Nature Communications (Oct 2020)

Genome biology of the paleotetraploid perennial biomass crop Miscanthus

  • Therese Mitros,
  • Adam M. Session,
  • Brandon T. James,
  • Guohong Albert Wu,
  • Mohammad B. Belaffif,
  • Lindsay V. Clark,
  • Shengqiang Shu,
  • Hongxu Dong,
  • Adam Barling,
  • Jessica R. Holmes,
  • Jessica E. Mattick,
  • Jessen V. Bredeson,
  • Siyao Liu,
  • Kerrie Farrar,
  • Katarzyna Głowacka,
  • Stanisław Jeżowski,
  • Kerrie Barry,
  • Won Byoung Chae,
  • John A. Juvik,
  • Justin Gifford,
  • Adebosola Oladeinde,
  • Toshihiko Yamada,
  • Jane Grimwood,
  • Nicholas H. Putnam,
  • Jose De Vega,
  • Susanne Barth,
  • Manfred Klaas,
  • Trevor Hodkinson,
  • Laigeng Li,
  • Xiaoli Jin,
  • Junhua Peng,
  • Chang Yeon Yu,
  • Kweon Heo,
  • Ji Hye Yoo,
  • Bimal Kumar Ghimire,
  • Iain S. Donnison,
  • Jeremy Schmutz,
  • Matthew E. Hudson,
  • Erik J. Sacks,
  • Stephen P. Moose,
  • Kankshita Swaminathan,
  • Daniel S. Rokhsar

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18923-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The perennial grass Miscanthus is a promising biomass crop. Here, via genomics and transcriptomics, the authors reveal its allotetraploid origin, characterize gene expression associated with rhizome development and nutrient recycling, and describe the hybrid origin of the triploid M. x giganteus.