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旨在为挖掘油料作物增产潜力、提升油料产能、保障国内食用植物油供给安全等政策制定提供参考，通过集中度和比较优势分析，研究了1979—2019年我国5种主要油料作物（花生、油菜、向日葵、芝麻和胡麻）的时空分布变化。结果显示：1979—2019年花生种植集中度呈减小趋势，油菜和胡麻集中度升高，向日葵和芝麻集中度则先降低后升高；2019年河南、山东、广东、辽宁、河北 5省花生综合优势指数大于1，其中河南为我国花生第一生产大省，综合优势指数从0.80增加至1.93；湖南、四川、湖北、贵州、安徽5省具有稳定的油菜生产综合优势，2019年川渝地区（四川和重庆）、湖北、湖南油菜籽产量居前三位；1979—2019年内蒙古和新疆向日葵综合优势指数分别为214~3.38和1.64~3.06，且在2019年它们分别是我国葵花籽生产第一、第二大主产地；河南、湖北两省一直是我国芝麻生产核心区域，综合优势指数分别为1.50~2.13和2.17~2.39；甘肃、宁夏、山西、内蒙古具有胡麻生产综合优势，2019年甘肃、内蒙古和宁夏胡麻籽产量居前三位。综上，当前河南、川渝地区、内蒙古、甘肃分别是我国花生（和芝麻）、油菜籽、葵花籽、胡麻籽等核心油料生产区域。To provide reference for exploring the potential for increasing oil crops yield, improving oil production, and ensuring the safety of domestic food and vegetable oil supply, the temporal and spatial changes of five major oil crops (peanut, rape, sunflower, sesame and flax) from 1979 to 2019 were studied through analysis of distribution concentration and comparative advantage. The results showed that from 1979 to 2019, the distribution concentration had a decreasing trend in peanut production, but an increase trend in rape and flax, while for sunflower and sesame the distribution concentration firstly decreased and then increased. In 2019, the comprehensive advantage indexes of peanut in Henan, Shandong, Guangdong, Liaoning, Hebei exceeded 1. Among them, Henan Province was the first producer of peanut in China, with the gradually increasing comprehensive advantage indexes from 0.80 to 193. Hunan, Sichuan, Hubei, Guizhou and Anhui had stable comprehensive advantages in rape production, and of them the Sichuan-Chongqing region, Hubei and Hunan ranked in the top three in rapeseed production. In 1979-2019, Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang displayed the comprehensive advantage in sunflower production with the index of 2.14-3.38 and 1.64-3.06, respectively. In 2019, they were the first and the second major sunflower seed production regions. Henan and Hubei were the two core regions of sesame production in China, with comprehensive advantage indexes ranging from 1.50 to 2.13 and 2.17 to 239, respectively. Gansu, Ningxia, Shanxi and Inner Mongolia showed comprehensive advantages in flax production, among which Gansu, Inner Mongolia and Ningxia ranked in the top three in flaxseed production in 2019. In summary, Henan, Sichuan-Chongqing, Inner Mongolia, and Gansu are currently the core oilseed production areas for peanut (and sesame seed), rapeseed, sunflower seed and flaxseed, respectively in China.

Peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) is an oilseed crop grown worldwide. Flavonoids have profound benefits for plant growth and development because of their powerful antioxidant properties. Seed vigor is an important indicator of seed quality. However, how flavonoids impact seed vigor formation in large-seed peanuts is still poorly understood. Here, we profiled flavonoids, phytohormones, and transcriptomes of developing seeds of large-seed peanut varieties with low (ZP06) and high (H8107) seed vigor. A total of 165 flavonoids were identified, 51 of which were differentially accumulated in ZP06 and H8107. Lower levels of dihydromyricetin (0.28 times) and hesperetin-7-O-glucoside (0.26 times) were observed in ZP06 seeds than in H8107. All flavonoid biosynthesis structural genes were down-regulated in ZP06. The different hormone levels found in ZP06 and H8107 seeds could be associated with the expression of flavonoid biosynthesis genes via MYB and bHLH transcription factors. Dihydromyricetin could relate to ZP06′s poor seed vigor by impacting its seed antioxidant properties. Thus, the presence of flavonoids in large-seed peanuts could contribute to their physiological quality and germination potential through controlling the accumulation of reactive oxygen species to improve seed antioxidant properties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Summary: N6‐methyladenosine (m6A) is the most abundant mRNA modification in eukaryotes and is an important regulator of gene expression as well as many other critical biological processes. However, the characteristics and functions of m6A in peanut (Arachis hypogea L.) resistance to bacterial wilt (BW) remain unknown.Here, we analyzed the dynamic of m6A during infection of resistant (H108) and susceptible (H107) peanut accessions with Ralstonia solanacearum (R. solanacearum), the causative agent of BW. Throughout the transcriptome, we identified 'URUAY' as a highly conserved motif for m6A in peanut. The majority of differential m6A located within the 3′ untranslated region (UTR) of the transcript, with fewer in the exons.Integrative analysis of RNA‐Seq and m6A methylomes suggests the correlation between m6A and gene expression in peanut R. solanacearum infection, and functional analysis reveals that m6A‐associated genes were related to plant‐pathogen interaction.Our experimental analysis suggests that AhALKBH15 is an m6A demethylase in peanut, leading to decreased m6A levels and upregulation of the resistance gene AhCQ2G6Y. The upregulation of AhCQ2G6Y expression appears to promote BW resistance in the H108 accession. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Like many important crops, peanut is a polyploid that underwent polyploidization, evolution, and domestication. The wild allotetraploid peanut species Arachis monticola (A. monticola) is an important and unique link from the wild diploid species to cultivated tetraploid species in the Arachis lineage. However, little is known about A. monticola and its role in the evolution and domestication of this important crop. A fully annotated sequence of ≈2.6 Gb A. monticola genome and comparative genomics of the Arachis species is reported. Genomic reconstruction of 17 wild diploids from AA, BB, EE, KK, and CC groups and 30 tetraploids demonstrates a monophyletic origin of A and B subgenomes in allotetraploid peanuts. The wild and cultivated tetraploids undergo asymmetric subgenome evolution, including homoeologous exchanges, homoeolog expression bias, and structural variation (SV), leading to subgenome functional divergence during peanut domestication. Significantly, SV‐associated homoeologs tend to show expression bias and correlation with pod size increase from diploids to wild and cultivated tetraploids. Moreover, genomic analysis of disease resistance genes shows the unique alleles present in the wild peanut can be introduced into breeding programs to improve some resistance traits in the cultivated peanuts. These genomic resources are valuable for studying polyploid genome evolution, domestication, and improvement of peanut production and resistance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]