Zhaosheng Xu

The Assembly of Purple-red Spinach Provides Insight into the Mechanism of Betalain Biosynthesis

The paper presents the genome of purple-red spinach and identifies a key gene involved in betalain biosynthesis, providing insights for molecular breeding and understanding color regulation.

Two wild Spinacia species, S. turkestanica and S. tetrandra, genomes reveal a sex chromosome turnover in the genus

The paper reports genome assemblies of two wild Spinacia species and identifies sex chromosome turnover, including a Y-linked region and a duplicated Y-duplicated region.

Insights into spinach domestication from genomes sequences of two wild spinach progenitors, Spinacia turkestanica and S. tetrandra

The paper reports genome assemblies of two wild spinach progenitors and identifies structural variants and introgression events associated with spinach domestication.

Genome-wide Association Study Reveals that PvGUX1_1 is Associated with Pod Stringlessness in Snap Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)

The female (XX) and male (YY) genomes provide insights into the sex determination mechanism in spinach

The paper assembles and analyzes the genomes of female and male spinach to study sex determination mechanisms, identifying key features of the sex chromosomes.