Oil plant genomes: current state of the science

Abstract Vegetable oils are an indispensable nutritional component of the human diet as well as important raw materials for a variety of industrial applications such as pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, oleochemicals, and biofuels. Oil plant genomes are highly diverse, and their genetic variation leads to...

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Published in:Journal of experimental botany 2022-05, Vol.73 (9), p.2859-2874
Main Authors: Song, Jia-Ming, Zhang, Yuting, Zhou, Zhi-Wei, Lu, Shaoping, Ma, Wei, Lu, Chaofu, Chen, Ling-Ling, Guo, Liang
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Crops, Agricultural - genetics
Genome, Plant
Genomics
Polyploidy
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Summary:Abstract Vegetable oils are an indispensable nutritional component of the human diet as well as important raw materials for a variety of industrial applications such as pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, oleochemicals, and biofuels. Oil plant genomes are highly diverse, and their genetic variation leads to a diversity in oil biosynthesis and accumulation along with agronomic traits. This review discusses plant oil biosynthetic pathways, current state of genome assembly, polyploidy and asymmetric evolution of genomes of oil plants and their wild relatives, and research progress of pan-genomics in oil plants. The availability of complete high-resolution genomes and pan-genomes has enabled the identification of structural variations in the genomes that are associated with the diversity of agronomic and environment fitness traits. These and future genomes also provide powerful tools to understand crop evolution and to harvest the rich natural variations to improve oil crops for enhanced productivity, oil quality, and adaptability to changing environments. This review discusses current knowledge of genome assembly, characteristics of oil plant genomes, and research progress of pan-genomics in oil plants.
ISSN:0022-0957
1460-2431
DOI:10.1093/jxb/erab472