Origin and domestication of Cucurbitaceae crops: insights from phylogenies, genomics and archaeology

G Chomicki, H Schaefer, SS Renner - New Phytologist, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
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 …

From forest to field: perennial fruit crop domestication

AJ Miller, BL Gross - American journal of botany, 2011‏ - Wiley Online Library
• Premise of the study: Archaeological and genetic analyses of seed‐propagated annual
crops have greatly advanced our understanding of plant domestication and evolution …

A second update to the checklist of the vascular flora alien to Italy

G Galasso, F Conti, L Peruzzi… - Plant Biosystems-An …, 2024‏ - Taylor & Francis
Critical and updated alien species inventories are crucial to properly manage and contrast
biological invasions. After 6 years, a second update to the inventory of the vascular flora …

A comprehensive genome variation map of melon identifies multiple domestication events and loci influencing agronomic traits

G Zhao, Q Lian, Z Zhang, Q Fu, Y He, S Ma… - Nature Genetics, 2019‏ - nature.com
Melon is an economically important fruit crop that has been cultivated for thousands of years;
however, the genetic basis and history of its domestication still remain largely unknown …

The genome of melon (Cucumis melo L.)

J Garcia-Mas, A Benjak, W Sanseverino… - Proceedings of the …, 2012‏ - pnas.org
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 …

A genomic variation map provides insights into the genetic basis of cucumber domestication and diversity

J Qi, X Liu, DI Shen, H Miao, B **e, X Li, P Zeng… - Nature …, 2013‏ - nature.com
Most fruits in our daily diet are the products of domestication and breeding. Here we report a
map of genome variation for a major fruit that encompasses∼ 3.6 million variants, generated …

Resonant x-ray scattering study of charge-density wave correlations in

S Blanco-Canosa, A Frano, E Schierle, J Porras… - Physical Review B, 2014‏ - APS
We report the results of a comprehensive study of charge-density wave (CDW) correlations
in untwinned YBa 2 Cu 3 O 6+ x single crystals with 0.4≤ x≤ 0.99 using Cu L 3 edge …

The wax gourd genomes offer insights into the genetic diversity and ancestral cucurbit karyotype

D **e, Y Xu, J Wang, W Liu, Q Zhou, S Luo… - Nature …, 2019‏ - nature.com
The botanical family Cucurbitaceae includes a variety of fruit crops with global or local
economic importance. How their genomes evolve and the genetic basis of diversity remain …

Whole-genome sequencing provides insights into the genetic diversity and domestication of bitter gourd (Momordica spp.)

J Cui, Y Yang, S Luo, L Wang, R Huang… - Horticulture …, 2020‏ - academic.oup.com
Bitter gourd (Momordica charantia) is a popular cultivated vegetable in Asian and African
countries. To reveal the characteristics of the genomic structure, evolutionary trajectory, and …

Watermelon and melon fruit quality: The genotypic and agro-environmental factors implicated

MC Kyriacou, DI Leskovar, G Colla, Y Rouphael - Scientia Horticulturae, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Watermelon [Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai] and melon (Cucumis melo
L.) are popular annual fruit crops of the gourd family Cucurbitaceae, drawing from discrete …