Crop production needs to increase to secure future food supplies, while reducing its impact
on ecosystems. Detailed characterization of plant genomes and genetic diversity is crucial …

For decades, transposable elements have been known to produce a wide variety of changes
in plant gene expression and function. This has led to the idea that transposable element …

Tea plant is an important economic crop, which is used to produce the world's oldest and
most widely consumed tea beverages. Here, we present a high-quality reference genome …

Cultivated peanut (Arachis hypogaea) is an allotetraploid with closely related subgenomes
of a total size of∼ 2.7 Gb. This makes the assembly of chromosomal pseudomolecules very …

Background DNA methylation is an important feature of plant epigenomes, involved in the
formation of heterochromatin and affecting gene expression. Extensive variation of DNA …

Genome size in mammals and birds shows remarkably little interspecific variation compared
with other taxa. However, genome sequencing has revealed that many mammal and bird …

Conifers have dominated forests for more than 200 million years and are of huge ecological
and economic importance. Here we present the draft assembly of the 20-gigabase genome …

Plant genomes vary in size and complexity, fueled in part by processes of whole-genome
duplication (WGD; polyploidy) and subsequent genome evolution. Despite repeated …

Transposable elements (TEs) are the key players in generating genomic novelty by a
combination of the chromosome rearrangements they cause and the genes that come under …

Genomic DNA base composition (GC content) is predicted to significantly affect genome
functioning and species ecology. Although several hypotheses have been put forward to …