Ming‐Cheng Luo

Genome assembly and population genomic analysis of Aegilops caudata uncover a rich source for disease and insect pest resistance for wheat improvement

This paper presents a high-quality genome assembly of Aegilops caudata and identifies novel resistance genes for wheat pests and diseases through population genomic analysis.

Wheat stripe rust resistance gene Yr9, derived from rye, is a CC-NBS-LRR gene in a highly conserved NLR cluster

The paper clones the wheat stripe rust resistance gene Yr9, identifies it as a CC-NBS-LRR gene in a conserved NLR cluster, and highlights its importance for durable disease resistance.

Pan-genome and Haplotype Map of Cultivars and Their Wild Ancestors Provides Insights into Adaptive Evolution of Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz)

The paper constructs nearly T2T genomes and a pan-genome of cassava cultivars and wild ancestors, revealing domestication genes and evolutionary insights.

Reduced chromatin accessibility underlies gene expression differences in homologous chromosome arms of hexaploid wheat and diploid Aegilops tauschii

The genome of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata Walp.)

This study presents a high-quality genome assembly of cowpea, identifies genomic features, and discovers a chromosomal inversion linked to Striga resistance.

Optical and physical mapping with local finishing enables megabase-scale resolution of agronomically important regions in the wheat genome

Hybrid assembly of the large and highly repetitive genome of Aegilops tauschii, a progenitor of bread wheat, with the mega-reads algorithm

The paper introduces a hybrid assembly method using long reads and short accurate reads to improve genome contiguity for a highly repetitive plant genome.