Recent Publications

Plant genome information facilitates plant functional genomics. Bernal-Gallardo, Judith Jazmin, and Stefan de Folter. Planta 259, no. 5 (2024): 117.

Assembly and annotation of the black spruce genome provide insights on spruce phylogeny and evolution of stress response. Lo, Theodora, Lauren Coombe, Kristina K. Gagalova, Alex Marr, René L. Warren, Heather Kirk, Pawan Pandoh et al. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 14, no. 1 (2024): jkad247.

Plant pangenomes for crop improvement, biodiversity and evolution. Schreiber, Mona, Murukarthick Jayakodi, Nils Stein, and Martin Mascher. Nature Reviews Genetics (2024): 1-15.

Unlocking saponin biosynthesis in soapwort. Jo, Seohyun, Amr El-Demerdash, Charlotte Owen, Vikas Srivastava, Dewei Wu, Shingo Kikuchi, James Reed et al. Nature Chemical Biology (2024): 1-12.

Bursts of rapid diversification, dispersals out of southern Africa, and two origins of dioecy punctuate the evolution of Asparagus. Bentz, Philip C., John E. Burrows, Sandra M. Burrows, Eshchar Mizrachi, Zhengjie Liu, Junbo Yang, Zichao Mao et al. Genome Biology and Evolution 16, no. 10 (2024): evae200.

Green plant genomes: What we know in an era of rapidly expanding opportunities. Kress, W. John, Douglas E. Soltis, Paul J. Kersey, Jill L. Wegrzyn, James H. Leebens-Mack, Morgan R. Gostel, Xin Liu, and Pamela S. Soltis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119, no. 4 (2022): e2115640118.

Plant genomes: markers of evolutionary history and drivers of evolutionary change. Soltis, Pamela S., and Douglas E. Soltis. Plants, People, Planet 3, no. 1 (2021): 74-82.

Capturing single‐copy nuclear genes, organellar genomes, and nuclear ribosomal DNA from deep genome skimming data for plant phylogenetics: A case study in Vitaceae. Liu, Bin‐Bin, Zhi‐Yao Ma, Chen Ren, Richard GJ Hodel, Miao Sun, Xiu‐Qun Liu, Guang‐Ning Liu, De‐Yuan Hong, Elizabeth A. Zimmer, and Jun Wen. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 59, no. 5 (2021): 1124-1138.