Genome-wide association studies in maize: praise and stargaze

Y Xiao, H Liu, L Wu, M Warburton, J Yan - Molecular plant, 2017 - cell.com
Genome-wide association study (GWAS) has become a widely accepted strategy for
decoding genotype-phenotype associations in many species thanks to advances in next …

Epigenetics for crop improvement in times of global change

I Kakoulidou, EV Avramidou, M Baránek… - Biology, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Research on plant epigenetics aims to understand how endogenous,
biotic, and abiotic factors regulate plant development and growth independent of changes in …

A complete telomere-to-telomere assembly of the maize genome

J Chen, Z Wang, K Tan, W Huang, J Shi, T Li, J Hu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
A complete telomere-to-telomere (T2T) finished genome has been the long pursuit of
genomic research. Through generating deep coverage ultralong Oxford Nanopore …

Genetic and molecular basis of floral induction in Arabidopsis thaliana

A Kinoshita, R Richter - Journal of experimental botany, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Many plants synchronize their life cycles in response to changing seasons and initiate
flowering under favourable environmental conditions to ensure reproductive success. To …

Emerging genomic tools for legume breeding: current status and future prospects

MK Pandey, M Roorkiwal, VK Singh… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Legumes play a vital role in ensuring global nutritional food security and improving soil
quality through nitrogen fixation. Accelerated higher genetic gains is required to meet the …

mRNA and small RNA transcriptomes reveal insights into dynamic homoeolog regulation of allopolyploid heterosis in nascent hexaploid wheat

A Li, D Liu, J Wu, X Zhao, M Hao, S Geng, J Yan… - The Plant …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Nascent allohexaploid wheat may represent the initial genetic state of common wheat
(Triticum aestivum), which arose as a hybrid between Triticum turgidum (AABB) and …

From hybrid genomes to heterotic trait output: Challenges and opportunities

W Liu, Y Zhang, H He, G He, XW Deng - Current opinion in plant biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Heterosis (or hybrid vigor) has been widely used in crop seed breeding to improve many key
economic traits. Nevertheless, the genetic and molecular basis of this important …

Efficient targeted genome modification in maize using CRISPR/Cas9 system

C Feng, J Yuan, R Wang, Y Liu, JA Birchler… - Journal of Genetics and …, 2016 - Elsevier
CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats)/Cas9 system, which is a
newly developed technology for targeted genome modification, has been successfully used …

Biological pathway expression complementation contributes to biomass heterosis in Arabidopsis

W Liu, G He, XW Deng - Proceedings of the National …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The mechanisms underlying heterosis have long remained a matter of debate, despite its
agricultural importance. How changes in transcriptional networks during plant development …

PCSD: a plant chromatin state database

Y Liu, T Tian, K Zhang, Q You, H Yan… - Nucleic Acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Genome-wide maps of chromatin states have become a powerful representation of genome
annotation and regulatory activity. We collected public and in-house plant epigenomic data …