Mélanie Massonnet

TL;DR: The population history of grapes is estimated and it is confirmed that clonal propagation leads to the accumulation of recessive deleterious mutations but without decreasing fitness, which solves three ongoing mysteries about plant domestication.

TL;DR: It is found that strong purifying selection acts against SVs but particularly against inversion and translocation events, and SVs nonetheless accrue as recessive heterozygotes in clonally propagated lineages, suggesting roles in domestication.

TL;DR: The identification of known master regulators of tomato fruit maturation suggests the method is suitable for the detection of key regulators of organ development in different fleshy fruit crops.

TL;DR: The first genome-wide transcriptional analysis of 120 RNA samples corresponding to 10 Italian grapevine varieties collected at four growth stages revealed greater variation among the red cultivars than between red and white cultivars at the transcriptome level, suggesting that anthocyanin accumulation during berry maturation has a direct impact on the transcriptomic regulation of multiple biological processes.

TL;DR: The authors identify candidate genes related to male- and female-sterility in grapes and describe the genetic process that led to hermaphroditism during domestication.