Food security is an ongoing problem, and current staple foods are not sufficient to overcome
challenges such as the present COVID-19 pandemic. We propose here that small millets …

Natural variants of crops are generated from wild progenitor plants under both natural and
human selection. Diverse crops that are able to adapt to various environmental conditions …

Setaria italica (foxtail millet), a founder crop of East Asian agriculture, is a model plant for C4
photosynthesis and developing approaches to adaptive breeding across multiple climates …

Tea plant is an important economic crop, which is used to produce the world's oldest and
most widely consumed tea beverages. Here, we present a high-quality reference genome …

Background The sharp increase of plant genome and transcriptome data provide valuable
resources to investigate evolutionary consequences of gene duplication in a range of taxa …

Foxtail millet (Setaria italica) is an important crop species and an emerging model plant for
C4 grasses. However, functional genomics research on foxtail millet is challenging because …

Cultivated peanut (Arachis hypogaea) is an allotetraploid with closely related subgenomes
of a total size of∼ 2.7 Gb. This makes the assembly of chromosomal pseudomolecules very …

Sorghum bicolor is a drought tolerant C4 grass used for the production of grain, forage,
sugar, and lignocellulosic biomass and a genetic model for C4 grasses due to its relatively …

Zinc (Zn) is an essential micronutrient for plants and humans. Nearly 50% of the agriculture
soils of world are Zn-deficient. The low availability of Zn reduces the yield and quality of the …

Dinoflagellates are important components of marine ecosystems and essential coral
symbionts, yet little is known about their genomes. We report here on the analysis of a high …