The rice genome revolution: from an ancient grain to Green Super Rice

RA Wing, MD Purugganan, Q Zhang - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2018 - nature.com
Rice is a staple crop for half the world's population, which is expected to grow by 3 billion
over the next 30 years. It is also a key model for studying the genomics of agroecosystems …

[HTML][HTML] Plant terpenes: defense responses, phylogenetic analysis, regulation and clinical applications

B Singh, RA Sharma - 3 Biotech, 2015 - Springer
The terpenoids constitute the largest class of natural products and many interesting products
are extensively applied in the industrial sector as flavors, fragrances, spices and are also …

[HTML][HTML] Genome sequence of cultivated Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum TM-1) provides insights into genome evolution

F Li, G Fan, C Lu, G Xiao, C Zou, RJ Kohel, Z Ma… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Gossypium hirsutum has proven difficult to sequence owing to its complex allotetraploid
(AtDt) genome. Here we produce a draft genome using 181-fold paired-end sequences …

The genome of homosporous maidenhair fern sheds light on the euphyllophyte evolution and defences

Y Fang, X Qin, Q Liao, R Du, X Luo, Q Zhou, Z Li… - Nature Plants, 2022 - nature.com
Euphyllophytes encompass almost all extant plants, including two sister clades, ferns and
seed plants. Decoding genomes of ferns is the key to deep insight into the origin of …

Genome of an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus provides insight into the oldest plant symbiosis

E Tisserant, M Malbreil, A Kuo… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
The mutualistic symbiosis involving Glomeromycota, a distinctive phylum of early diverging
Fungi, is widely hypothesized to have promoted the evolution of land plants during the …

SOAPdenovo-Trans: de novo transcriptome assembly with short RNA-Seq reads

Y Xie, G Wu, J Tang, R Luo, J Patterson, S Liu… - …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: Transcriptome sequencing has long been the favored method for quickly and
inexpensively obtaining a large number of gene sequences from an organism with no …

[HTML][HTML] Sequencing and de novo assembly of a near complete indica rice genome

H Du, Y Yu, Y Ma, Q Gao, Y Cao, Z Chen, B Ma… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
A high-quality reference genome is critical for understanding genome structure, genetic
variation and evolution of an organism. Here we report the de novo assembly of an indica …

Polyploidy: pitfalls and paths to a paradigm

DE Soltis, CJ Visger, DB Marchant… - American journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Investigators have long searched for a polyploidy paradigm—rules or principles that might
be common following polyploidization (whole‐genome duplication, WGD). Here we attempt …

[HTML][HTML] The Sorghum bicolor genome and the diversification of grasses

AH Paterson, JE Bowers, R Bruggmann, I Dubchak… - Nature, 2009 - nature.com
Sorghum, an African grass related to sugar cane and maize, is grown for food, feed, fibre
and fuel. We present an initial analysis of the∼ 730-megabase Sorghum bicolor (L.) …

The genome of the cucumber, Cucumis sativus L.

S Huang, R Li, Z Zhang, LI Li, X Gu, W Fan, WJ Lucas… - Nature …, 2009 - nature.com
Cucumber is an economically important crop as well as a model system for sex
determination studies and plant vascular biology. Here we report the draft genome …