The development of climate change resilient crops is necessary if we are to meet the
challenge of feeding the growing world's population. We must be able to increase food …

PLAZA is a platform for comparative, evolutionary, and functional plant genomics. It makes a
broad set of genomes, data types and analysis tools available to researchers through a user …

Abiotic stresses are among the principal limiting factors for productivity in agriculture. In the
current era of continuous climate changes, the understanding of the molecular aspects …

The genomic sequences of crops continue to be produced at a frenetic pace. It remains
challenging to develop complete annotations of functional genes and regulatory elements in …

Improvements in long-read data and scaffolding technologies have enabled rapid
generation of reference-quality assemblies for complex genomes. Still, an assessment of …

Advances in high-throughput sequencing have resulted in a massive increase of RNA-Seq
transcriptome data. However, the promise of rapid gene expression profiling in a specific …

Juglans (walnuts), the most speciose genus in the walnut family (Juglandaceae), represents
most of the family's commercially valuable fruit and wood‐producing trees. It includes …

Approximately 60% of the genes and gene products in the model species Arabidopsis
thaliana have been functionally characterized. In non‐model plant species, the functional …

Significance Statement The first chromosome‐scale assemblies for North American
members of the Acer genus, sugar maple (Acer saccharum) and boxelder (Acer negundo) …

The annotation of repetitive sequences within plant genomes can help in the interpretation
of observed phenotypes. Moreover, repeat masking is required for tasks such as whole …