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Tag Archives: hybrids
Polyploidy and interspecific hybridisation: partners for adaptation, speciation and evolution in plants
337. Alix K, Gérard PR, Schwarzacher T, Heslop-Harrison JS. 2017. Polyploidy and interspecific hybridisation: partners for adaptation, speciation and evolution in plants. Annals of Botany 120(2): 183-194. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcx079 (Free access). Polyploidy, defined as whole genome duplication, is present in almost all lineages … Continue reading
Posted in Brassica, cereals, Publications, wheat
Tagged breeding, chromosomes, ecology, evolution, genome evolution, genomics, hybrids, polyploidy, selection, TEs, transposons, wheat
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Polyploidy and interspecific hybridisation: partners for adaptation, speciation and evolution in plants
337. Alix K, Gérard PR, Schwarzacher T, Heslop-Harrison JS. 2017. Polyploidy and interspecific hybridisation: partners for adaptation, speciation and evolution in plants. Annals of Botany 120: 183–194. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcx079 (freely available) Author version (free to post) to come. Figure 1 showing polyploidy or WGD … Continue reading
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Tagged amphipolyploids, autopolyploids, chromosomes, crops, cytogenetics, ecology, ecosystems, genetics, genomics, hybrids, polyploidy, speciation
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Introgression of chromosome segments from multiple alien species in wheat breeding lines with wheat streak mosaic virus resistance
324. Ali N, Heslop-Harrison JS, Ahmad H, Graybosch RA, Hein GL, Schwarzacher T. 2016. Introgression of chromosome segments from multiple alien species in wheat breeding lines with wheat streak mosaic virus resistance. Heredity (2016) 117, 114–123; published online 1 June … Continue reading
Posted in cereals, chromosomes, cytogenetics, Publications, Species, wheat
Tagged biodiversity, breeding, chromosomes, crops, cytogenetics, diversity, domestication, evolution, farming, genomics, hybrids, in situ hybridization, introgression, markers, molecular cytogenetics, mosaic virus, resistance, rye, Secale, Thinopyrum, tolerance, virus, wheat, WSMV
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Analysis of Petunia vein clearing virus (PVCV) sequences, retroelements and tandem repeats in Petunia axillaris N and P. inflata S6
325a. Schwarzacher T, Heslop-Harrison JS, Richert-Pöggeler KR. 2016. Analysis of Petunia vein clearing virus (PVCV) sequences, retroelements and tandem repeats in Petunia axillaris N and P. inflata S6. Supplementary manuscript 2. Nature Plants 2: article number 16074. Link to manuscript: Petunia_PVCV_Repeats_SchwarzacherEtAl2016 Within … Continue reading
Intergeneric hybridisation between Berula erecta and Helosciadium nodiflorum (Apiaceae)
TS. Desjardins SD, Leslie AC, Stace CA, Schwarzacher T, Bailey JP. 2015. Intergeneric hybridisation between Berula erecta and Helosciadium nodiflorum (Apiaceae). Taxon 64: 784-794. DOI: 10.12705/644.9 Publisher link££ Author version Intergeneric hybridisation A hybrid between Berula erecta and Helosciadium nodiflorum is reported from Chippenham Fen National … Continue reading
Posted in cytogenetics, Publications, Species
Tagged Apiaceae, Berula, chromosomes, flora, hybrid species, hybrids, in situ hybridization, intergeneric, invasive, Nature reserves, wild species
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Evolutionary genomics of miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements (MITEs) in Brassica
317. Nouroz F, Noreen S, Heslop-Harrison JS. 2015. Evolutionary genomics of miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements (MITEs) in Brassica. Molecular Genetics and Genomics (MGG) 290 (6): 2297–2312. DOI: 10.1007/s00438-015-1076-9 Brassica MITEs Author Version MGG download Miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements (MITEs) are truncated derivatives of autonomous DNA transposons, … Continue reading
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Tagged bac, BACs, biodiversity, bioinformatics, brassica, breeding, cabbage, chromosomes, DNA, dot-plots, dotplots, genome, genome evolution, genomics, hybrids, LTRs, MITEs, rape, rapeseed, repetitive DNA, retrotransposons, Southern hybridization, TIRs, transposons
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Chromosomal evolution in Brachiaria forage grasses with Fabiola Carvalho Santos
Fabiola Santos from University of Londrina, Brazil, is working on the Chromosomal evolution and the organization of repetitive DNA sequences in diploid and polyploid Brachiaria forage grasses in the molecular cytogenetics group in Leicester. Brachiaria is most important cultivated forage grass genus … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, biodiversity, Brasil, Brazil, breeders, breeding, cerrado, chromosomes, collaborations, cytogenetics, evolution, forage, genome, genomics, grasses, hybrids, Londrina, molecular cytogenetics, polyploids, retroelements, wild relative
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