cis-Regulatory Elements in Plant Development, Adaptation, and Evolution

AP Marand, AL Eveland, K Kaufmann… - Annual review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
cis-Regulatory elements encode the genomic blueprints that ensure the proper
spatiotemporal patterning of gene expression necessary for appropriate development and …

Cis-regulatory sequences in plants: their importance, discovery, and future challenges

RJ Schmitz, E Grotewold, M Stam - The plant cell, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The identification and characterization of cis-regulatory DNA sequences and how they
function to coordinate responses to developmental and environmental cues is of paramount …

A graph-based genome and pan-genome variation of the model plant Setaria

Q He, S Tang, H Zhi, J Chen, J Zhang, H Liang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Setaria italica (foxtail millet), a founder crop of East Asian agriculture, is a model plant for C4
photosynthesis and developing approaches to adaptive breeding across multiple climates …

An efficient CRISPR–Cas12a promoter editing system for crop improvement

J Zhou, G Liu, Y Zhao, R Zhang, X Tang, L Li, X Jia… - Nature Plants, 2023 - nature.com
Promoter editing represents an innovative approach to introduce quantitative trait variation
(QTV) in crops. However, an efficient promoter editing system for QTV needs to be …

Genomic innovation and regulatory rewiring during evolution of the cotton genus Gossypium

M Wang, J Li, Z Qi, Y Long, L Pei, X Huang… - Nature Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Phenotypic diversity and evolutionary innovation ultimately trace to variation in genomic
sequence and rewiring of regulatory networks. Here, we constructed a pan-genome of the …

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 …

A chickpea genetic variation map based on the sequencing of 3,366 genomes

RK Varshney, M Roorkiwal, S Sun, P Bajaj… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Zero hunger and good health could be realized by 2030 through effective conservation,
characterization and utilization of germplasm resources. So far, few chickpea (Cicer …

Haplotype-resolved genome analyses of a heterozygous diploid potato

Q Zhou, D Tang, W Huang, Z Yang, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is the most important tuber crop worldwide. Efforts are
underway to transform the crop from a clonally propagated tetraploid into a seed …

Widespread long-range cis-regulatory elements in the maize genome

WA Ricci, Z Lu, L Ji, AP Marand, CL Ethridge… - Nature plants, 2019 - nature.com
Genetic mapping studies on crops suggest that agronomic traits can be controlled by gene–
distal intergenic loci. Despite the biological importance and the potential agronomic utility of …

Reconstructing the maize leaf regulatory network using ChIP-seq data of 104 transcription factors

X Tu, MK Mejía-Guerra, JA Valdes Franco… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The transcription regulatory network inside a eukaryotic cell is defined by the combinatorial
actions of transcription factors (TFs). However, TF binding studies in plants are too few in …