Genomic profiling of dioecious Amaranthus species provides novel insights into species relatedness and sex genes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Amaranthus L. is a diverse genus consisting of domesticated, weedy, and non-invasive species distributed around the world. Nine species are dioecious, of which Amaranthus palmeri S. Watson and Amaranthus tuberculatus (Moq.) J.D. Sauer are troublesome weeds of agronomic crops in the USA and elsewhere. Shallow relationships among the dioecious Amaranthus species and the conservation of candidate genes within previously identified A. palmeri and A. tuberculatus male-specific regions of the Y (MSYs) in other dioecious species are poorly understood. In this study, seven genomes of dioecious amaranths were obtained by paired-end short-read sequencing and combined with short reads of seventeen species in the family Amaranthaceae from NCBI database. The species were phylogenomic

SUBMITTER: Raiyemo DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9940365 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature