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Multi-omics analysis dissects the genetic architecture of seed coat content in Brassica napus

Genome Biology, 2022
Background Brassica napus is an important vegetable oil source worldwide. Seed coat content is a complex quantitative trait that negatively correlates with the seed oil content in B. napus.
Yuting Zhang, Hui Zhang, Hu Zhao, Yefan Xia, Xiangbo Zheng, Ruyi Fan, Zengdong Tan, Chenhua Duan, Yansong Fu, Long Li, Jiang Ye, Shan Tang, Honghong Hu, Weibo Xie, Xuan Yao, Liang Guo   +15 more
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Development of an efficient and precise adenine base editor (ABE) with expanded target range in allotetraploid cotton (Gossypium hirsutum)

BMC Biology, 2022
Background Base editors (BEs) display diverse applications in a variety of plant species such as Arabidopsis, rice, wheat, maize, soybean, and cotton, where they have been used to mediate precise base pair conversions without the collateral generation of
Guanying Wang, Zhongping Xu, Fuqiu Wang, Yuefan Huang, Yanfeng Xin, Sijia Liang, Bo Li, Huan Si, Lin Sun, Qiongqiong Wang, Xiao Ding, Xiangqian Zhu, Luo Chen, Lu Yu, Keith Lindsey, Xianlong Zhang, Shuangxia Jin   +16 more
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A NAC-EXPANSIN module enhances maize kernel size by controlling nucellus elimination

Nature Communications, 2022
Maize early endosperm development is initiated in coordination with elimination of maternal nucellar tissues. However, the underlying mechanisms are largely unknown.
Qin Sun, Yunfu Li, Dianming Gong, Aoqing Hu, Wanshun Zhong, Hailiang Zhao, Qiang Ning, Zengdong Tan, Kun Liang, Luyao Mu, David Jackson, Zuxin Zhang, Fang Yang, Fazhan Qiu   +13 more
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An enhanced photosynthesis and carbohydrate metabolic capability contributes to heterosis of the cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) hybrid ‘Huaza Mian H318’, as revealed by genome-wide gene expression analysis

BMC Genomics, 2021
Background Heterosis has been exploited for decades in different crops due to resulting in dramatic increases in yield, but relatively little molecular evidence on this topic was reported in cotton.
Yuanhao Ding, Rui Zhang, Longfu Zhu, Maojun Wang, Yizan Ma, Daojun Yuan, Nian Liu, Haiyan Hu, Ling Min, Xianlong Zhang   +9 more
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Comprehensive transcriptional variability analysis reveals gene networks regulating seed oil content of Brassica napus

Genome Biology, 2022
Background Regulation of gene expression plays an essential role in controlling the phenotypes of plants. Brassica napus (B. napus) is an important source for the vegetable oil in the world, and the seed oil content is an important trait of B.
Zengdong Tan, Yan Peng, Yao Xiong, Feng Xiong, Yuting Zhang, Ning Guo, Zhuo Tu, Zhanxiang Zong, Xiaokun Wu, Jiang Ye, Chunjiao Xia, Tao Zhu, Yinmeng Liu, Hongxiang Lou, Dongxu Liu, Shaoping Lu, Xuan Yao, Kede Liu, Rod J. Snowdon, Agnieszka A. Golicz, Weibo Xie, Liang Guo, Hu Zhao   +22 more
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A translatome-transcriptome multi-omics gene regulatory network reveals the complicated functional landscape of maize

Genome Biology, 2023
Background Maize (Zea mays L.) is one of the most important crops worldwide. Although sophisticated maize gene regulatory networks (GRNs) have been constructed for functional genomics and phenotypic dissection, a multi-omics GRN connecting the ...
Wanchao Zhu, Xinxin Miao, Jia Qian, Sijia Chen, Qixiao Jin, Mingzhu Li, Linqian Han, Wanshun Zhong, Dan Xie, Xiaoyang Shang, Lin Li   +10 more
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High-generation near-isogenic lines combined with multi-omics to study the mechanism of polima cytoplasmic male sterility

BMC Plant Biology, 2021
Background Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS), which naturally exists in higher plants, is a useful mechanism for analyzing nuclear and mitochondrial genome functions and identifying the role of mitochondrial genes in the plant growth and development ...
Benqi Wang, Zunaira Farooq, Lei Chu, Jie Liu, Huadong Wang, Jian Guo, Jinxing Tu, Chaozhi Ma, Cheng Dai, Jin Wen, Jinxiong Shen, Tingdong Fu, Bin Yi   +12 more
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Regulation of seed oil accumulation by lncRNAs in Brassica napus

Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts, 2023
Background Studies have indicated that long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) play important regulatory roles in many biological processes. However, the regulation of seed oil biosynthesis by lncRNAs remains largely unknown. Results We comprehensively identified
Yuqing Li, Zengdong Tan, Chenghao Zeng, Mengying Xiao, Shengli Lin, Wei Yao, Qing Li, Liang Guo, Shaoping Lu   +8 more
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A pan-Zea genome map for enhancing maize improvement

Genome Biology, 2022
Background Maize (Zea mays L.) is at the vanguard facing the upcoming breeding challenges. However, both a super pan-genome for the Zea genus and a comprehensive genetic variation map for maize breeding are still lacking.
Songtao Gui, Wenjie Wei, Chenglin Jiang, Jingyun Luo, Lu Chen, Shenshen Wu, Wenqiang Li, Yuebin Wang, Shuyan Li, Ning Yang, Qing Li, Alisdair R. Fernie, Jianbing Yan   +12 more
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Efficient CRISPR/Cas9 mediated Pooled-sgRNAs assembly accelerates targeting multiple genes related to male sterility in cotton

Plant Methods, 2021
Background Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum), harboring a complex allotetraploid genome, consists of A and D sub-genomes. Every gene has multiple copies with high sequence similarity that makes genetic, genomic and functional analyses extremely ...
Mohamed Ramadan, Muna Alariqi, Yizan Ma, Yanlong Li, Zhenping Liu, Rui Zhang, Shuangxia Jin, Ling Min, Xianlong Zhang   +8 more
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