Xiaoru Wang

The paper identifies a novel sex-determining gene in willows that replaces the ancestral ARR17-like duplicates in the S. polyclona complex.

The paper assembles the Norway spruce mitogenome using machine learning and long reads, revealing heterogeneous recombination dynamics and active small repeats in plant mitogenomes.

The paper analyzes plastomes of 65 Picea accessions to find evidence of interspecific recombination and hybridization, challenging assumptions about uniparental plastid inheritance and recombination.