Technology-enabled great leap in deciphering plant genomes

L **e, X Gong, K Yang, Y Huang, S Zhang, L Shen… - Nature Plants, 2024 - nature.com
Plant genomes provide essential and vital basic resources for studying many aspects of
plant biology and applications (for example, breeding). From 2000 to 2020, 1,144 genomes …

[HTML][HTML] Floral scents and fruit aromas: Functions, compositions, biosynthesis, and regulation

S Mostafa, Y Wang, W Zeng, B ** - Frontiers in plant science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Floral scents and fruit aromas are crucial volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in plants. They
are used in defense mechanisms, along with mechanisms to attract pollinators and seed …

Genome evolution and diversity of wild and cultivated potatoes

D Tang, Y Jia, J Zhang, H Li, L Cheng, P Wang, Z Bao… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is the world's most important non-cereal food crop, and the
vast majority of commercially grown cultivars are highly heterozygous tetraploids. Advances …

Two divergent haplotypes from a highly heterozygous lychee genome suggest independent domestication events for early and late-maturing cultivars

G Hu, J Feng, X **ang, J Wang, J Salojärvi, C Liu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Lychee is an exotic tropical fruit with a distinct flavor. The genome of cultivar 'Feizixiao'was
assembled into 15 pseudochromosomes, totaling~ 470 Mb. High heterozygosity (2.27%) …

Plastid phylogenomic insights into relationships of all flowering plant families

HT Li, Y Luo, L Gan, PF Ma, LM Gao, JB Yang, J Cai… - BMC biology, 2021 - Springer
Background Flowering plants (angiosperms) are dominant components of global terrestrial
ecosystems, but phylogenetic relationships at the familial level and above remain only …

Genomic evidence for rediploidization and adaptive evolution following the whole-genome triplication

X Feng, Q Chen, W Wu, J Wang, G Li, S Xu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Whole-genome duplication (WGD), or polyploidy, events are widespread and
significant in the evolutionary history of angiosperms. However, empirical evidence for …

Nuclear phylotranscriptomics and phylogenomics support numerous polyploidization events and hypotheses for the evolution of rhizobial nitrogen-fixing symbiosis in …

Y Zhao, R Zhang, KW Jiang, J Qi, Y Hu, J Guo, R Zhu… - Molecular plant, 2021 - cell.com
Fabaceae are the third largest angiosperm family, with 765 genera and∼ 19 500 species.
They are important both economically and ecologically, and global Fabaceae crops are …

Evolution of coastal forests based on a full set of mangrove genomes

Z He, X Feng, Q Chen, L Li, S Li, K Han, Z Guo… - Nature ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
Genomic studies are now poised to explore whole communities of species. The~ 70 species
of woody plants that anchor the coastal ecosystems of the tropics, collectively referred to as …

Phylogenomics and the flowering plant tree of life

C Guo, Y Luo, LM Gao, TS Yi, HT Li… - Journal of Integrative …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The advances accelerated by next‐generation sequencing and long‐read sequencing
technologies continue to provide an impetus for plant phylogenetic study. In the past …

Phylogenomic profiles of whole-genome duplications in Poaceae and landscape of differential duplicate retention and losses among major Poaceae lineages

T Zhang, W Huang, L Zhang, DZ Li, J Qi… - Nature communications, 2024 - nature.com
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 …