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Plant genomics

This section covers all aspects of the genome structure and function of plants, including crop species.

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  1. During the bread wheat speciation by polyploidization, a series of genome rearrangement and sequence recombination occurred. Simple sequence repeat (SSR) sequences, predominately located in heterochromatic reg...

    Authors: Yingxin Zhang, Chengming Fan, Yuhong Chen, Richard R.-C. Wang, Xiangqi Zhang, Fangpu Han and Zanmin Hu

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:55

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  2. Genome-wide change of polyadenylation (polyA) sites (also known as alternative polyadenylation, APA) is emerging as an important strategy of gene regulation in response to stress in plants. But little is known...

    Authors: Chao Yan, Yupeng Wang, Tao Lyu, Zhikang Hu, Ning Ye, Weixin Liu, Jiyuan Li, Xiaohua Yao and Hengfu Yin

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:53

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  3. Valsa canker is a serious disease in the stem of Malus sieversii, caused by Valsa mali. However, little is known about the global response mechanism in M. sieversii to V. mali infection.

    Authors: Xiaojie Liu, Xiaoshuang Li, Xuejing Wen, Yan Zhang, Yu Ding, Yiheng Zhang, Bei Gao and Daoyuan Zhang

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:52

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  4. Histone acetylation is a ubiquitous and reversible post-translational modification in eukaryotes and prokaryotes that is co-regulated by histone acetyltransferase (HAT) and histone deacetylase (HDAC). HAT acti...

    Authors: Shiqi Gao, Linzhi Li, Xiaolei Han, Tingting Liu, Peng Jin, Linna Cai, Miaoze Xu, Tianye Zhang, Fan Zhang, Jianping Chen, Jian Yang and Kaili Zhong

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:49

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  5. Aspartic proteases (APs) are a class of aspartic peptidases belonging to nine proteolytic enzyme families whose members are widely distributed in biological organisms. APs play essential functions during plant...

    Authors: Xiaqin Wang, Xinyang Yan, Shubin Li, Yun Jing, Lianfeng Gu, Shuangquan Zou, Jin Zhang and Bobin Liu

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:45

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  6. RNA interference (RNAi) regulates gene expression in most multicellular organisms through binding of small RNA effectors to target transcripts. Exploiting this process is a popular strategy for genetic manipul...

    Authors: Mosharrof Mondal, Jacob Peter, Obrie Scarbrough and Alex Flynt

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:42

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  7. Apple (Malus domestica Borkh.) is a popular cultivated fruit crop with high economic value in China. Apple floral transition is an important process but liable to be affected by various environmental factors. The...

    Authors: Xiya Zuo, Shixiang Wang, Wen Xiang, Huiru Yang, Muhammad Mobeen Tahir, Shangong Zheng, Na An, Mingyu Han, Caiping Zhao and Dong Zhang

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:41

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  8. Stripe rust, caused by the fungal pathogen Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst), is a serious foliar disease of wheat. Identification of novel stripe rust resistance genes and cultivation of resistant cultiv...

    Authors: Yuqi Wang, Can Yu, Yukun Cheng, Fangjie Yao, Li Long, Yu Wu, Jing Li, Hao Li, Jirui Wang, Qiantao Jiang, Wei Li, Zhien Pu, Pengfei Qi, Jian Ma, Mei Deng, Yuming Wei…

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:34

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  9. Cotton is more resistant to salt and drought stresses as compared to other field crops, which makes itself as a pioneer industrial crop in saline-alkali lands. However, abiotic stresses still negatively affect...

    Authors: Peng Xu, Qi Guo, Shan Meng, Xianggui Zhang, Zhenzhen Xu, Wangzhen Guo and Xinlian Shen

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:26

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  10. Cytoplasmic male sterile (CMS) with cytoplasm from Gossypium Trilobum (D8) fails to produce functional pollen. It is useful for commercial hybrid cotton seed production. The restore line of CMS-D8 containing Rf2 ...

    Authors: Juanjuan Feng, Xuexian Zhang, Meng Zhang, Liping Guo, Tingxiang Qi, Huini Tang, Haiyong Zhu, Hailin Wang, Xiuqin Qiao, Chaozhu Xing and Jianyong Wu

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:24

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  11. Three-dimensional chromatin loop structures connect regulatory elements to their target genes in regions known as anchors. In complex plant genomes, such as maize, it has been proposed that loops span heteroch...

    Authors: Stéphane Deschamps, John A. Crow, Nadia Chaidir, Brooke Peterson-Burch, Sunil Kumar, Haining Lin, Gina Zastrow-Hayes and Gregory D. May

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:23

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  12. The Gretchen Hagen 3 (GH3) genes encode acyl acid amido synthetases, many of which have been shown to modulate the amount of active plant hormones or their precursors. GH3 genes, especially Group III subgroup 6 G...

