Publications by authors named "Zahin Ali"
Ferns are essential for understanding plant evolution; however, their large and intricate genomes have kept their genetic landscape largely unexplored, with only a few genomes sequenced and limited transcriptomic data available. To bridge this gap, we generated extensive RNA-sequencing data across various organs from 22 representative fern species, resulting in high-quality transcriptome assemblies. These data enabled us to construct a time-calibrated phylogeny for ferns, encompassing all major clades, which revealed numerous instances of whole-genome duplication.
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- Tea is a widely consumed beverage that offers various health benefits and is derived from the diverse tea plant (Camellia sinensis), which has different genetic traits across cultivars that affect their characteristics.
- Researchers have gathered extensive RNA-seq data on several tea cultivars, including a comparative analysis of 9 tea cultivars' transcriptomes and coding sequences of 13 cultivars.
- The web resource TeaNekT was developed to predict gene functions and it revealed that the 'Anji Baicha' cultivar has unique genes related to cold stress response and chloroplast structure, highlighting its distinct genetic adaptations.
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- Zygnematophyceae, a group of filamentous algae, are closely related to land plants, and this study sequenced four of their genomes, creating detailed chromosome-scale assemblies for three strains of Zygnema circumcarinatum.
- The research identified key traits in their common ancestor with land plants that may have enabled plants to adapt to life on land, including expanded genes for signaling, environmental responses, and multicellular growth.
- Additionally, the study revealed shared enzymes for cell wall synthesis between Zygnematophyceae and land plants, suggesting a genetic framework that integrates environmental responses with developmental growth over 600 million years of evolution.
The filamentous and unicellular algae of the class Zygnematophyceae are the closest algal relatives of land plants. Inferring the properties of the last common ancestor shared by these algae and land plants allows us to identify decisive traits that enabled the conquest of land by plants. We sequenced four genomes of filamentous Zygnematophyceae (three strains of and one strain of ) and generated chromosome-scale assemblies for all strains of the emerging model system .
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