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Open AccessGenome resources for three modern cotton lines guide future breeding efforts
Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) is the key renewable fibre crop worldwide, yet its yield and fibre quality show high variability due to genotype-specific traits and complex interactions among cultivars, management...
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Seagrass genomes reveal ancient polyploidy and adaptations to the marine environment
We present chromosome-level genome assemblies from representative species of three independently evolved seagrass lineages: Posidonia oceanica, Cymodocea nodosa, Thalassia testudinum and Zostera marina. We also i...
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Open AccessConserved chromatin and repetitive patterns reveal slow genome evolution in frogs
Frogs are an ecologically diverse and phylogenetically ancient group of anuran amphibians that include important vertebrate cell and developmental model systems, notably the genus Xenopus. Here we report a high-q...
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: Ocean current patterns drive the worldwide colonization of eelgrass (Zostera marina)
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Open AccessOcean current patterns drive the worldwide colonization of eelgrass (Zostera marina)
Currents are unique drivers of oceanic phylogeography and thus determine the distribution of marine coastal species, along with past glaciations and sea-level changes. Here we reconstruct the worldwide coloniz...
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Open AccessGenome analyses reveal population structure and a purple stigma color gene candidate in finger millet
Finger millet is a key food security crop widely grown in eastern Africa, India and Nepal. Long considered a ‘poor man’s crop’, finger millet has regained attention over the past decade for its climate resilie...
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Open AccessNewly identified sex chromosomes in the Sphagnum (peat moss) genome alter carbon sequestration and ecosystem dynamics
Peatlands are crucial sinks for atmospheric carbon but are critically threatened due to warming climates. Sphagnum (peat moss) species are keystone members of peatland communities where they actively engineer hyp...
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Open AccessDynamic genome evolution in a model fern
The large size and complexity of most fern genomes have hampered efforts to elucidate fundamental aspects of fern biology and land plant evolution through genome-enabled research. Here we present a chromosomal...
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Open AccessGenome and transcriptome mechanisms driving cephalopod evolution
Cephalopods are known for their large nervous systems, complex behaviors and morphological innovations. To investigate the genomic underpinnings of these features, we assembled the chromosomes of the Boston ma...
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Phylogenomics of the genus Glycine sheds light on polyploid evolution and life-strategy transition
Polyploidy and life-strategy transitions between annuality and perenniality often occur in flowering plants. However, the evolutionary propensities of polyploids and the genetic bases of such transitions remai...
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Open AccessFour chromosome scale genomes and a pan-genome annotation to accelerate pecan tree breeding
Genome-enabled biotechnologies have the potential to accelerate breeding efforts in long-lived perennial crop species. Despite the transformative potential of molecular tools in pecan and other outcrossing tre...
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Open AccessThe tepary bean genome provides insight into evolution and domestication under heat stress
Tepary bean (Phaseolus acutifolis A. Gray), native to the Sonoran Desert, is highly adapted to heat and drought. It is a sister species of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.), the most important legume protein so...
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Open AccessPests, diseases, and aridity have shaped the genome of Corymbia citriodora
Corymbia citriodora is a member of the predominantly Southern Hemisphere Myrtaceae family, which includes the eucalypts (Eucalyptus, Corymbia and Angophora; ~800 species). Corymbia is grown for timber, pulp and p...
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Open AccessLCM and RNA-seq analyses revealed roles of cell cycle and translational regulation and homoeolog expression bias in cotton fiber cell initiation
Cotton fibers provide a powerful model for studying cell differentiation and elongation. Each cotton fiber is a singular and elongated cell derived from epidermal-layer cells of a cotton seed. Efforts to under...
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Open AccessGenomic mechanisms of climate adaptation in polyploid bioenergy switchgrass
Long-term climate change and periodic environmental extremes threaten food and fuel security1 and global crop productivity2–4. Although molecular and adaptive breeding strategies can buffer the effects of climati...
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Open AccessThe barley pan-genome reveals the hidden legacy of mutation breeding
Genetic diversity is key to crop improvement. Owing to pervasive genomic structural variation, a single reference genome assembly cannot capture the full complement of sequence diversity of a crop species (kno...
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Open AccessGenome biology of the paleotetraploid perennial biomass crop Miscanthus
Miscanthus is a perennial wild grass that is of global importance for paper production, roofing, horticultural plantings, and an emerging highly productive temperate biomass crop. We report a chromosome-scale ass...
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Open AccessA genome assembly and the somatic genetic and epigenetic mutation rate in a wild long-lived perennial Populus trichocarpa
Plants can transmit somatic mutations and epimutations to offspring, which in turn can affect fitness. Knowledge of the rate at which these variations arise is necessary to understand how plant development con...
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Open AccessA genome resource for green millet Setaria viridis enables discovery of agronomically valuable loci
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 millet (Setaria viridis), a model spe...
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Correction to: Chloroplast genome sequences of Carya illinoinensis from two distinct geographic populations
The chloroplast genome maps shown in Fig. 1 and Fig. 2 of the original article contain mistakes and do not show all annotations properly.
