Recent advances in fruit crop genomics

Abstract

In recent years, dramatic progress has been made in the genomics of fruit crops. The publication of a dozen fruit crop genomes represents a milestone for both functional genomics and breeding programs in fruit crops. Rapid advances in high-throughput sequencing technology have revolutionized the manner and scale of genomics in fruit crops. Research on fruit crops is encompassing a wide range of biological questions which are unique and cannot be addressed in a model plant such as Arabidopsis. This review summarizes recent achievements of research on the genome, transcriptome, proteome, miRNAs and epigenome of fruit crops.

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Keywords

fruit crops / fruit biology / gene function / genomics

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Acknowledgements

The National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 31330066, 31221062 and 31222047) provided financial support for this study. Jidi Xu, Yuanlong Liu and Keqin Yu are thanked for helpful discussion on the epigenetics, miRNA and transcriptome sections, respectively.ƒ

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Qiang Xu, Chaoyang Liu, Manosh Kumar Biswas, Zhiyong Pan and Xiuxin Deng declare that they have no conflict of interest or financial conflicts to disclose.ƒThis article is a review and does not contain any studies with human or animal subjects performed by the any of the authors.

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