Wild relatives of maize, rice, cotton, and soybean: treasure troves for tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses

J Mammadov, R Buyyarapu, SK Guttikonda… - Frontiers in plant …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Global food demand is expected to nearly double by 2050 due to an increase in the world's
population. The Green Revolution has played a key role in the past century by increasing …

Legume crops phylogeny and genetic diversity for science and breeding

P Smýkal, CJ Coyne, MJ Ambrose… - Critical Reviews in …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Economically, legumes (Fabaceae) represent the second most important family of crop
plants after the grass family, Poaceae. Grain legumes account for 27% of world crop …

De novo assembly of soybean wild relatives for pan-genome analysis of diversity and agronomic traits

Y Li, G Zhou, J Ma, W Jiang, L Jin, Z Zhang… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Wild relatives of crops are an important source of genetic diversity for agriculture, but their
gene repertoire remains largely unexplored. We report the establishment and analysis of a …

Parallel selection of distinct Tof5 alleles drove the adaptation of cultivated and wild soybean to high latitudes

L Dong, Q Cheng, C Fang, L Kong, H Yang, Z Hou, Y Li… - Molecular Plant, 2022 - cell.com
Photoperiod responsiveness is a key factor limiting the geographic distribution of cultivated
soybean and its wild ancestor. In particular, the genetic basis of the adaptation in wild …

Characterization of disease resistance genes in the Brassica napus pangenome reveals significant structural variation

A Dolatabadian, PE Bayer, S Tirnaz… - Plant biotechnology …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Methods based on single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), copy number variation (CNV)
and presence/absence variation (PAV) discovery provide a valuable resource to study gene …

Emerging avenues for utilization of exotic germplasm

C Wang, S Hu, C Gardner, T Lübberstedt - Trends in Plant Science, 2017 - cell.com
Breeders have been successful in increasing crop performance by exploiting genetic
diversity over time. However, the reported annual yield increases are not sufficient in view of …

The genetic basis of high-latitude adaptation in wild soybean

L Dong, S Li, L Wang, T Su, C Zhang, Y Bi, Y Lai… - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
In many plants, flowering time is influenced by daylength as an adaptive response. In
soybean (Glycine max) cultivars, however, photoperiodic flowering reduces crop yield and …

The Untapped Genetic Reservoir: The Past, Current, and Future Applications of the Wild Soybean (Glycine soja)

J Kofsky, H Zhang, BH Song - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2018 - frontiersin.org
There is a considerable demand for crop improvement, especially considering the
increasing growth of world population, continuing climatic fluctuations, and rapidly evolving …

Advances in host plant and rhizobium genomics to enhance symbiotic nitrogen fixation in grain legumes

SL Dwivedi, KL Sahrawat, HD Upadhyaya… - Advances in …, 2015 - Elsevier
Legumes form symbiotic relationship with root-nodule, rhizobia. The nitrogen (N 2) fixed by
legumes is a renewable source and of great importance to agriculture. Symbiotic nitrogen …

Korean soybean core collection: Genotypic and phenotypic diversity population structure and genome-wide association study

N Jeong, KS Kim, S Jeong, JY Kim, SK Park, JS Lee… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
A core collection is a subset that represents genetic diversity of the total collection. Soybean
(Glycine max (L.) Merr.) is one of major food and feed crops. It is the world's most cultivated …