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Population Genomics of Phaseolus spp.: A Domestication Hotspot
The genus Phaseolus includes five domesticated species. Collectively, Phaseolus beans are produced across all inhabited continents under a variety of environments, mainly for dry beans but also green pods. Buildi...
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Coalescent Models of Demographic History: Application to Plant Domestication
A detailed understanding of the origins of domesticated species is important for many disciplines. Recent advances in this field have been made with the use of genome-wide polymorphisms and improved statistica...
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Population Genomics of Sweet Watermelon
Sweet watermelon (Citrullus lanatus var. vulgaris) belongs to the genus Citrullus Schrad and has six known species including Citrullus naudinianus, C. colocynthis, C. ecirrhosus, C. rehmii, C. amarus, and C. muco...
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Genomics of Plant Gene Banks: Prospects for Managing and Delivering Diversity in the Digital Age
Gene bank collections are at a pivotal point in their history. We review their development and explain how their role is changing with new technologies in computation and analytics and the widespread applicati...
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Population Genomics of Pearl Millet
Pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br., syn. Cenchrus americanus (L.) Morrone)], one of the major staple food for around 100 million people across Africa and India, is a so-called “orphan” crop. Recently, s...
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Population Genomics and Molecular Breeding of Sorghum
Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench is a multipurpose crop worldwide, and it is used as a source of food, fodder, feed, and fuel. It is currently considered a promising alternative crop for generating bioenergy from suga...
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Population Genomics and Genomics-Assisted Trait Improvement in Tea (Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze)
“Tea” is undoubtedly one of the most widely consumed beverage processed from young shoots of tea [Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze] plant. The popularity of tea is attributed to its taste, aroma, and multiple hea...
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Population Genomics Along With Quantitative Genetics Provides a More Efficient Valorization of Crop Plant Genetic Diversity in Breeding and Pre-breeding Programs
The breeding efforts of the twentieth century contributed to large increases in yield but selection may have increased vulnerability to environmental perturbations. In that context, there is a growing demand f...
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Enhancing Crop Breeding Using Population Genomics Approaches
The use of genetic information to predict the value of individuals in plant breeding populations began about 40 years ago. The original paradigm was to identify genomic regions with outsize influence on a trai...
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Population Genomics of Organelle Genomes in Crop Plants
Chloroplast and mitochondria are specialized structure located in the cytoplasm of plant cells which possess their own genomes and are usually transmitted by one parent only. Organelle DNA markers have been wi...
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Pangenomics in Crop Plants
Identifying diversity at many scales is the keystone to understand how genomes evolved and plants are so adaptable, even if they are under extreme constraint. Understanding the processes that create diversity ...
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Population Genomics of Perennial Temperate Forage Legumes
Temperate forage legumes are essential components of agricultural systems around the globe with a notable economic value. Being perennials with developed root systems, forage legumes mitigate a number of forem...
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Population Genomics of Peanut
Population genomics envisages studying numerous loci and genome regions simultaneously to understand the roles of evolutionary processes such as mutation, genetic drift, gene flow, and natural selection that i...
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Population Genomics of Maize
One of the most explored crop plants in genomics studies is maize (Zea mays L.). It has served as a model for develo** and incorporating biotechnology and genomics approaches in breeding programs of several oth...
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Population Genomics of Yams: Evolution and Domestication of Dioscorea Species
Yam is a collective name of tuber crops belonging to the genus Dioscorea. Yam is important not only as a staple food crop but also as an integral component of society and culture of the millions of people who dep...
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Potato Population Genomics
Potatoes are the third most widely grown food crop in the world. Due to their ability to grow on marginal land and produce large amounts of nutritious food with relatively few inputs, they have shaped human hi...
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Population Genomics of Soybean
Soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr) is a major oilseed crop globally with major production in the USA, Brazil, Argentina, China, and India. Significant progress has been made in soybean research for increasing yield ...
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Population Genomics of Weedy Crop Relatives: Insights from Weedy Rice
Weedy crop relatives can evolve as a byproduct of the domestication process, and most modern crop species have conspecific or congeneric weedy relatives. These weedy relatives invade crop fields and aggressive...
