Publication details
Sexy ways: the methodical approaches to study plant sex chromosomes
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Journal of Experimental Botany |
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| Citation | |
| Web | https://academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jxb/erae173/7656702 |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erae173 |
| Keywords | sex chromosomes; dioecious plants; chromosome dissection; transposable elements; epigenetics; cytogenetics; functional genetics; bioinformatics; tandem repeats |
| Description | Sex chromosomes have evolved in many plant species with separate sexes. Current plant research is shifting from examining the structure of sex chromosomes to exploring their functional aspects. New studies are progressively unveiling the specific genetic and epigenetic mechanisms responsible for shaping distinct sexes in plants. While the fundamental methods of molecular biology and genomics are generally employed for the analysis of sex chromosomes, it is often necessary to modify classical procedures not only to simplify and expedite analyses but sometimes to make them possible at all. In this review, we demonstrate how, at the level of structural and functional genetics, cytogenetics, and bioinformatics, it is essential to adapt established procedures for sex chromosome analysis. |