Background The growing wealth of knowledge on whole-plant genome sequences is
highlighting the key role of transposable elements (TEs) in plant evolution, as a driver of …

Salinity stress affects global food producing areas by limiting both crop growth and yield.
Attempts to develop salinity-tolerant rice varieties have had limited success due to the …

Cultivated rice varieties are all diploid, and polyploidization of rice has long been desired
because of its advantages in genome buffering, vigorousness, and environmental …

Poaceae members shared a whole-genome duplication called rho. However, little is known
about the evolutionary pattern of the rho-derived duplicates among Poaceae lineages and …

The genus Oryza is a model system for the study of molecular evolution over time scales
ranging from a few thousand to 15 million years. Using 13 reference genomes spanning the …

Transposable elements (TEs) represent an important fraction of plant genomes and are
likely to play a pivotal role in fuelling genome reorganization and functional changes …

The wild species of the genus Oryza contain a largely untapped reservoir of agronomically
important genes for rice improvement. Here we report the 261-Mb de novo assembled …

The wild species of the genus Oryza serve as a virtually untapped reservoir of genetic
diversity that can be used to improve the world's most important food crop—rice. The genus …

Comparative genomic analyses among closely related species can greatly enhance our
understanding of plant gene and genome evolution. We report de novo-assembled AA …

Transposable elements (TEs) are ubiquitous in plants and are the primary genomic
component of the majority of taxa. Knowledge of their impact on the structure, function and …