Reap the crop wild relatives for breeding future crops

A Bohra, B Kilian, S Sivasankar, M Caccamo… - Trends in …, 2022 - cell.com
Crop wild relatives (CWRs) have provided breeders with several'game-changing'traits or
genes that have boosted crop resilience and global agricultural production. Advances in …

Current status of structural variation studies in plants

Y Yuan, PE Bayer, J Batley… - Plant Biotechnology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Structural variations (SVs) including gene presence/absence variations and copy number
variations are a common feature of genomes in plants and, together with single nucleotide …

Graph pangenome captures missing heritability and empowers tomato breeding

Y Zhou, Z Zhang, Z Bao, H Li, Y Lyu, Y Zan, Y Wu… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Missing heritability in genome-wide association studies defines a major problem in genetic
analyses of complex biological traits,. The solution to this problem is to identify all causal …

Genome evolution and diversity of wild and cultivated potatoes

D Tang, Y Jia, J Zhang, H Li, L Cheng, P Wang, Z Bao… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is the world's most important non-cereal food crop, and the
vast majority of commercially grown cultivars are highly heterozygous tetraploids. Advances …

Super-pangenome analyses highlight genomic diversity and structural variation across wild and cultivated tomato species

N Li, Q He, J Wang, B Wang, J Zhao, S Huang… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Effective utilization of wild relatives is key to overcoming challenges in genetic improvement
of cultivated tomato, which has a narrow genetic basis; however, current efforts to decipher …

Automated assembly scaffolding using RagTag elevates a new tomato system for high-throughput genome editing

M Alonge, L Lebeigle, M Kirsche, K Jenike, S Ou… - Genome biology, 2022 - Springer
Advancing crop genomics requires efficient genetic systems enabled by high-quality
personalized genome assemblies. Here, we introduce RagTag, a toolset for automating …

AlphaFold-Multimer predicts cross-kingdom interactions at the plant-pathogen interface

F Homma, J Huang, RAL van der Hoorn - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Adapted plant pathogens from various microbial kingdoms produce hundreds of unrelated
small secreted proteins (SSPs) with elusive roles. Here, we used AlphaFold-Multimer (AFM) …

Automated assembly scaffolding elevates a new tomato system for high-throughput genome editing

M Alonge, L Lebeigle, M Kirsche, S Aganezov, X Wang… - BioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Advancing crop genomics requires efficient genetic systems enabled by high-quality
personalized genome assemblies. Here, we introduce RagTag, a toolset for automating …

Structural variation and introgression from wild populations in East Asian cattle genomes confer adaptation to local environment

X Xia, F Zhang, S Li, X Luo, L Peng, Z Dong, H Pausch… - Genome Biology, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Background Structural variations (SVs) in individual genomes are major
determinants of complex traits, including adaptability to environmental variables. The …

Unravelling inversions: Technological advances, challenges, and potential impact on crop breeding

H Hu, A Scheben, J Wang, F Li, C Li… - Plant biotechnology …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Inversions, a type of chromosomal structural variation, significantly influence plant
adaptation and gene functions by impacting gene expression and recombination rates …