One of the major causes of significant crop loss throughout the world is the myriad of
environmental stresses including drought, salinity, cold, heavy metal toxicity, and ultraviolet …

Allotetraploid oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.) is an agriculturally important crop. Cultivation
and breeding of B. napus by humans has resulted in numerous genetically diverse …

Here we present the genome sequence and annotation of the wild olive tree (Olea europaea
var. sylvestris), called oleaster, which is considered an ancestor of cultivated olive trees …

Chenopodium quinoa is a halophytic pseudocereal crop that is being cultivated in an ever-
growing number of countries. Because quinoa is highly resistant to multiple abiotic stresses …

Durian (Durio zibethinus) is a Southeast Asian tropical plant known for its hefty, spine-
covered fruit and sulfury and onion-like odor. Here we present a draft genome assembly of …

The relative easiness of interspecific hybridization between sugarcane and other closely
related wild grass species presents an excellent way for breeders to genetically improve it …

Maize was domesticated from lowland teosinte (Zea mays ssp. parviglumis), but the
contribution of highland teosinte (Zea mays ssp. mexicana, hereafter mexicana) to modern …

Abstract Background Sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) is predominantly an autopolyploid plant
with a variable ploidy level, frequent aneuploidy and a large genome that hampers …

Conserved genomic context provides critical information for comparative evolutionary
analysis. With the increase in numbers of sequenced plant genomes, synteny analysis can …

Utricularia gibba, the humped bladderwort, is a carnivorous plant that retains a tiny nuclear
genome despite at least two rounds of whole genome duplication (WGD) since common …