    Authors: Jiseong Jeong, Sunhee Park, Jeong Hui Im and Hankuil Yi

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:22

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  13. Genetic improvement of root system architecture is essential to improve water and nutrient use efficiency of crops or to boost their productivity under stress or non-optimal soil conditions. One hundred ninety...

    Authors: Admas Alemu, Tileye Feyissa, Marco Maccaferri, Giuseppe Sciara, Roberto Tuberosa, Karim Ammar, Ayele Badebo, Maricelis Acevedo, Tesfaye Letta and Bekele Abeyo

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:20

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  14. Several conventional genomic Bayesian (or no Bayesian) prediction methods have been proposed including the standard additive genetic effect model for which the variance components are estimated with mixed mode...

    Authors: Osval Antonio Montesinos-López, Abelardo Montesinos-López, Paulino Pérez-Rodríguez, José Alberto Barrón-López, Johannes W. R. Martini, Silvia Berenice Fajardo-Flores, Laura S. Gaytan-Lugo, Pedro C. Santana-Mancilla and José Crossa

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:19

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  15. Fruit ripening in Prunus persica melting varieties involves several physiological changes that have a direct impact on the fruit organoleptic quality and storage potential. By studying the proteomic differences b...

    Authors: Ricardo Nilo-Poyanco, Carol Moraga, Gianfranco Benedetto, Ariel Orellana and Andrea Miyasaka Almeida

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:17

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  16. Asarum heterotropides Fr. Schmidt var. mandshuricum (Maxim.) Kitag. is an important medicinal and industrial plant, which is used in the treatment of various diseases. The main bioactive ingredient is the volatil...

    Authors: Zhiqing Wang, Haiqin Ma, Min Zhang, Ziqing Wang, Yixin Tian, Wei Li and Yingping Wang

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:16

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  17. Improving grain yield in cereals especially in wheat is a main objective for plant breeders. One of the main constrains for improving this trait is the G × E interaction (GEI) which affects the performance of ...

    Authors: Shamseldeen Eltaher, P. Stephen Baenziger, Vikas Belamkar, Hamdy A. Emara, Ahmed A. Nower, Khaled F. M. Salem, Ahmad M. Alqudah and Ahmed Sallam

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:2

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  18. Brassica nigra (BB), also called black mustard, is grown as a condiment crop in India. B. nigra represents the B genome of U’s triangle and is one of the progenitor species of B. juncea (AABB), an important oilse...

    Authors: Kumar Paritosh, Akshay Kumar Pradhan and Deepak Pental

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:887

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  19. Calcineurin B-like protein (CBL)-interacting protein kinases (CIPKs) are the primary components of calcium sensors, and play crucial roles in plant developmental processes, hormone signaling transduction, and ...

    Authors: Weihua Su, Yongjuan Ren, Dongjiao Wang, Long Huang, Xueqin Fu, Hui Ling, Yachun Su, Ning Huang, Hanchen Tang, Liping Xu and Youxiong Que

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:868

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  20. Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba L.) is an excellent landscape species. Its yellow-green leaf mutants are ideal materials for research on pigment synthesis, but the regulatory mechanism of leaf coloration in these ginkgo mu...

    Authors: Yaqiong Wu, Jing Guo, Tongli Wang, Fuliang Cao and Guibin Wang

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:858

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  21. The invasive species Xanthium spinosum has been used as a traditional Chinese medicine for many years. Unfortunately, no extensive molecular studies of this plant have been conducted.

    Authors: Gurusamy Raman, Kyu Tae Park, JooHwan Kim and SeonJoo Park

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:855

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  22. Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been reported to play critical roles in diverse growth and development processes in plants. However, the systematic identification and characterization of lncRNAs in foxtail ...

    Authors: Zilong Zhao, Dan Liu, Yanjiao Cui, Suying Li, Dan Liang, Daizhen Sun, Jianhe Wang and Zhengli Liu

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:853

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  23. The root growth angle (RGA) typically determines plant rooting depth, which is significant for plant anchorage and abiotic stress tolerance. Several quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for RGA have been identified ...

    Authors: Caixia Zheng, Fei Shen, Yi Wang, Ting Wu, Xuefeng Xu, Xinzhong Zhang and Zhenhai Han

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:852

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  24. Dioecious spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.), a commercial and nutritional vegetable crop, serves as a model for studying the mechanisms of sex determination and differentiation in plants. However, this mechanism is ...

    Authors: Ning Li, Ziwei Meng, Minjie Tao, Yueyuan Wang, Yulan Zhang, Shufen Li, Wujun Gao and Chuanliang Deng

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:850

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  25. Loss of genetic variation negatively impacts breeding efforts and food security. Genebanks house over 7 million accessions representing vast allelic diversity that is a resource for sustainable breeding. Disco...

