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 …

An improved assembly and annotation of the melon (Cucumis melo L.) reference genome

V Ruggieri, KG Alexiou, J Morata, J Argyris, M Pujol… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
We report an improved assembly (v3. 6.1) of the melon (Cucumis melo L.) genome and a
new genome annotation (v4. 0). The optical mapping approach allowed correcting the order …

[HTML][HTML] The draft genome of watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) and resequencing of 20 diverse accessions

S Guo, J Zhang, H Sun, J Salse, WJ Lucas, H Zhang… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Watermelon, Citrullus lanatus, is an important cucurbit crop grown throughout the world.
Here we report a high-quality draft genome sequence of the east Asia watermelon cultivar …

Transposon insertions, structural variations, and SNPs contribute to the evolution of the melon genome

W Sanseverino, E Hénaff, C Vives… - Molecular biology …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The availability of extensive databases of crop genome sequences should allow analysis of
crop variability at an unprecedented scale, which should have an important impact in plant …

De novo assembly of the zucchini genome reveals a whole‐genome duplication associated with the origin of the Cucurbita genus

J Montero‐Pau, J Blanca, A Bombarely… - Plant biotechnology …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The Cucurbita genus (squashes, pumpkins and gourds) includes important domesticated
species such as C. pepo, C. maxima and C. moschata. In this study, we present a high …

An improved melon reference genome with single-molecule sequencing uncovers a recent burst of transposable elements with potential impact on genes

R Castanera, V Ruggieri, M Pujol… - Frontiers in plant …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The published melon (Cucumis melo L.) reference genome assembly (v3. 6.1) has still 41.6
Mb (Megabases) of sequences unassigned to pseudo-chromosomes and about 57 Mb of …

The tomato genome: implications for plant breeding, genomics and evolution

A Ranjan, Y Ichihashi, NR Sinha - Genome biology, 2012 - Springer
The genome sequence of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), one of the most important
vegetable crops, has recently been decoded. We address implications of the tomato …

The genome of the cucumber, Cucumis sativus L.

S Huang, R Li, Z Zhang, LI Li, X Gu, W Fan, WJ Lucas… - Nature …, 2009 - nature.com
Cucumber is an economically important crop as well as a model system for sex
determination studies and plant vascular biology. Here we report the draft genome …

Syntenic relationships between cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) and melon (C. melo L.) chromosomes as revealed by comparative genetic mapping

D Li, HE Cuevas, L Yang, Y Li, J Garcia-Mas, J Zalapa… - BMC genomics, 2011 - Springer
Abstract Background Cucumber, Cucumis sativus L.(2n= 2×= 14) and melon, C. melo L.(2n=
2×= 24) are two important vegetable species in the genus Cucumis (family Cucurbitaceae) …

[PDF][PDF] A chromosome-scale genome assembly of cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.)

Q Li, H Li, WU Huang, Y Xu, Q Zhou, S Wang… - …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Background Accurate and complete reference genome assemblies are fundamental for
biological research. Cucumber is an important vegetable crop and model system for sex …