Jan E. Murray

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: Sequencing the hermaphrodite-specific region of the Yh chromosome and its X counterpart revealed two evolutionary strata in the X chromosome, corresponding to the two inversions on the HSY, the older of which evolved about 7.0 million years ago.

TL;DR: The comparable gene density between sugarcane BACs and corresponding sorghum sequences defied the notion that polyploidy species might have faster pace of gene loss due to the redundancy of multiple alleles at each locus, and can be used as a template for assembling much of the genic DNA of the autopolyploid Sugarcane genome.

TL;DR: A BAC-based physical map of papaya was constructed and integrated with the genetic map and genome sequence, and is a valuable resource for comparative genomics and map-based cloning of agronomically and economically important genes and for sex chromosome research.

TL;DR: The findings indicate that sex chromosomes did not evolve at the family level in Caricaceae, and reinforce the theory that sex chromosome evolved at the species level in some lineages.