The breeding of forest trees is only a few decades old, and is a much more complicated,
longer, and expensive endeavor than the breeding of agricultural crops. One breeding cycle …

Gravity is one of the fundamental environmental cues that affect plant development. Indeed,
the plant architecture in the shoots and roots is modulated by gravity. Stems grow vertically …

Lychee is an exotic tropical fruit with a distinct flavor. The genome of cultivar 'Feizixiao'was
assembled into 15 pseudochromosomes, totaling~ 470 Mb. High heterozygosity (2.27%) …

Northern Hemisphere forests changed drastically in the early Eocene with the diversification
of the oak family (Fagaceae). Cooling climates over the next 20 million years fostered the …

Coffea arabica, an allotetraploid hybrid of Coffea eugenioides and Coffea canephora, is the
source of approximately 60% of coffee products worldwide, and its cultivated accessions …

Introgression is a potential source of beneficial genetic diversity. The contribution of
introgression to adaptive evolution and improvement of wheat as it was disseminated …

Tea is an economically important plant characterized by a large genome, high
heterozygosity, and high species diversity. In this study, we assemble a 3.26-Gb high-quality …

In lineages of allopolyploid origin, sets of homoeologous chromosomes may coexist that
differ in gene content and syntenic structure. Presence or absence of genes and …

The avocado, Persea americana, is a fruit crop of immense importance to Mexican
agriculture with an increasing demand worldwide. Avocado lies in the anciently diverged …

Homoploid hybrid speciation (HHS) has been increasingly recognized as occurring widely
during species diversification of both plants and animals. However, previous studies on HHS …