Special Focus: Male sterility and its utilization in crop breeding

1. Male sterility in crops:Application of human intelligence to natural variation
2. The essential roles of sugar metabolism for pollen development and male fertility in plants
3. Single-cell RNA sequencing of meiocytes and microspores reveals the involvement of the Rf4 gene in redox homeostasis of CMS-C maize
4. Genome-wide analyses on transcription factors and their potential microRNA regulators involved in maize male fertility
5. Identification of a locus associated with genic male sterility in maize via EMS mutagenesis and bulked-segregant RNA-seq
6. Rice Glucose 6-Phosphate/Phosphate Translocator 1 is required for tapetum function and pollen development
7. A functional characterization of TaMs1 orthologs in Poaceae plants
8. Maize MS2 encodes an ATP-binding cassette transporter that is essential for anther development
9. Identification of no pollen 1 provides a candidate gene for heterosis utilization in foxtail millet(Setaria italica L.)
10. Mitochondrial localization of ORF346 causes pollen abortion in alloplasmic male sterility

Research Papers

1. A valine residue deletion in ZmSig2A,a sigma factor,accounts for a revertible leaf-color mutation in maize
2. Response of spikelet water status to high temperature and its relationship with heat tolerance in rice
3. Development of diagnostic markers for a wheat leaf rust resistance gene Lr42 using RNA-sequencing
4. Development of a high-density SSR genetic linkage map in sweet potato
5. Removal of superior wheat kernels promotes filling of inferior kernels by changing carbohydrate metabolism and sink strength
6. Deep placement of nitrogen fertilizer increases rice yield and nitrogen use efficiency with fewer greenhouse gas emissions in a mechanical direct-seeded cropping system
7. Micro-sprinkling irrigation simultaneously improves grain yield and protein concentration of winter wheat in the North China Plain
8. Identification of traits and genes associated with lodging resistance in maize
9. Increasing rainfed wheat yield by optimizing agronomic practices to consume more subsoil water in the Loess Plateau
10. BSA-seq-based identification of a major additive plant height QTL with an effect equivalent to that of Semi-dwarf 1 in a large rice F2 population
11. Genetic gains with genomic versus phenotypic selection for drought and waterlogging tolerance in tropical maize(Zea mays L.)
12. Mining favorable alleles for five agronomic traits from the elite rapeseed cultivar Zhongshuang 11 by QTL mapping and integration
13. The importance of aboveground and belowground interspecific interactions in determining crop growth and advantages ofpeanut/maize intercropping
14. Genetic dissection of rice appearance quality and cooked rice elongation by genome-wide association study

Short Communications

1. A gain-of-function mutation of OsMAPK6 leads to long grain in rice
2. WheatGene:A genomics database for common wheat and its related species

1. Generation of male-sterile soybean lines with the CRISPR/Cas9 system