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Open AccessTrichomes and unique gene expression confer insect herbivory resistance in Vitis labrusca grapevines
Grapevine (Vitis) is one of the world’s most valuable fruit crops, but insect herbivory can decrease yields. Understanding insect herbivory resistance is critical to mitigating these losses. Vitis labrusca, a wil...
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Rapid evolution of protein diversity by de novo origination in Oryza
New protein-coding genes that arise de novo from non-coding DNA sequences contribute to protein diversity. However, de novo gene origination is challenging to study as it requires high-quality reference genome...
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Publisher Correction: Genomes of 13 domesticated and wild rice relatives highlight genetic conservation, turnover and innovation across the genus Oryza
This article was not made open access when initially published online, which was corrected before print publication. In addition, ORCID links were missing for 12 authors and have been added to the HTML and PDF...
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Open AccessGenomes of 13 domesticated and wild rice relatives highlight genetic conservation, turnover and innovation across the genus Oryza
The genus Oryza is a model system for the study of molecular evolution over time scales ranging from a few thousand to 15 million years. Using 13 reference genomes spanning the Oryza species tree, we show that de...
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Open AccessNew genes drive the evolution of gene interaction networks in the human and mouse genomes
The origin of new genes with novel functions creates genetic and phenotypic diversity in organisms. To acquire functional roles, new genes must integrate into ancestral gene-gene interaction (GGI) networks. Th...
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Open AccessGenome of the long-living sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn.)
Sacred lotus is a basal eudicot with agricultural, medicinal, cultural and religious importance. It was domesticated in Asia about 7,000 years ago, and cultivated for its rhizomes and seeds as a food crop. It ...
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Genome size variation among sex types in dioecious and trioecious Caricaceae species
Caricaceae is a small family consisting of 35 species of varying sexual systems and includes economically important fruit crop, Carica papaya, and other species of “highland papayas”. Flow cytometry was used to o...
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Open AccessConstruction of physical maps for the sex-specific regions of papaya sex chromosomes
Papaya is a major fruit crop in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide. It is trioecious with three sex forms: male, female, and hermaphrodite. Sex determination is controlled by a pair of nascent sex chro...
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The sex-specific region of sex chromosomes in animals and plants
Our understanding of the evolution of sex chromosomes has increased greatly in recent years due to a number of molecular evolutionary investigations in divergent sex chromosome systems, and these findings are ...
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Fruit Development, Ripening and Quality Related Genes in the Papaya Genome
Papaya (Carica papaya L.) is the first fleshy fruit with a climacteric ripening pattern to be sequenced. As a member of the Rosids superorder in the order Brassicales, papaya apparently lacks the genome duplicati...
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Open AccessThe draft genome of the transgenic tropical fruit tree papaya (Carica papaya Linnaeus)
In the early 1990s an outbreak of papaya ringspot virus (PRSV) in the papaya groves in the Puna district of Hawaii caused severe damage to an important crop. Since then, the planting of two transgenic cultivar...
