Randall L. Nelson

TL;DR: It is reported that C3 grains and legumes have lower concentrations of zinc and iron when grown under field conditions at the elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration predicted for the middle of this century.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors sequenced 111 fragments from 102 genes in four soybean populations representing the populations before and after genetic bottlenecks and showed that soybean has lost many rare sequence variants and has undergone numerous allele frequency changes throughout its history.

TL;DR: It is shown that soybean has lost many rare sequence variants and has undergone numerous allele frequency changes throughout its history, and that the diversity lost through the genetic bottlenecks of introduction and plant breeding was mostly due to the small number of Asian introductions and not the artificial selection subsequently imposed by selective breeding.

TL;DR: The SoySNP50K iSelect SNP beadchip will be a powerful tool for characterizing soybean genetic diversity and linkage disequilibrium, and for constructing high resolution linkage maps to improve the soybean whole genome sequence assembly.

TL;DR: Humanity depends on fewer than a dozen of the approximately 300,000 species of flowering plants for 80% of its caloric intake and capitalize on only a fraction of the genetic diversity that resides within each of these species.