Plant pan-genomes are the new reference

PE Bayer, AA Golicz, A Scheben, J Batley, D Edwards - Nature plants, 2020 - nature.com
Recent years have seen a surge in plant genome sequencing projects and the comparison
of multiple related individuals. The high degree of genomic variation observed led to the …

Patterns and processes of diploidization in land plants

Z Li, MTW McKibben, GS Finch… - Annual review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Most land plants are now known to be ancient polyploids that have rediploidized.
Diploidization involves many changes in genome organization that ultimately restore …

De novo assembly, annotation, and comparative analysis of 26 diverse maize genomes

MB Hufford, AS Seetharam, MR Woodhouse… - Science, 2021 - science.org
We report de novo genome assemblies, transcriptomes, annotations, and methylomes for
the 26 inbreds that serve as the founders for the maize nested association mapping …

Early allopolyploid evolution in the post-Neolithic Brassica napus oilseed genome

B Chalhoub, F Denoeud, S Liu, IAP Parkin, H Tang… - science, 2014 - science.org
Oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.) was formed~ 7500 years ago by hybridization between B.
rapa and B. oleracea, followed by chromosome doubling, a process known as …

[HTML][HTML] Transcriptome and methylome profiling reveals relics of genome dominance in the mesopolyploid Brassica oleracea

IAP Parkin, C Koh, H Tang, SJ Robinson, S Kagale… - Genome biology, 2014 - Springer
Background Brassica oleracea is a valuable vegetable species that has contributed to
human health and nutrition for hundreds of years and comprises multiple distinct cultivar …

[PDF][PDF] Karyotype stability and unbiased fractionation in the paleo-allotetraploid Cucurbita genomes

H Sun, S Wu, G Zhang, C Jiao, S Guo, Y Ren, J Zhang… - Molecular plant, 2017 - cell.com
The Cucurbita genus contains several economically important species in the Cucurbitaceae
family. Here, we report high-quality genome sequences of C. maxima and C. moschata and …

Subgenome parallel selection is associated with morphotype diversification and convergent crop domestication in Brassica rapa and Brassica oleracea

F Cheng, R Sun, X Hou, H Zheng, F Zhang, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Brassica species, including crops such as cabbage, turnip and oilseed, display enormous
phenotypic variation. Brassica genomes have all undergone a whole-genome triplication …

Doubling down on genomes: polyploidy and crop plants

S Renny‐Byfield, JF Wendel - American journal of botany, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Polyploidy, or whole genome multiplication, is ubiquitous among angiosperms. Many crop
species are relatively recent allopolyploids, resulting from interspecific hybridization and …

Genome triplication drove the diversification of Brassica plants

F Cheng, J Wu, X Wang - Horticulture research, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The genus Brassica belongs to the plant family Brassicaceae, which includes many
important crop species that are used as oilseed, condiments, or vegetables throughout the …

[HTML][HTML] The emerging biofuel crop Camelina sativa retains a highly undifferentiated hexaploid genome structure

S Kagale, C Koh, J Nixon, V Bollina, WE Clarke… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Camelina sativa is an oilseed with desirable agronomic and oil-quality attributes for a viable
industrial oil platform crop. Here we generate the first chromosome-scale high-quality …