Pingchuan Li

TL;DR: It is proposed that the vast amounts of very similar repeated sequences cause frequent errors in recombination and lead to gene duplications and structural chromosome changes that drive fast genome evolution.

TL;DR: This review focuses on recent advances in structures and mechanisms of RGAs, and their identification from sequenced genomes using bioinformatics tools, and applications in enhancing fine mapping and cloning of plant disease resistance genes are discussed.

TL;DR: RGAugury is an efficiently integrative bioinformatics tool for large scale genome-wide identification of RGAs and was successfully applied to predict RGAs for 50 sequenced plant genomes.

TL;DR: Evidence from the chromosome-scale pseudomolecules suggests that flax has undergone palaeopolyploidsization and mesopolyploidization events, followed by rearrangements and deletions or fusion of chromosome arms from an ancient progenitor with a haploid chromosome number of eight.

TL;DR: Slow rates of nucleotide substitution are accompanied by slow rates of synteny erosion during genome divergence in woody perennials.