The Crop Journal,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
12(2), P. 635 - 640
Published: March 29, 2024
Sorghum
(Sorghum
bicolor
(L.)
Moench)
is
a
world
cereal
crop
used
in
China
for
producing
Baijiu,
distilled
spirit.
We
report
telomere-to-telomere
genome
assembly
of
the
Baijiu
cultivar
Hongyingzi,
HYZ-T2T,
using
ultralong
reads.
The
10
chromosome
pairs
contained
33,462
genes,
which
93%
were
functionally
annotated.
20
telomeres
and
centromeric
regions
on
HYZ-T2T
chromosomes
predicted
two
consecutive
large
inversions
2
characterized.
A
65-gene
reconstruction
metabolic
pathway
tannins,
flavor
substances
was
performed
may
advance
breeding
sorghum
cultivars
production.
Science,
Journal Year:
2021,
Volume and Issue:
373(6555), P. 655 - 662
Published: Aug. 5, 2021
We
report
de
novo
genome
assemblies,
transcriptomes,
annotations,
and
methylomes
for
the
26
inbreds
that
serve
as
founders
maize
nested
association
mapping
population.
The
number
of
pan-genes
in
these
diverse
genomes
exceeds
103,000,
with
approximately
a
third
found
across
all
genotypes.
results
demonstrate
ancient
tetraploid
character
continues
to
degrade
by
fractionation
present
day.
Excellent
contiguity
over
repeat
arrays
complete
annotation
centromeres
revealed
additional
variation
major
cytological
landmarks.
show
combining
structural
single-nucleotide
polymorphisms
can
improve
power
quantitative
studies.
also
document
at
level
DNA
methylation
unmethylated
regions
are
enriched
cis-regulatory
elements
contribute
phenotypic
variation.
Current Opinion in Plant Biology,
Journal Year:
2020,
Volume and Issue:
54, P. 26 - 33
Published: Jan. 22, 2020
Plant
genomes
span
several
orders
of
magnitude
in
size,
vary
levels
ploidy
and
heterozygosity,
contain
old
recent
bursts
transposable
elements,
which
render
them
challenging
but
interesting
to
assemble.
Recent
advances
single
molecule
sequencing
physical
mapping
technologies
have
enabled
high-quality,
chromosome
scale
assemblies
plant
species
with
increasing
complexity
size.
Single
reads
can
now
exceed
megabases
length,
providing
unprecedented
opportunities
untangle
genomic
regions
missed
by
short
read
technologies.
However,
polyploid
heterozygous
are
still
difficult
assemble
provide
for
new
tools
approaches.
Haplotype
phasing,
structural
variant
analysis
de
novo
pan-genomics
the
emerging
frontiers
genome
assembly.
Science,
Journal Year:
2020,
Volume and Issue:
370(6523)
Published: Dec. 18, 2020
A
high-quality
rhesus
macaque
genome
Genome
technology
has
improved
substantially
since
the
first
full
organismal
genomes
were
generated.
Applying
new
technology,
Warren
et
al.
refined
of
macaque,
a
model
nonhuman
primate.
Long-read
and
other
recent
advances
in
sequencing
applied
to
generate
with
far
fewer
gaps
helped
refine
locations
numbers
repetitive
elements.
Furthermore,
authors
performed
resequencing
among
populations
identify
genetic
variability
macaque.
Thus,
previously
incomplete
inaccurate
set
sequence
information
is
now
fully
resolved,
improving
gene
mapping
for
biomedical
comparative
studies.
Science
,
this
issue
p.
eabc6617
Nature Communications,
Journal Year:
2019,
Volume and Issue:
10(1)
Published: March 4, 2019
Abstract
Large
structural
variants
(SVs)
in
the
human
genome
are
difficult
to
detect
and
study
by
conventional
sequencing
technologies.
With
long-range
analysis
platforms,
such
as
optical
mapping,
one
can
identify
large
SVs
(>2
kb)
across
experiment.
Analyzing
maps
of
154
individuals
from
26
populations
sequenced
1000
Genomes
Project,
we
find
that
phylogenetic
population
patterns
similar
those
single
nucleotide
variations
86%
genome,
while
~2%
has
high
complexity.
We
able
characterize
many
intractable
regions
including
segmental
duplications
subtelomeric,
pericentromeric,
acrocentric
areas.
In
addition,
discover
~60
Mb
non-redundant
content
missing
reference
sequence
assembly.
Our
results
highlight
need
for
a
comprehensive
set
alternate
haplotypes
different
represent
SV
genome.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
122(8)
Published: Feb. 11, 2025
Meta-analyses
and
theory
show
that
with
rising
atmospheric
[CO
2
],
Rubisco
has
become
the
greatest
limitation
to
light-saturated
leaf
CO
assimilation
rates
(
A
sat
)
in
C
4
crops.
So
would
transgenically
increasing
increase
result
increased
productivity
field?
Here,
we
successfully
overexpressed
small
subunit
RbcS
accumulation
factor
1
Raf1
both
sorghum
sugarcane,
resulting
significant
increases
content
of
13
25%
up
90%
respectively.
12
15%
enzyme
activity
~40%
three
independent
transgenic
events
species.
Sorghum
plants
also
showed
speeds
photosynthetic
induction
decreased
bundle
sheath
leakiness.
These
improvements
translated
into
average
15.5%
biomass
field-grown
a
37
81%
greenhouse-grown
sugarcane.
This
suggests
potential
opportunity
achieve
substantial
this
key
economically
important
clade
crops,
future
proofing
their
value
under
global
change.