Crop genomes,
from chromosome to canopy.
We assemble and compare crop and wild-relative genomes to understand how genome structure, polyploidy, and diversity shape plant traits.
# genomes · polyploidy · diversity
How we read plant genomes
Chromosome-scale assembly
Long-read sequencing with optical and Hi-C scaffolding to resolve the repetitive, often polyploid genomes of crops and their wild relatives into reference-quality, annotated assemblies.
Comparative genomics & polyploidy
Tracing how whole-genome duplication reshapes gene content and regulation across lineages — following the fate of duplicated genes through evolutionary time.
Diversity & pan-genomes
Capturing presence/absence variation and structural rearrangements across panels of wild relatives, mapping where useful diversity lives and how breeders can reach it.
What we're building
Chromosome-Scale Genomes of Orphan Cereal Crops
Reference-quality assemblies for understudied cereals that feed millions but lack genomic resources.
Lead · Sofia Marchetti
A Pan-Genome Atlas of Wild Wheat Relatives
Capturing the structural and gene-content diversity of wheat's wild relatives in a single pan-genome resource.
Lead · Daniel Okafor