Nature Communications (Feb 2022)

Genomic insights into the evolution of Echinochloa species as weed and orphan crop

  • Dongya Wu,
  • Enhui Shen,
  • Bowen Jiang,
  • Yu Feng,
  • Wei Tang,
  • Sangting Lao,
  • Lei Jia,
  • Han-Yang Lin,
  • Lingjuan Xie,
  • Xifang Weng,
  • Chenfeng Dong,
  • Qinghong Qian,
  • Feng Lin,
  • Haiming Xu,
  • Huabing Lu,
  • Luan Cutti,
  • Huajun Chen,
  • Shuiguang Deng,
  • Longbiao Guo,
  • Tse-Seng Chuah,
  • Beng-Kah Song,
  • Laura Scarabel,
  • Jie Qiu,
  • Qian-Hao Zhu,
  • Qin Yu,
  • Michael P. Timko,
  • Hirofumi Yamaguchi,
  • Aldo Merotto,
  • Yingxiong Qiu,
  • Kenneth M. Olsen,
  • Longjiang Fan,
  • Chu-Yu Ye

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28359-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Echinochloa is an important genus in the grass family as many of them are either problematic weeds or domesticated millets. Here, the authors assemble three polyploidy genomes in this genus using the diploid-assisted scaffolding method DipHic and provide genomic insights into the dual roles of some species as weeds and orphan crops.