The history of watermelons is a long one. There is aSanskritword for watermelon, and fruits are depicted in early Egyptian art, indicating an antiquity inagricultureof more than 4,000 years.Domesticationandselective breedinghave resulted in intensely sweet large fruits with tender flesh and fewer ...
Before GWAS, stringent filtering selected 9,618,384 SNPs meeting criteria like minor allele frequency (MAF) ≥ 0.01 and ≤50% missing data. The mixed linear model drove the GWAS, setting a significant SNP threshold at 5.19 × 10−9 via Bonferroni correction. GWAS results were depi...
and originated in Africa1. Watermelon has been domesticated for more than 4,000 years, and has been improved by domestication and modern breeding from wild watermelons with small fruits harboring hard, pale-
Various abiotic stresses, including salt stress, lead to the overproduction of ROS, which are highly reactive and toxic to plants, damaging proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, and DNA, before ultimately resulting in cell death (Liu et al., 2012). The accumulation of ROS, TBARS, and EL under sal...
698 protein-coding genes per genome (Supplementary Note1). In conclusion, these comprehensive pangenome assemblies and accompanying gene resources provide a solid foundation for the further exploration and use of the whole-genome gene repository in the context of watermelon biology and breeding ...
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