Drought stress restricts plant growth and development by altering metabolic activity and
biological functions. However, plants have evolved several cellular and molecular …

Some of the World's most valuable crops, including watermelon, honey melon, cucumber,
squash, zucchini and pumpkin, belong to the family Cucurbitaceae. We review insights on …

The Cucurbitaceae (cucurbit) family consists of about 1,000 species in 95 genera, including
many economically important and popular fruit and vegetable crops. During the past several …

Fruit characteristics of sweet watermelon are largely the result of human selection. Here we
report an improved watermelon reference genome and whole-genome resequencing of 414 …

Horticultural plants play various and critical roles for humans by providing fruits, vegetables,
materials for beverages, and herbal medicines and by acting as ornamentals. They have …

How raffinose (Raf) family oligosaccharides, the major translocated sugars in the vascular
bundle in cucurbits, are hydrolyzed and subsequently partitioned has not been fully …

The Cucurbitaceae family provides numerous important crops including watermelons
(Citrullus lanatus), melons (Cucumis melo), cucumbers (Cucumis sativus), and pumpkins …

Kiwifruit (Actinidia spp.) plants produce economically important fruits containing abundant,
balanced phytonutrients with extraordinarily high vitamin C contents. Since the release of …

Abstract The 2018 Nucleic Acids Research Database Issue contains 181 papers spanning
molecular biology. Among them, 82 are new and 84 are updates describing resources that …

Years of selection for desirable fruit quality traits in dessert watermelon (Citrullus lanatus)
has resulted in a narrow genetic base in modern cultivars. Development of novel genomic …