Cucurbitaceae is one of the most genetically diverse plant families in the world. Many of
them are important vegetables or medicinal plants and are widely distributed worldwide. The …

In the environmental and organism context, oxidative stress is complex and unavoidable.
Organisms simultaneously cope with a various combination of stress factors in natural …

The task of eukaryotic genome annotation remains challenging. Only a few genomes could
serve as standards of annotation achieved through a tremendous investment of human …

Plant genomes remain highly fragmented and are often characterized by hundreds to
thousands of assembly gaps. Here, we report chromosome-level reference and phased …

Background Accurate and complete reference genome assemblies are fundamental for
biological research. Cucumber is an important vegetable crop and model system for sex …

The study of plant biology in the 21st century is, and will continue to be, vastly different from
that in the 20th century. One driver for this has been the use of genomics methods to reveal …

Cucumber, Cucumis sativus L. is the only taxon with 2n= 2x= 14 chromosomes in the genus
Cucumis. It consists of two cross‐compatible botanical varieties: the cultivated C. sativus var …

Vegetables are an integral part of the human diet worldwide. Traditional breeding
approaches have been used extensively to develop new cultivars of vegetables with …

Chayote (Sechium edule) is an agricultural crop in the Cucurbitaceae family that is rich in
bioactive components. To enhance genetic research on chayote, we used Nanopore third …

Vegetable crops provide a rich source of essential nutrients for humanity and represent
critical economic values to global rural societies. However, genetic studies of vegetable …