Progress in plant paleogenomics.

As a new branch of genomics, plant paleogenomics reconstructs ancestral genomes from actual modern species and infers palaeohistory, evolutionary and/or speciation events that have shaped the modern species. Advances in high-throughput sequencing technologies yield accurate long reads, promote the progress of plant genome sequence assembly, and thereby offer paleogenomics a large collection of valuable reference genomes from modern species. Whole-genome duplication (WGD) and polyploidization cause rapid genomic reorganization, massive gene losses and structural variations.