Gene body DNA methylation in plants

AJ Bewick, RJ Schmitz - Current opinion in plant biology, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•GbM is typified by mCG within coding regions, and depletion at the TSS and
TTS.•Species without gbM revealed an unexpected role for CMT3 in the evolution of …

How important are transposons for plant evolution?

D Lisch - Nature reviews genetics, 2013 - nature.com
For decades, transposable elements have been known to produce a wide variety of changes
in plant gene expression and function. This has led to the idea that transposable element …

A chromosome-based draft sequence of the hexaploid bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) genome

International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium … - Science, 2014 - science.org
An ordered draft sequence of the 17-gigabase hexaploid bread wheat (Triticum aestivum)
genome has been produced by sequencing isolated chromosome arms. We have annotated …

Rfam 12.0: updates to the RNA families database

EP Nawrocki, SW Burge, A Bateman… - Nucleic acids …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The Rfam database (available at http://rfam. xfam. org) is a collection of non-coding RNA
families represented by manually curated sequence alignments, consensus secondary …

Structural and functional partitioning of bread wheat chromosome 3B

F Choulet, A Alberti, S Theil, N Glover, V Barbe… - Science, 2014 - science.org
We produced a reference sequence of the 1-gigabase chromosome 3B of hexaploid bread
wheat. By sequencing 8452 bacterial artificial chromosomes in pools, we assembled a …

The impact of transposable elements on eukaryotic genomes: from genome size increase to genetic adaptation to stressful environments

B Chénais, A Caruso, S Hiard, N Casse - Gene, 2012 - Elsevier
Transposable elements (TEs) are present in roughly all genomes. These mobile DNA
sequences are able to invade genomes and their impact on genome evolution is substantial …

Hijackers, hitchhikers, or co-drivers? The mysteries of mobilizable genetic elements

M Ares-Arroyo, C Coluzzi, JA Moura de Sousa… - PLoS …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Mobile genetic elements shape microbial gene repertoires and populations. Recent results
reveal that many, possibly most, microbial mobile genetic elements require helpers to …

Structural variants in 3000 rice genomes

RR Fuentes, D Chebotarov, J Duitama, S Smith… - Genome …, 2019 - genome.cshlp.org
Investigation of large structural variants (SVs) is a challenging yet important task in
understanding trait differences in highly repetitive genomes. Combining different …

Long noncoding RNAs underlie multiple domestication traits and leafhopper resistance in soybean

W Wang, J Duan, X Wang, X Feng, L Chen, CB Clark… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
The origin and functionality of long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) remain poorly understood.
Here, we show that multiple quantitative trait loci modulating distinct domestication traits in …

Effector profiles distinguish formae speciales of Fusarium oxysporum

P van Dam, L Fokkens, SM Schmidt… - Environmental …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Summary Formae speciales (ff. spp.) of the fungus Fusarium oxysporum are often
polyphyletic within the species complex, making it impossible to identify them on the basis of …