Nature Communications (Feb 2020)

Exceptional subgenome stability and functional divergence in the allotetraploid Ethiopian cereal teff

  • Robert VanBuren,
  • Ching Man Wai,
  • Xuewen Wang,
  • Jeremy Pardo,
  • Alan E. Yocca,
  • Hao Wang,
  • Srinivasa R. Chaluvadi,
  • Guomin Han,
  • Douglas Bryant,
  • Patrick P. Edger,
  • Joachim Messing,
  • Mark E. Sorrells,
  • Todd C. Mockler,
  • Jeffrey L. Bennetzen,
  • Todd P. Michael

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14724-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Teff is an indigenous cereal critical to food security in the Horn of Africa. Here, the authors report an improved genome assembly and observe the surprisingly low levels of large-scale structural rearrangement, homoeologous exchanges, or bias gene loss after the formation of this tetraploid species.