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On September 1, 2025, a research team led by Liu Shengyi and Liu Lijiang from the Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences published a paper titled “Inactivation of β-1,3-glucan synthase-like 5 confers broad-spectrum resistance to Plasmodiophora brassicae pathotypes in cruciferous plants” in Nature Genetics.

Recently, Plant Physiology published an invited review titled “Plant oil biosynthesis and genetic improvement: progress, challenges, and opportunities,” co-authored by researchers from the Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Huazhong University of Science and Technology / Xianghu Laboratory.

On November 5, the internationally renowned academic journal Nature Genetics published online a collaborative research achievement between the Oil Crops Research Institute and Huazhong Agricultural University. The research reveals the patterns and mechanisms of how structural variations in the rapeseed genome regulate gene expression and phenotypic diversity.

Based on 16 Brassica napus genomes and a core collection of 2,105 re-sequenced accessions, the researchers constructed a pan-species structural variation (Pan-SV) genome for rapeseed. By integrating transcriptome data from five tissues across the population, they identified SV-expression quantitative trait loci (SV-eQTLs) involved in gene expression regulation and summarized eight key molecular mechanisms by which SVs modulate gene expression.

This study assembled a high-quality chromosome-scale genome of a B. napus mutant dc1 with a dwarf and compact plant architecture. With the genome as a method of fine mapping and gene cloning deal with widespread structure variation, we identified a “master” gene BnaA04.

This study identified a natural variation of RLK902 conferring resistance to SRD and GMD in a natural population of B. napus. Importantly, knocking out RLK902 by genome editing displayed a higher level of disease resistance in B.

Abstract Clubroot disease caused by the soil-borne Plasmodiophora brassicae is devastating to Brassicaceae crops and spreading rapidly in China in recent years, resulting in great yield losses annually. Virulence of P.