Polyploidy is a major force in plant evolution and speciation. In newly formed allopolyploids,
pairing between related chromosomes from different subgenomes (homoeologous …

The genus Brassica belongs to the plant family Brassicaceae, which includes many
important crop species that are used as oilseed, condiments, or vegetables throughout the …

Polyploidization has provided much genetic variation for plant adaptive evolution, but the
mechanisms by which the molecular evolution of polyploid genomes establishes genetic …

Brassica rapa comprises several important cultivated vegetables and oil crops. Current
reference genome assemblies of Brassica rapa are quite fragmented and not highly …

Background Brassica oleracea is a valuable vegetable species that has contributed to
human health and nutrition for hundreds of years and comprises multiple distinct cultivar …

Despite hundreds of sequenced Arabidopsis genomes, very little is known about the degree
of genomic collinearity within single species, due to the low number of chromosome-level …

Allotetraploid oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.) is an agriculturally important crop. Cultivation
and breeding of B. napus by humans has resulted in numerous genetically diverse …

Camelina sativa is an oilseed with desirable agronomic and oil-quality attributes for a viable
industrial oil platform crop. Here we generate the first chromosome-scale high-quality …

The shift from outcrossing to selfing is common in flowering plants,, but the genomic
consequences and the speed at which they emerge remain poorly understood. An excellent …

Life without the mustard family (Brassicaceae) would be a world without many crop species
and the model organism Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) that has revolutionized our …