Technology-enabled great leap in deciphering plant genomes

L **e, X Gong, K Yang, Y Huang, S Zhang, L Shen… - Nature Plants, 2024 - nature.com
Plant genomes provide essential and vital basic resources for studying many aspects of
plant biology and applications (for example, breeding). From 2000 to 2020, 1,144 genomes …

Current status of community resources and priorities for weed genomics research

J Montgomery, S Morran, DR MacGregor, JS McElroy… - Genome biology, 2024 - Springer
Weeds are attractive models for basic and applied research due to their impacts on
agricultural systems and capacity to swiftly adapt in response to anthropogenic selection …

Domestication and the evolution of crops: variable syndromes, complex genetic architectures, and ecological entanglements

O Alam, MD Purugganan - The Plant Cell, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Domestication can be considered a specialized mutualism in which a domesticator exerts
control over the reproduction or propagation (fitness) of a domesticated species to gain …

Pan-genome and phylogenomic analyses highlight Hevea species delineation and rubber trait evolution

Y Fang, X **ao, J Lin, Q Lin, J Wang, K Liu, Z Li… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The para rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) is the world's sole commercial source of natural
rubber, a vital industrial raw material. However, the narrow genetic diversity of this crop …

Porous borders at the wild-crop interface promote weed adaptation in Southeast Asia

LF Li, T Pusadee, MJ Wedger, YL Li, MR Li… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
High reproductive compatibility between crops and their wild relatives can provide benefits
for crop breeding but also poses risks for agricultural weed evolution. Weedy rice is a feral …

The era of panomics-driven gene discovery in plants

S Mishra, AK Srivastava, AW Khan, LSP Tran… - Trends in Plant …, 2024 - cell.com
Panomics is an approach to integrate multiple 'omics' datasets, generated using different
individuals or natural variations. Considering their diverse phenotypic spectrum, the …

The rice genome annotation project: an updated database for mining the rice genome

JP Hamilton, C Li, CR Buell - Nucleic Acids Research, 2025 - academic.oup.com
Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is a major cereal crop that provides calories across the world. With a
small genome, rice has been used extensively as a model for genetic and genomic studies …

[HTML][HTML] Plant pangenomics, current practice and future direction

H Hu, J Wang, S Nie, J Zhao, J Batley… - Agriculture …, 2024 - Elsevier
A pangenome encompasses the complete genetic diversity of a species, by assembling a
range of representative individuals from various populations. This review describes the …

Population genomic analysis unravels the evolutionary roadmap of pericarp color in rice

L **e, D Wu, Y Fang, C Ye, QH Zhu, X Wei, L Fan - Plant Communications, 2024 - cell.com
Pigmented rice stands out for its nutritional value and is gaining more and more attention.
Wild rice, domesticated red rice, and weedy rice all have a red pericarp and a …

In‐depth exploration of the genomic diversity in tea varieties based on a newly constructed pangenome of Camellia sinensis

A Tariq, M Meng, X Jiang, A Bolger, S Beier… - The Plant …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Tea, one of the most widely consumed beverages globally, exhibits remarkable genomic
diversity in its underlying flavour and health‐related compounds. In this study, we present …