We have witnessed an explosion in our understanding of the evolution and structure of plant
genomes in recent years. Here, we highlight three important emergent realizations:(1) that …

Societal Impact Statement Plant genomes hold the key to understanding the evolutionary
history of plants, a lineage that goes back nearly a billion years and contains nearly half a …

Highlights•NGS speed and capacity enable over 100 published plant genomes.•
Underserved specialty and orphan crop genomic resources grow due to low cost …

The sequencing of large and complex genomes of crop species, facilitated by new
sequencing technologies and bioinformatic approaches, has provided new opportunities for …

Genome sizes vary considerably across all eukaryotes and even among closely related
species. The genesis and evolutionary dynamics of that variation have generated …

The genome sequence of the plant model organism Arabidopsis thaliana was presented in
December of the year 2000. Since then, the 125 Mb sequence has revealed many of its …

The lack of correlation between genome size and organismal complexity has long been a
topic of great interest. Over the last decade it has become clear that transposable elements …

In spite of the biological and economic importance of plants, relatively few plant species
have been sequenced. Only the genome sequence of plants with relatively small genomes …

Continuing advances in genome sequencing technologies and computational methods for
comparative genomics currently allow inferring the evolutionary history of entire plant and …

Angiosperm genomes show tremendous variability in genome size and chromosome
number. Nevertheless, comparative genetic mapping has revealed genome collinearity of …