Junki Lee

TL;DR: This study reveals that retroduplication has played key roles for the massive emergence of NLR genes including functional disease-resistance genes in pepper plants.

TL;DR: A high-throughput method to simultaneously obtain complete cp and nR sequences using Illumina platform whole-genome sequence is introduced, clarifying three ambiguous but important issues in the evolution of wild Oryza species.

TL;DR: From the 17 unique informative polymorphic sites, six reliable markers for analysis of ginseng diversity and cultivar authentication are developed and identified very rare but unique polymorphism in the cp genome within P. gINSeng cultivars.

TL;DR: The saguaro plastid genome is the smallest known for an obligately photosynthetic angiosperm, having lost the IR and plastsid ndh genes, and this loss supports a statistically strong association across seed plants between the loss of n Dh genes and the Loss of the inverted repeat (IR).

TL;DR: Functional and evolutionary analyses suggest that production of pharmacologically important dammarane‐type ginsenosides originated in Panax and are produced largely in shoot tissues and transported to roots; that newly evolved P. ginseng fatty acid desaturases increase freezing tolerance; and that unprecedented retention of chlorophyll a/b binding protein genes enables efficient photosynthesis under low light.