Twenty years of plant genome sequencing: achievements and challenges

Y Sun, L Shang, QH Zhu, L Fan, L Guo - Trends in Plant Science, 2022 - cell.com
Publication of the complete genome sequence of Arabidopsis thaliana, the first plant
reference genome, in December 2000 heralded the beginning of the plant genome era …

Reap the crop wild relatives for breeding future crops

A Bohra, B Kilian, S Sivasankar, M Caccamo… - Trends in …, 2022 - cell.com
Crop wild relatives (CWRs) have provided breeders with several'game-changing'traits or
genes that have boosted crop resilience and global agricultural production. Advances in …

Multiple wheat genomes reveal global variation in modern breeding

S Walkowiak, L Gao, C Monat, G Haberer, MT Kassa… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Advances in genomics have expedited the improvement of several agriculturally important
crops but similar efforts in wheat (Triticum spp.) have been more challenging. This is largely …

Optical maps refine the bread wheat Triticum aestivum cv. Chinese Spring genome assembly

T Zhu, L Wang, H Rimbert, JC Rodriguez… - The Plant …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Until recently, achieving a reference‐quality genome sequence for bread wheat was long
thought beyond the limits of genome sequencing and assembly technology, primarily due to …

Long-read sequence assembly: a technical evaluation in barley

M Mascher, T Wicker, J Jenkins, C Plott, T Lux… - The Plant …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Sequence assembly of large and repeat-rich plant genomes has been challenging,
requiring substantial computational resources and often several complementary sequence …

TaCol-B5 modifies spike architecture and enhances grain yield in wheat

X Zhang, H Jia, T Li, J Wu, R Nagarajan, L Lei… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Spike architecture influences grain yield in wheat. We report the map-based cloning of a
gene determining the number of spikelet nodes per spike in common wheat. The cloned …

Horizontal gene transfer of Fhb7 from fungus underlies Fusarium head blight resistance in wheat

H Wang, S Sun, W Ge, L Zhao, B Hou, K Wang, Z Lyu… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Fusarium head blight (FHB) is a fungal disease that devastates global
wheat production, with losses of billions of dollars annually. Unlike foliar diseases, FHB …

Phased diploid genome assemblies and pan-genomes provide insights into the genetic history of apple domestication

X Sun, C Jiao, H Schwaninger, CT Chao, Y Ma… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Domestication of the apple was mainly driven by interspecific hybridization. In the present
study, we report the haplotype-resolved genomes of the cultivated apple (Malus domestica …

A high-quality genome assembly highlights rye genomic characteristics and agronomically important genes

G Li, L Wang, J Yang, H He, H **, X Li, T Ren, Z Ren… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Rye is a valuable food and forage crop, an important genetic resource for wheat and triticale
improvement and an indispensable material for efficient comparative genomic studies in …

Triticum population sequencing provides insights into wheat adaptation

Y Zhou, X Zhao, Y Li, J Xu, A Bi, L Kang, D Xu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Bread wheat expanded its habitat from a core area of the Fertile Crescent to global
environments within~ 10,000 years. The genetic mechanisms of this remarkable …