Twenty years of plant genome sequencing: achievements and challenges

Y Sun, L Shang, QH Zhu, L Fan, L Guo - Trends in Plant Science, 2022 - cell.com
Publication of the complete genome sequence of Arabidopsis thaliana, the first plant
reference genome, in December 2000 heralded the beginning of the plant genome era …

The current developments in medicinal plant genomics enabled the diversification of secondary metabolites' biosynthesis

MM Alami, Z Ouyang, Y Zhang, S Shu, G Yang… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Medicinal plants produce important substrates for their adaptation and defenses against
environmental factors and, at the same time, are used for traditional medicine and industrial …

A graph-based genome and pan-genome variation of the model plant Setaria

Q He, S Tang, H Zhi, J Chen, J Zhang, H Liang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Setaria italica (foxtail millet), a founder crop of East Asian agriculture, is a model plant for C4
photosynthesis and developing approaches to adaptive breeding across multiple climates …

A genome resource for green millet Setaria viridis enables discovery of agronomically valuable loci

S Mamidi, A Healey, P Huang, J Grimwood… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Wild and weedy relatives of domesticated crops harbor genetic variants that can advance
agricultural biotechnology. Here we provide a genome resource for the wild plant green …

Multi-omics analyses of 398 foxtail millet accessions reveal genomic regions associated with domestication, metabolite traits, and anti-inflammatory effects

X Li, J Gao, J Song, K Guo, S Hou, X Wang, Q He… - Molecular plant, 2022 - cell.com
Foxtail millet (Setaria italica), which was domesticated from the wild species green foxtail
(Setaria viridis), is a rich source of phytonutrients for humans. To evaluate how breeding …

Orphan crops and their wild relatives in the genomic era

CY Ye, L Fan - Molecular Plant, 2021 - cell.com
More than half of the calories consumed by humans are provided by three major cereal
crops (rice, maize, and wheat). Orphan crops are usually well adapted to low-input …

Beyond a reference genome: pangenomes and population genomics of underutilized and orphan crops for future food and nutrition security

MA Chapman, Y He, M Zhou - New Phytologist, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Underutilized crops are, by definition, under‐researched compared to staple crops yet come
with traits that may be especially important given climate change and the need to feed a …

High light and temperature reduce photosynthetic efficiency through different mechanisms in the C4 model Setaria viridis

CM Anderson, EM Mattoon, N Zhang, E Becker… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
C4 plants frequently experience high light and high temperature conditions in the field,
which reduce growth and yield. However, the mechanisms underlying these stress …

Plasma membrane aquaporins regulate root hydraulic conductivity in the model plant Setaria viridis

A Gal, A Dalal, M Anfang, D Sharma… - Plant …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The high rate of productivity observed in panicoid crops is in part due to their extensive root
system. Recently, green foxtail (Setaria viridis) has emerged as a genetic model system for …

DNA-free high-quality RNA extraction from 39 difficult-to-extract plant species (representing seasonal tissues and tissue types) of 32 families, and its validation for …

S Sasi, S Krishnan, P Kodackattumannil, AAL Shamisi… - Plant Methods, 2023 - Springer
Background High-purity RNA serves as the basic requirement for downstream molecular
analysis of plant species, especially the differential expression of genes to various biotic and …