Nature Communications (Nov 2019)
The wax gourd genomes offer insights into the genetic diversity and ancestral cucurbit karyotype
- Dasen Xie,
- Yuanchao Xu,
- Jinpeng Wang,
- Wenrui Liu,
- Qian Zhou,
- Shaobo Luo,
- Wu Huang,
- Xiaoming He,
- Qing Li,
- Qingwu Peng,
- Xueyong Yang,
- Jiaqing Yuan,
- Jigao Yu,
- Xiyin Wang,
- William J. Lucas,
- Sanwen Huang,
- Biao Jiang,
- Zhonghua Zhang
Affiliations
- Dasen Xie
- Guangdong Key Laboratory for New Technology Research of Vegetables, Vegetable Research Institute, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences
- Yuanchao Xu
- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops of the Ministry of Agriculture, Sino-Dutch Joint Laboratory of Horticultural Genomics, Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
- Jinpeng Wang
- School of Life Sciences, North China University of Science and Technology
- Wenrui Liu
- Guangdong Key Laboratory for New Technology Research of Vegetables, Vegetable Research Institute, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences
- Qian Zhou
- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops of the Ministry of Agriculture, Sino-Dutch Joint Laboratory of Horticultural Genomics, Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
- Shaobo Luo
- Guangdong Key Laboratory for New Technology Research of Vegetables, Vegetable Research Institute, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences
- Wu Huang
- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops of the Ministry of Agriculture, Sino-Dutch Joint Laboratory of Horticultural Genomics, Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
- Xiaoming He
- Guangdong Key Laboratory for New Technology Research of Vegetables, Vegetable Research Institute, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences
- Qing Li
- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops of the Ministry of Agriculture, Sino-Dutch Joint Laboratory of Horticultural Genomics, Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
- Qingwu Peng
- Guangdong Key Laboratory for New Technology Research of Vegetables, Vegetable Research Institute, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences
- Xueyong Yang
- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops of the Ministry of Agriculture, Sino-Dutch Joint Laboratory of Horticultural Genomics, Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
- Jiaqing Yuan
- School of Life Sciences, North China University of Science and Technology
- Jigao Yu
- School of Life Sciences, North China University of Science and Technology
- Xiyin Wang
- School of Life Sciences, North China University of Science and Technology
- William J. Lucas
- Agricultural Genomic Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
- Sanwen Huang
- Agricultural Genomic Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
- Biao Jiang
- Guangdong Key Laboratory for New Technology Research of Vegetables, Vegetable Research Institute, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences
- Zhonghua Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops of the Ministry of Agriculture, Sino-Dutch Joint Laboratory of Horticultural Genomics, Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13185-3
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 10,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 12
Abstract
Cucurbits fruits have diverse shapes and sizes, but their genomes evolution and genetic basis of diversity are unclear. Here, the authors show that the wax gourd genome has the most ancestral karyotype among cucurbits and identify candidate genes which contribute to large fruit size by comparative and population genomics analyses.
