Xingtan Zhang

Research interests

Publications

• Chromosome-level scaffolding of haplotype-resolved assemblies using Hi-C data without reference genomes

  Nature Plants · 2024 · 10.1038/s41477-024-01755-3

• JCVI: A versatile toolkit for comparative genomics analysis

  iMeta · 2024 · 10.1002/imt2.211

• Gene mining and genomics-assisted breeding empowered by the pangenome of tea plant Camellia sinensis

  Nature Plants · 2023 · 10.1038/s41477-023-01565-z

• Analyses of a chromosome-scale genome assembly reveal the origin and evolution of cultivated chrysanthemum

  Nature Communications · 2023 · 10.1038/s41467-023-37730-3

• Genomic insights into the recent chromosome reduction of autopolyploid sugarcane Saccharum spontaneum

  Nature Genetics · 2022 · 10.1038/s41588-022-01084-1

• Haplotype-resolved genome assembly provides insights into evolutionary history of the tea plant Camellia sinensis

  Nature Genetics · 2021 · 10.1038/s41588-021-00895-y

• Genetic basis of high aroma and stress tolerance in the oolong tea cultivar genome

  Horticulture Research · 2021 · 10.1038/s41438-021-00542-x

• Genomes of the Banyan Tree and Pollinator Wasp Provide Insights into Fig-Wasp Coevolution

  Cell · 2020 · 10.1016/j.cell.2020.09.043

• Assembly of the 373k gene space of the polyploid sugarcane genome reveals reservoirs of functional diversity in the world's leading biomass crop

  GigaScience · 2019 · 10.1093/gigascience/giz129

• Assembly of allele-aware, chromosomal-scale autopolyploid genomes based on Hi-C data

  Nature Plants · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-019-0487-8

• The genome of cultivated peanut provides insight into legume karyotypes, polyploid evolution and crop domestication

  Nature Genetics · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-019-0402-2

• The water lily genome and the early evolution of flowering plants

  Nature · 2019 · 10.1038/s41586-019-1852-5

• Genome sequences of horticultural plants: past, present, and future

  Horticulture Research · 2019 · 10.1038/s41438-019-0195-6

• Allele-defined genome of the autopolyploid sugarcane Saccharum spontaneum L.

  Nature Genetics · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-018-0237-2

• PacBio Sequencing Reveals Transposable Elements as a Key Contributor to Genomic Plasticity and Virulence Variation in Magnaporthe oryzae

  Molecular Plant · 2017 · 10.1016/j.molp.2017.08.008

• ALLMAPS: robust scaffold ordering based on multiple maps

  Genome biology · 2015 · 10.1186/s13059-014-0573-1

• CRISPR/Cas9-mediated targeted mutagenesis in Nicotiana tabacum

  Plant Molecular Biology · 2014 · 10.1007/s11103-014-0263-0

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