Pathways to sex determination in plants: how many roads lead to Rome?

Guanqiao Feng; Brian J. Sanderson; Ken Keefover-Ring; Jianquan Liu; Tao Ma; Tongming Yin; Lawrence B. Smart; Stephen P. DiFazio; Matthew S. Olson

doi:10.1016/j.pbi.2020.01.004

Pathways to sex determination in plants: how many roads lead to Rome?

Guanqiao Feng, Brian J. Sanderson, Ken Keefover-Ring, Jianquan Liu, Tao Ma, Tongming Yin, Lawrence B. Smart, Stephen P. DiFazio, Matthew S. Olson

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Abstract

The presence of thousands of independent origins of dioecy in angiosperms provides a unique opportunity to address the parallel evolution of the molecular pathways underlying unisexual flowers. Recent progress towards identifying sex determination genes has identified hormone response pathways, mainly associated with cytokinin and ethylene response pathways, as having been recruited multiple times independently to control unisexuality. Moreover, transcriptomics has begun to identify commonalities among intermediate sections of signal transduction pathways. These recent advances set the stage for development of a comparative evolutionary development research program to identify the shared and unique aspects of the genetic pathways of unisexual flower development in angiosperms.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	61-68
Number of pages	8
Journal	Current Opinion in Plant Biology
Volume	54
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbi.2020.01.004
State	Published - Apr 2020

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Feng, G., Sanderson, B. J., Keefover-Ring, K., Liu, J., Ma, T., Yin, T., Smart, L. B., DiFazio, S. P., & Olson, M. S. (2020). Pathways to sex determination in plants: how many roads lead to Rome? Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 54, 61-68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbi.2020.01.004

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