Shengqiang Shu

Sep 14, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | John Lovell |Jerry Jenkins |Shengqiang Shu |Avinash Sreedasyam

INTRODUCTION Reference genomes are essential for crop improvement as they equip the research community with a tool to develop genomic resources to understand economically important traits, deploy technologies to introduce genetic variation, and aid in molecular breeding (Varshney et al., 2020).

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.

Apr 29, 2024 | biorxiv.org | John Lovell |Jerry Jenkins |Shengqiang Shu |Avinash Sreedasyam

AbstractCultivar 'Williams 82' has served as the reference genome for the soybean research community since 2008, but is known to have areas of genomic heterogeneity among different sub-lines. This work provides an updated assembly (version Wm82.a6) derived from a specific sub-line known as 'Wm82-ISU-01' (seeds available under USDA accession PI 704477). The genome was assembled using Pacific BioSciences HiFi reads and integrated into chromosomes using HiC.