The great taxonomic diversity of the Orchidaceae is often attributed to adaptive radiation for
specific pollinators driven by selection for outcrossing. However, when one looks beyond the …

The nuclear genomes of multicellular animals and plants contain large amounts of
noncoding DNA, the disadvantages of which can be too weak to be effectively countered by …

Zero hunger and good health could be realized by 2030 through effective conservation,
characterization and utilization of germplasm resources. So far, few chickpea (Cicer …

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 …

Deep knowledge of crop biodiversity is essential to improving global food security. Despite
bread wheat serving as a keystone crop worldwide, the population history of bread wheat …

Tea, one of the world's most important beverage crops, provides numerous secondary
metabolites that account for its rich taste and health benefits. Here we present a high-quality …

Sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) is a major crop for sugar and bioenergy production. Its highly
polyploid, aneuploid, heterozygous, and interspecific genome poses major challenges for …

Alfalfa (Medicago sativa) is one of the most important forage crops in the world; however, its
molecular genetics and breeding research are hindered due to the lack of a high-quality …

Wild and weedy relatives of domesticated crops harbor genetic variants that can advance
agricultural biotechnology. Here we provide a genome resource for the wild plant green …

Premise of the Study Polyploidy or whole‐genome duplication (WGD) pervades the
evolutionary history of angiosperms. Despite extensive progress in our understanding of …