Current status of structural variation studies in plants

Y Yuan, PE Bayer, J Batley… - Plant Biotechnology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Structural variations (SVs) including gene presence/absence variations and copy number
variations are a common feature of genomes in plants and, together with single nucleotide …

Exploring the gene pool of Brassica napus by genomics‐based approaches

D Hu, J Jing, RJ Snowdon, AS Mason… - Plant Biotechnology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
De novo allopolyploidization in Brassica provides a very successful model for reconstructing
polyploid genomes using progenitor species and relatives to broaden crop gene pools and …

Two gap-free reference genomes and a global view of the centromere architecture in rice

JM Song, WZ Xie, S Wang, YX Guo, DH Koo, D Kudrna… - Molecular plant, 2021 - cell.com
Rice (Oryza sativa), a major staple throughout the world and a model system for plant
genomics and breeding, was the first crop genome sequenced almost two decades ago …

Impacts of allopolyploidization and structural variation on intraspecific diversification in Brassica rapa

X Cai, L Chang, T Zhang, H Chen, L Zhang, R Lin… - Genome biology, 2021 - Springer
Background Despite the prevalence and recurrence of polyploidization in the speciation of
flowering plants, its impacts on crop intraspecific genome diversification are largely …

Genome-wide detection of cytosine methylations in plant from Nanopore data using deep learning

P Ni, N Huang, F Nie, J Zhang, Z Zhang, B Wu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
In plants, cytosine DNA methylations (5mCs) can happen in three sequence contexts as
CpG, CHG, and CHH (where H= A, C, or T), which play different roles in the regulation of …

A near‐complete genome assembly of Brassica rapa provides new insights into the evolution of centromeres

L Zhang, J Liang, H Chen, Z Zhang… - Plant biotechnology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Brassica rapa comprises many important cultivated vegetables and oil crops. However,
Chiifu v3. 0, the current B. rapa reference genome, still contains hundreds of gaps. Here, we …

Long-read assembly of the Brassica napus reference genome Darmor-bzh

M Rousseau-Gueutin, C Belser, C Da Silva… - …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Background The combination of long reads and long-range information to produce genome
assemblies is now accepted as a common standard. This strategy not only allows access to …

Genomic insights into the origin, domestication and diversification of Brassica juncea

L Kang, L Qian, M Zheng, L Chen, H Chen, L Yang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Despite early domestication around 3000 BC, the evolutionary history of the ancient
allotetraploid species Brassica juncea (L.) Czern & Coss remains uncertain. Here, we report …

The final piece of the Triangle of U: Evolution of the tetraploid Brassica carinata genome

WC Yim, ML Swain, D Ma, H An, KA Bird… - The Plant …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Ethiopian mustard (Brassica carinata) is an ancient crop with remarkable stress resilience
and a desirable seed fatty acid profile for biofuel uses. Brassica carinata is one of six …

A telomere-to-telomere cotton genome assembly reveals centromere evolution and a Mutator transposon-linked module regulating embryo development

G Huang, Z Bao, L Feng, J Zhai, JF Wendel, X Cao… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Assembly of complete genomes can reveal functional genetic elements missing from draft
sequences. Here we present the near-complete telomere-to-telomere and contiguous …