Crop production is the primary goal of agricultural activities, which is always taken into
consideration. However, global agricultural systems are coming under increasing pressure …

Plant breeding is one of the oldest and most important activities accompanying human
civilization. During the past thousand years, plant breeding has achieved three significant …

Complete and accurate reference genomes and annotations provide fundamental resources
for functional genomics and crop breeding. Here we report a de novo assembly and …

Shoot branching is fundamentally important in determining soybean yield. Here, through
genome-wide association study, we identify one predominant association locus on …

Seed size is one of the most important agronomic traits determining the yield of crops.
Cloning the key genes controlling seed size and pyramiding their elite alleles will facilitate …

Symbiotic nitrogen fixation boosts legume growth and production in nitrogen-poor soils. It
has long been assumed that fixed nitrogen increases reproductive success, but until now …

Soybean is an important crop grown worldwide, and drought stress seriously affects the
yield and quality of soybean. Therefore, it is necessary to elucidate the molecular …

Many newly created early maturing varieties exhibit poor stress resistance and low yield,
whereas stress-resistant varieties are typically late maturing. For this reason, the …

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 …

Advanced multi-omics technologies offer much information that can uncover the regulatory
mechanisms from genotype to phenotype. In soybean, numerous multi-omics databases …