A fascinating evolutionary history as well with multiple rounds of ancient polyploidy! I would love to chat more with you to learn more about Cakile maritima’s disruptive side.

Science is a team effort! Thank you to fellow co-authors: Kathryn Vanden Hoek, Tasha Ogoti, Ha Duong, Angelovici Ruthie, @jchrispires.bsky.social , David G. Mendoza Cozatl, Jacob Washburn, and Craig Schenck.

@botsocamerica.bsky.social

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Traits observed in crop wild relatives, such as salt and heavy metal tolerance, offer invaluable insights for developing stress resilient crops and implementing scalable phytoremediation techniques to mitigate soil pollution.
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We identify retained duplicate genes that likely facilitated adaptation to these stressors. By studying genome evolution in crop wild relatives like C. maritima, we gain foundational knowledge essential for understanding the evolution of environmental resilience.
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Cakile maritima is salt and heavy metal tolerant, and a wild relative of mustard crops such as broccoli, cabbage, and canola. Employing ionomics, free amino acid profiling, and comparative genomics, we uncover insights into salt and heavy metal tolerance mechanisms.
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