Nature Communications (Feb 2020)

The genome evolution and low-phosphorus adaptation in white lupin

  • Weifeng Xu,
  • Qian Zhang,
  • Wei Yuan,
  • Feiyun Xu,
  • Mehtab Muhammad Aslam,
  • Rui Miao,
  • Ying Li,
  • Qianwen Wang,
  • Xing Li,
  • Xin Zhang,
  • Kang Zhang,
  • Tianyu Xia,
  • Feng Cheng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14891-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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White lupin is a legume crop that develops cluster roots for efficient phosphate acquisition. Here, the authors assemble its triplicated genome, reveal gene expression difference among sub-genomes, and characterize possible pathways related to high phosphorus-use efficiency.