Reciprocal transplant gardens as gold standard to detect local adaptation in grassland species: New opportunities moving into the 21st century

LC Johnson, MB Galliart, JD Alsdurf… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Local adaptation is a fundamental phenomenon in evolutionary biology, with relevance to
formation of ecotypes, and ultimately new species, and application to restoration and …

Brachypodium: 20 years as a grass biology model system; the way forward?

R Hasterok, P Catalan, SP Hazen, AC Roulin… - Trends in Plant …, 2022 - cell.com
It has been 20 years since Brachypodium distachyon was suggested as a model grass
species, but ongoing research now encompasses the entire genus. Extensive …

Pangenomic analysis identifies structural variation associated with heat tolerance in pearl millet

H Yan, M Sun, Z Zhang, Y **, A Zhang, C Lin, B Wu… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Pearl millet is an important cereal crop worldwide and shows superior heat tolerance. Here,
we developed a graph-based pan-genome by assembling ten chromosomal genomes with …

GENESPACE tracks regions of interest and gene copy number variation across multiple genomes

JT Lovell, A Sreedasyam, ME Schranz, M Wilson… - elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
The development of multiple chromosome-scale reference genome sequences in many
taxonomic groups has yielded a high-resolution view of the patterns and processes of …

Dynamic genome evolution in a model fern

DB Marchant, G Chen, S Cai, F Chen, P Schafran… - Nature Plants, 2022 - nature.com
The large size and complexity of most fern genomes have hampered efforts to elucidate
fundamental aspects of fern biology and land plant evolution through genome-enabled …

Green plant genomes: What we know in an era of rapidly expanding opportunities

WJ Kress, DE Soltis, PJ Kersey… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Green plants play a fundamental role in ecosystems, human health, and agriculture. As de
novo genomes are being generated for all known eukaryotic species as advocated by the …

Genomic mechanisms of climate adaptation in polyploid bioenergy switchgrass

JT Lovell, AH MacQueen, S Mamidi, J Bonnette… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Long-term climate change and periodic environmental extremes threaten food and fuel
security and global crop productivity,–. Although molecular and adaptive breeding strategies …

A genome resource for green millet Setaria viridis enables discovery of agronomically valuable loci

S Mamidi, A Healey, P Huang, J Grimwood… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Wild and weedy relatives of domesticated crops harbor genetic variants that can advance
agricultural biotechnology. Here we provide a genome resource for the wild plant green …

The genetic architecture of repeated local adaptation to climate in distantly related plants

JR Whiting, TR Booker, C Rougeux, BM Lind… - Nature ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
Closely related species often use the same genes to adapt to similar environments.
However, we know little about why such genes possess increased adaptive potential and …

The complex polyploid genome architecture of sugarcane

AL Healey, O Garsmeur, JT Lovell, S Shengquiang… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
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 …