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May 18
Glad to share our paper on Watermelon pangenome constructed from 138 genome assemblies.@BTIscience @CornellCALS nature.com/articles/s41588-0…
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Glad to share our recent paper on SV dynamics during cucumber breeding, revealed through a graph-based pangenome constructed using 27 newly assembled and 12 previously published genomes.@BTIscience @CornellCALS nature.com/articles/s41588-0…
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18 Aug 2025
New Resource: "Phased chromosome-level assembly provides insight into the genome architecture of hexaploid sweetpotato" rdcu.be/eBbxr
Genome assembly for the African sweetpotato cultivar ‘Tanzania’.
With Research Briefing: rdcu.be/eBbym
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12 Dec 2024
Glad to share papers we published recently:
Sweetpotato allele dosage effects nature.com/articles/s41477-0…
Fuji somatic variation nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
Tomato sugar brake nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
Rose genome nature.com/articles/s41477-0…
@BTIscience @CornellCALS
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14 Oct 2024
New Article: "Haplotype-resolved genome assembly and resequencing provide insights into the origin and breeding of modern rose" rdcu.be/dWVP6
The haplotype-resolved genome of tetraploid modern rose, plus a variation map of 233 wild and cultivated Rosa accessions.
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2 May 2024
My lab had a great visit to Gourdlandia yesterday. We made our own bottle gourd lights and talked about bottle gourd history and genetics!
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20 Mar 2024
The bottle gourd has been used to make bottles, instruments, and containers for over 10,000 years. BTI researchers created a genetic blueprint, gaining insights that could boost food security in a changing world. news.btiscience.org/235954-a…
@newphyt @fei_lab
ALT A close up of a bottle gourd with the text "Across Oceans and Millennia: Decoding the Origin and History of the Bottle Gourd"
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Zhangjun Fei retweeted
20 Mar 2024
Genome and pangenome of bottle gourd shed light on its population history and diversification
Zhao et al. @fei_lab
📖 ow.ly/kY1750QXpTn
ALT Demographic history of bottle gourd.
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Zhangjun Fei retweeted
2 Jan 2024
Kazakhstan’s Tian Shan mountains, where Malus sieversii (a wild apple and primary ancestor of modern apples) thrives may unlock the key to making the fruit more resilient to stress. BTI's @fei_lab recently offered his insight in @SmithsonianMag.
smithsonianmag.com/travel/sa…
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Zhangjun Fei retweeted
7 Dec 2023
My latest essay — on the watermelon. For @SwitchyardTulsa and @FERNnews
thefern.org/2023/12/tell-me-…
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18 Sep 2023
Glad to share our work on genomes and diversity of five domesticated pepper species and their wild relatives. We have generated three reference genomes and shotgun sequences of 500 peppers. @BTIscience @CornellCALS nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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16 Aug 2023
Scientists at BTI have constructed a comprehensive “super-pangenome” for watermelon and its wild relatives, uncovering beneficial genes lost during domestication that could improve disease resistance and fruit quality of this vital fruit crop. @fei_lab btiscience.org/explore-bti/n…
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7 Apr 2023
Glad to share our collaborative work on the super-pangenome of tomato constructed from chromosome-scale reference-grade assemblies of nine wild tomato species, a landrace and a cultivar(M82) we newly generated. @BTIscience @CornellCALS nature.com/articles/s41588-0…
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20 Mar 2023
The chromosome-scale genome of Torreya grandis (香榧), the largest genome (~20 Gb) and the first gymnosperm genome we and collaborators have assembled so far. Thanks to the @PacBio HiFi and the #Hi-C technologies. nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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Zhangjun Fei retweeted
29 Nov 2022
Congrats to Zhangjun Fei, Lukas Mueller and Jim Giovannoni for this well-earned achievement!! 👏👏👏🥳🍾🥂 @fei_lab
29 Nov 2022
Several CALS professors are among the most highly cited researchers in the world, ranking in the top 1% by citations for field and publication year. Who are they? 👉cals.cornell.edu/news/2022/1…
ALT Sibley dome framed by leaves
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Zhangjun Fei retweeted
30 Nov 2022
BTI’s Carmen Catalá led the first spatiotemporal study of the effects of prolonged water stress on tomato fruits, identifying genes that could help fruit adapt to drought conditions. @fei_lab @PlantPhys @RoseLabCornell @CornellCALS @USDA_ARS @NSF btiscience.org/explore-bti/n…
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Zhangjun Fei retweeted
2 Nov 2022
Zhangjun Fei and colleagues have updated the cucurbit genome database with 34 assemblies from different species or subspecies in the cucurbit family, including cucumbers, melons, watermelons, squashes, gourds and more! @fei_lab @SWu727 @USDA_ARS @NAR_Open academic.oup.com/nar/advance…
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Zhangjun Fei retweeted
27 Jun 2022
A new reference genome and web-based tools for S. lycopersicoides will help tomato researchers and breeders improve the crop, such as by improving nutrition and resistance to disease. @adrianfpowell @usadellab @fei_lab @solgenomics @RWTH @ThePlantJournal btiscience.org/explore-bti/n…
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28 Jun 2022
Thank @ThePlantJournal for writing a Research Highlight (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…) for our tomato sRNA paper (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…). Also cover of the issue (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…). @BTIscience @CornellCALS @centuribob1
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