ReviewCurrent opinion in plant biology2016
Of dups and dinos: evolution at the K/Pg boundary.
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- Desiccation tolerance mechanisms in the green lineage and beyond.The New phytologist · 2026Review
- Using reciprocally retained gene families to detect whole-genome multiplications in plants.Genome biology · 2026Article
- The frequency and importance of polyploidy in tropical rainforest tree radiations.The New phytologist · 2026Article
- Multiple Autopolyploid Arabidopsis lyrata Populations Stabilized by Long-Range Adaptive Introgression Across Eurasia.Molecular biology and evolution · 2025Article
- Evolution of Plant Conserved microRNAs After Whole-Genome Duplications.Genome biology and evolution · 2025Article
- Advancing terrestrial ecology by improving cross-temporal research and collaboration.Bioscience · 2025Review
- New beginnings for dead ends: polyploidy, -SSE models and the dead-end hypothesis.Annals of botany · 2024Review
- Accurate Inference of the Polyploid Continuum Using Forward-Time Simulations.Molecular biology and evolution · 2024Article
- A metabolic perspective on polyploid invasion and the emergence of life histories: Insights from a mechanistic model.American journal of botany · 2024Article
- The duplication of genomes and genetic networks and its potential for evolutionary adaptation and survival during environmental turmoil.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Recurrent allopolyploidizations diversify ecophysiological traits in marsh orchids (Dactylorhiza majalis s.l.).Molecular ecology · 2023Article
- Ancestral self-compatibility facilitates the establishment of allopolyploids in Brassicaceae.Plant reproduction · 2023Review
- The end-Cretaceous plant extinction: Heterogeneity, ecosystem transformation, and insights for the future.Cambridge prisms. Extinction · 2023Review
- The genome of the king protea, Protea cynaroides.The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology · 2023Article
- Evolution of the DEHYDRATION-RESPONSIVE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN subfamily in green plants.Plant physiology · 2022Article
- Impact of polyploidy on plant tolerance to abiotic and biotic stresses.Frontiers in plant science · 2022Review
- Reciprocal allopolyploid grasses (Festuca × Lolium) display stable patterns of genome dominance.The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology · 2021Article
- Linked by Ancestral Bonds: Multiple Whole-Genome Duplications and Reticulate Evolution in a Brassicaceae Tribe.Molecular biology and evolution · 2021Article
- The Origin of the Legumes is a Complex Paleopolyploid Phylogenomic Tangle Closely Associated with the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) Mass Extinction Event.Systematic biology · 2021Article
- Comparative regulomics supports pervasive selection on gene dosage following whole genome duplication.Genome biology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Fifteen years into sequencing entire plant genomes, more than 30 paleopolyploidy events could be mapped on the tree of flowering plants (and many more when also transcriptome data sets are considered). While some genome duplications are very old and have occurred early in the evolution of dicots and monocots, or even before, others are more recent and seem to have occurred independently in many different plant lineages. Strikingly, a majority of these duplications date somewhere between 55 and 75 million years ago (mya), and thus likely correlate with the K/Pg boundary. If true, this would suggest that plants that had their genome duplicated at that time, had an increased chance to survive the most recent mass extinction event, at 66mya, which wiped out a majority of plant and animal life, including all non-avian dinosaurs. Here, we review several processes, both neutral and adaptive, that might explain the establishment of polyploid plants, following the K/Pg mass extinction.
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