The bracteatus pineapple genome and domestication of clonally propagated crops

LY Chen, R VanBuren, M Paris, H Zhou, X Zhang… - Nature Genetics, 2019 - nature.com
Domestication of clonally propagated crops such as pineapple from South America was
hypothesized to be a 'one-step operation'. We sequenced the genome of Ananas comosus …

Phased diploid genome assemblies and pan-genomes provide insights into the genetic history of apple domestication

X Sun, C Jiao, H Schwaninger, CT Chao, Y Ma… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Domestication of the apple was mainly driven by interspecific hybridization. In the present
study, we report the haplotype-resolved genomes of the cultivated apple (Malus domestica …

Origin and evolution of the triploid cultivated banana genome

X Li, S Yu, Z Cheng, X Chang, Y Yun, M Jiang… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Most fresh bananas belong to the Cavendish and Gros Michel subgroups. Here, we report
chromosome-scale genome assemblies of Cavendish (1.48 Gb) and Gros Michel (1.33 Gb) …

Sequencing of diverse mandarin, pummelo and orange genomes reveals complex history of admixture during citrus domestication

GA Wu, S Prochnik, J Jenkins, J Salse, U Hellsten… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Cultivated citrus are selections from, or hybrids of, wild progenitor species whose identities
and contributions to citrus domestication remain controversial. Here we sequence and …

The genome of the domesticated apple (Malus × domestica Borkh.)

R Velasco, A Zharkikh, J Affourtit, A Dhingra… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
We report a high-quality draft genome sequence of the domesticated apple (Malus×
domestica). We show that a relatively recent (> 50 million years ago) genome-wide …

A genomic variation map provides insights into the genetic basis of cucumber domestication and diversity

J Qi, X Liu, DI Shen, H Miao, B Xie, X Li, P Zeng… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Most fruits in our daily diet are the products of domestication and breeding. Here we report a
map of genome variation for a major fruit that encompasses∼ 3.6 million variants, generated …

From forest to field: perennial fruit crop domestication

AJ Miller, BL Gross - American journal of botany, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
• Premise of the study: Archaeological and genetic analyses of seed‐propagated annual
crops have greatly advanced our understanding of plant domestication and evolution …

New insight into the history of domesticated apple: secondary contribution of the European wild apple to the genome of cultivated varieties

A Cornille, P Gladieux, MJM Smulders… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
The apple is the most common and culturally important fruit crop of temperate areas. The
elucidation of its origin and domestication history is therefore of great interest. The wild …

Evolutionary genomics of peach and almond domestication

D Velasco, J Hough, M Aradhya… - G3: Genes, Genomes …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The domesticated almond [Prunus dulcis (L.) Batsch] and peach [P. persica (Mill.) DA Webb]
originated on opposite sides of Asia and were independently domesticated∼ 5000 yr ago …

The draft genome of the transgenic tropical fruit tree papaya (Carica papaya Linnaeus)

R Ming, S Hou, Y Feng, Q Yu, A Dionne-Laporte… - Nature, 2008 - nature.com
Papaya, a fruit crop cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions, is known for its nutritional
benefits and medicinal applications. Here we report a 3× draft genome sequence of …