Matt Shenton, Masaaki Kobayashi, Shin Terashima, Hajime Ohyanagi, Dario Copetti, Tania Hernández-Hernández, Jianwei Zhang, Nobuko Ohmido, Masahiro Fujita, Atsushi Toyoda, Hiroshi Ikawa, Asao Fujiyama, Hiroyasu Furuumi, Toshie Miyabayashi, Takahiko Kubo, David Kudrna, Rod Wing, Kentaro Yano, Ken-Ichi Nonomura, Yutaka Sato, Nori Kurata
The Oryza officinalis complex is the largest species group in Oryza, with more than nine species from four continents, and is a tertiary gene pool that can be exploited in breeding programs for the improvement of cultivated rice. Most diploid and tetraploid members of this group have a C genome. Using a new reference C genome for the diploid species O. officinalis, and draft genomes for two other C genome diploid species Oryza eichingeri and Oryza rhizomatis, we examine the influence of transposable elements on genome structure and provide a detailed phylogeny and evolutionary history of the Oryza C genomes...
April 1, 2020: Genome Biology and Evolution