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Open AccessDynamics of extrachromosomal circular DNA in rice
The genome’s dynamic nature, exemplified by elements like extrachromosomal circular DNA (eccDNA), is crucial for biodiversity and adaptation. Yet, the role of eccDNA in plants, particularly rice, remains under...
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Open AccessStructure and function of rice hybrid genomes reveal genetic basis and optimal performance of heterosis
Exploitation of crop heterosis is crucial for increasing global agriculture production. However, the quantitative genomic analysis of heterosis was lacking, and there is currently no effective prediction tool ...
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Open AccessSubtelomeric assembly of a multi-gene pathway for antimicrobial defense compounds in cereals
Non-random gene organization in eukaryotes plays a significant role in genome evolution. Here, we investigate the origin of a biosynthetic gene cluster for production of defence compounds in oat—the avenacin c...
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Open AccessChromosome-scale assembly and analysis of biomass crop Miscanthus lutarioriparius genome
Miscanthus, a rhizomatous perennial plant, has great potential for bioenergy production for its high biomass and stress tolerance. We report a chromosome-scale assembly of Miscanthus lutarioriparius genome by com...
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Transformer Fault Diagnosis Based on Stacked Contractive Auto-Encoder Net
Dissolved gas analysis (DGA) is an effective method for oil-immersed transformer fault diagnosis. This paper proposes a transformer fault diagnosis method based on Stacked Contractive Auto-Encoder Network (SCA...
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Optimizing Layout of Video Surveillance for Substation Monitoring
An automated video surveillance system plays a vital role in unattended substations. To minimize the camera cost and maximize the monitoring coverage of the substation, efficiently placing the camera is critic...
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An Innovative Acousto-optic-Sensing-Based Triaxial Testing System for Rocks
The failure mechanisms of rocks as a result of hydro-mechanical coupling effects have not been fully understood due to the limited abilities of conventional triaxial test equipment in measuring both the intern...
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Open AccessDissecting a heterotic gene through GradedPool-Seq map** informs a rice-improvement strategy
Hybrid rice breeding for exploiting hybrid vigor, heterosis, has greatly increased grain yield. However, the heterosis-related genes associated with rice grain production remain largely unknown, partly because...
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Improved Precoding Scheme for MmWave Large-Scale MIMO Systems
Millimeter wave (mmWave) system has been considered as a key technology in 5G, due to its large available bandwidth and high spectrum efficiency. For such system, the traditional full digital precoding is unre...
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Publisher Correction: Pan-genome analysis highlights the extent of genomic variation in cultivated and wild rice
When published, this article did not initially appear open access. This error has been corrected, and the open access status of the paper is noted in all versions of the paper.
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Open AccessPan-genome analysis highlights the extent of genomic variation in cultivated and wild rice
The rich genetic diversity in Oryza sativa and Oryza rufipogon serves as the main sources in rice breeding. Large-scale resequencing has been undertaken to discover allelic variants in rice, but much of the infor...
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Genomic architecture of heterosis for yield traits in rice
Increasing grain yield is a long-term goal in crop breeding to meet the demand for global food security. Heterosis, when a hybrid shows higher performance for a trait than both parents, offers an important str...
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OsSPL13 controls grain size in cultivated rice
Bin Han and colleagues present a genome-wide association analysis of grain size and shape in cultivated rice and identify a major locus for grain size encoding the transcription factor OsSPL13. They find that ...
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Open AccessGenetic discovery for oil production and quality in sesame
Oilseed crops are used to produce vegetable oil. Sesame (Sesamum indicum), an oilseed crop grown worldwide, has high oil content and a small diploid genome, but the genetic basis of oil production and quality is ...
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Erratum: The draft genome of the grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idellus) provides insights into its evolution and vegetarian adaptation
Nat. Genet. 47, 625–631 (2015); published online 4 May 2015; corrected after print 15 July 2015 In the version of this article initially published, the affiliation for Songhun Jang was incorrectly listed as Ki...
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Open AccessThe draft genome of the grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idellus) provides insights into its evolution and vegetarian adaptation
Bin Han and colleagues report the draft genome sequence of the grass carp Ctenopharyngodon idellus, a major commercially farmed species of freshwater fish. Analyses of the grass carp genome identify lineage-speci...
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Open AccessGenomic analysis of hybrid rice varieties reveals numerous superior alleles that contribute to heterosis
Exploitation of heterosis is one of the most important applications of genetics in agriculture. However, the genetic mechanisms of heterosis are only partly understood, and a global view of heterosis from a re...
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The rice OsLTP6 gene promoter directs anther-specific expression by a combination of positive and negative regulatory elements
Characterization of tissue-specific plant gene promoters will benefit genetic improvement in crops. Here, we isolated a novel rice anther-specific plant lipid transfer protein (OsLTP6) gene through high through-p...
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A haplotype map of genomic variations and genome-wide association studies of agronomic traits in foxtail millet (Setaria italica)
Bin Han and colleagues report de novo assembly of the genome of a wild progenitor (Setaria viridis) of foxtail millet and low-pass resequencing of 916 diverse foxtail millet varieties. They identify 0.8 million c...
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Open AccessThe draft genome of the fast-growing non-timber forest species moso bamboo (Phyllostachys heterocycla)
Bin Han and colleagues report the draft genome of moso bamboo, an important non-timber forest product. RNA sequencing analysis of bamboo flowering tissues suggests a connection between drought-responsive genes...
