Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

The genome of broomcorn millet

  • Changsong Zou,
  • Leiting Li,
  • Daisuke Miki,
  • Delin Li,
  • Qiming Tang,
  • Lihong Xiao,
  • Santosh Rajput,
  • Ping Deng,
  • Li Peng,
  • Wei Jia,
  • Ru Huang,
  • Meiling Zhang,
  • Yidan Sun,
  • Jiamin Hu,
  • Xing Fu,
  • Patrick S. Schnable,
  • Yuxiao Chang,
  • Feng Li,
  • Hui Zhang,
  • Baili Feng,
  • Xinguang Zhu,
  • Renyi Liu,
  • James C. Schnable,
  • Jian-Kang Zhu,
  • Heng Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08409-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Broomcorn millet is one of the earliest domesticated plants and has the highest water use efficiency among cereals. Here, the authors report its genome assembly and annotation, which provides a valuable resource for breeders and paves the way for studying plant drought tolerance and C4 photosynthesis.