PLANeT: Understanding and leveraging the genome of land plants for a sustainable future

作者：Li Wang, Mohamed Amar, Carlos I. Arbizu, John L. Bowman, Charles H. Cannon, David J. Cantrill, Xiaofeng Cao, Shilin Chen, Xiaoya Chen, Xuemei Chen, Kang Chong, Xingwang Deng, E Weinan, Hongwei Guo, Chuan He, P Hollingsworth, Qing Hu, Hongzhi Kong, Ilia J. Leitch, Dezhu Li, Li J, Hongtao Liu, William John Lucas, Eshchar Mizrachi, Mijoro Rakotoarinivo, Hai Ren, Loren Rieseberg, Jue Ruan, Rosa A. Scherson, Harald Schneider, Douglas E. Soltis, Han Sun, Marcio C. Silva-Filho, S Smith, Alex D. Twyford, Björn Usadel, Yves Van de Peer, Cássio van den Berg, Rajeev Kumar Varshney, Lyderson Fácio Viccini, Qingfeng Wang, Xiaoquan Wang, Yue Wang, Jonathan F. Wendel, Rod A. Wing, Gane Ka‐Shu Wong, Yaowu Xing, Xun Xu, Nieng Yan, Huanming Yang, Shouzhou Zhang, Yuxian Zhu, Pamela S. Soltis, Detlef Weigel, Sanwen Huang · 发表于：Cell · 年份：2026 · DOI：10.1016/j.cell.2026.01.026 · 被引用次数：2 · 研究领域：Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research、Plant Molecular Biology Research、Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease

Land plants underpin civilization and planetary health, yet their genomic diversity remains largely uncharted. Current resources are unstandardized and scarce, lacking reference genomes for 95% of genera, 70% of families, and 51% of orders, impeding evolutionary and functional insight. We thus propose the PLANeT initiative, an international effort to generate high-quality, standardized genomes across the plant tree of life. Integrating artificial intelligence (AI) with genomics, we will decode conserved principles to advance fundamental plant biology, biodiversity conservation, crop improvement, and natural product discovery. Engaging around 100 labs to train 1,000 scientists, we will tackle pivotal questions for a sustainable future.