[HTML][HTML] Understanding Host–Pathogen Interactions in Brassica napus in the Omics Era

TX Neik, J Amas, M Barbetti, D Edwards, J Batley - Plants, 2020 - mdpi.com
Brassica napus (canola/oilseed rape/rapeseed) is an economically important crop, mostly
found in temperate and sub-tropical regions, that is cultivated widely for its edible oil. Major …

Evaluating Illumina-, Nanopore-, and PacBio-based genome assembly strategies with the bald notothen, Trematomus borchgrevinki

N Rayamajhi, CHC Cheng, JM Catchen - G3, 2022 - academic.oup.com
For any genome-based research, a robust genome assembly is required. De novo assembly
strategies have evolved with changes in DNA sequencing technologies and have been …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of agronomic performance and genetic diversity analysis using simple sequence repeats markers in selected wheat lines

O Tahir, SAK Bangash, M Ibrahim, S Shahab… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Crop improvement is the fundamental goal of plant biologists, and genetic diversity is the
base for the survival of plants in nature. In this study, we evaluated 20 wheat lines for …

[HTML][HTML] Expanding gene-editing potential in crop improvement with pangenomes

CG Tay Fernandez, BJ Nestor, MF Danilevicz… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Pangenomes aim to represent the complete repertoire of the genome diversity present
within a species or cohort of species, capturing the genomic structural variance between …

[HTML][HTML] De-novo Domestication for Improving Salt Tolerance in Crops

A Razzaq, F Saleem, SH Wani… - Frontiers in plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Global agriculture production is under serious threat from rapidly increasing population and
adverse climate changes. Food security is currently a huge challenge to feed 10 billion …

[HTML][HTML] Smart breeding for climate resilient agriculture

HS Bakala, G Singh, P Srivastava - Plant breeding-current and …, 2020 - intechopen.com
Human society is at a turning point of its time as climate change is becoming more and more
real and inevitable. From rising temperature, which undermines the food production, to …

[HTML][HTML] Pangenome obtained by long-read sequencing of 11 genomes reveal hidden functional structural variants in pigs

YF Jiang, S Wang, CL Wang, RH Xu, WW Wang… - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
Long-read sequencing (LRS) facilitates both the genome assembly and the discovery of
structural variants (SVs). Here, we built a graph-based pig pangenome by incorporating 11 …

[HTML][HTML] Tapping diversity from the wild: from sampling to implementation

S Hübner, MB Kantar - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The diversity observed among crop wild relatives (CWRs) and their ability to flourish in
unfavorable and harsh environments have drawn the attention of plant scientists and …

[HTML][HTML] Two decades of association mapping: Insights on disease resistance in major crops

SS Gangurde, A Xavier, YD Naik, UC Jha… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Climate change across the globe has an impact on the occurrence, prevalence, and severity
of plant diseases. About 30% of yield losses in major crops are due to plant diseases; …

Oil plant genomes: current state of the science

JM Song, Y Zhang, ZW Zhou, S Lu, W Ma… - Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Vegetable oils are an indispensable nutritional component of the human diet as well as
important raw materials for a variety of industrial applications such as pharmaceuticals …