ReviewThe Plant cell2024
Why should we study plant sex chromosomes?
Review in The Plant cell, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.
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- Haplotype-resolved genome assembly of femaleHorticulture research · 2026Article
- Morphological Staging and Transcriptomic Analyses Reveal Divergent Reproductive Organ Fates in Papaya Flowers.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Haplotype-resolved genome assembly of a male Dioscorea alata cultivar reveals the structure and evolution of young sex chromosomes.The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology · 2026Article
- KhufuEnv, an auxiliary toolkit for building computational pipelines for plant and animal breeding.BMC bioinformatics · 2026Article
- A haplotype-resolved nutmeg genome reveals XY sex chromosome evolution and enables molecular sexing.Communications biology · 2026Article
- Genome assemblies of the liverwort Blasia pusilla uncover a well-defined pseudoautosomal region on homomorphic UV sex chromosomes.Genome biology · 2026Article
- Sex chromosome identification and genome curation from a single individual with SCINKD.Molecular biology and evolution · 2026Article
- Whole-genome sequencing reveals a possible molecular basis of sex determination in the dioecious wild yam Dioscorea tokoro.PLoS genetics · 2026Article
- Floral Traits, Pollination and Reproductive Differentiation in GynodioeciousPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Recurrent sex chromosome turnover mediated by distinct ARR17 and PISTILLATA duplications in willows.Genome biology · 2026Article
- Understanding the evolution of giant Y chromosomes and sex determination mechanisms in plants.Science China. Life sciences · 2026Article
- Two independent origins of XY sex chromosomes in Asparagus.Molecular biology and evolution · 2026Article
- Mitotic karyotyping and FISH mapping of the gender-specific locus indicate an advanced XY system inJournal of genetics · 2026Article
- Convergent evolution of sex chromosomes in two palm species, Phoenix dactylifera and Kerriodoxa elegans.Annals of botany · 2025Article
- A Chromosome Inversion Creates a Supergene for Sex and Colour in Lake Malawi Cichlids.Molecular ecology · 2025Article
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- Evidence for evolution of a new sex chromosome within the haploid-dominant Marchantiales plant lineage.Journal of integrative plant biology · 2025Article
- Flipping the sex switch: Genetic insights into sex determination factor in Ceratopteris richardii.The Plant cell · 2025Article
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- Evolution of Sex-linked Genes and the Role of Pericentromeric Regions in Sex Chromosomes: Insights from Diploid Willows.Molecular biology and evolution · 2024Article
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Abstract
Understanding plant sex chromosomes involves studying interactions between developmental and physiological genetics, genome evolution, and evolutionary ecology. We focus on areas of overlap between these. Ideas about how species with separate sexes (dioecious species, in plant terminology) can evolve are even more relevant to plants than to most animal taxa because dioecy has evolved many times from ancestral functionally hermaphroditic populations, often recently. One aim of studying plant sex chromosomes is to discover how separate males and females evolved from ancestors with no such genetic sex-determining polymorphism, and the diversity in the genetic control of maleness vs femaleness. Different systems share some interesting features, and their differences help to understand why completely sex-linked regions may evolve. In some dioecious plants, the sex-determining genome regions are physically small. In others, regions without crossing over have evolved sometimes extensive regions with properties very similar to those of the familiar animal sex chromosomes. The differences also affect the evolutionary changes possible when the environment (or pollination environment, for angiosperms) changes, as dioecy is an ecologically risky strategy for sessile organisms. Dioecious plants have repeatedly reverted to cosexuality, and hermaphroditic strains of fruit crops such as papaya and grapes are desired by plant breeders. Sex-linked regions are predicted to become enriched in genes with sex differences in expression, especially when higher expression benefits one sex function but harms the other. Such trade-offs may be important for understanding other plant developmental and physiological processes and have direct applications in plant breeding.
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