Background DNA markers improved the productivity and accuracy of classical plant
breeding by means of marker-assisted selection (MAS). The enormous number of …

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is one of the most important crops in the world. Since the completion of
rice reference genome sequences, tremendous progress has been achieved in …

Here we analyse genetic variation, population structure and diversity among 3,010 diverse
Asian cultivated rice (Oryza sativa L.) genomes from the 3,000 Rice Genomes Project. Our …

We describe updates to the Rice SNP-Seek Database since its first release. We ran a new
SNP-calling pipeline followed by filtering that resulted in complete, base, filtered and core …

Stay-green (sometimes staygreen) refers to the heritable delayed foliar senescence
character in model and crop plant species. In a cosmetic stay-green, a lesion interferes with …

Key message New models for integration of major gene MAS with modern breeding
approaches stand to greatly enhance the reliability and efficiency of breeding, facilitating the …

We report on a whole‐genome draft sequence of rye (Secale cereale L.). Rye is a diploid
Triticeae species closely related to wheat and barley, and an important crop for food and …

Increasing crop production is essential for securing the future food supply in developing
countries in Asia and Africa as economies and populations grow. However, although the …

Given the dramatic rise in high‐cannabinoid hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) production in the
last decade, there is an increasingly urgent need to characterize available germplasm and …

Background Microbial inhabitants of soils are important to ecosystem and planetary
functions, yet there are large gaps in our knowledge of their diversity and ecology. The …