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Bambara Groundnut: An Underutilized Leguminous Crop for Global Food Security and Nutrition (2020)
Journal Article
Tan, X. L., Azam-Ali, S., Goh, E. V., Mustafa, M., Chai, H. H., Ho, W. K., Mayes, S., Mabhaudhi, T., Azam-Ali, S., & Massawe, F. (2020). Bambara Groundnut: An Underutilized Leguminous Crop for Global Food Security and Nutrition. Frontiers in Nutrition, 7, Article 601496. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2020.601496

© Copyright © 2020 Tan, Azam-Ali, Goh, Mustafa, Chai, Ho, Mayes, Mabhaudhi, Azam-Ali and Massawe. Rapid population growth, climate change, intensive monoculture farming, and resource depletion are among the challenges that threaten the increasingly v... Read More about Bambara Groundnut: An Underutilized Leguminous Crop for Global Food Security and Nutrition.

Generation of open-source genomics resources for African orphan tree crops by African Orphan Crops Consortium (AOCC), a public-private partnership for promoting food and nutritional security in Africa (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hendre, P. S., Muchugi, A., Chang, Y., Fu, Y., Song, Y., Liu, M., Liao, X., Liu, H., Song, B., Xu, X., Cheng, S., Liu, X., Odney, D. A., Kuan Ho, W., Mayes, S., Muthemba, S., Kariba, R., Featherston, J., Hefer, C., Rees, J., …Jamnadass, R. (2018, August). Generation of open-source genomics resources for African orphan tree crops by African Orphan Crops Consortium (AOCC), a public-private partnership for promoting food and nutritional security in Africa. Presented at XXX International Horticultural Congress IHC2018: V International Symposium on Plant Genetic Resources and International Symposium on Applied Functional Molecular Biology, Istanbul

© 2020 International Society for Horticultural Science. All rights reserved. The growing African population needs a substantial increase in food production along with nutritious food options to address hunger, malnutrition and stunting. The indigenou... Read More about Generation of open-source genomics resources for African orphan tree crops by African Orphan Crops Consortium (AOCC), a public-private partnership for promoting food and nutritional security in Africa.

An improved oil palm genome assembly as a valuable resource for crop improvement and comparative genomics in the Arecoideae subfamily (2020)
Journal Article
Ong, A. L., Teh, C. K., Mayes, S., Massawe, F., Appleton, D. R., & Kulaveerasingam, H. (2020). An improved oil palm genome assembly as a valuable resource for crop improvement and comparative genomics in the Arecoideae subfamily. Plants, 9(11), Article 1476. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants9111476

© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) is the most traded crop among the economically important palm species. Here, we report an extended version genome of E. guineensis that is 1.2 Gb in length,... Read More about An improved oil palm genome assembly as a valuable resource for crop improvement and comparative genomics in the Arecoideae subfamily.

Expression of fatty acid and triacylglycerol synthesis genes in interspecific hybrids of oil palm (2020)
Journal Article
Ting, N. C., Sherbina, K., Khoo, J. S., Kamaruddin, K., Chan, P. L., Chan, K. L., Halim, M. A. A., Sritharan, K., Yaakub, Z., Mayes, S., Massawe, F., Chang, P. L., Nuzhdin, S. V., Sambanthamurthi, R., & Singh, R. (2020). Expression of fatty acid and triacylglycerol synthesis genes in interspecific hybrids of oil palm. Scientific Reports, 10, Article 16296. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-73170-5

© 2020, The Author(s). Evaluation of transcriptome data in combination with QTL information has been applied in many crops to study the expression of genes responsible for specific phenotypes. In oil palm, the mesocarp oil extracted from E. oleifera... Read More about Expression of fatty acid and triacylglycerol synthesis genes in interspecific hybrids of oil palm.

Variation of phenotypic traits in twelve bambara groundnut (vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.) genotypes and Two F2 Bi-Parental Segregating Populations (2020)
Journal Article
Gao, X., Bamba, A. S. A., Kundy, A. C., Mateva, K. I., Chai, H. H., Ho, W. K., Musa, M., Mayes, S., & Massawe, F. (2020). Variation of phenotypic traits in twelve bambara groundnut (vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.) genotypes and Two F2 Bi-Parental Segregating Populations. Agronomy, 10(10), Article 1451. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy10101451

© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Underutilis... Read More about Variation of phenotypic traits in twelve bambara groundnut (vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.) genotypes and Two F2 Bi-Parental Segregating Populations.

A mini foxtail millet with an Arabidopsis-like life cycle as a C4 model system (2020)
Journal Article
Yang, Z., Zhang, H., Li, X., Shen, H., Gao, J., Hou, S., Zhang, B., Mayes, S., Bennett, M., Ma, J., Wu, C., Sui, Y., Han, Y., & Wang, X. (2020). A mini foxtail millet with an Arabidopsis-like life cycle as a C4 model system. Nature Plants, 6, 1167–1178. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-020-0747-7

Over the past few decades, several plant species, including Arabidopsis thaliana, Brachypodium distachyon and rice (Oryza sativa), have been adopted as model plants for various aspects of research. These species, especially Arabidopsis, have had vita... Read More about A mini foxtail millet with an Arabidopsis-like life cycle as a C4 model system.

