Abscisic acid (ABA) is a key hormone that promotes dormancy during seed development on
the mother plant and after seed dispersal participates in the control of dormancy release and …

The analysis of polymorphism data is becoming increasingly important as a complementary
tool to classical genetic analyses. Nevertheless, despite plunging sequencing costs …

We present RaGOO, a reference-guided contig ordering and orienting tool that leverages
the speed and sensitivity of Minimap2 to accurately achieve chromosome-scale assemblies …

The WRKY gene family in flowering plants encodes a large group of transcription factors
(TFs) that play essential roles in diverse stress responses, developmental, and physiological …

Repetitive DNA sequences are abundant in a broad range of species, from bacteria to
mammals, and they cover nearly half of the human genome. Repeats have always …

Global agriculture is facing major challenges to ensure global food security, such as the
need to breed high-yielding crops adapted to future climates and the identification of …

Heat shock proteins 70 (HSP70s) are steadily gaining more attention in the field of plant
biotic interactions. Though their regulation and activity in plants are much less well …

Uncovering the genetic basis of agronomic traits in crop landraces that have adapted to
various agro-climatic conditions is important to world food security. Here we have …

Next‐generation technologies generate an overwhelming amount of gene sequence data.
Efficient annotation tools are required to make these data amenable to functional genomics …

A high-density haplotype map recently enabled a genome-wide association study (GWAS)
in a population of indica subspecies of Chinese rice landraces. Here we extend this …