[HTML][HTML] Major impacts of widespread structural variation on gene expression and crop improvement in tomato

M Alonge, X Wang, M Benoit, S Soyk, L Pereira… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Structural variants (SVs) underlie important crop improvement and domestication traits.
However, resolving the extent, diversity, and quantitative impact of SVs has been challenging. …

[HTML][HTML] The role of genomic structural variation in the genetic improvement of polyploid crops

SV Schiessl, E Katche, E Ihien, HS Chawla, AS Mason - The Crop Journal, 2019 - Elsevier
… Polyploids harbor great potential for crop improvement. The presence of extra gene copies
… polyploid than in diploid crops pose some challenges to polyploid crop improvement. These …

Pangenomics in crop improvement—from coding structural variations to finding regulatory variants with pangenome graphs

SF Zanini, PE Bayer, R Wells, RJ Snowdon… - The plant …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… such as structural variations (SVs), one of the major determinants of genetic diversity within
a species. In this review we summarize the current literature on crop … and their variations. We …

[HTML][HTML] Genome assembly of a tropical maize inbred line provides insights into structural variation and crop improvement

N Yang, J Liu, Q Gao, S Gui, LU Chen, L Yang… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
crops globally, and it shows remarkable genetic diversity. Knowledge of this diversity could
help in crop improvement… SK, we identified 80,614 polymorphic structural variants across 521 …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring and exploiting pan-genomics for crop improvement

Y Tao, X Zhao, E Mace, R Henry, D Jordan - Molecular plant, 2019 - cell.com
… Genetic variation, particularly structural variation, can result in substantial variation in functional
gene complement and gene content between individuals of the same species. To better …

Genomic innovation for crop improvement

MW Bevan, C Uauy, BBH Wulff, J Zhou, K Krasileva… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
… , for the identification of structural variation. Skim sequencing consists of low-coverage (for
example, 5–10×) Illumina reads and presents a cost-effective way of identifying genetic …

[HTML][HTML] High-quality genome assembly and resequencing of modern cotton cultivars provide resources for crop improvement

Z Ma, Y Zhang, L Wu, G Zhang, Z Sun, Z Li, Y Jiang… - Nature Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
… of structural variations in genotype-to-phenotype relationships and their potential utility in
crop improvement. … structural variations by comparing these structural variations to the specific …

Structural variations in plant genomes

RK Saxena, D Edwards… - Briefings in functional …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
… high-throughput genotyping related to the development of genomic resources and deployment
of genomics assisted breeding for crop improvement in the semi-arid tropics of the world. …

Connecting genome structural variation with complex traits in crop plants

I Gabur, HS Chawla, RJ Snowdon… - Theoretical and applied …, 2019 - Springer
… Identifying the extent and impact of structural variants in crop … origins of structural genome
variation in crops from ancient … to assay such variants in crop populations in order to find …

Exploiting induced and natural epigenetic variation for crop improvement

NM Springer, RJ Schmitz - Nature reviews genetics, 2017 - nature.com
… additional sources of variation within a species that could be captured or created for crop
improvement. It will be important to understand the sources of epigenetic variation and the …