Toward a “green revolution” for soybean

S Liu, M Zhang, F Feng, Z Tian - Molecular plant, 2020 - cell.com
Soybean (Glycine max), as an economically important food and oilseedcrop, is a major
source of plant proteins and oils. Although considerable progress has been made in …

Super-pangenome by integrating the wild side of a species for accelerated crop improvement

AW Khan, V Garg, M Roorkiwal, AA Golicz… - Trends in plant …, 2020 - cell.com
The pangenome provides genomic variations in the cultivated gene pool for a given species.
However, as the crop's gene pool comprises many species, especially wild relatives with …

[HTML][HTML] Pan-genome of wild and cultivated soybeans

Y Liu, H Du, P Li, Y Shen, H Peng, S Liu, GA Zhou… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Soybean is one of the most important vegetable oil and protein feed crops. To capture the
entire genomic diversity, it is needed to construct a complete high-quality pan-genome from …

Two divergent haplotypes from a highly heterozygous lychee genome suggest independent domestication events for early and late-maturing cultivars

G Hu, J Feng, X Xiang, J Wang, J Salojärvi, C Liu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Lychee is an exotic tropical fruit with a distinct flavor. The genome of cultivar 'Feizixiao'was
assembled into 15 pseudochromosomes, totaling~ 470 Mb. High heterozygosity (2.27%) …

PopLDdecay: a fast and effective tool for linkage disequilibrium decay analysis based on variant call format files

C Zhang, SS Dong, JY Xu, WM He, TL Yang - Bioinformatics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Linkage disequilibrium (LD) decay is of great interest in population genetic
studies. However, no tool is available now to do LD decay analysis from variant call format …

Progress in soybean functional genomics over the past decade

M Zhang, S Liu, Z Wang, Y Yuan… - Plant Biotechnology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Soybean is one of the most important oilseed and fodder crops. Benefiting from the efforts of
soybean breeders and the development of breeding technology, large number of …

Resequencing of 429 chickpea accessions from 45 countries provides insights into genome diversity, domestication and agronomic traits

RK Varshney, M Thudi, M Roorkiwal, W He… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
We report a map of 4.97 million single-nucleotide polymorphisms of the chickpea from whole-
genome resequencing of 429 lines sampled from 45 countries. We identified 122 candidate …

Genome-and transcriptome-wide association studies provide insights into the genetic basis of natural variation of seed oil content in Brassica napus

S Tang, H Zhao, S Lu, L Yu, G Zhang, Y Zhang… - Molecular Plant, 2021 - cell.com
Seed oil content (SOC) is a highly important and complex trait in oil crops. Here, we
decipher the genetic basis of natural variation in SOC of Brassica napus by genome-and …

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 …

Quartet inference from SNP data under the coalescent model

J Chifman, L Kubatko - Bioinformatics, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: Increasing attention has been devoted to estimation of species-level
phylogenetic relationships under the coalescent model. However, existing methods either …