[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 - cell.com
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] Reap the crop wild relatives for breeding future crops

A Bohra, B Kilian, S Sivasankar, M Caccamo… - Trends in …, 2022 - cell.com
Crop wild relatives (CWRs) have provided breeders with several'game-changing'traits or
genes that have boosted crop resilience and global agricultural production. Advances in …

[HTML][HTML] Super-pangenome analyses highlight genomic diversity and structural variation across wild and cultivated tomato species

N Li, Q He, J Wang, B Wang, J Zhao, S Huang… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Effective utilization of wild relatives is key to overcoming challenges in genetic improvement
of cultivated tomato, which has a narrow genetic basis; however, current efforts to decipher …

[HTML][HTML] The barley pan-genome reveals the hidden legacy of mutation breeding

M Jayakodi, S Padmarasu, G Haberer, VS Bonthala… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Genetic diversity is key to crop improvement. Owing to pervasive genomic structural
variation, a single reference genome assembly cannot capture the full complement of …

[HTML][HTML] Improved pea reference genome and pan-genome highlight genomic features and evolutionary characteristics

T Yang, R Liu, Y Luo, S Hu, D Wang, C Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Complete and accurate reference genomes and annotations provide fundamental resources
for functional genomics and crop breeding. Here we report a de novo assembly and …

[HTML][HTML] A super pan-genomic landscape of rice

L Shang, X Li, H He, Q Yuan, Y Song, Z Wei, H Lin… - Cell research, 2022 - nature.com
Pan-genomes from large natural populations can capture genetic diversity and reveal
genomic complexity. Using de novo long-read assembly, we generated a graph-based …

[HTML][HTML] Fast-forward breeding for a food-secure world

RK Varshney, A Bohra, M Roorkiwal, R Barmukh… - Trends in Genetics, 2021 - cell.com
Crop production systems need to expand their outputs sustainably to feed a burgeoning
human population. Advances in genome sequencing technologies combined with efficient …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic resources in plant breeding for sustainable agriculture

M Thudi, R Palakurthi, JC Schnable… - Journal of Plant …, 2021 - Elsevier
Climate change during the last 40 years has had a serious impact on agriculture and
threatens global food and nutritional security. From over half a million plant species, cereals …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular breeding and drought tolerance in chickpea

R Asati, MK Tripathi, S Tiwari, RK Yadav, N Tripathi - Life, 2022 - mdpi.com
Cicer arietinum L. is the third greatest widely planted imperative pulse crop worldwide, and it
belongs to the Leguminosae family. Drought is the utmost common abiotic factor on plants …

[HTML][HTML] Massive gene presence-absence variation shapes an open pan-genome in the Mediterranean mussel

M Gerdol, R Moreira, F Cruz, J Gómez-Garrido… - Genome biology, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Background The Mediterranean mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis is an ecologically
and economically relevant edible marine bivalve, highly invasive and resilient to biotic and …