All organisms produce specialized organic molecules, ranging from small volatile chemicals
to large gene-encoded peptides, that have evolved to provide them with diverse cellular and …

Plants produce a myriad of structurally and functionally diverse metabolites that play many
different roles in plant growth and development and in plant response to continually …

INTRODUCTION Specialized metabolism is a feature of plant evolution and adaption. Plant-
specialized metabolites have ecological functions, mediating interactions between plants …

Humans heavily rely on dozens of domesticated plant species that have been further
improved through intensive breeding. To evaluate how breeding changed the tomato fruit …

The ancient gymnosperm genus Taxus is the exclusive source of the anticancer drug
paclitaxel, yet no reference genome sequences are available for comprehensively …

Fruit characteristics of sweet watermelon are largely the result of human selection. Here we
report an improved watermelon reference genome and whole-genome resequencing of 414 …

As a major event in human civilization, wild plants were successfully domesticated to be
crops, largely owing to continuing artificial selection. Here, we summarize new discoveries …

Plants produce a huge array of metabolites, far more than those produced by most other
organisms. Unraveling this diversity and its underlying genetic variation has attracted …

Some of the World's most valuable crops, including watermelon, honey melon, cucumber,
squash, zucchini and pumpkin, belong to the family Cucurbitaceae. We review insights on …

Melon is an economically important fruit crop that has been cultivated for thousands of years;
however, the genetic basis and history of its domestication still remain largely unknown …