Spontaneous chromosomal rearrangements (CRs) play an essential role in speciation,
genome evolution and crop domestication. To be able to use the potential of CRs for …

With the decline of cultivated land and increase of the population in recent years, an
agricultural revolution is urgently needed to produce more food to improve the living …

This review summarizes synthetic chromosome construction in plants and speculates on
how they might be applied to various uses in the future, as well as the possible impact for …

Chromosomal inversions are recurrent rearrangements that occur between different plant
isolates or cultivars. Such inversions may underlie reproductive isolation in evolution and …

Highlights•Synthetic chromosome platforms can be produced via telomere-mediated
truncation.•Cobombardment of transgenes and free telomere arrays can generate …

Synthetic chromosomes provide the means to stack transgenes independently of the
remainder of the genome. Combining them with haploid breeding could provide the means …

Centromeres are the genomic regions that organize and regulate chromosome behaviours
during cell cycle, and their variations are associated with genome instability, karyotype …

Chromosome number and genome variation in flowering plants have stimulated growing
speculation about the ancestral chromosome number of angiosperms, but estimates so far …

The advent of powerful site-specific nucleases, particularly the clustered regularly
interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated protein (Cas) system …

Recent studies have demonstrated that not only genes but also entire chromosomes can be
engineered using clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) …