    Authors: Anna Hawliczek, Leszek Bolibok, Katarzyna Tofil, Ewa Borzęcka, Joanna Jankowicz-Cieślak, Piotr Gawroński, Adam Kral, Bradley J. Till and Hanna Bolibok-Brągoszewska

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:845

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  26. Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) is considered a fairly salt tolerant crop however, salinity can still cause significant economic losses by affecting the yield and deteriorating the fiber quality. We studied a salt-to...

    Authors: Delong Wang, Xuke Lu, Xiugui Chen, Shuai Wang, Junjuan Wang, Lixue Guo, Zujun Yin, Quanjia Chen and Wuwei Ye

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:838

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  27. Barley scald, caused by the fungus Rhynchosporium commune, is distributed worldwide to all barley growing areas especially in cool and humid climates. Scald is an economically important leaf disease resulting in ...

    Authors: Bianca Büttner, Vera Draba, Klaus Pillen, Günther Schweizer and Andreas Maurer

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:837

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  28. Male sterility is a simple and efficient pollination control system that is widely exploited in hybrid breeding. In upland cotton, CCRI9106, a photosensitive genetic male sterile (PGMS) mutant isolated from CC...

    Authors: Meng Zhang, Ji Liu, Qiang Ma, Yuan Qin, Hantao Wang, Pengyun Chen, Liang Ma, Xiaokang Fu, Longfu Zhu, Hengling Wei and Shuxun Yu

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:825

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  29. The NBS disease-related gene family coordinates the inherent immune system in plants in response to pathogen infections. Previous studies have identified NBS-encoding genes in Pyrus bretschneideri (‘Dangshansuli’...

    Authors: Manyi Sun, Mingyue Zhang, Jugpreet Singh, Bobo Song, Zikai Tang, Yueyuan Liu, Runze Wang, Mengfan Qin, Jiaming Li, Awais Khan and Jun Wu

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:809

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  30. Transposable elements (TEs) are fragments of DNA that can insert into new chromosomal locations. They represent a great proportion of eukaryotic genomes. The identification and characterization of TEs facilita...

    Authors: Chia-Chi Hsu, Shu-Yun Chen, Pei-Han Lai, Yu-Yun Hsiao, Wen-Chieh Tsai, Zhong-Jian Liu, Mei-Chu Chung, Olivier Panaud and Hong-Hwa Chen

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:807

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  31. The tRNAs act as a bridge between the coding mRNA and incoming amino acids during protein translation. The anti-codon of tRNA recognizes the codon of the mRNA and deliver the amino acid into the protein transl...

    Authors: Tapan Kumar Mohanta, Awdhesh Kumar Mishra, Abeer Hashem, Elsayed Fathi Abd_Allah, Abdul Latif Khan and Ahmed Al-Harrasi

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:804

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  32. Eucalyptus, a highly diverse genus of the Myrtaceae family, is the most widely planted hardwood in the world due to its increasing importance for fiber and energy. Somatic embryogenesis (SE) is one large-scale me...

    Authors: Yufei Xiao, Junji Li, Ye Zhang, Xiaoning Zhang, Hailong Liu, Zihai Qin and Bowen Chen

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:803

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  33. Common bean is an important staple crop in the tropics of Africa, Asia and the Americas. Particularly smallholder farmers rely on bean as a source for calories, protein and micronutrients. Drought is a major p...

    Authors: Santiago Diaz, Daniel Ariza-Suarez, Paulo Izquierdo, Juan David Lobaton, Juan Fernando de la Hoz, Fernando Acevedo, Jorge Duitama, Alberto F. Guerrero, Cesar Cajiao, Victor Mayor, Stephen E. Beebe and Bodo Raatz

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:799

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  34. Genomic selection (GS) or genomic prediction is a promising approach for tree breeding to obtain higher genetic gains by shortening time of progeny testing in breeding programs. As proof-of-concept for Scots p...

    Authors: Ainhoa Calleja-Rodriguez, Jin Pan, Tomas Funda, Zhiqiang Chen, John Baison, Fikret Isik, Sara Abrahamsson and Harry X. Wu

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:796

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  35. Valine-glutamine (VQ) motif-containing proteins play important roles in plant growth, development and abiotic stress response. For many plant species, the VQ genes have been identified and their functions have be...

    Authors: Pengyun Chen, Fei wei, Shuaishuai Cheng, Liang Ma, Hantao Wang, Meng Zhang, Guangzhi Mao, Jianhua Lu, Pengbo Hao, Adeel Ahmad, Lijiao Gu, Qiang Ma, Aimin Wu, Hengling Wei and Shuxun Yu

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:795

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  36. Stevia rebaudiana (Bertoni) is considered one of the most valuable plants because of the steviol glycosides (SGs) that can be extracted from its leaves. Glycosyltransferases (GTs), which can transfer sugar moieti...

