[HTML][HTML] Designing future crops: genomics-assisted breeding comes of age

RK Varshney, A Bohra, J Yu, A Graner, Q Zhang… - Trends in Plant …, 2021 - Elsevier
Over the past decade, genomics-assisted breeding (GAB) has been instrumental in
harnessing the potential of modern genome resources and characterizing and exploiting …

[HTML][HTML] Towards population-scale long-read sequencing

W De Coster, MH Weissensteiner… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Long-read sequencing technologies have now reached a level of accuracy and yield that
allows their application to variant detection at a scale of tens to thousands of samples …

[HTML][HTML] Major impacts of widespread structural variation on gene expression and crop improvement in tomato

M Alonge, X Wang, M Benoit, S Soyk, L Pereira… - Cell, 2020 - Elsevier
Structural variants (SVs) underlie important crop improvement and domestication traits.
However, resolving the extent, diversity, and quantitative impact of SVs has been …

Plant pan-genomes are the new reference

PE Bayer, AA Golicz, A Scheben, J Batley, D Edwards - Nature plants, 2020 - nature.com
Recent years have seen a surge in plant genome sequencing projects and the comparison
of multiple related individuals. The high degree of genomic variation observed led to the …

[HTML][HTML] Pan-genome analysis of 33 genetically diverse rice accessions reveals hidden genomic variations

P Qin, H Lu, H Du, H Wang, W Chen, Z Chen, Q He… - Cell, 2021 - Elsevier
Structural variations (SVs) and gene copy number variations (gCNVs) have contributed to
crop evolution, domestication, and improvement. Here, we assembled 31 high-quality …

[HTML][HTML] Reap the crop wild relatives for breeding future crops

A Bohra, B Kilian, S Sivasankar, M Caccamo… - Trends in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Crop wild relatives (CWRs) have provided breeders with several'game-changing'traits or
genes that have boosted crop resilience and global agricultural production. Advances in …

Twenty years of plant genome sequencing: achievements and challenges

Y Sun, L Shang, QH Zhu, L Fan, L Guo - Trends in plant science, 2021 - Elsevier
Publication of the complete genome sequence of Arabidopsis thaliana, the first plant
reference genome, in December 2000 heralded the beginning of the plant genome era …

Genomic selection and genetic architecture of agronomic traits during modern rapeseed breeding

J Hu, B Chen, J Zhao, F Zhang, T Xie, K Xu, G Gao… - Nature Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) is an important oil-producing crop for the world. Its
adaptation, yield and quality have been considerably improved in recent decades, but the …

[HTML][HTML] Cotton pan-genome retrieves the lost sequences and genes during domestication and selection

J Li, D Yuan, P Wang, Q Wang… - Genome …, 2021 - genomebiology.biomedcentral.com
Millennia of directional human selection has reshaped the genomic architecture of cultivated
cotton relative to wild counterparts, but we have limited understanding of the selective …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-and transcriptome-wide association studies provide insights into the genetic basis of natural variation of seed oil content in Brassica napus

S Tang, H Zhao, S Lu, L Yu, G Zhang, Y Zhang… - Molecular plant, 2021 - Elsevier
Seed oil content (SOC) is a highly important and complex trait in oil crops. Here, we
decipher the genetic basis of natural variation in SOC of Brassica napus by genome-and …