Chinese Scientists Make Important Oat Discovery

来源：中国日报 | 发布时间：2022-07-26

Chinese scientists have inferred the origin of hexaploid oat from whole-genome sequencing, chloroplast genomes and transcriptome assemblies of different Avena species.
The research, jointly conducted by a team including scientists from Baicheng Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Jilin province and Sichuan Agricultural University in Sichuan province, was recently published in the international journal Nature Genetics.
“Oat is an important cereal crop serving as a valuable source of forage and human food,” said Ren Changzhong, director of Baicheng Academy and head of the team. “These findings and the high-quality reference genomes will facilitate the full use of crop genetic resources to accelerate oat improvement and molecular design breeding of cultivated oat.”

我国科学家破译裸燕麦基因密码

中国科学家从不同燕麦品种的全基因组测序全基因组重测序、叶绿体基因组和转录组测序组合中推断出了六倍体燕麦的起源。

这项研究由吉林省白城市农业科学院和四川农业大学的科学家组成的一个科学团队共同进行，于近期发表在国际期刊《自然•遗传学》上。

“燕麦是一种重要的谷类作物，是宝贵的饲料和人类食物来源，”白城市农业科学院院长兼该团队负责人任长忠说。”这些发现和高质量的参考基因组将促进作物遗传资源的充分利用，加速燕麦的改良和分子设计育种。”