Twenty years of plant genome sequencing: achievements and challenges

Y Sun, L Shang, QH Zhu, L Fan, L Guo - Trends in Plant Science, 2022 - cell.com
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 …

Global expansion of quinoa and challenges for the Andean region

G Alandia, JP Rodriguez, SE Jacobsen, D Bazile… - Global Food …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa, Willd.) is an Andean grain crop recognized as an
ally for global food security due to its high nutritional value. However, quinoa globalization …

The genome of cultivated peanut provides insight into legume karyotypes, polyploid evolution and crop domestication

W Zhuang, H Chen, M Yang, J Wang, MK Pandey… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
High oil and protein content make tetraploid peanut a leading oil and food legume. Here we
report a high-quality peanut genome sequence, comprising 2.54 Gb with 20 …

Assembly of allele-aware, chromosomal-scale autopolyploid genomes based on Hi-C data

X Zhang, S Zhang, Q Zhao, R Ming, H Tang - Nature plants, 2019 - nature.com
Construction of chromosome-level assembly is a vital step in achieving the goal of a
'Platinum'genome, but it remains a major challenge to assemble and anchor sequences to …

Purge Haplotigs: allelic contig reassignment for third-gen diploid genome assemblies

MJ Roach, SA Schmidt, AR Borneman - BMC bioinformatics, 2018 - Springer
Background Recent developments in third-gen long read sequencing and diploid-aware
assemblers have resulted in the rapid release of numerous reference-quality assemblies for …

Designing future crops: challenges and strategies for sustainable agriculture

Z Tian, JW Wang, J Li, B Han - The Plant Journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Crop production is facing unprecedented challenges. Despite the fact that the food supply
has significantly increased over the past half‐century,~ 8.9 and 14.3% people are still …

Natural products of pentacyclic triterpenoids: from discovery to heterologous biosynthesis

Y Li, J Wang, L Li, W Song, M Li, X Hua… - Natural Product …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to 2022 Pentacyclic triterpenoids are important natural bioactive substances
that are widely present in plants and fungi. They have significant medicinal efficacy, play an …

Salt-tolerant crops: time to deliver

V Melino, M Tester - Annual Review of Plant Biology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Despite the numerous advances made in our understanding of the physiology and
molecular genetics of salinity tolerance, there have been relatively few applications of these …

Chromosome-scale assemblies of plant genomes using nanopore long reads and optical maps

C Belser, B Istace, E Denis, M Dubarry, FC Baurens… - Nature plants, 2018 - nature.com
Plant genomes are often characterized by a high level of repetitiveness and polyploid
nature. Consequently, creating genome assemblies for plant genomes is challenging. The …

Utilisation and limitations of pseudocereals (quinoa, amaranth, and buckwheat) in food production: A review

S Graziano, C Agrimonti, N Marmiroli, M Gullì - Trends in Food Science & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Pseudocereals, especially quinoa, amaranth, and buckwheat, have attracted an
increasing amount of attention because of their nutritive and health-benefiting properties …