    Authors: Shaoshan Zhang, Qiong Liu, Chengcheng Lyu, Jinsong Chen, Renfeng Xiao, Jingtian Chen, Yunshu Yang, Huihui Zhang, Kai Hou and Wei Wu

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:794

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  37. MYB superfamily is one of the most abundant families in plants, which plays important roles in plant growth, development, and productivity. However, to date, researches on MYBs in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) are...

    Authors: Qiuhui Wei, Rong Chen, Xin Wei, Yuheng Liu, Shujuan Zhao, Xiaopu Yin and Tian Xie

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:792

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  39. In a previous study, the early ripening of Kyoho grape following H2O2 treatment was explored at the physiological level, but the mechanism by which H2O2 promotes ripening at the molecular level is unclear. To rev...

    Authors: Da-Long Guo, Zhen-Guang Wang, Mao-Song Pei, Li-Li Guo and Yi-He Yu

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:784

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  40. Xyloglucan endotransglucosylase/hydrolase genes (XTHs) are a multigene family and play key roles in regulating cell wall extensibility in plant growth and development. Brassica rapa and Brassica oleracea contain ...

    Authors: Di Wu, Anqi Liu, Xiaoyu Qu, Jiayi Liang and Min Song

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:782

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  41. The members of the sucrose non-fermenting 1-related protein kinase 2 (SnRK2) family are specific serine/threonine protein kinases in plants that play important roles in stress signal transduction and adaptatio...

    Authors: Guodong Chen, Jizhong Wang, Xin Qiao, Cong Jin, Weike Duan, Xiaochuan Sun and Juyou Wu

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:781

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  42. Fatty acid desaturases (FADs) introduce a double bond into the fatty acids acyl chain resulting in unsaturated fatty acids that have essential roles in plant development and response to biotic and abiotic stre...

    Authors: Zahra Hajiahmadi, Amin Abedi, Hui Wei, Weibo Sun, Honghua Ruan, Qiang Zhuge and Ali Movahedi

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:778

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  43. Pearl millet, a nutritious food for around 100 million people in Africa and India, displays extensive genetic diversity and a high degree of admixture with wild relatives. Two major morphotypes can be distingu...

    Authors: Oumar Diack, Ghislain Kanfany, Mame Codou Gueye, Ousmane Sy, Amadou Fofana, Hamidou Tall, Desalegn D. Serba, Leila Zekraoui, Cécile Berthouly-Salazar, Yves Vigouroux, Diaga Diouf and Ndjido Ardo Kane

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:777

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  44. Drought-tolerance ensures a crop to maintain life activities and protect cell from damages under dehydration. It refers to diverse mechanisms temporally activated when the crop adapts to drought. However, know...

    Authors: Hui Xia, Xiaosong Ma, Kai Xu, Lei Wang, Hongyan Liu, Liang Chen and Lijun Luo

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:776

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  46. Salvia miltiorrhiza is one of the most important traditional Chinese medicinal plants with high medicinal value. Gibberellins are growth-promoting phytohormones that regulate numerous growth and developmental pro...

    Authors: Wenrui Li, Chuangfeng Liu, Jingling Liu, Zhenqing Bai and Zongsuo Liang

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:727

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  47. Different soybean (Glycine max L.) leaf chlorophyll-content traits are considered to be significantly linked to soybean yield. To map the quantitative trait loci (QTLs) of soybean leaf chlorophyll-content traits,...

    Authors: Liang Wang, Brima Conteh, Linzhi Fang, Qiuju Xia and Hai Nian

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:739

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  48. Transcription factors (TFs) are essential regulators of growth and development in eukaryotes. Basic-helix-loop-helix (bHLHs) is one of the most significant TFs families involved in several critical regulatory ...

    Authors: Mohammad Aslam, Bello Hassan Jakada, Beenish Fakher, Joseph G. Greaves, Xiaoping Niu, Zhenxia Su, Yan Cheng, Shijiang Cao, Xiaomei Wang and Yuan Qin

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:735

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  49. Elucidating the candidate genes and key metabolites responsible for pulp and peel coloration is essential for breeding pitaya fruit with new and improved appeal and high nutritional value. Here, we used transc...

    Authors: Zhaoxi Zhou, Hongmao Gao, Jianhong Ming, Zheli Ding, Xing’e Lin and Rulin Zhan

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:734

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  50. The ray floret shapes referred to as petal types on the chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum × morifolium Ramat.) capitulum is extremely abundant, which is one of the most important ornamental traits of chrysanthemum. Ho...

    Authors: Ya Pu, He Huang, Xiaohui Wen, Chenfei Lu, Bohan Zhang, Xueqi Gu, Shuai Qi, Guangxun Fan, Wenkui Wang and Silan Dai

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:728

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