[HTML][HTML] Designing future crops: genomics-assisted breeding comes of age

RK Varshney, A Bohra, J Yu, A Graner, Q Zhang… - Trends in Plant …, 2021 - cell.com
Over the past decade, genomics-assisted breeding (GAB) has been instrumental in
harnessing the potential of modern genome resources and characterizing and exploiting …

Recent advances and future perspectives in cotton research

G Huang, JQ Huang, XY Chen… - Annual review of plant …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Cotton is not only the world's most important natural fiber crop, but it is also an ideal system
in which to study genome evolution, polyploidization, and cell elongation. With the assembly …

[HTML][HTML] Genome sequence of Gossypium herbaceum and genome updates of Gossypium arboreum and Gossypium hirsutum provide insights into cotton A …

G Huang, Z Wu, RG Percy, M Bai, Y Li… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Upon assembling the first Gossypium herbaceum (A1) genome and substantially improving
the existing Gossypium arboreum (A2) and Gossypium hirsutum ((AD) 1) genomes, we …

Genomic selection and genetic architecture of agronomic traits during modern rapeseed breeding

J Hu, B Chen, J Zhao, F Zhang, T Xie, K Xu, G Gao… - Nature Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) is an important oil-producing crop for the world. Its
adaptation, yield and quality have been considerably improved in recent decades, but the …

Resequencing of 243 diploid cotton accessions based on an updated A genome identifies the genetic basis of key agronomic traits

X Du, G Huang, S He, Z Yang, G Sun, X Ma, N Li… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The ancestors of Gossypium arboreum and Gossypium herbaceum provided the A
subgenome for the modern cultivated allotetraploid cotton. Here, we upgraded the G …

[HTML][HTML] Cotton pan-genome retrieves the lost sequences and genes during domestication and selection

J Li, D Yuan, P Wang, Q Wang… - Genome …, 2021 - genomebiology.biomedcentral.com
Millennia of directional human selection has reshaped the genomic architecture of cultivated
cotton relative to wild counterparts, but we have limited understanding of the selective …

The genomic basis of geographic differentiation and fiber improvement in cultivated cotton

S He, G Sun, X Geng, W Gong, P Dai, Y Jia, W Shi… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Large-scale genomic surveys of crop germplasm are important for understanding the
genetic architecture of favorable traits. The genomic basis of geographic differentiation and …

Resequencing a core collection of upland cotton identifies genomic variation and loci influencing fiber quality and yield

Z Ma, S He, X Wang, J Sun, Y Zhang, G Zhang, L Wu… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Upland cotton is the most important natural-fiber crop. The genomic variation of diverse
germplasms and alleles underpinning fiber quality and yield should be extensively explored …

[PDF][PDF] Genome-and transcriptome-wide association studies provide insights into the genetic basis of natural variation of seed oil content in Brassica napus

S Tang, H Zhao, S Lu, L Yu, G Zhang, Y Zhang… - Molecular Plant, 2021 - cell.com
Seed oil content (SOC) is a highly important and complex trait in oil crops. Here, we
decipher the genetic basis of natural variation in SOC of Brassica napus by genome-and …

Resequencing of 429 chickpea accessions from 45 countries provides insights into genome diversity, domestication and agronomic traits

RK Varshney, M Thudi, M Roorkiwal, W He… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
We report a map of 4.97 million single-nucleotide polymorphisms of the chickpea from whole-
genome resequencing of 429 lines sampled from 45 countries. We identified 122 candidate …