Underutilized crops are, by definition, under‐researched compared to staple crops yet come
with traits that may be especially important given climate change and the need to feed a …

Satellite DNA is one of the major classes of repetitive DNA, characterized by tandemly
arranged repeat copies that form contiguous arrays up to megabases in length. This type of …

Medicinal plants have long been utilized in traditional medicine and ethnomedicine
worldwide. This review presents a glimpse of the current status of and future trends in …

The differential accumulation and elimination of repetitive DNA are key drivers of genome
size variation in flowering plants, yet there have been few studies which have analysed how …

Background Repetitive DNA motifs–not coding genetic information and repeated millions to
hundreds of times–make up the majority of many genomes. Here, we identify the nature …

Abstract Background The dispensable maize (Zea mays L.) B chromosome is highly
heterochromatic and widely believed to be devoid of functional genes. Although low-copy B …

Coix lacryma-jobi, a plant species closely related to Zea and Sorghum, is an important food
and medicinal crop in Asia. However, no reference genome of this species has been …

Abstract The American chestnut (Castanea dentata, 2 n= 2 x= 24), once known as the “King
of the Appalachian Forest”, was decimated by chestnut blight during the first half of the …

Abstract Background Radish (Raphanus sativus L., 2n= 2x= 18) is a major root vegetable
crop especially in eastern Asia. Radish root contains various nutritions which play an …

Coix is a grass crop domesticated as early as the Neolithic era. It is still widely cultivated for
both highly nutritional food and medicinal use. However, the genetic study and breeding of …