2023
Guerrero-Rubio, MA., Walker-Hale, N., Guo, R., Sheehan, H., Timoneda, A., Gandia-Herrero, F. and Brockington, SF., 2023. Are seven amino acid substitutions sufficient to explain the evolution of high l-DOPA 4,5-dioxygenase activity leading to betalain pigmentation? Revisiting the gain-of-function mutants of Bean et al. (2018). New Phytol,
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Feng, T., Pucker, B., Kuang, T., Song, B., Yang, Y., Lin, N., Zhang, H., Moore, MJ., Brockington, SF., Wang, Q., Deng, T., Wang, H. and Sun, H., 2023. The genome of the glasshouse plant noble rhubarb (Rheum nobile) provides a window into alpine adaptation. Commun Biol, v. 6
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2022
Lopez-Nieves, S., El-Azaz, J., Men, Y., Holland, CK., Feng, T., Brockington, SF., Jez, JM. and Maeda, HA., 2022. Two independently evolved natural mutations additively deregulate TyrA enzymes and boost tyrosine production in planta. Plant J, v. 109
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Wilson, B., LAZKOV, GA., SHALPYKOV, KT. and BROCKINGTON, SF., 2022. Tulipa toktogulica (Liliaceae), a cryptic, endangered new species from the western Tien-Shan, Kyrgyzstan Phytotaxa, v. 566
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2021
Morales-Briones, DF., Kadereit, G., Tefarikis, DT., Moore, MJ., Smith, SA., Brockington, SF., Timoneda, A., Yim, WC., Cushman, JC. and Yang, Y., 2021. Disentangling Sources of Gene Tree Discordance in Phylogenomic Data Sets: Testing Ancient Hybridizations in Amaranthaceae s.l. Syst Biol, v. 70
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Pucker, B., Singh, HB., Kumari, M., Khan, MI. and Brockington, SF., 2021. The report of anthocyanins in the betalain-pigmented genus Hylocereus is not well evidenced and is not a strong basis to refute the mutual exclusion paradigm. BMC Plant Biol, v. 21
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Timoneda, A., Yunusov, T., Quan, C., Gavrin, A., Brockington, SF. and Schornack, S., 2021. MycoRed: Betalain pigments enable in vivo real-time visualisation of arbuscular mycorrhizal colonisation. PLoS Biol, v. 19
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2019
Yao, G., Jin, J-J., Li, H-T., Yang, J-B., Mandala, VS., Croley, M., Mostow, R., Douglas, NA., Chase, MW., Christenhusz, MJM., Soltis, DE., Soltis, PS., Smith, SA., Brockington, SF., Moore, MJ., Yi, T-S. and Li, D-Z., 2019. Plastid phylogenomic insights into the evolution of Caryophyllales. Mol Phylogenet Evol, v. 134
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2018
Smith, SA., Brown, JW., Yang, Y., Bruenn, R., Drummond, CP., Brockington, SF., Walker, JF., Last, N., Douglas, NA. and Moore, MJ., 2018. Disparity, diversity, and duplications in the Caryophyllales. New Phytol, v. 217
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Yang, Y., Moore, MJ., Brockington, SF., Mikenas, J., Olivieri, J., Walker, JF. and Smith, SA., 2018. Improved transcriptome sampling pinpoints 26 ancient and more recent polyploidy events in Caryophyllales, including two allopolyploidy events. New Phytol, v. 217
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Lopez-Nieves, S., Yang, Y., Timoneda, A., Wang, M., Feng, T., Smith, SA., Brockington, SF. and Maeda, HA., 2018. Relaxation of tyrosine pathway regulation underlies the evolution of betalain pigmentation in Caryophyllales. New Phytologist, v. 217
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Walker, JF., Yang, Y., Feng, T., Timoneda, A., Mikenas, J., Hutchison, V., Edwards, C., Wang, N., Ahluwalia, S., Olivieri, J., Walker-Hale, N., Majure, LC., Puente, R., Kadereit, G., Lauterbach, M., Eggli, U., Flores-Olvera, H., Ochoterena, H., Brockington, SF., Moore, MJ. and Smith, SA., 2018. From cacti to carnivores: Improved phylotranscriptomic sampling and hierarchical homology inference provide further insight into the evolution of Caryophyllales. Am J Bot, v. 105
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Cheng, S., Melkonian, M., Smith, SA., Brockington, S., Archibald, JM., Delaux, P-M., Li, F-W., Melkonian, B., Mavrodiev, EV., Sun, W., Fu, Y., Yang, H., Soltis, DE., Graham, SW., Soltis, PS., Liu, X., Xu, X. and Wong, GK-S., 2018. 10KP: A phylodiverse genome sequencing plan. Gigascience, v. 7
