Yongfeng Zhou

Nov 13, 2024 | nature.com | Jinzhe Zhang |Ran Du |Liang Ma |Zhiguo Zhu |Tao Lin |Yongfeng Zhou | +1 more

AbstractIn tomato, sugar content is highly correlated with consumer preferences, with most consumers preferring sweeter fruit1,2,3,4. However, the sugar content of commercial varieties is generally low, as it is inversely correlated with fruit size, and growers prioritize yield over flavour quality5,6,7. Here we identified two genes, tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) calcium-dependent protein kinase 27 (SlCDPK27; also known as SlCPK27) and its paralogue SlCDPK26, that control fruit sugar content.

Sep 15, 2023 | nature.com | Xin L. Liu |Yongfeng Zhou

AbstractMusa acuminata is a main wild contributor to banana cultivars. Here, we reported a haplotype-resolved and telomere-to-telomere reference genome of M. acuminata by incorporating PacBio HiFi reads, Nanopore ultra-long reads, and Hi-C data. The genome size of the two haploid assemblies was estimated to be 469.83 Mb and 470.21 Mb, respectively.