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Kaixuan Zhang, Yuqi He, Hao Lin, Jiayue He, Zhirong Wang, Wei Li, Yanhua Chen, Jing Li, Yaliang Shi, Xu Huang, Mengqi Ding, Pu Yang, Zhiqiang Chen, Annapurna Chitikineni, Jiguang Li, Jinfeng Gao, Baili Feng, Zongwen Zhang, Ming Hao, Reyazul Rouf Mir, Dengcai Liu, Sun-Hee Woo, Dagmar Janovská, Muriel Quinet, Alisdair R. Fernie, Wenhua Liao, Xibo Feng, Dhurva Prasad Gauchan, Namraj Dhami, Ivan Kreft, Artur Piński, Alexander Betekhtin, Manuel Spannag, Xu Liu, Rajeev K. Varshney, Jianquan Liu, Meiliang Zhou. Pangenome-guided breeding restores high-altitude adaptation and improves yield in Tartary buckwheat. Cell (2026) DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2026.07.035
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Qidi Du, Zhengwu Fang, Yongdun Xie, Hongchun Xiong, Linshu Zhao, Jiayu Gu, Huiyuan Li, Huijun Guo, Luxiang Liu. Cysteine-rich receptor-like kinase and MADS-box co-regulation of programmed cell death drives apical spikelet degeneration in wheatPlant Physiology (2026) DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiag592
2026-08-18 -
Ming Yu, Minrui Chen, Xudong Zhu, Xinyue Zhang, Maohong Cai, Liang Zhou, Shirong Zhou, Chen Wang, Chao Li, Yimin Ling, Minxi Wu, Limin Zhang, Dekun Lei, Bingke Luo, Qiyu Yang, Wen Li, Xin Jin, Lizhuo Ma, Yulong Ren, Zhichao Zhao, Jie Wang, Cailin Lei, Zhijun Cheng, Qibing Lin, Xiuping Guo, Xin Wang, Shanshan Zhu, Jianmin Wan. OsWOX13 functions as a heading signal transducer from integrator Ehd1 to florigen for the accurate regulation of rice heading date. The Plant Cell (2026) DOI:10.1093/plcell/koag246
2026-08-18 -
Mingzhao Luo, Chengjie Xu, Wenjing Yang, Wensi Tang, Kai Chen, Jiaqing Guo, Qiyu Wang, Jun Chen, Zhaoshi Xu, Pierre Delaplace, Youzhi Ma, Yongbin Zhou, Ming Chen. The TaCOMT1A-synthesised sakuranetin Is a novel biostimulant enhancing drought tolerance and yieldin wheat. Plant Biotechnology Journal (2026) DOI:10.1111/pbi.70734
2026-08-12 -
Tianhao Wang, Tianyu Mo, Yinglu Sun, Miao Miao, Yan Chun, Ashmit Kumar, Jinfeng Zhao, Xueyong Li. Strigolactones restrict sugar acquisition in rice tiller buds to inhibit their outgrowth through suppressing the expression and polarized localization of two monosaccharide transporters. Molecular Plant (2026) DOI:10.1016/j.molp.2026.08.003
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Ge Gao, Danjing Lou, Yunpeng Li, Chao Zhang, Baolin Kan, Hao Wen, Siyu Wen, Jun Shu, Wenlong Guo, Weihua Qiao, Qingwen Yang, Youlin Peng, Kenneth M. Olsen, Qian Qian, Xiaoming Zheng. Population-scale multi-omics analysis reveals diversephenotypic impacts of IncRNAs in rice. Cell Research (2026) DOI:10.1038/s41422-026-01247-3
2026-07-31 -
Chen Zhang, Jingying Li, Yucai Li, Lei Yan, Christina S.Y. Yong, Shaoya Li, Yubing He, Lanqin Xia. Coupling of both a transactivation module and a double-stranded DNA-binding domain boost a Cas12i3 variant-based cytosine and adenine editing in plants.Journal of Integrative Plant Biology (2026) DOI:10.1111/jipb.70154
2026-07-31 -
Huiyu Sun, Xiaomei Zhang, Chao Ma, Penghui Huang, Qi Sun, Guolong Yu, Limin Liu, Mingyang Lu, Lu Han, Kexin Qu, Xianzhong Feng, Yuchen Miao, Qingshan Chen, Jingjuan Yu, Dawei Xin, YongFu Fu. A rhizobium-induced FT-FD module locally activates nodule stem cell gene to promote nodulation. Nature Communications (2026) DOI:10.1038/s41467-026-74688-4
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Xuyang Liu, Yongxiang Li, Chunhui Li, Dengfeng Zhang, Guanhua He, Hui Liu, Shumin Sun, Yu Li, Mei Guo, Tianyu Wang. Dynamics of gene and allelic expression during modern hybrid maize breeding. Plant Biotechnology Journal (2026) DOI:10.1111/pbi.70602
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Jun Chen, Shang Zhao, Wenjing Li, Chunxiao Wang, Yuan Gao, Zihan Yang,Yongbin Zhou, Ming Chen, Zhaoshi Xu, Youzhi Ma. Tandemly duplicated TaERF109 genes confer drought tolerance and post-drought recovery in wheat. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology (2026) DOI:10.1111/jipb.70196
2026-07-31 -
