Back into the wild—Apply untapped genetic diversity of wild relatives for crop improvement

H Zhang, N Mittal, LJ Leamy, O Barazani… - Evolutionary …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Deleterious effects of climate change and human activities, as well as diverse environmental
stresses, present critical challenges to food production and the maintenance of natural …

Circadian clock genes universally control key agricultural traits

C Bendix, CM Marshall, FG Harmon - Molecular plant, 2015 - cell.com
Circadian clocks are endogenous timers that enable plants to synchronize biological
processes with daily and seasonal environmental conditions in order to allocate resources …

Improved pea reference genome and pan-genome highlight genomic features and evolutionary characteristics

T Yang, R Liu, Y Luo, S Hu, D Wang, C Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Complete and accurate reference genomes and annotations provide fundamental resources
for functional genomics and crop breeding. Here we report a de novo assembly and …

Archaeological and genetic insights into the origins of domesticated rice

BL Gross, Z Zhao - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Rice (Oryza sativa) is one of the most important cereal grains in the world today and serves
as a staple food source for more than half of the world's population. Research into when …

Epigenomic and functional analyses reveal roles of epialleles in the loss of photoperiod sensitivity during domestication of allotetraploid cottons

Q Song, T Zhang, DM Stelly, ZJ Chen - Genome biology, 2017 - Springer
Background Polyploidy is a pervasive evolutionary feature of all flowering plants and some
animals, leading to genetic and epigenetic changes that affect gene expression and …

Signatures of adaptation in the weedy rice genome

LF Li, YL Li, Y Jia, AL Caicedo, KM Olsen - Nature genetics, 2017 - nature.com
Crop domestication provided the calories that fueled the rise of civilization,,. For many crop
species, domestication was accompanied by the evolution of weedy crop relatives, which …

Increased power to dissect adaptive traits in global sorghum diversity using a nested association mapping population

S Bouchet, MO Olatoye, SR Marla, R Perumal… - Genetics, 2017 - academic.oup.com
In crop species, adaptation to different agroclimatic regions creates useful variation but also
leads to unwanted genetic correlations. Bouchet....... Adaptation of domesticated species to …

EGRINs (Environmental Gene Regulatory Influence Networks) in rice that function in the response to water deficit, high temperature, and agricultural environments

O Wilkins, C Hafemeister, A Plessis… - The Plant …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Environmental gene regulatory influence networks (EGRINs) coordinate the timing and rate
of gene expression in response to environmental signals. EGRINs encompass many layers …

Genomic analyses of rice bean landraces reveal adaptation and yield related loci to accelerate breeding

J Guan, J Zhang, D Gong, Z Zhang, Y Yu, G Luo… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Rice bean (Vigna umbellata) is an underexploited domesticated legume crop consumed for
dietary protein in Asia, yet little is known about the genetic diversity of this species. Here, we …

Copy number polymorphism in plant genomes

A Żmieńko, A Samelak, P Kozłowski… - Theoretical and applied …, 2014 - Springer
Copy number variants (CNVs) are genomic rearrangements resulting from gains or losses of
DNA segments. Typically, the term refers to rearrangements of sequences larger than 1 kb …