From assemblies to ancestry: Genomic advances illuminates legume evolution
Thiago Nascimento1, Andrea Pedrosa-Harand1
1Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Centro de Biociências, Departamento de Botânica, Laboratório de Citogenética e Evolução Vegetal , Recife, PE, Brazil.
Abstract:
Legumes are diverse, wide-spread and important both ecologically and economically. These features prompted the establishment of hundreds of genome assemblies as resources to investigate key biological questions. In this review, we introduce the reader to the Fabaceae (Leguminosae) family highlighting the importance and great diversity of this group of plants. The major insights gained from studying genomic variation in the legumes are discussed, with focus on whole genome duplications, ancestral chromosome numbers and key biological novelties such as the ability to fix nitrogen through symbiosis with bacteria.
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