Genomics of crop wild relatives: expanding the gene pool for crop improvement

M Brozynska, A Furtado… - Plant biotechnology journal, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Plant breeders require access to new genetic diversity to satisfy the demands of a growing
human population for more food that can be produced in a variable or changing climate and …

History and current status of sugarcane breeding, germplasm development and molecular genetics in Brazil

DE Cursi, HP Hoffmann, GVS Barbosa, JA Bressiani… - Sugar Tech, 2022 - Springer
Brazil is the world's largest producer of sugarcane and one of the leading suppliers of sugar
and ethanol worldwide. In the 2019–2020 crop season, the country produced 642.7 million …

A mosaic monoploid reference sequence for the highly complex genome of sugarcane

O Garsmeur, G Droc, R Antonise, J Grimwood… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) is a major crop for sugar and bioenergy production. Its highly
polyploid, aneuploid, heterozygous, and interspecific genome poses major challenges for …

Genome editing in plants: exploration of technological advancements and challenges

S Vats, S Kumawat, V Kumar, GB Patil, T Joshi… - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
Genome-editing, a recent technological advancement in the field of life sciences, is one of
the great examples of techniques used to explore the understanding of the biological …

A survey of the complex transcriptome from the highly polyploid sugarcane genome using full-length isoform sequencing and de novo assembly from short read …

NV Hoang, A Furtado, PJ Mason, A Marquardt… - BMC genomics, 2017 - Springer
Background Despite the economic importance of sugarcane in sugar and bioenergy
production, there is not yet a reference genome available. Most of the sugarcane …

TALEN‐mediated targeted mutagenesis of more than 100 COMT copies/alleles in highly polyploid sugarcane improves saccharification efficiency without …

B Kannan, JH Jung, GW Moxley… - Plant biotechnology …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Sugarcane is the world's most efficient feedstock for commercial production of bioethanol
due to its superior biomass production and accumulation of sucrose in stems. Integrating first …

Accelerating genetic gain in sugarcane breeding using genomic selection

S Yadav, P Jackson, X Wei, EM Ross, K Aitken… - Agronomy, 2020 - mdpi.com
Sugarcane is a major industrial crop cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions of the
world. It is the primary source of sugar worldwide, accounting for more than 70% of world …

Recent advances in sugarcane genomics, physiology, and phenomics for superior agronomic traits

MR Meena, C Appunu, R Arun Kumar… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Advances in sugarcane breeding have contributed significantly to improvements in
agronomic traits and crop yield. However, the growing global demand for sugar and biofuel …

Potential for genetic improvement of sugarcane as a source of biomass for biofuels

NV Hoang, A Furtado, FC Botha… - … in bioengineering and …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Sugarcane (Saccharum spp. hybrids) has great potential as a major feedstock for biofuel
production worldwide. It is considered among the best options for producing biofuels today …

The challenge of analyzing the sugarcane genome

PP Thirugnanasambandam, NV Hoang… - Frontiers in plant …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Reference genome sequences have become key platforms for genetics and breeding of the
major crop species. Sugarcane is probably the largest crop produced in the world (in weight …