Climate change gives rise to numerous environmental stresses, including soil salinity.
Salinity/salt stress is the second biggest abiotic factor affecting agricultural productivity …

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is one of the most important crops in the world. Since the completion of
rice reference genome sequences, tremendous progress has been achieved in …

Sequence assembly of large and repeat-rich plant genomes has been challenging,
requiring substantial computational resources and often several complementary sequence …

Background Sequencing technology and assembly algorithms have matured to the point
that high-quality de novo assembly is possible for large, repetitive genomes. Current …

Global warming causes a range of negative impacts on plants especially due to rapid
changes in temperatures, alterations of rainfall patterns, floods or drought conditions, and …

This review commemorates the 40th anniversary of DNA sequencing, a period in which we
have already witnessed multiple technological revolutions and a growth in scale from a few …

Cereal grasses of the Triticeae tribe have been the major food source in temperate regions
since the dawn of agriculture. Their large genomes are characterized by a high content of …

Phytohormones are ubiquitously involved in plant biological processes and regulate cellular
signaling pertaining to unheralded environmental cues, such as salinity, drought, extreme …

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 …

Common oat (Avena sativa) is an important cereal crop serving as a valuable source of
forage and human food. Although reference genomes of many important crops have been …