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 …

As a major event in human civilization, wild plants were successfully domesticated to be
crops, largely owing to continuing artificial selection. Here, we summarize new discoveries …

Watermelon, Citrullus lanatus, is the world's third largest fruit crop. Reference genomes with
gaps and a narrow genetic base hinder functional genomics and genetic improvement of …

Arabidopsis thaliana is an important and long-established model species for plant molecular
biology, genetics, epigenetics, and genomics. However, the latest version of reference …

The concept of pan-genome, which is the collection of all genomes from a population, has
shown a great potential in genomics study, especially for crop sciences. The rice pan …

Producing sufficient food with finite resources to feed the growing global population while
having a smaller impact on the environment has always been a great challenge. Here, we …

Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) determined by mitochondrial genes and restorer of fertility
(Rf) controlled by nuclear-encoded genes provide the breeding systems of many hybrid …

The wide adoption of hybrid rice has greatly increased rice yield in the last several decades.
The utilization of heterosis facilitated by male sterility has been a common strategy for hybrid …

Centromeres are the genomic regions that organize and regulate chromosome behaviours
during cell cycle, and their variations are associated with genome instability, karyotype …

Since the completion of the rice genome sequencing project in 2005, we have entered the
era of rice genomics, which is still in its ascendancy. Rice genomics studies can be …