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Cytogenomic analysis of key aspects of nuclear genome organisation in the polyploid model grass Brachypodium hybridum and its evolutionary ancestors

2018/31/B/NZ3/01761

Keywords:

Brachypodium B. hybridum chromatin epigenetics FISH interphase nucleus model grass live-cell CRISPR imaging nucleolar dominance plant molecular cytogenetics polyploidy rDNA resynthesis

Descriptors:

  • NZ2_5: Cell genetics
  • NZ3_1: Cell biology
  • NZ1_1: Molecular biology

Panel:

NZ3 - Cellular and developmental biology: cell biology, developmental biology, ageing biology, neurobiology

Host institution :

Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach, Wydział Nauk Przyrodniczych

woj. śląskie

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

prof. Robert Hasterok 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 9

Call: OPUS 16 - announced on 2018-09-14

Amount awarded: 2 342 400 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2019-09-30

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2024-09-29

Project duration:: 36 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Pending project

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  • Publication in academic press/journals (8)
  1. Twenty years of Brachypodium as a model system to study grass biology – quo vadis?
    Authors:
    Robert Hasterok, Pilar Catalan, Samuel P. Hazen, Anne C. Roulin, John P. Vogel, Kai Wang, Luis A. J. Mur
    Academic press:
    Trends in Plant Science (rok: 2022, tom: 27, strony: 1002-1016), Wydawca: Elsevier Science London
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1016/j.tplants.2022.04.008 - link to the publication
  2. From single cell to plants: mesophyll protoplasts as a versatile system for investigating plant cell reprogramming
    Authors:
    Taras Pasternak, Kateryna Lystvan, Alexander Betekhtin, Robert Hasterok
    Academic press:
    International Journal of Molecular Sciences (rok: 2020, tom: 21, strony: 4195 (1-14)), Wydawca: MDPI
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3390/ijms21124195 - link to the publication
  3. The utility of graph clustering of 5S ribosomal DNA homoeologs in plant allopolyploids, homoploid hybrids, and cryptic introgressants
    Authors:
    Sònia Garcia, Jonathan F. Wendel, Natalia Borowska-Zuchowska, Malika Aïnouche, Alena Kuderova, Ales Kovarik
    Academic press:
    Frontiers in Plant Science (rok: 2020, tom: 11, strony: 41 (1-14)), Wydawca: Frontiers Media S.A.
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3389/fpls.2020.00041 - link to the publication
  4. Multiple origins, one evolutionary trajectory: gradual evolution characterizes distinct lineages of allotetraploid Brachypodium
    Authors:
    Virginia T. Scarlett, John T. Lovell, Mingqin Shao, Jeremy Phillips, Shengqiang Shu, Joanna Lusinska, David M. Goodstein, Jerry Jenkins, Jane Grimwood, Kerrie Barry, Boulos Chalhoub, Jeremy Schmutz, Robert Hasterok, Pilar Catalan, John P. Vogel
    Academic press:
    Genetics (rok: 2022, tom: 223, strony: iyac146 (1-14)), Wydawca: Oxford University Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1093/genetics/iyac146 - link to the publication
  5. Progressive refinement of the karyotyping of Brachypodium genomes
    Authors:
    Robert Hasterok, Kai Wang, Glyn Jenkins
    Academic press:
    New Phytologist (rok: 2020, tom: 227, strony: 1668–1675), Wydawca: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1111/nph.16342 - link to the publication
  6. To be or not to be expressed: the first evidence of a nucleolar dominance tissue-specificity in Brachypodium hybridum
    Authors:
    Natalia Borowska-Zuchowska, Ewa Robaszkiewicz, Serhii Mykhailyk, Joanna Wartini, Artur Pinski, Ales Kovarik, Robert Hasterok
    Academic press:
    Frontiers in Plant Science (rok: 2021, tom: 12, strony: 768347 (1-13)), Wydawca: Frontiers Media S.A.
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3389/fpls.2021.768347/full - link to the publication
  7. Switch them off or not: selective rRNA gene repression in grasses
    Authors:
    Natalia Borowska-Zuchowska, Serhii Mykhailyk, Ewa Robaszkiewicz, Natalia Matysiak, Lukasz Mielanczyk, Romuald Wojnicz, Ales Kovarik, Robert Hasterok
    Academic press:
    Trends in Plant Science (rok: 2023, tom: 28, strony: 661-672), Wydawca: Elsevier Science London
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1016/j.tplants.2023.01.002 - link to the publication
  8. The fate of 35S rRNA genes in the allotetraploid grass Brachypodium hybridum
    Authors:
    Natalia Borowska-Zuchowska, Ales Kovarik, Ewa Robaszkiewicz, Metin Tuna, Gulsemin Savas Tuna, Sean Gordon, John P. Vogel, Robert Hasterok
    Academic press:
    Plant Journal (rok: 2020, tom: 103, strony: 1810–1825), Wydawca: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1111/tpj.14869 - link to the publication