Capsella grandiflora is a species of flowering plant in the Brassicaceae family.[1] It is referred to by the common name grand shepherd's-purse and is a close relative of Arabidopsis thaliana. It is predicted together with Capsella orientalis to be the surviving progenitor of Capsella bursa-pastoris.[3]

Capsella grandiflora
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Brassicales
Family: Brassicaceae
Genus: Capsella
Species:
C. grandiflora
Binomial name
Capsella grandiflora
(Fauché & Chaub.) Boiss.[1][2]
Synonyms

Bursa grandiflora (Fauché & Chaub.) Kuntze
Thlaspi grandiflorum Fauché & Chaub.

The main signature of this plant compared to other Capsella species is its wide flower petals.[4] Together with Capsella rubella, this plant is used as a model plant to study the evolution of self-incompatibility into self-compatibility in plant reproduction.[5]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Capsella grandiflora (Fauché & Chaub.) Boiss". Plants of the World Online. The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. n.d. Retrieved September 21, 2020.
  2. ^ "Capsella grandiflora (Fauché & Chaub.) Boiss". World Flora Online. The World Flora Online Consortium. n.d. Retrieved September 21, 2020.
  3. ^ Douglas, Gavin M.; Gos, Gesseca; Steige, Kim A.; Salcedo, Adriana; Holm, Karl; Josephs, Emily B.; Arunkumar, Ramesh; ?gren, J. Arvid; Hazzouri, Khaled M.; Wang, Wei; Platts, Adrian E.; Williamson, Robert J.; Neuffer, Barbara; Lascoux, Martin; Slotte, Tanja; Wright, Stephen I. (3 March 2015). "Hybrid origins and the earliest stages of diploidization in the highly successful recent polyploid". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112 (9): 2806–2811. doi:10.1073/pnas.1412277112. PMC 4352811. PMID 25691747.
  4. ^ Eckardt, N. A. (27 September 2011). "A Sense of Self: Exploring the Selfing Syndrome in Capsella". The Plant Cell Online. 23 (9): 3086. doi:10.1105/tpc.111.230913. PMC 3203441. PMID 21954466.
  5. ^ Guo, Y.-L.; Bechsgaard, J. S.; Slotte, T.; Neuffer, B.; Lascoux, M.; Weigel, D.; Schierup, M. H. (2009). "Recent speciation of Capsella rubella from Capsella grandiflora, associated with loss of self-incompatibility and an extreme bottleneck". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106 (13): 5246–5251. Bibcode:2009PNAS..106.5246G. doi:10.1073/pnas.0808012106. PMC 2659713. PMID 19307580.