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 …

Plant evolution driven by interactions with symbiotic and pathogenic microbes

PM Delaux, S Schornack - Science, 2021 - science.org
BACKGROUND Microbial interactions have shaped plant diversity in terrestrial ecosystems.
By forming mutually beneficial symbioses, microbes helped plants colonize land more than …

Sustainability of the four generations of biofuels–a review

NS Mat Aron, KS Khoo, KW Chew… - … Journal of Energy …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Biofuel has emerged as an alternative source of energy to reduce the emissions of
greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and combat global warming. Biofuels are classified …

MicroRNAs and their regulatory roles in plant–environment interactions

X Song, Y Li, X Cao, Y Qi - Annual review of plant biology, 2019 - annualreviews.org
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are 20–24 nucleotide noncoding RNAs abundant in plants and
animals. The biogenesis of plant miRNAs involves transcription of miRNA genes, processing …

Insights into land plant evolution garnered from the Marchantia polymorpha genome

JL Bowman, T Kohchi, KT Yamato, J Jenkins, S Shu… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
The evolution of land flora transformed the terrestrial environment. Land plants evolved from
an ancestral charophycean alga from which they inherited developmental, biochemical, and …

Origin and early evolution of the plant terpene synthase family

Q Jia, R Brown, TG Köllner, J Fu… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
As a midsized gene family conserved more by lineage than function, the typical plant
terpene synthases (TPSs) could be a valuable tool to examine plant evolution. TPSs are …

Gene duplication and evolution in recurring polyploidization–diploidization cycles in plants

X Qiao, Q Li, H Yin, K Qi, L Li, R Wang, S Zhang… - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
Background The sharp increase of plant genome and transcriptome data provide valuable
resources to investigate evolutionary consequences of gene duplication in a range of taxa …

The lipid biochemistry of eukaryotic algae

Y Li-Beisson, JJ Thelen, E Fedosejevs… - Progress in Lipid …, 2019 - Elsevier
Algal lipid metabolism fascinates both scientists and entrepreneurs due to the large diversity
of fatty acyl structures that algae produce. Algae have therefore long been studied as …

Detection of DNA base modifications by deep recurrent neural network on Oxford Nanopore sequencing data

Q Liu, L Fang, G Yu, D Wang, CL **ao… - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
DNA base modifications, such as C5-methylcytosine (5mC) and N6-methyldeoxyadenosine
(6mA), are important types of epigenetic regulations. Short-read bisulfite sequencing and …

Photo-biocatalysis: biotransformations in the presence of light

L Schmermund, V Jurkas, FF Özgen, GD Barone… - Acs …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Light has received increased attention for various chemical reactions but also in
combination with biocatalytic reactions. Because currently only a few enzymatic reactions …