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Genome of the long-living sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn.)
(2013-05-10)
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Sacred lotus is a basal eudicot with agricultural, medicinal, cultural and religious importance. It was domesticated in Asia about 7,000 years ago, and cultivated for its rhizomes and seeds as a food ...
Microcollinearity between autopolyploid sugarcane and diploid sorghum genomes
(2010-04-23)
Abstract
Background
Sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) has become an increasingly important crop for its leading role in biofuel production. The high sugar content species S. officinarum is an octoploid without known diploid ...
Construction of physical maps for the sex-specific regions of papaya sex chromosomes
(2012-05-08)
AbstractBackgroundPapaya is a major fruit crop in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide. It is trioecious with three sex forms: male, female, and hermaphrodite. Sex determination is controlled by a pair of nascent sex ...
A physical map of the papaya genome with integrated genetic map and genome sequence
(2009-08-07)
Abstract
Background
Papaya is a major fruit crop in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide and has primitive sex chromosomes ...