A key concern in agriculture is how to feed the expanding population and safeguard the
environment from the ill effects of climate change. To feed a growing global population, food …

Background Oat has long been recognized as a good candidate for both human foods and
animal feeds. However, the significance of oat, as well as its contribution to the food industry …

Sugarcane, the world's most harvested crop by tonnage, has shaped global history, trade
and geopolitics, and is currently responsible for 80% of sugar production worldwide. While …

Polyploidy (genome duplication) is a pivotal force in evolution. However, the interactions
between parental genomes in a polyploid nucleus, frequently involving subgenome …

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 …

Centromeres are the specialized regions of the chromosomes that direct faithful
chromosome segregation during cell division. Despite their functional conservation …

Rheum officinale, a member of the Polygonaceae family, is an important medicinal plant that
is widely used in traditional Chinese medicine. Here, we report a 7.68-Gb chromosome …

There is intense interest in using genome editing technologies to domesticate wild plants, or
accelerate the improvement of weakly domesticated crops, in de novo domestication. Here …

Oat (Avena sativa L.) is an important and nutritious cereal crop, and there is a growing need
to identify genes that contribute to improved oat varieties. Here we utilize a newly …

Widespread adoption of plant-based alternatives over animal derived proteins provides a
sustainable path to ensure food security for an increasingly growing population. Oat …