How important are transposons for plant evolution?

D Lisch - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2013 - nature.com
For decades, transposable elements have been known to produce a wide variety of changes
in plant gene expression and function. This has led to the idea that transposable element …

The Genomics of Oryza Species Provides Insights into Rice Domestication and Heterosis

E Chen, X Huang, Z Tian, RA Wing… - Annual review of plant …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Here, we review recent progress in genetic and genomic studies of the diversity of Oryza
species. In recent years, unlocking the genetic diversity of Oryza species has provided …

Genomes of 13 domesticated and wild rice relatives highlight genetic conservation, turnover and innovation across the genus Oryza

JC Stein, Y Yu, D Copetti, DJ Zwickl, L Zhang… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The genus Oryza is a model system for the study of molecular evolution over time scales
ranging from a few thousand to 15 million years. Using 13 reference genomes spanning the …

The genome sequence of African rice (Oryza glaberrima) and evidence for independent domestication

M Wang, Y Yu, G Haberer, PR Marri, C Fan… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
The cultivation of rice in Africa dates back more than 3,000 years. Interestingly, African rice is
not of the same origin as Asian rice (Oryza sativa L.) but rather is an entirely different species …

Development of genic-SSR markers by deep transcriptome sequencing in pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millspaugh]

S Dutta, G Kumawat, BP Singh, DK Gupta, S Singh… - BMC plant biology, 2011 - Springer
Abstract Background Pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millspaugh], one of the most important
food legumes of semi-arid tropical and subtropical regions, has limited genomic resources …

Genomics of gene banks: a case study in rice

SR McCouch, KL McNally, W Wang… - American journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Only a small fraction of the naturally occurring genetic diversity available in the world's
germplasm repositories has been explored to date, but this is expected to change with the …

Whole-genome sequencing of Oryza brachyantha reveals mechanisms underlying Oryza genome evolution

J Chen, Q Huang, D Gao, J Wang, Y Lang, T Liu… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
The wild species of the genus Oryza contain a largely untapped reservoir of agronomically
important genes for rice improvement. Here we report the 261-Mb de novo assembled …

Lateral transfers of large DNA fragments spread functional genes among grasses

LT Dunning, JK Olofsson, C Parisod… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
A fundamental tenet of multicellular eukaryotic evolution is that vertical inheritance is
paramount, with natural selection acting on genetic variants transferred from parents to …

Back to the wild: on a quest for donors toward salinity tolerant rice

CA Solis, MT Yong, R Vinarao, K Jena… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Salinity stress affects global food producing areas by limiting both crop growth and yield.
Attempts to develop salinity-tolerant rice varieties have had limited success due to the …

The wild relative of rice: genomes and genomics

PL Sanchez, RA Wing, DS Brar - Genetics and genomics of rice, 2013 - Springer
The wild species of the genus Oryza serve as a virtually untapped reservoir of genetic
diversity that can be used to improve the world's most important food crop—rice. The genus …