Bread wheat expanded its habitat from a core area of the Fertile Crescent to global
environments within ~10,000 years. The genetic mechanisms of this remarkable evolutionary …

Controlled pedigrees and the multi-decade timescale of national crop plant breeding programs
offer a unique experimental context for examining how selection affects plant genomes. …

Single-cross maize hybrids display superior heterosis and are produced from crossing two
parental inbred lines belonging to genetically different heterotic groups. Here we assembled …

Diversity surveys of crop germplasm are important for gaining insights into the genomic basis
for plant architecture and grain yield improvement, which is still poorly understood in wheat…

Rice sheath blight (RSB) is an economically significant disease affecting rice yield worldwide.
Genetic resistance to RSB is associated with multiple minor genes, with each providing a …

Grain size and filling are two key determinants of grain thousand‐kernel weight (TKW) and
crop yield, therefore they have undergone strong selection since cereal was domesticated. …

Soybean is a leguminous crop that provides oil and protein. Exploring the genomic
signatures of soybean evolution is crucial for breeding varieties with improved adaptability to …

Dasypyrum villosum is one of the most valuable gene resources in wheat improvement,
especially for disease resistance. The mining of favorable genes from D. villosum is frustrated by …

In plants, the mechanism for ecological sympatric speciation (SS) is little known. Here, after
ruling out the possibility of secondary contact, we show that wild emmer wheat, at the …

Wheat (Triticum aestivum) is among the most important staple crops for safeguarding the
food security of the growing world population. To bridge the gap between genebank diversity …