Long-read sequencing technologies have now reached a level of accuracy and yield that
allows their application to variant detection at a scale of tens to thousands of samples …

Structural variations (SVs) including gene presence/absence variations and copy number
variations are a common feature of genomes in plants and, together with single nucleotide …

Third-generation long-read sequencing is transforming plant genomics. Oxford Nanopore
Technologies and Pacific Biosciences are offering competing long-read sequencing …

Long-read DNA sequencing technologies require high molecular weight (HMW) DNA of
adequate purity and integrity, which can be difficult to isolate from plant material. Plant …

De novo allopolyploidization in Brassica provides a very successful model for reconstructing
polyploid genomes using progenitor species and relatives to broaden crop gene pools and …

Camelina or false flax (Camelina sativa) is an emerging oilseed crop and a feedstock for
biofuel production. This species is believed to originate from Western Asian and Eastern …

Crop development is critical to meeting the world's growing food needs, especially in light of
the challenges posed by climate change and population growth. Molecular markers (MM) …

Abstract Background Structural variants (SVs), including deletions, insertions, duplications,
and inversions, are relatively long genomic variations implicated in a diverse range of …

Clubroot, caused by Plasmodiophora brassicae infection, is a disease of growing
importance in cruciferous crops, including oilseed rape (Brassica napus). The affected …

In modern plant breeding, genomic selection is becoming the gold standard to select
superior genotypes in large breeding populations that are only partially phenotyped. Many …