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Horizontal genome transfer as an asexual path to the formation of new species.
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- Grafting enhances growth vigor and photosynthetic capacity in the progeny of critically endangered Abies beshanzuensis.BMC plant biology · 2025Article
- Horizontal Gene Transfer in Plants and Implications for Biotechnology.Plant-environment interactions (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2025Review
- A nuclear-encoded endonuclease governs the paternal transmission of mitochondria in Cucumis plants.Nature communications · 2025Article
- The biology of grafting and its applications in studying information exchange between plants.Nature plants · 2025Review
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- Modern and historical uses of plant grafting to engineer development, stress tolerance, chimeras, and hybrids.The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology · 2025Review
- Translocation of green fluorescent protein in homo- and hetero-transgrafted plants.Plant biotechnology (Tokyo, Japan) · 2024Article
- Horizontal transfer of plasmid-like extrachromosomal circular DNAs across graft junctions in Solanaceae.Molecular horticulture · 2024Article
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- Advances in understanding the graft healing mechanism: a review of factors and regulatory pathways.Horticulture research · 2024Article
- Genome-wide analysis of horizontal transfer in non-model wild species from a natural ecosystem reveals new insights into genetic exchange in plants.PLoS genetics · 2023Article
- Comparative study on comprehensive quality of Xinhui chenpi by two main plant propagation techniques.Food science & nutrition · 2023Article
- Scion-to-Rootstock Mobile Transcription FactorInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2022Article
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Abstract
Allopolyploidization, the combination of the genomes from two different species, has been a major source of evolutionary innovation and a driver of speciation and environmental adaptation. In plants, it has also contributed greatly to crop domestication, as the superior properties of many modern crop plants were conferred by ancient allopolyploidization events. It is generally thought that allopolyploidization occurred through hybridization events between species, accompanied or followed by genome duplication. Although many allopolyploids arose from closely related species (congeners), there are also allopolyploid species that were formed from more distantly related progenitor species belonging to different genera or even different tribes. Here we have examined the possibility that allopolyploidization can also occur by asexual mechanisms. We show that upon grafting--a mechanism of plant-plant interaction that is widespread in nature--entire nuclear genomes can be transferred between plant cells. We provide direct evidence for this process resulting in speciation by creating a new allopolyploid plant species from a herbaceous species and a woody species in the nightshade family. The new species is fertile and produces fertile progeny. Our data highlight natural grafting as a potential asexual mechanism of speciation and also provide a method for the generation of novel allopolyploid crop species.
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