Centrophilic Retrotransposons of Plant Genomes

A Bousios, T Kakutani… - Annual Review of Plant …, 2025 - annualreviews.org
The centromeres of eukaryotic chromosomes are required to load CENH3/CENP-A variant
nucleosomes and the kinetochore complex, which connects to spindle microtubules during …

[HTML][HTML] The Influence of Different Factors on the Metabolism of Capsaicinoids in Pepper (Capsicum annuum L.)

Y Yang, C Gao, Q Ye, C Liu, H Wan, M Ruan, G Zhou… - Plants, 2024 - mdpi.com
Pepper is a globally cultivated vegetable known for its distinct pungent flavor, which is
derived from the presence of capsaicinoids, a class of unique secondary metabolites that …

SoIR: a comprehensive Solanaceae information resource for comparative and functional genomic study

Z Liu, S Shen, C Li, C Zhang, X Chen, Y Fu… - Nucleic Acids …, 2025 - academic.oup.com
The Solanaceae family, which includes economically important crops such as tomatoes,
potatoes and peppers, has experienced a rapid expansion in genomic data due to …

Nanopore ultra-long sequencing and adaptive sampling spur plant complete telomere-to-telomere genome assembly

D Lu, C Liu, W Ji, R **a, S Li, Y Liu, N Liu, Y Liu… - Molecular Plant, 2024 - cell.com
The pursuit of complete telomere-to-telomere (T2T) genome assembly in plants, challenged
by genomic complexity, has been advanced by Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) …

The complete telomere-to-telomere genome assembly of lettuce

K Wang, J **, J Wang, X Wang, J Sun, D Meng… - Plant …, 2024 - cell.com
Lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) is an annual plant of the Asteraceae family, commonly used as a
fresh-cut vegetable and a primary ingredient in salads. It is rich in vitamins, minerals …

The gap-free assembly of pepper genome reveals transposable-element-driven expansion and rapid evolution of pericentromeres

K Zhang, X Wang, S Chen, Y Liu, L Zhang, X Yang… - Plant …, 2025 - cell.com
Pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) is a globally important vegetable crop with substantial 24
economic and industrial value (Baenas et al., 2019). To advance the study of pepper 25 …

SolPGD: Solanaceae Pan-genomes Reveal Extensive Fractionation and Functional Innovation of Duplicated Genes

L Zhang, Y Liu, Y Huang, Y Zhang, Y Fu, Y **ao… - Plant …, 2024 - cell.com
The Solanaceae family contains many agriculturally important crops, including tomato,
potato, pepper, and tobacco, as well as others with growing potential, such as the orphan …

Super pangenome of Vitis empowers identification of downy mildew resistance genes for grapevine improvement

L Guo, X Wang, DH Ayhan, MS Rhaman, M Yan… - Nature Genetics, 2025 - nature.com
Grapevine (Vitis) is one of the oldest domesticated fruit crops with great cultural and
economic importance. Here we assembled and annotated haplotype-resolved genomes of …

Transposon proliferation drives genome architecture and regulatory evolution in wild and domesticated peppers

K Zhang, H Yu, L Zhang, Y Cao, X Li, Y Mei, X Wang… - Nature Plants, 2025 - nature.com
Pepper (Capsicum spp.) is a widely consumed vegetable with exceptionally large genomes
in Solanaceae, yet its genomic evolutionary history remains largely unknown. Here we …

The complete genome assembly of Nicotiana benthamiana reveals the genetic and epigenetic landscape of centromeres

W Chen, M Yan, S Chen, J Sun, J Wang, D Meng, J Li… - Nature Plants, 2024 - nature.com
Nicotiana benthamiana is a model organism widely adopted in plant biology. Its complete
assembly remains unavailable despite several recent improvements. To further improve its …