Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) can accelerate plant adaptation, but the evolutionary fate of newly acquired nuclear genes is often unclear. Here, we analyzed a papain-like cysteine peptidase horizont....

Due to climate change, the requirement for increased resilience by grassland systems to onsets of ever-increasing drought stresses makes the development of drought-resistant forage crops a priority f....

AbstractBackground and aims. Polyploidization is one of the major evolutionary forces in grasses (Poaceae), yet the genomic relationships between polyploid

Abstract. Hybridization and polyploidization combine divergent nuclear genomes with maternally inherited organelles, often disrupting cytonuclear coadaptat

Whole-genome duplication (WGD) disrupts cytonuclear balance by doubling nuclear content, requiring compensatory responses from organelles. In Arabidopsis auto- and allopolyploids, we found dynamic, o...

H3K4me3 is a fundamental and highly conserved chromatin mark across eukaryotes, playing a central role in many genome-related processes, including transcription, maintenance of cell identity, DNA dama...