The genome of melon (Cucumis melo L.)

J Garcia-Mas, A Benjak… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
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 …

Recent transcriptomics advances and emerging applications in food science

A Valdés, C Ibáñez, C Simó, V García-Cañas - TrAC Trends in Analytical …, 2013 - Elsevier
We provide an overview of the recent progress in high-throughput transcriptomics
techniques, namely microarray and RNA-seq, and discuss their advantages and drawbacks …

Gitools: analysis and visualisation of genomic data using interactive heat-maps

C Perez-Llamas, N Lopez-Bigas - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Intuitive visualization of data and results is very important in genomics, especially when
many conditions are to be analyzed and compared. Heat-maps have proven very useful for …

Transcriptome characterization and high throughput SSRs and SNPs discovery in Cucurbita pepo (Cucurbitaceae)

J Blanca, J Cañizares, C Roig, P Ziarsolo, F Nuez… - BMC genomics, 2011 - Springer
Background Cucurbita pepo belongs to the Cucurbitaceae family. The" Zucchini" types rank
among the highest-valued vegetables worldwide, and other C. pepo and related Cucurbita …

Determination of the melon chloroplast and mitochondrial genome sequences reveals that the largest reported mitochondrial genome in plants contains a significant …

L Rodríguez-Moreno, VM González, A Benjak… - BMC genomics, 2011 - Springer
Background The melon belongs to the Cucurbitaceae family, whose economic importance
among vegetable crops is second only to Solanaceae. The melon has a small genome size …

Engineering melon plants with improved fruit shelf life using the TILLING approach

F Dahmani-Mardas, C Troadec, A Boualem… - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Background Fruit ripening and softening are key traits that have an effect on food supply,
fruit nutritional value and consequently, human health. Since ethylene induces ripening of …

ETHQV6.3 is involved in melon climacteric fruit ripening and is encoded by a NAC domain transcription factor

P Ríos, J Argyris, J Vegas, C Leida… - The Plant …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Fruit ripening is divided into climacteric and non‐climacteric types depending on the
presence or absence of a transient rise in respiration rate and the production of autocatalytic …

High-throughput SNP genoty** in Cucurbita pepo for map construction and quantitative trait loci map**

C Esteras, P Gómez, AJ Monforte, J Blanca… - BMC genomics, 2012 - Springer
Background Cucurbita pepo is a member of the Cucurbitaceae family, the second-most
important horticultural family in terms of economic importance after Solanaceae. The" …

Transcriptome analyses of early cucumber fruit growth identifies distinct gene modules associated with phases of development

K Ando, KM Carr, R Grumet - BMC genomics, 2012 - Springer
Background Early stages of fruit development from initial set through exponential growth are
critical determinants of size and yield, however, there has been little detailed analysis of this …

Combined use of genetic and genomics resources to understand virus resistance and fruit quality traits in melon

JM Argyris, M Pujol, AM Martín‐Hernández… - Physiologia …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The availability of the genome sequence of many crop species during the past few years has
opened a new era in plant biology, allowing for the performance of massive genomic studies …