Yong Chen

The allotetraploid Nicotiana tabacum genome and GenBank genomics highlight the genomic features, genetic diversity and regulation of morphological, metabolic and disease-resistance traits

This study presents a chromosome-scale genome assembly of Nicotiana tabacum, identifies genetic structure correlates, and builds a genotype-to-phenotype map for multiple traits using GenBank-scale data.

Silent dissemination of plasmid-borne tigecycline resistance gene tet(X6) in livestock-associated Acinetobacter towneri

The paper reports the first detection of the tigecycline resistance gene tet(X6) on a plasmid in a livestock-associated Acinetobacter towneri isolate.

Identification of novel tetracycline resistance gene tet(X14) and its co-occurrence with tet(X2) in a tigecycline-resistant and colistin-resistant Empedobacter stercoris

This study identifies a novel tigecycline resistance gene tet(X14) in Empedobacter stercoris and shows its co-occurrence with tet(X2) on a genome island.

Unraveling the genetic architecture of grain size in einkorn wheat through linkage and homology mapping, and transcriptomic profiling

The paper identifies 17 genomic regions and 42 QTL associated with grain size in einkorn wheat using linkage mapping and RNA-seq, highlighting starch biosynthesis as key.