Background Extensive mapping efforts are currently underway for the establishment of
comparative genomics between the model plant, Arabidopsis thaliana and various Brassica …

Transposable element (TE) is prevalent in plant genomes. However, studies on their impact
on phenotypic evolution in crop plants are relatively rare, because systematically identifying …

There is an increasing awareness that as a result of structural variation, a reference
sequence representing a genome of a single individual is unable to capture all of the gene …

Abstract Background The Brassicaceae family includes the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana
as well as a number of agronomically important species such as oilseed crops (in particular …

As an increasing number of plant genome sequences become available, it is clear that gene
content varies between individuals, and the challenge arises to predict the gene content of a …

Background Brassica oleracea is a morphologically diverse species in the family
Brassicaceae and contains a group of nutrition-rich vegetable crops, including common …