Twenty years of plant genome sequencing: achievements and challenges

Y Sun, L Shang, QH Zhu, L Fan, L Guo - Trends in Plant Science, 2022 - cell.com
Publication of the complete genome sequence of Arabidopsis thaliana, the first plant
reference genome, in December 2000 heralded the beginning of the plant genome era …

De novo domestication: an alternative route toward new crops for the future

AR Fernie, J Yan - Molecular plant, 2019 - cell.com
Current global agricultural production must feed over 7 billion people. However, productivity
varies greatly across the globe and is under threat from both increased competitions for land …

Pangenomic analysis identifies structural variation associated with heat tolerance in pearl millet

H Yan, M Sun, Z Zhang, Y Jin, A Zhang, C Lin, B Wu… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Pearl millet is an important cereal crop worldwide and shows superior heat tolerance. Here,
we developed a graph-based pan-genome by assembling ten chromosomal genomes with …

[HTML][HTML] A route to de novo domestication of wild allotetraploid rice

H Yu, T Lin, X Meng, H Du, J Zhang, G Liu, M Chen… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Cultivated rice varieties are all diploid, and polyploidization of rice has long been desired
because of its advantages in genome buffering, vigorousness, and environmental …

Haplotype-resolved genome assembly provides insights into evolutionary history of the tea plant Camellia sinensis

X Zhang, S Chen, L Shi, D Gong, S Zhang, Q Zhao… - Nature Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Tea is an important global beverage crop and is largely clonally propagated. Despite
previous studies on the species, its genetic and evolutionary history deserves further …

Analyses of a chromosome-scale genome assembly reveal the origin and evolution of cultivated chrysanthemum

A Song, J Su, H Wang, Z Zhang, X Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum morifolium Ramat.) is a globally important
ornamental plant with great economic, cultural, and symbolic value. However, research on …

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 …

Assembly of allele-aware, chromosomal-scale autopolyploid genomes based on Hi-C data

X Zhang, S Zhang, Q Zhao, R Ming, H Tang - Nature plants, 2019 - nature.com
Construction of chromosome-level assembly is a vital step in achieving the goal of a
'Platinum'genome, but it remains a major challenge to assemble and anchor sequences to …

Integrating Hi-C links with assembly graphs for chromosome-scale assembly

J Ghurye, A Rhie, BP Walenz, A Schmitt… - PLoS computational …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Long-read sequencing and novel long-range assays have revolutionized de novo genome
assembly by automating the reconstruction of reference-quality genomes. In particular, Hi-C …

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 …