Genetic architecture of sugarcane traits in a polyploid genomics framework
Jungang Wang, Xiaofeng Li, Yibin Wang, Jishan Lin, Shuai Chen, Hongbo Liu, Xiao Chen, Kun Chai, Aoqian Dong, Tingting Zhao, Cuilian Feng, Ruijie Wu, Ping Zhao, Yaodong Zheng, Zhongqiang Xia, Shengcheng Zhang, Yi Liu, Shenyang Qu, Ziqi Ye, Yuhan Song, Qingyuan Deng, Xiaofei Zeng, Guangrun Yu, Ran Kon · 2026
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Jungang Wang and a large team untangle the genetics of sugarcane, a crop whose genome carries ten to twelve chromosome sets, in a 2026 genomics study. That tangled inheritance, built by crossing species and repeated backcrossing, long blocked efforts to explain how cane stores so much sugar. The group assembled a fully separated genome of POJ2878, a foundational breeding variety, resolving 118 chromosomes.
The assembly exposed extensive mixing between subgenomes and pinpointed breeder-favored segments, including one that raises sucrose content. Resequencing nearly a thousand cane varieties traced how widely this ancestor contributed to modern cultivars and flagged genes under selection for cold tolerance, cell size, and shoot branching. A genome-wide scan, adapted for many chromosome copies, found loci tied to sugar storage, with one transporter gene confirmed by experiment. The work gives breeders a firmer map for improving yield.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jungang Wang, Xiaofeng Li, Yibin Wang, Jishan Lin, Shuai Chen, Hongbo Liu, Xiao Chen, Kun Chai, Aoqian Dong, Tingting Zhao, Cuilian Feng, Ruijie Wu, Ping Zhao, Yaodong Zheng, Zhongqiang Xia, Shengcheng Zhang, Yi Liu, Shenyang Qu, Ziqi Ye, Yuhan Song, Qingyuan Deng, Xiaofei Zeng, Guangrun Yu, Ran Kon |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 95 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |