Biodiversity underlies ecosystem resilience, ecosystem function, sustainable economies,
and human well‐being. Understanding how biodiversity sustains ecosystems under …

Over two thousand plant species have been modified morphologically through cultivation
and human use. Here, we review three aspects of crop domestication that are currently …

INTRODUCTION Large-scale human genome-sequencing studies to date have been limited
to large, metropolitan populations or to small numbers of genomes from each group. Much …

Preharvest sprouting (PHS) due to lack of seed dormancy seriously threatens crop
production worldwide. As a complex quantitative trait, breeding of crop cultivars with suitable …

In this work, we compare the resolution of V2-V3 and V3-V4 16S rRNA regions for the
purposes of estimating microbial community diversity using paired-end Illumina MiSeq …

popart: full‐feature software for haplotype network construction Page 1 APPLICATION
POPART: full-feature software for haplotype network construction Jessica W. Leigh* and David …

Software to call single‐nucleotide polymorphisms or related genetic variants has converged
on the variant call format (VCF) as the output format of choice. This has created a need for …

For over 140 years, lichens have been regarded as a symbiosis between a single fungus,
usually an ascomycete, and a photosynthesizing partner. Other fungi have long been known …

Foxtail millet (Setaria italica), which was domesticated from the wild species green foxtail
(Setaria viridis), is a rich source of phytonutrients for humans. To evaluate how breeding …

As modern humans migrated out of Africa, they encountered many new environmental
conditions, including greater temperature extremes, different pathogens and higher …