Abstract Background Foxtail millet (Setaria italica) harbors the small diploid genome (~ 450
Mb) and shows the high inbreeding rate and close relationship to several major foods, feed …

Crop plant breeding involves selecting and developing new plant varieties with desirable
traits such as increased yield, improved disease resistance, and enhanced nutritional value …

Abstract Background Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) is one of the most important forage
resources in the world due to its high nutritive value. However, its nutritional quality …

The crop legumes such as chickpea, common bean, cowpea, peanut, pigeonpea, soybean,
etc. are important sources of nutrition and contribute to a significant amount of biological …

Brassica oleracea is an important species due to its high economic and nutritional value.
Moreover, it is an ideal model for studies of morphology and genome evolution. In the …

Sesame is one of the oldest oil crops in the world and is widely grown in the tropical and
subtropical areas of Asia, Africa and America. Upon the completion of the sesame reference …

Medicago truncatula has acted as the model species for alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.
complex), which is the most widely grown forage legume worldwide. Improving forage …

The majority of the most economically important plant and crop species are enriched with
the availability of high-quality reference genome sequences forming the basis of gene …

Omics technologies are high throughput technologies and belong to the concept of systems
biology, which mainly includes genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics …

As one of the most important crops to supply the majority of plant oil and protein for the
whole world, soybean is facing an increasing global demand. The reference genome of …