Assemblies of hexaploid cultivated oat, and of close relatives of its diploid and tetraploid progenitors, have revealed its polyploid formation and subgenome evolution. These high-quality oat reference genomes will facilitate the discovery of candidate genes that underlie beneficial traits such as hulless grain and disease resistance.
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This is a summary of: Peng, Y. et al. Reference genome assemblies reveal the origin and evolution of allohexaploid oat. Nat. Genet. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-022-01127-7 (2022).
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Genome origin and evolution of common oat. Nat Genet 54, 1074–1075 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-022-01133-9
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