Salt-tolerant alternative crops as sources of quality food to mitigate the negative impact of salinity on agricultural production

I Egea, Y Estrada, C Faura… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
An increase of abiotic stress tolerance and nutritive value of foods is currently a priority
because of climate change and rising world population. Among abiotic stresses, salt stress …

Plant genome sequence assembly in the era of long reads: Progress, challenges and future directions

B Pucker, I Irisarri, J de Vries, B Xu - Quantitative Plant Biology, 2022 - cambridge.org
Third-generation long-read sequencing is transforming plant genomics. Oxford Nanopore
Technologies and Pacific Biosciences are offering competing long-read sequencing …

The genome of the recretohalophyte Limonium bicolor provides insights into salt gland development and salinity adaptation during terrestrial evolution

F Yuan, X Wang, B Zhao, X Xu, M Shi, B Leng, X Dong… - Molecular Plant, 2022 - cell.com
Halophytes have evolved specialized strategies to cope with high salinity. The extreme
halophyte sea lavender (Limonium bicolor) lacks trichomes but possesses salt glands on its …

A high-resolution single-molecule sequencing-based Arabidopsis transcriptome using novel methods of Iso-seq analysis

R Zhang, R Kuo, M Coulter, CPG Calixto, JC Entizne… - Genome biology, 2022 - Springer
Background Accurate and comprehensive annotation of transcript sequences is essential for
transcript quantification and differential gene and transcript expression analysis. Single …

Plant metabolic gene clusters: evolution, organization, and their applications in synthetic biology

R Bharadwaj, SR Kumar, A Sharma… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Plants are a remarkable source of high-value specialized metabolites having significant
physiological and ecological functions. Genes responsible for synthesizing specialized …

Genetic resources and breeding approaches for improvement of amaranth (Amaranthus spp.) and quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa)

Anuradha, M Kumari, G Zinta, R Chauhan… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Nowadays, the human population is more concerned about their diet and very specific in
choosing their food sources to ensure a healthy lifestyle and avoid diseases. So people are …

A high-quality Bougainvillea genome provides new insights into evolutionary history and pigment biosynthetic pathways in the Caryophyllales

L Lan, H Zhao, S Xu, S Kan, X Zhang, W Liu… - Horticulture …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Bougainvillea is a perennial ornamental shrub that is highly regarded in ornamental
horticulture around the world. However, the absence of genome data limits our …

Distinct hormonal and morphological control of dormancy and germination in Chenopodium album dimorphic seeds

E Loades, M Pérez, V Turečková… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Dormancy and heteromorphism are innate seed properties that control germination timing
through adaptation to the prevailing environment. The degree of variation in dormancy depth …

Genomic profiling of dioecious Amaranthus species provides novel insights into species relatedness and sex genes

DA Raiyemo, LK Bobadilla, PJ Tranel - BMC biology, 2023 - Springer
Background Amaranthus L. is a diverse genus consisting of domesticated, weedy, and non-
invasive species distributed around the world. Nine species are dioecious, of which …

syntenet: an R/Bioconductor package for the inference and analysis of synteny networks

F Almeida-Silva, T Zhao, KK Ullrich, ME Schranz… - …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Interpreting and visualizing synteny relationships across several genomes is a challenging
task. We previously proposed a network-based approach for better visualization and …