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Timoneda, A., Sheehan, H., Feng, T., Lopez-Nieves, S., Maeda, HA. and Brockington, S., 2018. Redirecting Primary Metabolism to Boost Production of Tyrosine-Derived Specialised Metabolites in Planta. Sci Rep, v. 8
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2017
Yang, Y., Moore, MJ., Brockington, SF., Timoneda, A., Feng, T., Marx, HE., Walker, JF. and Smith, SA., 2017. An efficient field and laboratory workflow for plant phylotranscriptomic projects. Appl Plant Sci, v. 5
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Walker, JF., Yang, Y., Moore, MJ., Mikenas, J., Timoneda, A., Brockington, SF. and Smith, SA., 2017. Widespread paleopolyploidy, gene tree conflict, and recalcitrant relationships among the carnivorous Caryophyllales. Am J Bot, v. 104
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2016
Hunter, LJR., Brockington, SF., Murphy, AM., Pate, AE., Gruden, K., MacFarlane, SA., Palukaitis, P. and Carr, JP., 2016. RNA-dependent RNA polymerase 1 in potato (Solanum tuberosum) and its relationship to other plant RNA-dependent RNA polymerases. Sci Rep, v. 6
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Chase, MW., Christenhusz, MJM., Fay, MF., Byng, JW., Judd, WS., Soltis, DE., Mabberley, DJ., Sennikov, AN., Soltis, PS., Stevens, PF., Briggs, B., Brockington, S., Chautems, A., Clark, JC., Conran, J., Haston, E., Möller, M., Moore, M., Olmstead, R., Perret, M., Skog, L., Smith, J., Tank, D., Vorontsova, M. and Weber, A., 2016. An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 181
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2015
Brockington, SF., Moyroud, E., Sayou, C., Monniaux, M., Nanao, MH., Thévenon, E., Chahtane, H., Warthmann, N., Melkonian, M., Zhang, Y., Wong, GK-S., Weigel, D., Dumas, R. and Parcy, F., 2015. Evolution. Response to Comment on "A promiscuous intermediate underlies the evolution of LEAFY DNA binding specificity". Science, v. 347
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Yang, Y., Moore, MJ., Brockington, SF., Soltis, DE., Wong, GK-S., Carpenter, EJ., Zhang, Y., Chen, L., Yan, Z., Xie, Y., Sage, RF., Covshoff, S., Hibberd, JM., Nelson, MN. and Smith, SA., 2015. Dissecting Molecular Evolution in the Highly Diverse Plant Clade Caryophyllales Using Transcriptome Sequencing. Mol Biol Evol, v. 32
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Glover, BJ., Airoldi, CA., Brockington, SF., Fernández-Mazuecos, M., Martínez-Pérez, C., Mellers, G., Moyroud, E. and Taylor, L., 2015. How have advances in comparative floral development influenced our understanding of floral evolution? International Journal of Plant Sciences, v. 176
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Brockington, SF., Yang, Y., Gandia-Herrero, F., Covshoff, S., Hibberd, JM., Sage, RF., Wong, GKS., Moore, MJ. and Smith, SA., 2015. Lineage-specific gene radiations underlie the evolution of novel betalain pigmentation in Caryophyllales. New Phytol, v. 207
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2014
Sayou, C., Monniaux, M., Nanao, MH., Moyroud, E., Brockington, SF., Thévenon, E., Chahtane, H., Warthmann, N., Melkonian, M., Zhang, Y., Wong, GKS., Weigel, D., Parcy, F. and Dumas, R., 2014. A promiscuous intermediate underlies the evolution of LEAFY DNA binding specificity Science, v. 343
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Bennett, T., Brockington, SF., Rothfels, C., Graham, SW., Stevenson, D., Kutchan, T., Rolf, M., Thomas, P., Wong, GK-S., Leyser, O., Glover, BJ. and Harrison, CJ., 2014. Paralogous radiations of PIN proteins with multiple origins of noncanonical PIN structure. Mol Biol Evol, v. 31
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Ellis, AG., Brockington, SF., de Jager, ML., Mellers, G., Walker, RH. and Glover, BJ., 2014. Floral trait variation and integration as a function of sexual deception in Gorteria diffusa. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, v. 369
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Christenhusz, MJM., Brockington, SF., Christin, PA. and Sage, RF., 2014. On the disintegration of molluginaceae: A new genus and family (Kewa, Kewaceae) segregated from Hypertelis, And placement of Macarthuria in Macarthuriaceae Phytotaxa, v. 181
