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The Dynamic Change in Plant Genomes
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The Dynamic Change in Plant Genomes

A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Molecular Biology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2020) | Viewed by 4284

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Sean Mayes

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Faculty of Science, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Leics, Loughborough LE12 5RD, UK
Interests: crop genetic diversity; marker assisted selection; underutilised crops; crop breeding; genome evolution
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Plant genomes represent a dichotomy; their degree of conservation allows for links to be made between genomes of the same or even different taxa, which reveal conserved synteny, however significant variation also exists in the genome structure and gene order within species. As more information becomes available from the conserved synteny studies, genome sequencing/resequencing, and methylation analysis, the forces shaping plant genomes are becoming clearer.

The Special Edition is open to research articles on plant and crop studies into the commonalities and differences between plant genomes, and the forces driving these.

Particularly welcome are research papers on the following topics:

  • Domestication, adaptation, and effects of the environment on genomes;
  • The importance of autonomous and semi-autonomous elements in shaping the genome structure and/or bridging the species divide;
  • The shaping of the genome by natural selection in wild populations;
  • Approaches for the translation of information and understanding between the genomes of related species and taxa.

Dr. Sean Mayes
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Plants is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • genome evolution
  • domestication
  • adaptation
  • genome-enabled breeding
  • marker-assisted selection
  • epigenetics
  • mobile genetic elements
  • conserved synteny
  • genome structure

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Generation of Transgenic Self-Incompatible Arabidopsis thaliana Shows a Genus-Specific Preference for Self-Incompatibility Genes
by Tong Zhang, Guilong Zhou, Daphne R. Goring, Xiaomei Liang, Stuart Macgregor, Cheng Dai, Jing Wen, Bin Yi, Jinxiong Shen, Jinxing Tu, Tingdong Fu and Chaozhi Ma
Plants 2019, 8(12), 570; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/plants8120570 - 04 Dec 2019
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Brassicaceae species employ both self-compatibility and self-incompatibility systems to regulate post-pollination events. Arabidopsis halleri is strictly self-incompatible, while the closely related Arabidopsis thaliana has transitioned to self-compatibility with the loss of functional S-locus genes during evolution. The downstream signaling protein, ARC1, is [...] Read more.
Brassicaceae species employ both self-compatibility and self-incompatibility systems to regulate post-pollination events. Arabidopsis halleri is strictly self-incompatible, while the closely related Arabidopsis thaliana has transitioned to self-compatibility with the loss of functional S-locus genes during evolution. The downstream signaling protein, ARC1, is also required for the self-incompatibility response in some Arabidopsis and Brassica species, and its gene is deleted in the A. thaliana genome. In this study, we attempted to reconstitute the SCR-SRK-ARC1 signaling pathway to restore self-incompatibility in A. thaliana using genes from A. halleri and B. napus, respectively. Several of the transgenic A. thaliana lines expressing the A. halleri SCR13-SRK13-ARC1 transgenes displayed self-incompatibility, while all the transgenic A. thaliana lines expressing the B. napus SCR1-SRK1-ARC1 transgenes failed to show any self-pollen rejection. Furthermore, our results showed that the intensity of the self-incompatibility response in transgenic A. thaliana plants was not associated with the expression levels of the transgenes. Thus, this suggests that there are differences between the Arabidopsis and Brassica self-incompatibility signaling pathways, which perhaps points to the existence of other factors downstream of B. napus SRK that are absent in Arabidopsis species. Full article
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