[HTML][HTML] Designing future crops: genomics-assisted breeding comes of age

RK Varshney, A Bohra, J Yu, A Graner, Q Zhang… - Trends in Plant …, 2021 - Elsevier
Over the past decade, genomics-assisted breeding (GAB) has been instrumental in
harnessing the potential of modern genome resources and characterizing and exploiting …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanisms regulating the dynamics of photosynthesis under abiotic stresses

I Muhammad, A Shalmani, M Ali, QH Yang… - Frontiers in plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Photosynthesis sustains plant life on earth and is indispensable for plant growth and
development. Factors such as unfavorable environmental conditions, stress regulatory …

[HTML][HTML] Pan-genome of wild and cultivated soybeans

Y Liu, H Du, P Li, Y Shen, H Peng, S Liu, GA Zhou… - Cell, 2020 - Elsevier
Soybean is one of the most important vegetable oil and protein feed crops. To capture the
entire genomic diversity, it is needed to construct a complete high-quality pan-genome from …

[HTML][HTML] Allele-aware chromosome-level genome assembly and efficient transgene-free genome editing for the autotetraploid cultivated alfalfa

H Chen, Y Zeng, Y Yang, L Huang, B Tang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Artificially improving traits of cultivated alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.), one of the most important
forage crops, is challenging due to the lack of a reference genome and an efficient genome …

[HTML][HTML] A reference genome for pea provides insight into legume genome evolution

J Kreplak, MA Madoui, P Cápal, P Novák, K Labadie… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
We report the first annotated chromosome-level reference genome assembly for pea, Gregor
Mendel's original genetic model. Phylogenetics and paleogenomics show genomic …

[HTML][HTML] The genome of cultivated peanut provides insight into legume karyotypes, polyploid evolution and crop domestication

W Zhuang, H Chen, M Yang, J Wang, MK Pandey… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
High oil and protein content make tetraploid peanut a leading oil and food legume. Here we
report a high-quality peanut genome sequence, comprising 2.54 Gb with 20 …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic mechanisms of climate adaptation in polyploid bioenergy switchgrass

JT Lovell, AH MacQueen, S Mamidi, J Bonnette… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Long-term climate change and periodic environmental extremes threaten food and fuel
security and global crop productivity–. Although molecular and adaptive breeding strategies …

The prevalence, evolution and chromatin signatures of plant regulatory elements

Z Lu, AP Marand, WA Ricci, CL Ethridge, X Zhang… - Nature Plants, 2019 - nature.com
Chromatin accessibility and modification is a hallmark of regulatory DNA, the study of which
led to the discovery of cis-regulatory elements (CREs). Here, we characterize chromatin …

Evolution of gene duplication in plants

N Panchy, M Lehti-Shiu, SH Shiu - Plant physiology, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Ancient duplication events and a high rate of retention of extant pairs of duplicate genes
have contributed to an abundance of duplicate genes in plant genomes. These duplicates …

[HTML][HTML] The chromosome-level genome sequence of the autotetraploid alfalfa and resequencing of core germplasms provide genomic resources for alfalfa research

C Shen, H Du, Z Chen, H Lu, F Zhu, H Chen, X Meng… - Molecular Plant, 2020 - Elsevier
Alfalfa (Medicago sativa) is one of the most important forage crops in the world; however, its
molecular genetics and breeding research are hindered due to the lack of a high-quality …