Rice is a staple crop for half the world's population, which is expected to grow by 3 billion
over the next 30 years. It is also a key model for studying the genomics of agroecosystems …

The terpenoids constitute the largest class of natural products and many interesting products
are extensively applied in the industrial sector as flavors, fragrances, spices and are also …

Gossypium hirsutum has proven difficult to sequence owing to its complex allotetraploid
(AtDt) genome. Here we produce a draft genome using 181-fold paired-end sequences …

Euphyllophytes encompass almost all extant plants, including two sister clades, ferns and
seed plants. Decoding genomes of ferns is the key to deep insight into the origin of …

The mutualistic symbiosis involving Glomeromycota, a distinctive phylum of early diverging
Fungi, is widely hypothesized to have promoted the evolution of land plants during the …

Motivation: Transcriptome sequencing has long been the favored method for quickly and
inexpensively obtaining a large number of gene sequences from an organism with no …

A high-quality reference genome is critical for understanding genome structure, genetic
variation and evolution of an organism. Here we report the de novo assembly of an indica …

Investigators have long searched for a polyploidy paradigm—rules or principles that might
be common following polyploidization (whole‐genome duplication, WGD). Here we attempt …

Sorghum, an African grass related to sugar cane and maize, is grown for food, feed, fibre
and fuel. We present an initial analysis of the∼ 730-megabase Sorghum bicolor (L.) …

Cucumber is an economically important crop as well as a model system for sex
determination studies and plant vascular biology. Here we report the draft genome …