Fluctuations in environmental conditions greatly influence life on earth. Plants, as sessile
organisms, have developed molecular mechanisms to adapt their development to changes …

Highlights•Efficient genome editing (GE) accelerates the domestication of crop wild
relatives.•New crops can be rapidly created to withstand drought, flooding, and soil …

Crop domestication has fundamentally altered the course of human history, causing a shift
from hunter-gatherer to agricultural societies and stimulating the rise of modern civilization …

Background The process of selecting superior performing plants for food, feed and fiber
products dates back more than 10,000 years and has been substantially refined in the last …

Roots are the interface between the plant and the soil and play a central role in multiple
ecosystem processes. With intensification of agricultural practices, rhizosphere processes …

While often deleterious, hybridization can also be a key source of genetic variation and pre-
adapted haplotypes, enabling rapid evolution and niche expansion. Here we evaluate these …

The classic domestication scenario for grains and fruits has been portrayed as the lucky
fixation of major-effect “domestication genes.” Characterization of these genes plus recent …

DNA methylation is a ubiquitous chromatin feature, present in 25% of cytosines in the maize
genome, but variation and evolution of the methylation landscape during maize …

Large-scale genomic variations are fundamental resources for crop genetics and breeding.
Here we sequenced 1,904 genomes of broomcorn millet to an average of 40× sequencing …

Grain size, grain number per panicle, and grain weight are crucial determinants of yield-
related traits in cereals. Understanding the genetic basis of grain yield-related traits has …