Zhiwen Wang

TL;DR: Cotton, and probably Theobroma cacao, are the only sequenced plant species that possess an authentic CDN1 gene family for gossypol biosynthesis, as revealed by phylogenetic analysis.

TL;DR: In this article, a high-quality draft genome sequence of the diploid P. bretschneideri Rehd was provided for de novo assembly of a highly heterozygous genome of this size with highly repetitive DNA sequences.

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: Results show that de novo assembly, based solely on whole-genome shotgun short-sequence reads, is an efficient means of obtaining nearly complete genome sequence information for some plant species.

TL;DR: High-quality draft genome sequences from two macaque species, the cynomolgus/crab-eating macaque and the Chinese rhesus macaque, are presented and several putatively dysfunctional genetic differences are identified, which may explain functional differences between them previously observed in clinical studies.