Polyploid evolution in Oryza officinalis complex of the genus Oryza.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Polyploidization is a prominent process in plant evolution, whereas the mechanism and tempo-spatial process remained poorly understood. Oryza officinalis complex, a polyploid complex in the genus Oryza, could exemplify the issues not only for it covering a variety of ploidy levels, but also for the pantropical geographic pattern of its polyploids in Asia, Africa, Australia and Americas, in which a pivotal genome, the C-genome, witnessed all the polyploidization process.

Results

Tracing the C-genome evolutionary history in Oryza officinalis complex, this study revealed the genomic relationships, polyploid forming and diverging times, and diploidization process, based on phylogeny, molecular-clock analyses and fluorescent in situ hybridization using genome-specific

SUBMITTER: Wang B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2770061 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature