Phylogenomics and the flowering plant tree of life

C Guo, Y Luo, LM Gao, TS Yi, HT Li… - Journal of Integrative …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The advances accelerated by next‐generation sequencing and long‐read sequencing
technologies continue to provide an impetus for plant phylogenetic study. In the past …

[HTML][HTML] CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing techniques and new breeding strategies in cereals–current status, improvements, and perspectives

S Ahmar, G Hensel, D Gruszka - Biotechnology Advances, 2023 - Elsevier
Cereal crops, including triticeae species (barley, wheat, rye), as well as edible cereals
(wheat, corn, rice, oat, rye, sorghum), are significant suppliers for human consumption …

NextDenovo: an efficient error correction and accurate assembly tool for noisy long reads

J Hu, Z Wang, Z Sun, B Hu, AO Ayoola, F Liang, J Li… - Genome Biology, 2024 - Springer
Long-read sequencing data, particularly those derived from the Oxford Nanopore
sequencing platform, tend to exhibit high error rates. Here, we present NextDenovo, an …

Genome assemblies of 11 bamboo species highlight diversification induced by dynamic subgenome dominance

PF Ma, YL Liu, C Guo, G **, ZH Guo, L Mao… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Polyploidy (genome duplication) is a pivotal force in evolution. However, the interactions
between parental genomes in a polyploid nucleus, frequently involving subgenome …

Non–B-form DNA tends to form in centromeric regions and has undergone changes in polyploid oat subgenomes

Q Liu, C Yi, Z Zhang, H Su, C Liu… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Centromeres are the specialized regions of the chromosomes that direct faithful
chromosome segregation during cell division. Despite their functional conservation …

A Zea genus-specific micropeptide controls kernel dehydration in maize

Y Yu, W Li, Y Liu, Y Liu, Q Zhang, Y Ouyang, W Ding… - Cell, 2025 - cell.com
Kernel dehydration rate (KDR) is a crucial production trait that affects mechanized
harvesting and kernel quality in maize; however, the underlying mechanisms remain …

Triticeae crop genome biology: an endless frontier

Z Gao, J Bian, F Lu, Y Jiao, H He - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Triticeae, the wheatgrass tribe, includes several major cereal crops and their wild relatives.
Major crops within the Triticeae are wheat, barley and rye which are important for human …

The complex hexaploid oil‐Camellia genome traces back its phylogenomic history and multi‐omics analysis of Camellia oil biosynthesis

H Zhu, F Wang, Z Xu, G Wang, L Hu… - Plant Biotechnology …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Summary Oil‐Camellia (Camellia oleifera), belonging to the Theaceae family Camellia, is an
important woody edible oil tree species. The Camellia oil in its mature seed kernels, mainly …

Genome evolution and diversity of wild and cultivated rice species

W Long, Q He, Y Wang, Y Wang, J Wang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Wild species of crops serve as a valuable germplasm resource for breeding of modern
cultivars. Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is a vital global staple food. However, research on genome …

What Are We Learning from Plant Pangenomes?

M Jayakodi, H Shim, M Mascher - Annual Review of Plant …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
A single reference genome does not fully capture species diversity. By contrast, a
pangenome incorporates multiple genomes to capture the entire set of nonredundant genes …