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Success tastes sweet | Sugarcane's complex genetic code has been cracked
08/04/2024
The full sugarcane genome has finally been revealed. The results of work to sequence the plant, which accounts for 80% of the sugar produced worldwide, were published in Nature on 27 March. The five-year operation was the fruit of international collaboration between CIRAD (France), the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) (United States) and CSIRO and QAAFI (Australia).
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31/08/2023
Cultivated bananas are natural inter-(sub-)specific hybrids selected by man centuries ago. Characterization of the parentage relationships between current cultivars using a "whole genome" approach showed that they were derived from different types of gametes, reduced or not, and recombined or not, mainly generated by diploid or triploid cultivated parents. This work also illustrates the particular involvement of a diploid cultivar, Mchare, which transmitted its complete, non-recombined genome to the main triploid dessert banana plants currently grown.
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02/03/2023
Analysis of banana genomes has shown that cultivated bananas share common ancestors, originating in New Guinea and resulting from hybridizations between Musa acuminata and Musa schizocarpa species. These early hybrids then spread to Southeast Asia and diversified through hybridization with local subspecies/species of Musa, including a newly identified contributor and an important contributor yet to be discovered.
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Applications of quantitative genetics and statistical analyses in sugarcane breeding
29/09/2021
New high-yielding, disease and pest resistant varieties contributing to the profitability and sustainability of sugarcane industries through sugarcane breeding programs.
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Three founding ancestral genomes involved in the origin of sugarcane
19/04/2021
Sugarcane is probably the most complex crop genome, combining high polyploidy, interspecificity and aneuploidy. This paper suggests that three, not two, ancestral genomes are involved in modern cultivars adding an additional level of complexity.
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Simon Rio, recently recruited in UMR Agap institute
29/03/2021
Simon Rio joined the Structure and Evolution of Genomes (SEG) team on March 1st as a researcher in polyploid genomics/genetics (sugarcane model) based in Montpellier.
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Chromosome reciprocal translocations have accompanied subspecies evolution in bananas
26/11/2020
Guillaume Martin Franc‐Christophe Baurens Catherine Hervouet Frédéric Salmon Jean‐Marie Delos Karine Labadie Aude Perdereau Pierre Mournet Louis Blois Marion Dupouy Françoise Carreel Sébastien Ricci Arnaud Lemainque Nabila Yahiaoui Angélique D’Hont. The Plant JournalEarly View
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Sugarcane genome architecture decrypted with chromosome-specific oligo probes
24/07/2020
Piperidis N, D'Hont A. 2020. Plant Journal
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Lucile Toniutti has just been hired in the Joint Research Unit AGAP
24/07/2020
Lucile Toniutti joined the Banana genetics and breeding (GABA) team as a researcher in genetic improvement on June 1, 2020. Initially based in Montpellier, she will then be assigned to Guadeloupe where she will collaborate on projects currently being developed on bananas.
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27/02/2020
Cottin A., Penaud B., Glaszmann J.-C., Yahiaoui N., Gautier M. 2020. G3-Genes Genomes Genetics 10: 569-579.