Background The growing wealth of knowledge on whole-plant genome sequences is
highlighting the key role of transposable elements (TEs) in plant evolution, as a driver of …

Transposable elements (TEs) are genomic units able to move within the genome of virtually
all organisms. Due to their natural repetitive numbers and their high structural diversity, the …

As an economic crop, pepper satisfies people's spicy taste and has medicinal uses
worldwide. To gain a better understanding of Capsicum evolution, domestication, and …

Pepper (Capsicum spp.) is one of the most important vegetable crops; however, pepper
genomic studies lag behind those of other important Solanaceae. Here we present the …

Background Knowledge on population structure and genetic diversity in vegetable crops is
essential for association mapping studies and genomic selection. Genotyping by …

Transcription activator-like effector (TALE) proteins of the plant pathogenic bacterial genus
Xanthomonas bind to and transcriptionally activate host susceptibility genes, promoting …

Plant endogenous small RNAs (sRNAs) are important regulators of gene expression. There
are two broad categories of plant sRNAs: microRNAs (miRNAs) and endogenous short …

Chromosome evolution is a fundamental aspect of evolutionary biology. The evolution of
chromosome size, structure and shape, number, and the change in DNA composition …

Flowering plants serve as a powerful model for studying the evolution of nuclear genome
size (GS) given the tremendous GS variation that exists both within and across angiosperm …

Gene duplication and loss contribute to gene content differences as well as phenotypic
divergence across species. However, the extent to which gene content varies among closely …