Exceptional subgenome stability and functional divergence in the allotetraploid Ethiopian cereal teff

Teff is an indigenous cereal critical to food security in the Horn of Africa. Here, the authors report an improved genome assembly and observe the surprisingly low levels of large-scale structural rearrangement, homoeologous exchanges, or bias gene loss after the formation of this tetraploid species...

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Main Authors: Robert VanBuren, Ching Man Wai, Xuewen Wang, Jeremy Pardo, Alan E. Yocca, Hao Wang, Srinivasa R. Chaluvadi, Guomin Han, Douglas Bryant, Patrick P. Edger, Joachim Messing, Mark E. Sorrells, Todd C. Mockler, Jeffrey L. Bennetzen, Todd P. Michael
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14724-z
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Summary:Teff is an indigenous cereal critical to food security in the Horn of Africa. Here, the authors report an improved genome assembly and observe the surprisingly low levels of large-scale structural rearrangement, homoeologous exchanges, or bias gene loss after the formation of this tetraploid species.
ISSN:2041-1723