Genome alignment is one of the most foundational methods for genome sequence studies.
With rapid advances in sequencing and assembly technologies, these newly assembled …

Flowering plants contain many genes, most of which were created during the past 200 or so
million years through small-and large-scale duplications. Paleo-polyploidy events, in …

Cultivated strawberry emerged from the hybridization of two wild octoploid species, both
descendants from the merger of four diploid progenitor species into a single nucleus more …

The evolution of land flora transformed the terrestrial environment. Land plants evolved from
an ancestral charophycean alga from which they inherited developmental, biochemical, and …

Ferns are the closest sister group to all seed plants, yet little is known about their genomes
other than that they are generally colossal. Here, we report on the genomes of Azolla …

Chenopodium quinoa (quinoa) is a highly nutritious grain identified as an important crop to
improve world food security. Unfortunately, few resources are available to facilitate its …

Lettuce (Lactuca sativa) is a major crop and a member of the large, highly successful
Compositae family of flowering plants. Here we present a reference assembly for the …

Rosaceae is the most important fruit-producing clade, and its key commercially relevant
genera (Fragaria, Rosa, Rubus and Prunus) show broadly diverse growth habits, fruit types …

Strawberry (Fragaria spp.) has emerged as a model system for various fundamental and
applied research in recent years. In total, the genomes of five different species have been …

The spatial organization of the genome plays an important role in the regulation of gene
expression. However, the core structural features of animal genomes, such as topologically …