Mobilizing Crop Biodiversity (2020)
Journal Article
McCouch, S., Navabi, K., Abberton, M., Anglin, N. L., Barbieri, R. L., Baum, M., Bett, K., Booker, H., Brown, G. L., Bryan, G. J., Cattivelli, L., Charest, D., Eversole, K., Freitas, M., Ghamkhar, K., Grattapaglia, D., Henry, R., Valadares Inglis, M. C., Islam, T., Kehel, Z., …Rieseberg, L. H. (2020). Mobilizing Crop Biodiversity. Molecular Plant, 13(10), 1341-1344. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molp.2020.08.011

Over the past 70 years, the world has witnessed extraordinary growth in crop productivity, enabled by a suite of technological advances, including higher yielding crop varieties, improved farm management, synthetic agrochemicals, and agricultural mec... Read More about Mobilizing Crop Biodiversity.

Photoperiod control of yield and sink capacity in Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea) genotypes (2020)
Journal Article
Kendabie, P., Jørgensen, S., Massawe, F., Fernandez, J., Azam-Ali, S., & Mayes, S. (2020). Photoperiod control of yield and sink capacity in Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea) genotypes. Food and Energy Security, 9(4), Article e240. https://doi.org/10.1002/fes3.240

© 2020 The Authors. Food and Energy Security published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Association of Applied Biologists In Bambara groundnut [Vigna subterranea (L) Verdc], long photoperiods can cause a decline in pod and seed number. While n... Read More about Photoperiod control of yield and sink capacity in Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea) genotypes.

Candidate genes linked to QTL regions associated with fatty acid composition in oil palm (2020)
Journal Article
Ting, N. C., Mayes, S., Massawe, F., Sambanthamurthi, R., Chan, K. L., Sritharan, K., & Singh, R. (2020). Candidate genes linked to QTL regions associated with fatty acid composition in oil palm. Biologia, 76, 267–279. https://doi.org/10.2478/s11756-020-00563-2

© 2020, Institute of Molecular Biology, Slovak Academy of Sciences. The present study searched for candidate genes in five linkage groups (LGs) - T2, T3, OT4, OT6 and T9 hosting the QTLs associated with iodine value (IV) and fatty acid composition (F... Read More about Candidate genes linked to QTL regions associated with fatty acid composition in oil palm.

Major qtls for trunk height and correlated agronomic traits provide insights into multiple trait integration in oil palm breeding (2020)
Journal Article
Teh, C. K., Ong, A. L., Mayes, S., Massawe, F., & Appleton, D. R. (2020). Major qtls for trunk height and correlated agronomic traits provide insights into multiple trait integration in oil palm breeding. Genes, 11(7), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes11070826

© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Superior oil yield is always the top priority of the oil palm industry. Short trunk height (THT) and compactness traits have become increasingly important to improve harvesting efficiency sinc... Read More about Major qtls for trunk height and correlated agronomic traits provide insights into multiple trait integration in oil palm breeding.

Transcriptome-wide identification and characterization of the Rab GTPase family in mango (2020)
Journal Article
Lawson, T., Lycett, G. W., Mayes, S., Ho, W. K., & Chin, C. F. (2020). Transcriptome-wide identification and characterization of the Rab GTPase family in mango. Molecular Biology Reports, 47, 4183–4197. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11033-020-05519-y

© 2020, Springer Nature B.V. The Rab GTPase family plays a vital role in several plant physiological processes including fruit ripening. Fruit softening during ripening involves trafficking of cell wall polymers and enzymes between cellular compartme... Read More about Transcriptome-wide identification and characterization of the Rab GTPase family in mango.

Root foraging capacity in bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.) core parental lines depends on the root system architecture during the pre-flowering stage (2020)
Journal Article
Mateva, K. I., Mateva, K., Mayes, S., Massawe, F., & Chai, H. H. (2020). Root foraging capacity in bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.) core parental lines depends on the root system architecture during the pre-flowering stage. Plants, 9(5), Article 645. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants9050645

© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Characterizing the morphological variability in root system architecture (RSA) during the sensitive pre-flowering growth stage is important for crop performance. To assess this variation, eigh... Read More about Root foraging capacity in bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.) core parental lines depends on the root system architecture during the pre-flowering stage.

Understanding the genetic relationships between Indonesian bambara groundnut landraces and investigating their origins (2020)
Journal Article
Redjeki, E. S., Ho, W. K., Shah, N., Molosiwa, O. O., Ardiarini, N. R., Kuswanto, & Mayes, S. (2020). Understanding the genetic relationships between Indonesian bambara groundnut landraces and investigating their origins. Genome, 63(6), 319-327. https://doi.org/10.1139/gen-2019-0137

A total of 170 bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea) accessions were evaluated using both simple sequence repeat (SSR) and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers generated using genotyping-by-sequencing (GbS), of which 56 accessions were collec... Read More about Understanding the genetic relationships between Indonesian bambara groundnut landraces and investigating their origins.