Lettuce (Lactuca sativa) is a major crop and a member of the large, highly successful
Compositae family of flowering plants. Here we present a reference assembly for the …

Abstract Dendrobium officinale Kimura et Migo is a traditional Chinese orchid herb that has
both ornamental value and a broad range of therapeutic effects. Here, we report the first de …

Background Microbial inhabitants of soils are important to ecosystem and planetary
functions, yet there are large gaps in our knowledge of their diversity and ecology. The …

Plant RNA virus‐based guide RNA (gRNA) delivery has substantial advantages compared
to that of the conventional constitutive promoter‐driven expression due to the rapid and …

Summary Despite more than 2,000-fold variation in genome size, key features of genome
architecture are largely conserved across angiosperms. Parasitic plants have elucidated the …

Abstract Myrteae (c. 2500 species; 51 genera) is the largest tribe of Myrtaceae and an
ecologically important groups of angiosperms in the Neotropics. Systematic relationships in …

Three approaches for addressing criteria for Distinctness, Uniformity and Stability (DUS)
assessment by means of AFLP data are presented. AFLP data were obtained for three …

Deleterious alleles have long been proposed to play an important role in patterning
phenotypic variation and are central to commonly held ideas explaining the hybrid vigor …

Abstract In Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), TREHALOSE-6-PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE1
(TPS1) catalyzes the synthesis of the sucrose-signaling metabolite trehalose 6-phosphate …

The selection pressure exerted by herbicides has led to the repeated evolution of herbicide
resistance in weeds. The evolution of herbicide resistance on contemporary timescales in …