Genetic diversity is indispensable for plant breeding to improve crops

S Swarup, EJ Cargill, K Crosby, L Flagel… - Crop …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Plant breeders face multiple global challenges that affect food security, productivity,
accessibility, and nutritional quality. One major challenge for plant breeders is developing …

[HTML][HTML] Wild relatives of maize, rice, cotton, and soybean: treasure troves for tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses

J Mammadov, R Buyyarapu, SK Guttikonda… - Frontiers in plant …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Global food demand is expected to nearly double by 2050 due to an increase in the world's
population. The Green Revolution has played a key role in the past century by increasing …

[HTML][HTML] An improved genotyping by sequencing (GBS) approach offering increased versatility and efficiency of SNP discovery and genotyping

H Sonah, M Bastien, E Iquira, A Tardivel, G Légaré… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Highly parallel SNP genotyping platforms have been developed for some important crop
species, but these platforms typically carry a high cost per sample for first-time or small-scale …

Construction and comparison of three reference‐quality genome assemblies for soybean

B Valliyodan, SB Cannon, PE Bayer, S Shu… - The Plant …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We report reference‐quality genome assemblies and annotations for two accessions of
soybean (Glycine max) and for one accession of Glycine soja, the closest wild relative of G …

Crop genomics: advances and applications

PL Morrell, ES Buckler, J Ross-Ibarra - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2012 - nature.com
The completion of reference genome sequences for many important crops and the ability to
perform high-throughput resequencing are providing opportunities for improving our …

Exome sequencing: current and future perspectives

A Warr, C Robert, D Hume, A Archibald… - G3: Genes …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The completion of a reference genome sequence for humans took more than 200 scientists
more than a decade in a project that cost almost $3 billion to complete (International Human …

Progress toward understanding heterosis in crop plants

PS Schnable, NM Springer - Annual review of plant biology, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Although heterosis, or hybrid vigor, is widely exploited in agriculture, a complete description
of its molecular underpinnings has remained elusive despite extensive investigation. It …

Barley whole exome capture: a tool for genomic research in the genus Hordeum and beyond

M Mascher, TA Richmond, DJ Gerhardt… - The Plant …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Advanced resources for genome‐assisted research in barley (H ordeum vulgare) including
a whole‐genome shotgun assembly and an integrated physical map have recently become …

Structural variations in plant genomes

RK Saxena, D Edwards… - Briefings in functional …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Differences between plant genomes range from single nucleotide polymorphisms to large-
scale duplications, deletions and rearrangements. The large polymorphisms are termed …

[HTML][HTML] The patterns of deleterious mutations during the domestication of soybean

MS Kim, R Lozano, JH Kim, DN Bae, ST Kim… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Globally, soybean is a major protein and oil crop. Enhancing our understanding of the
soybean domestication and improvement process helps boost genomics-assisted breeding …