Erli Pang

TL;DR: A high-quality draft genome sequence of the east Asia watermelon cultivar 97103 containing 23,440 predicted protein-coding genes is reported, which yielded important insights into aspects of phloem-based vascular signaling in common between watermelon and cucumber and identified genes crucial to valuable fruit-quality traits.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that Glomeromycota are more closely related to Mucoromycotina than to its postulated sister Dikarya, and demystifies a long-lasting hypothesis on the complex genetic makeup of arbuscular endomycorrhizal fungi.

TL;DR: This study verifies and quantifies the importance of standing variation in adaptation in a cohort of genes, illustrating that the evolutionary potential of a population depends significantly on its preexisting genetic diversity.

TL;DR: A strategy for reconstructing a hierarchical map of orthologous genomic regions from two genomes and many large‐scale genomic changes are inferred between two cucumber subspecies diverged shortly.

TL;DR: HRSS outperformed other methods in distinguishing true protein-protein interactions from false and can be applied to different biological problems by quantifying the functional similarity between gene products.