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  • The water lily genome and the early evolution of flowering plants 
    Zhang, Liangsheng; Chen, Fei; Zhang, Xingtan; Li, Zhen; Zhao, Yiyong; Lohaus, Rolf; Chang, Xiaojun; Dong, Wei; Ho, Simon Y.W.; Liu, Xing; Song, Aixia; Chen, Junhao; Guo, Wenlei; Wang, Zhengjia; Zhuang, Yingyu; Wang, Haifeng; Chen, Xuequn; Hu, Juan; Liu, Yanhui; Qin, Yuan; Wang, Kai; Dong, Shanshan; Liu, Yang; Zhang, Shouzhou; Yu, Xianxian; Wu, Qian; Wang, Liangsheng; Yan, Xueqing; Jiao, Yuannian; Kong, Hongzhi; Zhou, Xiaofan; Yu, Cuiwei; Chen, Yuchu; Li, Fan; Wang, Jihua; Chen, Wei; Chen, Xinlu; Jia, Qidong; Zhang, Chi; Jiang, Yifan; Zhang, Wanbo; Liu, Guanhua; Fu, Jianyu; Chen, Feng; Ma, Hong; Van de Peer, Yves; Tang, Haibao (Nature Publishing Group, 2020-01-02)
    Water lilies belong to the angiosperm order Nymphaeales. Amborellales, Nymphaeales and Austrobaileyales together form the so-called ANA-grade of angiosperms, which are extant representatives of lineages that diverged the ...
  • The Welwitschia genome reveals a unique biology underpinning extreme longevity in deserts 
    Wan, Tao; Liu, Zhiming; Leitch, Ilia J.; Xin, Haiping; Maggs-Kolling, Gillian; Gong, Yanbing; Li, Zhen; Marais, Eugene; Liao, Yiying; Dai, Can; Liu, Fan; Wu, Qijia; Song, Chi; Zhou, Yadong; Huang, Weichang; Jiang, Kai; Wang, Qi; Yang, Yong; Zhong, Zhixiang; Yang, Ming; Yan, Xue; Hu, Guangwan; Hou, Chen; Su, Yingjuan; Feng, Shixiu; Yang, Ji; Yan, Jijun; Chu, Jinfang; Chen, Fan; Ran, Jinhua; Wang, Xiaoquan; Van de Peer, Yves; Leitch, Andrew R.; Wang, Qingfeng (Nature Research, 2021)
    The gymnosperm Welwitschia mirabilis belongs to the ancient, enigmatic gnetophyte lineage. It is a unique desert plant with extreme longevity and two ever-elongating leaves. We present a chromosome-level assembly of its ...
  • Which MAT gene? Pezizomycotina (Ascomycota) mating-type gene nomenclature reconsidered 
    Wilken, Pieter Markus; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora; Wingfield, Michael J.; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Wingfield, Brenda D. (Elsevier, 2017-09)
    Filamentous fungi in the subdivision Pezizomycotina (Ascomycota) display an impressive diversity of mating strategies. These mating systems are all controlled by the mating-type (MAT) genes, some of which are conserved, ...
  • Whole genome analysis suggests that Burkholderia sensu lato contains two additional novel genera (Mycetohabitans gen. nov., and Trinickia gen. nov.) : implications for the evolution of diazotrophy and nodulation in the Burkholderiaceae 
    Estrada-de los Santos, Paulina; Palmer, Marike; Chávez-Ramírez, Belén; Beukes, Chrizelle Winsie; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora; Briscoe, Leah; Khan, Noor; Maluk, Marta; Marcel Lafos; Humm, Ethan; Arrabit, Monique; Crook, Matthew; Gross, Eduardo; Simon, Marcelo F.; Dos Reis Junior, Fabio Bueno; Whitman, William B.; Shapiro, Nicole; Poole, Philip S.; Hirsch, Ann M.; Venter, S.N. (Stephanus Nicolaas); James, Euan K. (Elsevier, 2018-08-01)
    Burkholderia sensu lato is a large and complex group, containing pathogenic, phytopathogenic, symbiotic and non-symbiotic strains from a very wide range of environmental (soil, water, plants, fungi) and clinical (animal, ...
  • Whole genome-based characterization of Listeria monocytogenes isolates recovered from the food chain in South Africa 
    Mafuna, Thendo; Matle, Itumeleng; Magwedere, Kudakwashe; Pierneef, Rian Ewald; Reva, Oleg N. (Frontiers Media, 2021-07-02)
    Listeria monocytogenes is an important foodborne pathogen which has the ability to adapt and survive in food and food processing facilities where it can persist for years. In this study, a total of 143 L. monocytogenes ...
  • Whole-genome microsynteny-based phylogeny of angiosperms 
    Zhao, Tao; Zwaenepoel, Arthur; Xue, Jia-Yu; Kao, Shu-Min; Li, Zhen; Schranz, M. Eric; Van de Peer, Yves (Nature Research, 2021-06)
    Plant genomes vary greatly in size, organization, and architecture. Such structural differences may be highly relevant for inference of genome evolution dynamics and phylogeny. Indeed, microsynteny—the conservation of ...
