Cassava,a tropical food,feed and biofuel crop,has great capacity for biomass accumulation and an extraordinary efficiency in water use and mineral nutrition,which makes it highly suitable as a model plant for tropical...Cassava,a tropical food,feed and biofuel crop,has great capacity for biomass accumulation and an extraordinary efficiency in water use and mineral nutrition,which makes it highly suitable as a model plant for tropical crops.However,the understanding of the metabolism and genomics of this important crop is limited.The recent breakthroughs in the genomics of cassava,including whole-genome sequencing and transcriptome analysis,as well as advances in the biology of photosynthesis,starch biosynthesis,adaptation to drought and high temperature,and resistance to virus and bacterial diseases,are reviewed here.Many of the new developments have come from comparative analyses between a wild ancestor and existing cultivars.Finally,the current challenges and future potential of cassava as a model plant are discussed.展开更多
基金This work was funded by the National Basic Research Program of China(2010CB126601)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31261140363 and 31171230)+2 种基金the China Agriculture Research System(CARS-12)the National International Science and Technology Cooperation Plan(2011DFB31690)the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(2012AA101204-2).
文摘Cassava,a tropical food,feed and biofuel crop,has great capacity for biomass accumulation and an extraordinary efficiency in water use and mineral nutrition,which makes it highly suitable as a model plant for tropical crops.However,the understanding of the metabolism and genomics of this important crop is limited.The recent breakthroughs in the genomics of cassava,including whole-genome sequencing and transcriptome analysis,as well as advances in the biology of photosynthesis,starch biosynthesis,adaptation to drought and high temperature,and resistance to virus and bacterial diseases,are reviewed here.Many of the new developments have come from comparative analyses between a wild ancestor and existing cultivars.Finally,the current challenges and future potential of cassava as a model plant are discussed.
