Fanjing Yang, Xiaojiao Gong, Pan Zhao, Lingtong Cheng, Yujie Zhang, Yingting Luo, Qian-Hao Zhu, Chu-Yu Ye
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Abstract
With the looming challenges of climate change and population pressure, understudied cereals hold notably untapped potential for future global food security and sustainable agriculture due to their unique nutritional profiles and notable stress resilience. Multiomics holds great promise in realizing the value of understudied cereals by understanding the genetic basis and molecular mechanisms regulating their unique traits; however, multiomic studies of understudied cereals still lag behind those of major cereals, hindering their genetic improvement and wide adoption in modern agriculture. Here, we discuss the limitations and challenges in multiomic studies of understudied cereals and how they can be overcome to enhance utilization of the traits unique to understudied cereals in improving both themselves and major cereals. We also offer a database specific to understudied cereals, including multiomics data from 12 understudied cereals and wild relatives for some of these, to serve the community.
期刊介绍：
Nature Genetics publishes the very highest quality research in genetics. It encompasses genetic and functional genomic studies on human and plant traits and on other model organisms. Current emphasis is on the genetic basis for common and complex diseases and on the functional mechanism, architecture and evolution of gene networks, studied by experimental perturbation.
Integrative genetic topics comprise, but are not limited to:
-Genes in the pathology of human disease
-Molecular analysis of simple and complex genetic traits
-Cancer genetics
-Agricultural genomics
-Developmental genetics
-Regulatory variation in gene expression
-Strategies and technologies for extracting function from genomic data
-Pharmacological genomics
-Genome evolution
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