The importance of hybridization in plant speciation and evolution has been debated for
decades, with opposing views of hybridization as either a creative evolutionary force or …

Grapevine trunk diseases (GTD) are currently one of the most devastating and challenging
diseases in viticulture, leading to considerable yield losses and a remarkable decline in …

Evidence of whole-genome duplications (WGDs) and subsequent karyotype changes has
been detected in most major lineages of living organisms on Earth. To clarify the complex …

Polyploidy often confers emergent properties, such as the higher fibre productivity and
quality of tetraploid cottons than diploid cottons bred for the same environments. Here we …

Background DNA methylation is an important feature of plant epigenomes, involved in the
formation of heterochromatin and affecting gene expression. Extensive variation of DNA …

We report the genome sequence of melon, an important horticultural crop worldwide. We
assembled 375 Mb of the double-haploid line DHL92, representing 83.3% of the estimated …

We gathered genomic data from grapes (Vitis vinifera ssp. vinifera), a clonally propagated
perennial crop, to address three ongoing mysteries about plant domestication. The first is the …

Flowering plants, or angiosperms, consist of more than 300,000 species, far more than any
other land plant lineages. The accumulated evidence indicates that multiple ancient …

Background Coconut is an important tropical oil and fruit crop whose evolutionary position
renders it a fantastic species for the investigation of the evolution of monocot chromosomes …

Covering: 1976 to 2020. Although constituting a limited chemical family, phytostilbenes
represent an emblematic group of molecules among natural compounds. Ever since their …