Computational tools to unmask transposable elements

P Goerner-Potvin, G Bourque - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2018 - nature.com
A substantial proportion of the genome of many species is derived from transposable
elements (TEs). Moreover, through various self-copying mechanisms, TEs continue to …

Multiple wheat genomes reveal global variation in modern breeding

S Walkowiak, L Gao, C Monat, G Haberer, MT Kassa… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Advances in genomics have expedited the improvement of several agriculturally important
crops but similar efforts in wheat (Triticum spp.) have been more challenging. This is largely …

Sweet sorghum as biofuel feedstock: recent advances and available resources

S Mathur, AV Umakanth, VA Tonapi, R Sharma… - Biotechnology for …, 2017 - Springer
Sweet sorghum is a promising target for biofuel production. It is a C4 crop with low input
requirements and accumulates high levels of sugars in its stalks. However, large-scale …

The barley pan-genome reveals the hidden legacy of mutation breeding

M Jayakodi, S Padmarasu, G Haberer, VS Bonthala… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Genetic diversity is key to crop improvement. Owing to pervasive genomic structural
variation, a single reference genome assembly cannot capture the full complement of …

A chromosome conformation capture ordered sequence of the barley genome

M Mascher, H Gundlach, A Himmelbach, S Beier… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Cereal grasses of the Triticeae tribe have been the major food source in temperate regions
since the dawn of agriculture. Their large genomes are characterized by a high content of …

Wild emmer genome architecture and diversity elucidate wheat evolution and domestication

R Avni, M Nave, O Barad, K Baruch, SO Twardziok… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Wheat (Triticum spp.) is one of the founder crops that likely drove the Neolithic transition to
sedentary agrarian societies in the Fertile Crescent more than 10,000 years ago. Identifying …

The Physcomitrella patens chromosome‐scale assembly reveals moss genome structure and evolution

D Lang, KK Ullrich, F Murat, J Fuchs… - The Plant …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The draft genome of the moss model, Physcomitrella patens, comprised approximately 2000
unordered scaffolds. In order to enable analyses of genome structure and evolution we …

Genome sequences of five Sitopsis species of Aegilops and the origin of polyploid wheat B subgenome

LF Li, ZB Zhang, ZH Wang, N Li, Y Sha, XF Wang… - Molecular plant, 2022 - cell.com
Common wheat (Triticum aestivum, BBAADD) is a major staple food crop worldwide. The
diploid progenitors of the A and D subgenomes have been unequivocally identified; that of …

SUBA4: the interactive data analysis centre for Arabidopsis subcellular protein locations

CM Hooper, IR Castleden, SK Tanz… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The SUBcellular location database for Arabidopsis proteins (SUBA4, http://suba. live) is a
comprehensive collection of manually curated published data sets of large-scale subcellular …

Origin and evolution of the triploid cultivated banana genome

X Li, S Yu, Z Cheng, X Chang, Y Yun, M Jiang… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Most fresh bananas belong to the Cavendish and Gros Michel subgroups. Here, we report
chromosome-scale genome assemblies of Cavendish (1.48 Gb) and Gros Michel (1.33 Gb) …