Chloroplast genomes: diversity, evolution, and applications in genetic engineering

H Daniell, CS Lin, M Yu, WJ Chang - Genome biology, 2016 - Springer
Chloroplasts play a crucial role in sustaining life on earth. The availability of over 800
sequenced chloroplast genomes from a variety of land plants has enhanced our …

The ecologist's field guide to sequence‐based identification of biodiversity

S Creer, K Deiner, S Frey, D Porazinska… - Methods in ecology …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The past 100 years of ecological research has seen substantial progress in understanding
the natural world and likely effects of change, whether natural or anthropogenic. Traditional …

HybPiper: Extracting coding sequence and introns for phylogenetics from high‐throughput sequencing reads using target enrichment

MG Johnson, EM Gardner, Y Liu… - Applications in plant …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Premise of the study: Using sequence data generated via target enrichment for
phylogenetics requires reassembly of high‐throughput sequence reads into loci, presenting …

Green giant—a tiny chloroplast genome with mighty power to produce high‐value proteins: history and phylogeny

H Daniell, S **, XG Zhu… - Plant biotechnology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Free‐living cyanobacteria were entrapped by eukaryotic cells~ 2 billion years ago, ultimately
giving rise to chloroplasts. After a century of debate, the presence of chloroplast DNA was …

Towards exhaustive community ecology via DNA metabarcoding

GF Ficetola, P Taberlet - Molecular Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Exhaustive biodiversity data, covering all the taxa in an environment, would be fundamental
to understand how global changes influence organisms living at different trophic levels, and …

Targeted capture in evolutionary and ecological genomics

MR Jones, JM Good - Molecular ecology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The rapid expansion of next‐generation sequencing has yielded a powerful array of tools to
address fundamental biological questions at a scale that was inconceivable just a few years …

Pearl millet genomic vulnerability to climate change in West Africa highlights the need for regional collaboration

B Rhoné, D Defrance, C Berthouly-Salazar… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Climate change is already affecting agro-ecosystems and threatening food security by
reducing crop productivity and increasing harvest uncertainty. Mobilizing crop diversity could …

[HTML][HTML] A 250 plastome phylogeny of the grass family (Poaceae): topological support under different data partitions

JM Saarela, SV Burke, WP Wysocki, MD Barrett… - PeerJ, 2018 - peerj.com
The systematics of grasses has advanced through applications of plastome phylogenomics,
although studies have been largely limited to subfamilies or other subgroups of Poaceae …

Genome sequencing of the staple food crop white Guinea yam enables the development of a molecular marker for sex determination

M Tamiru, S Natsume, H Takagi, B White, H Yaegashi… - BMC biology, 2017 - Springer
Background Root and tuber crops are a major food source in tropical Africa. Among these
crops are several species in the monocotyledonous genus Dioscorea collectively known as …

Strategies for reducing per‐sample costs in target capture sequencing for phylogenomics and population genomics in plants

H Hale, EM Gardner, J Viruel, L Pokorny… - Applications in plant …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The reduced cost of high‐throughput sequencing and the development of gene sets with
wide phylogenetic applicability has led to the rise of sequence capture methods as a …