Lijuan Qiu

TL;DR: Intergenomic comparisons identified lineage-specific genes and genes with copy number variation or large-effect mutations, some of which show evidence of positive selection and may contribute to variation of agronomic traits such as biotic resistance, seed composition, flowering and maturity time, organ size and final biomass.

TL;DR: Genetic diversity of a minicore collection of Chinese soybean landraces assessed by simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers and allelic variation at the GmTfl1 locus suggest that human selection for determinacy took place at early stages of landrace radiation.

TL;DR: Fine mapping in a soybean population derived from the commercial cultivars Tiefeng 8 and 85-140 is used to identify GmSALT3, a dominant gene associated with limiting the accumulation of sodium ions in shoots and a substantial enhancement in salt tolerance in soybean.

TL;DR: Genetic analyses of domesticated soybean and its wild progenitor Glycine soja indicated that cultivated soybean tended to form a monophyletic clade with respect to G. soja, and limited evidence of admixture was discovered between these two species.

TL;DR: The Chinese genebank contains 23,587 soybean landraces collected from 29 provinces and seven clusters were inferred, providing the first molecular evidence for the hypotheses that the origin of cultivated soybean is the Yellow River region.