Functional and morphological evolution in gymnosperms: A portrait of implicated gene families.

ABSTRACT: Gymnosperms diverged from their sister plant clade of flowering plants 300 Mya. Morphological and functional divergence between the two major seed plant clades involved significant changes in their reproductive biology, water-conducting systems, secondary metabolism, stress defense mechanisms, and small RNA-mediated epigenetic silencing. The relatively recent sequencing of several gymnosperm genomes and the development of new genomic resources have enabled whole-genome comparisons within gymnosperms, and between angiosperms and gymnosperms. In this paper, we aim to understand how genes and gene families have contributed to the major functional and morphological differences in gymnosperms, and how this information can be used for applied breeding and biotechnology. In addition, we have anal

SUBMITTER: De La Torre AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6935586 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature