Xiaowu Wang

TL;DR: The most interesting information revealed by the phenetic trees was that different morphotypes are often more related to other morphotypes from the same region (East Asia vs. Europe) than to similar Morphotypes from different regions, suggesting either an independent origin and or a long and separate domestication and breeding history in both regions.

TL;DR: This Review concludes that some mechanisms operate immediately at the wide-hybrid, and other mechanisms begin their operations later, and direct interaction of new paralogous genes, as measured using high-resolution chromatin conformation capture, should inform future research.

TL;DR: An improved assembly of the B. rapa genome (v3.0) is reported using single-molecule sequencing, optical mapping, and chromosome conformation capture technologies (Hi-C), which provide a significant improvement in the level of detail, and permit mapping of highly repetitive regions, which were nearly impossible to map using older methods.

TL;DR: By revealing the genetic consequences of breeding, cost-effective, high-resolution dissection of crop genomes by transcriptome sequencing will increase the efficiency of predictive breeding even in the absence of a complete genome sequence.

TL;DR: A tool for syntenic gene analysis between species of Brassicaceae was developed, SynOrths, which could be used to accurately identify syntenic genes in differentiated but closely-related genomes.