[HTML][HTML] How genomics can help biodiversity conservation

K Theissinger, C Fernandes, G Formenti, I Bista… - Trends in Genetics, 2023 - cell.com
The availability of public genomic resources can greatly assist biodiversity assessment,
conservation, and restoration efforts by providing evidence for scientifically informed …

[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 - cell.com
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] 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 - cell.com
Structural variations (SVs) and gene copy number variations (gCNVs) have contributed to
crop evolution, domestication, and improvement. Here, we assembled 31 high-quality …

Twenty years of plant genome sequencing: achievements and challenges

Y Sun, L Shang, QH Zhu, L Fan, L Guo - Trends in Plant Science, 2022 - cell.com
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 …

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

A Bohra, B Kilian, S Sivasankar, M Caccamo… - Trends in …, 2022 - cell.com
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 …

[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 …

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] 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 - cell.com
Structural variants (SVs) underlie important crop improvement and domestication traits.
However, resolving the extent, diversity, and quantitative impact of SVs has been …

[HTML][HTML] Metabolomics-centered mining of plant metabolic diversity and function: Past decade and future perspectives

S Shen, C Zhan, C Yang, AR Fernie, J Luo - Molecular Plant, 2023 - cell.com
Plants are natural experts in organic synthesis, being able to generate large numbers of
specific metabolites with widely varying structures that help them adapt to variable survival …

[HTML][HTML] Modern plant biotechnology as a strategy in addressing climate change and attaining food security

TIK Munaweera, NU Jayawardana… - Agriculture & Food …, 2022 - Springer
Global warming causes a range of negative impacts on plants especially due to rapid
changes in temperatures, alterations of rainfall patterns, floods or drought conditions, and …