Chunming Xu

TL;DR: It is shown that an abrupt five- to sixfold ploidy increase approximately 60 million years (Myr) ago, and allopolyploidy reuniting divergent Gossypium genomes approximately 1–2 Myr ago, conferred about 30–36-fold duplication of ancestral angiosperm genes in elite cottons, genetic complexity equalled only by Brassica among sequenced angiosperms.

TL;DR: This paper presents a meta-modelling framework that automates the very labor-intensive and therefore time-heavy and expensive process of manually cataloging and cataloging biological data as well as machine learning models.

TL;DR: It is suggested that environmental induction of heritable modifications in DNA methylation provides a plausible molecular underpinning for the still contentious paradigm of inheritance of acquired traits originally put forward by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck more than 200 years ago.

TL;DR: An in-depth investigation on transgenerational chromosomal variation in resynthesized allohexaploid wheats that are identical in genome constitution to common wheat finds that whole-chromosome aneuploidy occurred ubiquitously in early generations of wheat allo hexaploids although at highly variable frequencies (20–100%).

TL;DR: This study characterizes global effects of null mutation of a MET1 gene in rice, a model plant for monocotyledons, through methylome, transcriptome, and small RNAome analyses, and characterized a null mutant of OsMet1-2, the major CG methylase in rice.