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Ellis, AG., Brockington, SF., de Jager, ML., Mellers, G., Walker, RH. and Glover, BJ., 2014. Floral trait variation and integration as a function of sexual deception in Gorteria diffusa Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, v. 369
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Sayou, C., Monniaux, M., Nanao, MH., Moyroud, E., Brockington, SF., Thévenon, E., Chahtane, H., Warthmann, N., Melkonian, M., Zhang, Y., Wong, GK-S., Weigel, D., Parcy, F. and Dumas, R., 2014. A promiscuous intermediate underlies the evolution of LEAFY DNA binding specificity. Science, v. 343
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2013
Stull, GW., Moore, MJ., Mandala, VS., Douglas, NA., Kates, H-R., Qi, X., Brockington, SF., Soltis, PS., Soltis, DE. and Gitzendanner, MA., 2013. A targeted enrichment strategy for massively parallel sequencing of angiosperm plastid genomes. Appl Plant Sci, v. 1
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Brockington, S., Dos Santos, P., Glover, B. and De Craene, LR., 2013. Androecial evolution in Caryophyllales in light of a paraphyletic Molluginaceae. Am J Bot, v. 100
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Brockington, SF., Alvarez-Fernandez, R., Landis, JB., Alcorn, K., Walker, RH., Thomas, MM., Hileman, LC. and Glover, BJ., 2013. Evolutionary analysis of the MIXTA gene family highlights potential targets for the study of cellular differentiation. Mol Biol Evol, v. 30
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Glover, BJ., Walker, RH., Moyroud, E. and Brockington, SF., 2013. How to spot a flower. New Phytol, v. 197
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2012
Brockington, SF., Rudall, PJ., Frohlich, MW., Oppenheimer, DG., Soltis, PS. and Soltis, DE., 2012. 'Living stones' reveal alternative petal identity programs within the core eudicots. Plant J, v. 69
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2011
Brockington, SF., Walker, RH., Glover, BJ., Soltis, PS. and Soltis, DE., 2011. Complex pigment evolution in the Caryophyllales New Phytologist,
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2010
Chanderbali, AS., Yoo, MJ., Zahn, LM., Brockington, SF., Wall, PK., Gitzendanner, MA., Albert, VA., Leebens-Mack, J., Altman, NS., Hong, M., DePamphilis, CW., Soltis, DE. and Soltis, PS., 2010. Conservation and canalization of gene expression during angiosperm diversification accompany the origin and evolution of the flower Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, v. 107
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2009
Brockington, SF., Alexandre, R., Ramdial, J., Moore, MJ., Crawley, S., Dhingra, A., Hilu, K., Soltis, DE. and Soltisy, PS., 2009. Phylogeny of the Caryophyllales sensu lato: Revisiting hypotheses on pollination biology and perianth differentiation in the core Caryophyllales International Journal of Plant Sciences, v. 170
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Soltis, PS., Brockington, SF., Yoo, M-J., Piedrahita, A., Latvis, M., Moore, MJ., Chanderbali, AS. and Soltis, DE., 2009. Floral variation and floral genetics in basal angiosperms. Am J Bot, v. 96
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Brockington, SF., Mavrodiev, E., Ramdial, J., Dhingra, A., Soltis, PS. and Soltis, DE., 2008. Keep the DNA rolling: Multiple Displacement Amplification of archival plant DNA extracts Taxon, v. 57
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Glover, B., Airoldi, C., Hearn, T., Brockington, S. and Webb, A., TTG1 proteins regulate circadian activity as well as epidermal cell fate and pigmentation Nature Plants,
Paszkowski, U., Montero Sommerfeld, H., Lee, T., Pucker, B., Ferreras Garrucho, G., Oldroyd, G., Brockington, S. and Miyao, A., A mycorrhiza-associated receptor-like kinase with an ancient origin in the green lineage Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA,
Glover, B., Reed, A., Brockington, S. and Rudall, P., Conical petal epidermal cells, regulated by the MYB transcription factor MIXTA, have an ancient origin within the angiosperms Journal of Experimental Botany,
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