Overview “Designing a nitrogen-efficient cold-tolerant maize for modern agricultural systems” (Ojeda-Rivera et al., 2025) introduces the CERCA ideotype—a conceptual maize blueprint that synchronizes crop growth with natural nitrogen cycling. The paper identifies long-standing bottlenecks in …

Overview Our latest preprint, “Extensive genome evolution distinguishes maize within a stable tribe of grasses,” presents a comprehensive analysis of 33 genome assemblies from 27 species within the Andropogoneae tribe. The study captures a dynamic picture of genome evolution, revealing …

Improving Gene Annotation with Machine Learning Advancements in genome sequencing have greatly enhanced the study of organisms, but understanding genomic variation remains challenging, especially in genome annotation, which models gene transcription and translation. :dna: We refined a machine …