The rice genome revolution: from an ancient grain to Green Super Rice

RA Wing, MD Purugganan, Q Zhang - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2018 - nature.com
Rice is a staple crop for half the world's population, which is expected to grow by 3 billion
over the next 30 years. It is also a key model for studying the genomics of agroecosystems …

A review of natural fibers used in biocomposites: Plant, animal and regenerated cellulose fibers

SK Ramamoorthy, M Skrifvars, A Persson - Polymer reviews, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Natural fibers today are a popular choice for applications in composite manufacturing.
Based on the sustainability benefits, biofibers such as plant fibers are replacing synthetic …

Multiple domestications of Asian rice

CY Jing, FM Zhang, XH Wang, MX Wang, L Zhou, Z Cai… - Nature plants, 2023 - nature.com
The origin of domesticated Asian rice (Oryza sativa L.) has been controversial for more than
half a century. The debates have focused on two leading hypotheses: a single domestication …

A quantitative genomics map of rice provides genetic insights and guides breeding

X Wei, J Qiu, K Yong, J Fan, Q Zhang, H Hua, J Liu… - Nature Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Extensive allelic variation in agronomically important genes serves as the basis of rice
breeding. Here, we present a comprehensive map of rice quantitative trait nucleotides …

Genomes of 13 domesticated and wild rice relatives highlight genetic conservation, turnover and innovation across the genus Oryza

JC Stein, Y Yu, D Copetti, DJ Zwickl, L Zhang… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The genus Oryza is a model system for the study of molecular evolution over time scales
ranging from a few thousand to 15 million years. Using 13 reference genomes spanning the …

Origin and adaptation to high altitude of Tibetan semi-wild wheat

W Guo, M Xin, Z Wang, Y Yao, Z Hu, W Song… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Tibetan wheat is grown under environmental constraints at high-altitude conditions, but its
underlying adaptation mechanism remains unknown. Here, we present a draft genome …

A novel integrated method for large-scale detection, identification, and quantification of widely targeted metabolites: application in the study of rice metabolomics

W Chen, L Gong, Z Guo, W Wang, H Zhang, X Liu, S Yu… - Molecular plant, 2013 - cell.com
Liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC–MS)-based metabolomics has been
facilitated by the construction of MS 2 spectral tag (MS2T) library from the total scan ESI …

Evolution of crop species: genetics of domestication and diversification

RS Meyer, MD Purugganan - Nature reviews genetics, 2013 - nature.com
Domestication is a good model for the study of evolutionary processes because of the recent
evolution of crop species (< 12,000 years ago), the key role of selection in their origins, and …

Current perspectives and the future of domestication studies

G Larson, DR Piperno, RG Allaby… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
It is difficult to overstate the cultural and biological impacts that the domestication of plants
and animals has had on our species. Fundamental questions regarding where, when, and …

A map of rice genome variation reveals the origin of cultivated rice

X Huang, N Kurata, X Wei, ZX Wang, A Wang, Q Zhao… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Crop domestications are long-term selection experiments that have greatly advanced
human civilization. The domestication of cultivated rice (Oryza sativa L.) ranks as one of the …