The genetic and epigenetic landscape of the Arabidopsis centromeres

M Naish, M Alonge, P Wlodzimierz, AJ Tock… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The centromeres of eukaryotic chromosomes assemble the multiprotein
kinetochore complex and thereby position attachment to the spindle microtubules, allowing …

Progress and challenges in china turfgrass abiotic stress resistance research

L Jiuxin, H Liebao - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Turfgrasses are an important vehicle for urban ecology and one of the most important
indicators of economy and civilization. The biological characteristics of different turfgrass …

Low-input high-molecular-weight DNA extraction for long-read sequencing from plants of diverse families

A Russo, B Mayjonade, D Frei, G Potente… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Long-read DNA sequencing technologies require high molecular weight (HMW) DNA of
adequate purity and integrity, which can be difficult to isolate from plant material. Plant …

Chromosome-scale assembly and annotation of the perennial ryegrass genome

I Nagy, E Veeckman, C Liu, MV Bel, K Vandepoele… - BMC genomics, 2022 - Springer
Background The availability of chromosome-scale genome assemblies is fundamentally
important to advance genetics and breeding in crops, as well as for evolutionary and …

Perspectives for reducing seed shattering in ryegrasses

J Kiesbauer, C Grieder, B Studer… - Grass and Forage …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In the last decades, the progress in ryegrass (Lolium spp.) breeding was mainly on
agronomic traits such as biomass yield, forage quality or disease resistance. However, for …

DeepSelectNet: deep neural network based selective sequencing for oxford nanopore sequencing

A Senanayake, H Gamaarachchi, D Herath, R Ragel - BMC bioinformatics, 2023 - Springer
Background Nanopore sequencing allows selective sequencing, the ability to
programmatically reject unwanted reads in a sample. Selective sequencing has many …

Nanopore ultra-long sequencing and adaptive sampling spur plant complete telomere-to-telomere genome assembly

D Lu, C Liu, W Ji, R ** and Comparative Genomic Analysis Reveal the Gene Composition at the S and Z Self-incompatibility Loci in Grasses
M Rohner, C Manzanares, S Yates… - Molecular Biology …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Self-incompatibility (SI) is a genetic mechanism of hermaphroditic plants to prevent
inbreeding after self-pollination. Allogamous Poaceae species exhibit a unique …

Both male and female meiosis contribute to non‐Mendelian inheritance of parental chromosomes in interspecific plant hybrids (Lolium × Festuca)

J Majka, M Glombik, A Doležalová, J Kneřová… - New …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Some interspecific plant hybrids show unequal transmission of chromosomes from parental
genomes to the successive generations. It has been suggested that this is due to a …