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Pangenome-guided breeding restores high-altitude adaptation and improves yield in Tartary buckwheat.
Cell - 20 Aug 2026
Zhang Kaixuan, He Yuqi, Lin Hao, He Jiayue, Wang Zhirong, Li Wei, Chen Yanhua, Li Jing, Shi Yaliang, Huang Xu, Ding Mengqi, Yang Pu, Chen Zhiqiang, Chitikineni Annapurna, Li Jiguang, Gao Jinfeng, Feng Baili, Zhang Zongwen, Hao Ming, Mir Reyazul Rouf, Liu Dengcai, Woo Sun-Hee, Janovská Dagmar, Quinet Muriel, Fernie Alisdair R, Liao Wenhua, Feng Xibo, Gauchan Dhurva Prasad, Dhami Namraj, Kreft Ivan, Piński Artur, Betekhtin Alexander, Spannagl Manuel, Liu Xu, Varshney Rajeev K, Liu Jianquan, Zhou Meiliang
Abstract excerpt
Tartary buckwheat is a nutritionally important crop of the Himalayas and is crucial for local economies and food security. However, key genes and superior alleles for high-altitude adaptability and yield remain poorly defined, constraining the breeding of high-altitude buckwheat varieties. Here, we generated a telomere-to-telomere reference genome and a 16-accession pangenome spanning Himalayan wild populations...
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