Chao Liu

TL;DR: Papaya offers numerous advantages as a system for fruit-tree functional genomics, and this draft genome sequence provides the foundation for revealing the basis of Carica’s distinguishing morpho-physiological, medicinal and nutritional properties.

TL;DR: Gene retention, expression, metabolomics and comparative genomic analyses of terpene synthase (TPS) gene family revealed that tandem duplication contributed to coriander TPS gene family expansion, especially compared to their carrot counterparts.

TL;DR: It is found that polyploidy contributed to the expansion of key functional genes, e.g., vitamin C biosynthesis genes, and provided an important comparative genomics resource in the Actinidiaceae and related families.

TL;DR: The durian genome reanalysis reveals a specific hexaploidization and a decaploidsization in the cotton lineage that increased its evolutionary rate, explaining a previous misinterpretation and suggesting revisiting existing reconstructed phylogenetic trees.

TL;DR: Evaluated phylogenetic relationships of duplicated genes produced by polyploidization in cotton found that at least 83.2% of phylogenetic trees did not conform the expected topology, and found that the reconstructed tree topology may often overestimate natural selection, as compared to the inference with the expected trees.