient: Functional Characterization and Therapeutic Implications

Andrology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Cell therapy, particularly those utilizing mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (MSCs), is gaining traction as a therapeutic option for regenerative treatment in patients with limited therapeutic options. Although the safety of MSC‐based interventions is well established, uncertainties remain regarding how genetic abnormalities and ...
Marzena Zychowicz, Wioletta Lech, Anna Figiel‐Dabrowska, Marta Kot, Magdalena Murzyn, Natalia Malawska, Barbara Pienkowska‐Grela, Zuzanna Sandowska‐Markiewicz, Iwona Ziolkowska‐Suchanek, Agnieszka Zimna, Tomasz Oldak, Natalia Rozwadowska, Anna Sarnowska   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source