Yi Ren

TL;DR: This study establishes that five of the cucumber's seven chromosomes arose from fusions of ten ancestral chromosomes after divergence from Cucumis melo, and identifies 686 gene clusters related to phloem function.

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: The development of highly polymorphic simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers originated from whole genome shotgun sequencing and the subsequent construction of a high-density genetic linkage map will facilitate whole genome sequencing, positional cloning, and molecular breeding in cucumber, and enable the integration of knowledge of gene and trait in cucurbits.

TL;DR: The results show that CRISPR/Cas9 system is a powerful tool to effectively create knockout mutations in watermelon, and has technically 100% of genome editing efficiency in transgenic watermelon lines.

TL;DR: High-quality genome sequences of C. maxima and C. moschata are reported and evidence supporting an allotetraploidization event in Cucurbita is provided and insights into polyploid genome evolution and valuable resources for genetic improvement of cucurbit crops are provided.