Honglin Chen, Longsheng Xing, Chaonan Guan, Yang Liu, Tianxiao Chen, Rong Cao, Qiannan Song, Rutwik Barmukh, Reyazul Rouf Mir, Liangliang Hu, Bin Zhou, Gaoling Luo, Dongxu Xu, Fengxiang Yin, Xingxing Yuan, Suhua Wang, Xin Chen, Lixia Wang, Chengzhi Jiao, Huilong Du, Meiliang Zhou, Rajeev K. Varshney, Xuzhen Cheng. Graph-based pan-genome reveals structural variations associated with agronomic traits in mung bean. Nature Genetics (2026) DOI:org/10.1038/s41588-026-02644-5
2026-07-13 -
Hao Zhang, Tianli Ge, Shiyu Guo, Guoyu Hu, Like Liu, Xiaoyu Li, Shuang Li, Xiaobo Wang, Xinkang Feng, Haiyang Zheng, Xueqing Wang, Yinghui Li, Hongning Tong, Lijuan Qiu. Natural variation in GmSW6 regulates seed weight and quality in soybean. Journal of Advanced Research (2026) DOI:10.1016/j.jare.2026.07.014
2026-07-07 -
Yu Zhang, Yun Zhu, Pengcheng Zhang, Wang Tian, Hui Dong, Zebin Liu, Yu Chen, Xiuhao Bao, Tian Pan, Yehui Xiong, Xin Wang, Zhijie Ren, Xiaokang Jiang, Xiaohang Han, Ruonan Jing, Hongming Wu, Chuanwei Gu, Rongbo Chen, Xiaoli Chen, Jie Lei, Erchao Duan, Cailin Lei, Zhijun Cheng, Jiachang Wang, Yiqun Bao, Chuanyin Wu, Haiyang Wang, Yihua Wang, Yulong Ren, Jianmin Wan. OsOSCA2.4 regulates post-Golgi trafficking of storage proteins by modulating Ca2+ homeostasis in rice endosperm. The Plant Cell (2026) DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koag193
2026-07-06 -
Jing Li, Linfeng Yu, Mengfan Li, Rui Han, Yecheng Li, Abdulwahab Saliu Shaibu, Kwadwo Gyapong Agyenim-Boateng, Zhaoyi Hao, Yitian Liu, Bin Li, Shengrui Zhang, Liang Li, Lijuan Qiu, Junming Sun.Leveraging weighted embedding and Transformer architecture to improve phenotype prediction of complex traits for crops. Nature Communications (2026) DOI:10.1038/s41467-026-71035-5
2026-07-03 -
Wei Li, Hao Lin, Xiang Lu, Yang Liu, Yuqi He, Zhirong Wang, Kaixuan Zhang, Muriel Quinet, Sun-Hee Woo, Dagmar Janovska, NoraMendler-Drienyovszki, Mateja Germ, Ivan Kreft, Meiliang Zhou. Toward a “green revolution” for Tartary buckwheat through ideotype breeding. Molecular Plant (2026) DOI:10.1016/j.molp.2026.02.008
2026-07-01 -
Huihui Li, Shang Gao, Takele Weldu Gebrewahid, WenXue Li, Jiankang Wang, Zhiguo Han, Matthew P. Reynolds, Jose Luis Araus, Sarah Hearne, Yunbi Xu. Omics-driven plant breeding through phenomics enviromics crosstalk. Nature Communications (2026) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-73097-x
2026-06-17 -
Yupeng Zhou, Xia Li, Shaobo Wei, Soualihou Soualiou, Paul C. Struik, Xinyou Yin, Wenbin Zhou. Harnessing natural variation for photosynthetic improvement in next-generation crop breeding.Journal of Integrative Plant Biology (2026) DOI: 10.1111/jipb.70317
2026-06-17 -
Lei Zheng, TaiFei Yu, Ying Liu, ZeHao Hou, JiTong Wei, JiaMin Hao, XingYu Liu, XinRui Wang, Wei Wang, Xing Xu, WuZhou Huang, JinPeng Zhang, YongWei Liu, XiaoFei Ma, JingNa Ru, YunFeng Jiang, Jun Chen, XiuLiang Zhu, YongBin Zhou, Ming Chen, XinYou Cao, ShuangXi Zhang, GuoYue Chen, LiHui Li, YouZhi Ma, ZhaoShi Xu. TaMPK3 mediates synergistic damage from Fusarium crown rot and drought in wheat. Nature Communications (2026) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-73123-y
2026-06-17 -
Zipei Fan, Xiaosha Tang, Jingyi Wang, Yang Zhao, Wenjing An, Yujing Jia, Zhixiong Pan, Yao Wang, Long Li, Xinguo Mao, Daizhen Sun, Jiemeng Xu, Matthew Paul Reynolds, Ruilian Jing, Chaonan Li. Drought-responsive TaMIP1 controls root density to confer the tradeoff between grain yield and drought resistance in wheat. Plant physiology (2026) DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiag191
2026-06-12 -
Meng Xing, Jingfen Huang, Qiaoling Yuan, Ziyi Yang, Yanyan Wang, Mingchao Zhao, Yamin Nie, Rui Xu, Hongge Qian, Wenxi Chen, Qiaoling Zhang, Qi Du, Leiyue Geng, Yapeng Li, Ziyi Chen, Shizhuang Wang, Like Lou, Haiyuan Peng, Chongke Zheng, Xianzhi Xie, Xiaoming Zheng, Lifang Zhang, Lianguang Shang, Jiaqiang Sun, Qian Qian, Qingwen Yang, Weihua Qiao. A rare allele of ST5 from wild rice enhances salt tolerance in rice. Advanced Science (2026) DOI: 10.1002/advs.202516159
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