Sexy Ways: Approaches to Studying Plant Sex Chromosomes

Overview

Journal J Exp Bot

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Biology

Date 2024 Apr 23

PMID 38652048

Authors

Roman Hobza

Vaclav Bacovsky

Radim Cegan

Lucie Horakova

Marcel Hubinsky

Tomas Janicek

Bohuslav Janousek

Pavel Jedlicka

Jana Kruzlicova

Zdenek Kubat

Jose Luis Rodriguez Lorenzo

Pavla Novotna

Vojtech Hudzieczek

Affiliations

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Abstract

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.

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