Christopher Plott

May 30, 2024 | nature.com | Avinash Sreedasyam |John Lovell |Sujan Mamidi |Jerry Jenkins |Christopher Plott |Shengqiang Shu | +16 more

AbstractCotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) is the key renewable fibre crop worldwide, yet its yield and fibre quality show high variability due to genotype-specific traits and complex interactions among cultivars, management practices and environmental factors. Modern breeding practices may limit future yield gains due to a narrow founding gene pool. Precision breeding and biotechnological approaches offer potential solutions, contingent on accurate cultivar-specific data.

Jan 16, 2024 | nature.com | Jessen V Bredeson |Owen Smith |Jessica Lyons |Jane Grimwood |Jeremy Schmutz |Mustafa K. Khokha | +13 more

AbstractFrogs are an ecologically diverse and phylogenetically ancient group of anuran amphibians that include important vertebrate cell and developmental model systems, notably the genus Xenopus. Here we report a high-quality reference genome sequence for the western clawed frog, Xenopus tropicalis, along with draft chromosome-scale sequences of three distantly related emerging model frog species, Eleutherodactylus coqui, Engystomops pustulosus, and Hymenochirus boettgeri.