Kunyan Liu

TL;DR: This study identifies ∼3.6 million SNPs by sequencing 517 rice landraces and constructed a high-density haplotype map of the rice genome using a novel data-imputation method, demonstrating that an approach integrating second-generation genome sequencing and GWAS can be used as a powerful complementary strategy to classical biparental cross-mapping for dissecting complex traits in rice.

TL;DR: In-depth analyses of the domestication sweeps and genome-wide patterns reveal that Oryza sativa japonica rice was first domesticated from a specific population of O. rufipogon around the middle area of the Pearl River in southern China, and was subsequently developed from crosses between japonicas rice and local wild rice as the initial cultivars spread into South East and South Asia.

TL;DR: This study shows that the integrated approach of sequence-based GWAS and functional genome annotation has the potential to match complex traits to their causal polymorphisms in rice.

TL;DR: This study reports that a major quantitative trait locus, GLW7, encoding the plant-specific transcription factor OsSPL13, positively regulates cell size in the grain hull, resulting in enhanced rice grain length and yield and demonstrates that new genes can be effectively identified on the basis of genome-wide association data.

TL;DR: A high-quality draft genome sequence of moso bamboo (P. heterocycla var. pubescens) has been reported in this article, where the 2.05-Gb assembly covers 95% of the genomic region.