Highlights•Plant genomes are more repetitive and complicate to assemble than
vertebrates.•Long-read assembly contigs outperform short-read assembly scaffolds.•Long …

Unreduced gametes (gametes with the somatic chromosome number) are known to facilitate
polyploid formation. Unreduced gametes result from a plethora of different mechanisms …

Introduction Darwin famously characterized the rapid rise and early diversification of
flowering plants (angiosperms) in the fossil record as an “abominable mystery.” Identifying …

Abstract Ensembl Plants (http://plants. ensembl. org) is an integrative resource presenting
genome-scale information for a growing number of sequenced plant species (currently 33) …

The ordering and orientation of genomic scaffolds to reconstruct chromosomes is an
essential step during de novo genome assembly. Because this process utilizes various …

Abstract Ensembl Plants (http://plants. ensembl. org) is an integrative resource presenting
genome-scale information for 39 sequenced plant species. Available data includes genome …

Chromosome numbers have been widely used to describe the most fundamental genomic
attribute of an organism or a lineage. Although providing strong phylogenetic signal …

Plant secondary growth derives from the meristematic activity of the vascular cambium. In
Arabidopsis thaliana, cell divisions in the cambium are regulated by the transcription factor …

Abstract Ocean Sampling Day was initiated by the EU-funded Micro B3 (Marine Microbial
Biodiversity, Bioinformatics, Biotechnology) project to obtain a snapshot of the marine …

Climate change is a major threat to food security in a world of rising crop demand. Although
increases in crop production have previously been achieved through the use of fertilisers …