Genomics and marker-assisted improvement of vegetable crops

I Simko, M Jia, J Venkatesh, BC Kang… - Critical Reviews in …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Vegetables are an integral part of the human diet worldwide. Traditional breeding
approaches have been used extensively to develop new cultivars of vegetables with …

The sunflower genome provides insights into oil metabolism, flowering and Asterid evolution

H Badouin, J Gouzy, CJ Grassa, F Murat, SE Staton… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The domesticated sunflower, Helianthus annuus L., is a global oil crop that has promise for
climate change adaptation, because it can maintain stable yields across a wide variety of …

A composite analysis of flowering time regulation in lettuce

R Han, MJ Truco, DO Lavelle… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Plants undergo profound physiological changes when transitioning from vegetative to
reproductive growth. These changes affect crop production, as in the case of leafy …

[HTML][HTML] Genome assembly with in vitro proximity ligation data and whole-genome triplication in lettuce

S Reyes-Chin-Wo, Z Wang, X Yang, A Kozik… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Lettuce (Lactuca sativa) is a major crop and a member of the large, highly successful
Compositae family of flowering plants. Here we present a reference assembly for the …

A high-quality carrot genome assembly provides new insights into carotenoid accumulation and asterid genome evolution

M Iorizzo, S Ellison, D Senalik, P Zeng, P Satapoomin… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
We report a high-quality chromosome-scale assembly and analysis of the carrot (Daucus
carota) genome, the first sequenced genome to include a comparative evolutionary analysis …

Whole-genome resequencing of 445 Lactuca accessions reveals the domestication history of cultivated lettuce

T Wei, R Van Treuren, X Liu, Z Zhang, J Chen, Y Liu… - Nature Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Lettuce (Lactuca sativa) is an important vegetable crop worldwide. Cultivated lettuce is
believed to be domesticated from L. serriola; however, its origins and domestication history …

A whole-genome shotgun approach for assembling and anchoring the hexaploid bread wheat genome

JA Chapman, M Mascher, A Buluç, K Barry… - Genome biology, 2015 - Springer
Polyploid species have long been thought to be recalcitrant to whole-genome assembly. By
combining high-throughput sequencing, recent developments in parallel computing, and …

Development of a 63K SNP Array for Cotton and High-Density Mapping of Intraspecific and Interspecific Populations of Gossypium spp.

AM Hulse-Kemp, J Lemm, J Plieske… - G3: Genes …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
High-throughput genotyping arrays provide a standardized resource for plant breeding
communities that are useful for a breadth of applications including high-density genetic …

RNA sequencing provides insights into the evolution of lettuce and the regulation of flavonoid biosynthesis

L Zhang, W Su, R Tao, W Zhang, J Chen, P Wu… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Different horticultural types of lettuce exhibit tremendous morphological variation. However,
the molecular basis for domestication and divergence among the different horticultural types …

Genotyping-by-sequencing derived high-density linkage map and its application to QTL mapping of flag leaf traits in bread wheat

W Hussain, PS Baenziger, V Belamkar, MJ Guttieri… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Winter wheat parents 'Harry'(drought tolerant) and 'Wesley'(drought susceptible) were used
to develop a recombinant inbred population with future goals of identifying genomic regions …