Zhangjun Fei

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/s4158…

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

Glad to share papers we published recently: Sweetpotato allele dosage effects nature.com/articles/s4147… Fuji somatic variation nature.com/articles/s4146… Tomato sugar brake nature.com/articles/s4158… Rose genome nature.com/articles/s4147… @BTIscience @CornellCALS

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.

My lab had a great visit to Gourdlandia yesterday. We made our own bottle gourd lights and talked about bottle gourd history and genetics!

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-across-… @newphyt @fei_lab

Genome and pangenome of bottle gourd shed light on its population history and diversification Zhao et al. @fei_lab 📖 ow.ly/kY1750QXpTn

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/saving-…

My latest essay — on the watermelon. For @SwitchyardTulsa and @FERNnews thefern.org/2023/12/tell-m…

We built a database to help access and mine the data ted.bti.cornell.edu/pepper

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/s4146…

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/ne…

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/s4158…

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/s4146…

@BTIscience @CornellCALS

Congrats to Zhangjun Fei, Lukas Mueller and Jim Giovannoni for this well-earned achievement!! 👏👏👏🥳🍾🥂 @fei_lab

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/ne…

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-ar…

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/ne…

Thank @ThePlantJournal for writing a Research Highlight (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tp…) for our tomato sRNA paper (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tp…). Also cover of the issue (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…). @BTIscience @CornellCALS @centuribob1