Gene duplications and their subsequent divergence play an important part in the evolution
of novel gene functions. Several models for the emergence, maintenance and evolution of …

The genome of soybean (Glycine max), a commercially important crop, has recently been
sequenced and is one of six crop species to have been sequenced. Here we report the …

Soybean (Glycine max) is one of the most important crop plants for seed protein and oil
content, and for its capacity to fix atmospheric nitrogen through symbioses with soil-borne …

Three subfamilies of grasses, the Ehrhartoideae, Panicoideae and Pooideae, provide the
bulk of human nutrition and are poised to become major sources of renewable energy. Here …

Miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements (MITEs) are a special type of Class 2 non-
autonomous transposable element (TE) that are abundant in the non-coding regions of the …

ABSTRACT The Plant Transcription Factor Database (PlnTFDB; http://plntfdb. bio. uni-
potsdam. de/v3. 0/) is an integrative database that provides putatively complete sets of …

Genome-scale metabolic network models have been successfully used to describe
metabolism in a variety of microbial organisms as well as specific mammalian cell types and …

Sorghum, a C4 model plant, has been studied to develop an understanding of the molecular
mechanism of resistance to stress. The auxin-response genes, auxin/indole-3-acetic acid …

Motivation: Comparative genomics heavily relies on alignments of large and often complex
DNA sequences. From an engineering perspective, the problem here is to provide maximum …

Previous work in Arabidopsis showed that after an ancient tetraploidy event, genes were
preferentially removed from one of the two homeologs, a process known as fractionation …