Designing future crops: genomics-assisted breeding comes of age

RK Varshney, A Bohra, J Yu, A Graner, Q Zhang… - Trends in Plant …, 2021 - cell.com
Over the past decade, genomics-assisted breeding (GAB) has been instrumental in
harnessing the potential of modern genome resources and characterizing and exploiting …

Mechanisms regulating the dynamics of photosynthesis under abiotic stresses

I Muhammad, A Shalmani, M Ali, QH Yang… - Frontiers in plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Photosynthesis sustains plant life on earth and is indispensable for plant growth and
development. Factors such as unfavorable environmental conditions, stress regulatory …

WGDI: a user-friendly toolkit for evolutionary analyses of whole-genome duplications and ancestral karyotypes

P Sun, B Jiao, Y Yang, L Shan, T Li, X Li, Z Xi, X Wang… - Molecular plant, 2022 - cell.com
Evidence of whole-genome duplications (WGDs) and subsequent karyotype changes has
been detected in most major lineages of living organisms on Earth. To clarify the complex …

Photosynthetic response of plants under different abiotic stresses: a review

A Sharma, V Kumar, B Shahzad… - Journal of Plant Growth …, 2020 - Springer
Plants encounter various abiotic stresses due to their sessile nature which include heavy
metals, salt, drought, nutrient deficiency, light intensity, pesticide contamination, as well as …

A reference genome for pea provides insight into legume genome evolution

J Kreplak, MA Madoui, P Cápal, P Novák, K Labadie… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
We report the first annotated chromosome-level reference genome assembly for pea, Gregor
Mendel's original genetic model. Phylogenetics and paleogenomics show genomic …

The genome sequence of segmental allotetraploid peanut Arachis hypogaea

DJ Bertioli, J Jenkins, J Clevenger, O Dudchenko… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Like many other crops, the cultivated peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) is of hybrid origin and
has a polyploid genome that contains essentially complete sets of chromosomes from two …

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 …

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 …

The Taxus genome provides insights into paclitaxel biosynthesis

X Xiong, J Gou, Q Liao, Y Li, Q Zhou, G Bi, C Li, R Du… - Nature Plants, 2021 - nature.com
The ancient gymnosperm genus Taxus is the exclusive source of the anticancer drug
paclitaxel, yet no reference genome sequences are available for comprehensively …

Gene duplication and evolution in recurring polyploidization–diploidization cycles in plants

X Qiao, Q Li, H Yin, K Qi, L Li, R Wang, S Zhang… - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
Background The sharp increase of plant genome and transcriptome data provide valuable
resources to investigate evolutionary consequences of gene duplication in a range of taxa …