Cucumis melo L. is an important horticultural crop that is widely cultivated for its edible fruit.
The breeding of melon crop in order to improve its qualitative and quantitative yield is the …

The vast diversity of traits exhibited by horticultural crops largely depends upon variation in
gene expression regulation. The uppermost layer of gene expression regulation is …

Genome editing technologies are promising for conventional mutagenesis breeding, which
takes a long time to remove unnecessary mutations through backcrossing and create new …

Phellodendron amurense Rupr., a species of Rutaceae, is a nationally protected and
valuable medicinal plant. It is generally considered to be dioecious. With the discovery of …

Key message Japanese weedy melon exhibits unique sex expression with interactions
between previously reported sex determination genes and two novel loci. Abstract Sex …

Abstract Background and Aims Given the lack of specific studies on floral development in
melon (Cucumis melo L.), we carried out an extensive study involving morphological and …

Plants have the fascinating ability to regulate their genetic expression through epigenetic
mechanisms. Polycomb group (PcG) proteins in Polycomb repressive complexes (PRC1 …