Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is one of the most important crops in the world. Since the completion of
rice reference genome sequences, tremendous progress has been achieved in …

Terrestrial plants have two to four times more ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter genes
than other organisms, including their ancestral microalgae. Recent studies found that plants …

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 …

Conifers dominate the world's forest ecosystems and are the most widely planted tree
species. Their giant and complex genomes present great challenges for assembling a …

Saccharum spontaneum is a founding Saccharum species and exhibits wide variation in
ploidy levels. We have assembled a high-quality autopolyploid genome of S. spontaneum …

Introducing asexual reproduction through seeds–apomixis–into crop species could
revolutionize agriculture by allowing F1 hybrids with enhanced yield and stability to be …

Rice feeds half the world's population, and rice blast is often a destructive disease that
results in significant crop loss. Non-race-specific resistance has been more effective in …

A genome-wide association study (GWAS) can be a powerful tool for the identification of
genes associated with agronomic traits in crop species, but it is often hindered by population …

Background DNA methylation is an important feature of plant epigenomes, involved in the
formation of heterochromatin and affecting gene expression. Extensive variation of DNA …

Background Rice research has been enabled by access to the high quality reference
genome sequence generated in 2005 by the International Rice Genome Sequencing Project …