Visit our genomic pumpkin patch! Available now are chrom-length upgrades for cultivated pumpkins Cucurbita pepo, C. moschata and C. maxima, original drafts from (Sun et al. 2017) in Mol. Plant @CellPressNews and (Montero-Pau et al. 2018) @PlantBiotechJ
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Great collaboration with @fei_lab and @TeamGT4SP showing amongst many other things extensive recombination in hexaploid sweetpotato between chromosomes from two wild progenitors using #linkedreads https://t.co/D3j2s6XC5f
You may have seen this story about the @CurrentBiology paper arguing that the sweet potato dispersed to Polynesia. The methods are flawed, the conclusions are wrong. Here's my reanalysis: https://t.co/7IcYnaUucv
Please RT to help undo misinformation. https://t.co/xiysOCYMC2
So it turns out that we have to continue worrying about about the dissemination of sweetpotato to Oceania and elsewhere. At the meeting of the Genomic Tools for Sweetpotato Improvement project this was a hot topic. @SWu727@fei_lab@Cipotato