During recent years knowledge on genome plasticity has vastly increased. For this reason,
COGEM has expressed the need for an up-to-date inventory of spontaneous genome …

Differences between plant genomes range from single nucleotide polymorphisms to large-
scale duplications, deletions and rearrangements. The large polymorphisms are termed …

Key message Structural genome variation is a major determinant of useful trait diversity. We
describe how genome analysis methods are enabling discovery of trait-associated structural …

Structural variation (SV) is a type of genetic variation identified through the comparison of
genome structures which often have direct and significant associations with phenotypic …

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 …

Large differences in plant genome sizes are mainly due to numerous events of insertions or
deletions (indels). The balance between these events determines the evolutionary direction …

Genetics is a relatively young science compared to many other fields in biology, for example,
evolutionary biology or physiology. However, genetics is a central theme in many fields …

Having gained a thorough understanding of the structure and organization of model plant
genomes, such as those of Arabidopsis thaliana and rice, we have now started to investigate …

For thousands of years, humans have been improving crops to better suit their needs. These
enhancements are driven by changes in the genetic makeup of the plant. While this was …

Highlights•Structural variants are the major components of dispensable genome.•Structural
variants might have important functional consequences.•Next generation sequencing is a …