Unraveling Plant Recombination Patterns: Insights From Genome k-mers.

ABSTRACT: Crossover recombination is a pivotal event that takes place during meiosis of germinal cells, leading to the rearrangement of parental chromosomes and generating novel allele combinations, thereby enhancing genetic diversity. This process holds significant importance for plant breeders as it enables the transfer of gene variants from one variety to another. Recent studies have explored diverse strategies to predict recombination events along chromosomes in key plant species, employing various types of genome features. In this study, the relationship between genome structure, quantified using k-mers, and crossover recombination is investigated. To facilitate this analysis, the Python package kmerExtractor is introduced; it uses frequency chaos game representation (FCGR) to count k-me

SUBMITTER: Penuela M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12646810 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature