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 …

Postharvest diseases of pome fruit are typically caused by a wide diversity of fungal
pathogens, and the list of confirmed causal agents is still growing. There is considerable …

Background The sharp increase of plant genome and transcriptome data provide valuable
resources to investigate evolutionary consequences of gene duplication in a range of taxa …

A complete and accurate genome sequence provides a fundamental tool for functional
genomics and DNA-informed breeding. Here, we assemble a high-quality genome (contig …

Abstract The Genome Database for Rosaceae (GDR, https://www. rosaceae. org) is an
integrated web-based community database resource providing access to publicly available …

The red coloration of pear (Pyrus pyrifolia) results from anthocyanin accumulation in the fruit
peel. Light is required for anthocyanin biosynthesis in pear. A pear homolog of Arabidopsis …

Targeted genome engineering has emerged as an alternative to classical plant breeding
and transgenic methods to improve crop plants. Among other methods (zinc finger …

We determined the genome sequence of sweet cherry (Prunus avium) using next-
generation sequencing technology. The total length of the assembled sequences was 272.4 …

Abstract Background Pear (Pyrus) is a globally grown fruit, with thousands of cultivars in five
domesticated species and dozens of wild species. However, little is known about the …

Background Most published genome sequences are drafts, and most are dominated by
computational gene prediction. Draft genomes typically incorporate considerable sequence …