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 …

Tuber and tuberous root development

W Zierer, D Rüscher, U Sonnewald… - Annual review of plant …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Root and tuber crops have been an important part of human nutrition since the early days of
humanity, providing us with essential carbohydrates, proteins, and vitamins. Today, they are …

Genome evolution and diversity of wild and cultivated potatoes

D Tang, Y Jia, J Zhang, H Li, L Cheng, P Wang, Z Bao… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is the world's most important non-cereal food crop, and the
vast majority of commercially grown cultivars are highly heterozygous tetraploids. Advances …

[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 …

GenomeScope 2.0 and Smudgeplot for reference-free profiling of polyploid genomes

TR Ranallo-Benavidez, KS Jaron, MC Schatz - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
An important assessment prior to genome assembly and related analyses is genome
profiling, where the k-mer frequencies within raw sequencing reads are analyzed to estimate …

Allele-defined genome of the autopolyploid sugarcane Saccharum spontaneum L.

J Zhang, X Zhang, H Tang, Q Zhang, X Hua, X Ma… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Modern sugarcanes are polyploid interspecific hybrids, combining high sugar content from
Saccharum officinarum with hardiness, disease resistance and ratooning of Saccharum …

Construction of a chromosome-scale long-read reference genome assembly for potato

GM Pham, JP Hamilton, JC Wood, JT Burke… - …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Background Worldwide, the cultivated potato, Solanum tuberosum L., is the No. 1 vegetable
crop and a critical food security crop. The genome sequence of DM1–3 516 R44, a doubled …

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 …

Phased, chromosome-scale genome assemblies of tetraploid potato reveal a complex genome, transcriptome, and predicted proteome landscape underpinning …

G Hoopes, X Meng, JP Hamilton, SR Achakkagari… - Molecular plant, 2022 - cell.com
Cultivated potato is a clonally propagated autotetraploid species with a highly
heterogeneous genome. Phased assemblies of six cultivars including two chromosome …

Genome design of hybrid potato

C Zhang, Z Yang, D Tang, Y Zhu, P Wang, D Li, G Zhu… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Reinventing potato from a clonally propagated tetraploid into a seed-propagated diploid,
hybrid potato, is an important innovation in agriculture. Due to deleterious mutations, it has …