Animal and plant immune systems use intracellular nucleotide-binding oligomerization
domain (NOD)-like receptors (NLRs) to detect pathogens, resulting in the activation of …

The ectoparasitic mite Varroa destructor is the most significant pathological threat to the
western honey bee, Apis mellifera, leading to the death of most colonies if left untreated. An …

Sequence assembly of large and repeat-rich plant genomes has been challenging,
requiring substantial computational resources and often several complementary sequence …

Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is the most important grain legume for human
consumption and has a role in sustainable agriculture owing to its ability to fix atmospheric …

The complex allotetraploid nature of the cotton genome (AADD; 2 n= 52) makes genetic,
genomic and functional analyses extremely challenging. Here we sequenced and …

Allotetraploid oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.) is an agriculturally important crop. Cultivation
and breeding of B. napus by humans has resulted in numerous genetically diverse …

Legumes and many nonleguminous plants enter symbiotic interactions with microbes, and it
is poorly understood how host plants respond to promote beneficial, symbiotic microbial …

Nucleotide-binding site-leucine-rich repeat (NBS-LRR) genes make up the largest plant
disease resistance gene family (R genes), with hundreds of copies occurring in individual …

We report the draft genome of the black cottonwood tree, Populus trichocarpa. Integration of
shotgun sequence assembly with genetic mapping enabled chromosome-scale …

Duplication is a prominent feature of plant genomic architecture. This has led many
researchers to speculate that gene duplication may have played an important role in the …