The size of seeds affects not only evolutionary fitness but also grain yield of crops.
Understanding the mechanisms controlling seed size has become an important research …

Current global agricultural production must feed over 7 billion people. However, productivity
varies greatly across the globe and is under threat from both increased competitions for land …

Soybean is one of the most important vegetable oil and protein feed crops. To capture the
entire genomic diversity, it is needed to construct a complete high-quality pan-genome from …

Exploitation of crop heterosis is crucial for increasing global agriculture production.
However, the quantitative genomic analysis of heterosis was lacking, and there is currently …

Here we analyse genetic variation, population structure and diversity among 3,010 diverse
Asian cultivated rice (Oryza sativa L.) genomes from the 3,000 Rice Genomes Project. Our …

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is the primary staple food for half of the world population. It is generally
classified based on the grain color into black, red, purple, brown, green, and white. These …

Extensive allelic variation in agronomically important genes serves as the basis of rice
breeding. Here, we present a comprehensive map of rice quantitative trait nucleotides …

Bacterial communities associated with roots impact the health and nutrition of the host plant.
The dynamics of these microbial assemblies over the plant life cycle are, however, not well …

Grain size is a major determinant of grain yield in cereal crops. qSW5/GW5, which exerts the
greatest effect on rice grain width and weight, was fine-mapped to a 2,263-bp/21-kb …

Although genetic diversity has a cardinal role in domestication, abundant natural allelic
variations across the rice genome that cause agronomically important differences between …