Dear Editor,Pan-genomes with high quality de novo assemblies are shifting the paradigm of biology research in genome evolution,speciation,and function annotation(Shi et al.,2023).An all-vs.-all comparison across assem...Dear Editor,Pan-genomes with high quality de novo assemblies are shifting the paradigm of biology research in genome evolution,speciation,and function annotation(Shi et al.,2023).An all-vs.-all comparison across assemblies potentially overcomes the limitation of mapping short reads to a single assembly in cataloging polymorphisms,especially large insertions and deletions(indels)contributing to phenotypic variations through altering gene structure or expression(Chen et al.,2021).展开更多
Dear Editor,Genetics-focused approaches have been widely used to uncover major genetic variants associated with performance variation.Selecting,manipulating,and editing genetic variants significantly improve crop perf...Dear Editor,Genetics-focused approaches have been widely used to uncover major genetic variants associated with performance variation.Selecting,manipulating,and editing genetic variants significantly improve crop performance.Meanwhile,the genetic component explains a portion of performance variation,and the environ-mental component contributes to the remaining,often large,portion(Laidig et al.,2017;Bonecke et al.,2020;Li et al.,2021).To ensure superior and robust performance,elite varieties are extensively tested across multiple years and locations.These extensive performance records,coupled with climatic profiles,could be leveraged to understand climate's impact on agriculture through approaches parallel to quantitative genetics approaches(Figure 1A).展开更多
基金supported by USDA-ARS In-House Project 2090-21000-033-00Dlowa State University Crop Bioengineering Center seed grantsupported by the USDA-ARS SCINet Postdoctoral Fellowprogram.
文摘Dear Editor,Pan-genomes with high quality de novo assemblies are shifting the paradigm of biology research in genome evolution,speciation,and function annotation(Shi et al.,2023).An all-vs.-all comparison across assemblies potentially overcomes the limitation of mapping short reads to a single assembly in cataloging polymorphisms,especially large insertions and deletions(indels)contributing to phenotypic variations through altering gene structure or expression(Chen et al.,2021).
基金supported by the Agriculture and Food Rosoarch Initiative competitive grant(2021-67013-33833)the Federal Hatch Funds(IDA01312)from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture,by the USDA-ARS In-House Project 2090-21000-033-000.
文摘Dear Editor,Genetics-focused approaches have been widely used to uncover major genetic variants associated with performance variation.Selecting,manipulating,and editing genetic variants significantly improve crop performance.Meanwhile,the genetic component explains a portion of performance variation,and the environ-mental component contributes to the remaining,often large,portion(Laidig et al.,2017;Bonecke et al.,2020;Li et al.,2021).To ensure superior and robust performance,elite varieties are extensively tested across multiple years and locations.These extensive performance records,coupled with climatic profiles,could be leveraged to understand climate's impact on agriculture through approaches parallel to quantitative genetics approaches(Figure 1A).