  • Widespread occurrence of "Candidatus liberibacter africanus subspecies capensis" in Calodendrum capense in South Africa 
    Phahladira, McLedwaba Nkgobe Baby; Viljoen, Ronel; Pietersen, Gerhard (Springer, 2012-09)
    Recent studies in citrus orchards confirmed that Citrus Greening, a heat sensitive citrus disease, similar to Huanglongbing (HLB), is associated with the presence of “Candidatus Liberibacter africanus” (Laf) in South ...
  • “Winter is coming” : how did polyploid plants survive? 
    Li, Zhen; Van de Peer, Yves (Elsevier, 2020-01)
    No abstract available.
  • Wolfberry genomes and the evolution of Lycium (Solanaceae) 
    Cao, You-Long; Li, Yan-long; Fan, Yun-Fang; Li, Zhen; Yoshida, Kouki; Wang, Jie-Yu; Ma, Xiao-Kai; Wang, Ning; Mitsuda, Nobutaka; Kotake, Toshihisa; Ishimizu, Takeshi; Tsai, Kun-Chan; Niu, Shan-Ce; Zhang, Diyang; Sun, Wei-Hong; Luo, Qing; Zhao, Jian-Hua; Yin, Yue; Zhang, Bo; Wang, Jun-Yi; Qin, Ken; An, Wei; He, Jun; Dai, Guo-Li; Wang, Ya-Jun; Shi, Zhi-Gang; Jiao, En-Ning; Wu, Peng-Ju; Liu, Xuedie; Liu, Bin; Liao, Xing-Yu; Jiang, Yu-Ting; Yu, Xia; Hao, Yang; Xu, Xin-Yu; Zou, Shuang-Quan; Li, Ming-He; Hsiao, Yu-Yun; Lin, Yu-Fu; Liang, Chieh-Kai; Chen, You-Yi; Wu, Wan-Lin; Lu, Hsiang-Chai; Lan, Si-Ren; Wang, Zhi-Wen; Zhao, Xiang; Zhong, Wen-Ying; Yeh, Chuan-Ming; Tsai, Wen-Chieh; Van de Peer, Yves; Liu, Zhong-Jian (Nature Research, 2021-06)
    Wolfberry Lycium, an economically important genus of the Solanaceae family, contains approximately 80 species and shows a fragmented distribution pattern among the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Although several ...
  • Wood architecture and composition are deeply remodeled in frost sensitive eucalyptus overexpressing CBF/DREB1 transcription factors 
    Cao, Phi Bang; Ployet, Raphael; Nguyen, Chien; Dupas, Annabelle; Ladouce, Nathalie; Martinez, Yves; Grima-Pettenati, Jacqueline; Marque, Christiane; Mounet, Fabien; Teulieres, Chantal (MDPI, 2020-04)
    Eucalypts are the most planted trees worldwide, but most of them are frost sensitive. Overexpressing transcription factors for CRT-repeat binding factors (CBFs) in transgenic Eucalyptus confer cold resistance both in leaves ...
  • Worth its salt : a histone acetyltransferase gene enhances salt tolerance in bread wheat 
    Roodt, Danielle (American Society of Plant Biologists, 2021-08)
    No available abstract.
  • Wounds on Rapanea melanophloeos provide habitat for a large diversity of Ophiostomatales including four new species 
    Musvuugwa, Tendai; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Duong, Tuan A.; Dreyer, Leanne Laurette; Oberlander, Kenneth C.; Roets, Francois (Springer, 2016-06)
    Rapanea melanophloeos, an important canopy tree in Afromontane forests, is commonly utilised for medicinal bark harvesting. Wounds created from these activities provide entrance for many fungi, including arthropod-associated ...
  • Xanthomonas perforans: a tomato and pepper pathogen associated with bacterial blight and dieback of Eucalyptus pellita seedlings in Indonesia 
    Bophela, Khumbuzile Nokwanda; Venter, S.N. (Stephanus Nicolaas); Wingfield, Michael J.; Duran, A.; Tarigan, Marthin; Coutinho, Teresa A. (Springer, 2019-11)
    Leaf and shoot blight, often accompanied by die-back symptoms, on Eucalyptus species, hybrids and clones have been reported from a number of countries. More than one bacterial species has been found to cause these symptoms. ...
  • Xylan in the middle : understanding xylan biosynthesis and its metabolic dependencies toward improving wood fiber for industrial processing 
    Wierzbicki, Martin Piotr; Maloney, Victoria; Mizrachi, Eshchar; Myburg, Alexander Andrew (Frontiers Media, 2019-02)
    Lignocellulosic biomass, encompassing cellulose, lignin and hemicellulose in plant secondary cell walls (SCWs), is the most abundant source of renewable materials on earth. Currently, fast-growing woody dicots such as ...