Yongfeng Zhou

This study investigates the genetic basis of heterosis in hybrid oil palm by analyzing haplotype-resolved genomes and transcriptomes, revealing complementary gene expression and regulatory mechanisms.

This study uses deep learning and genome-wide association studies to identify pest-resistant genes in grapevine, achieving high accuracy in predicting pest damage.

This study predicts future climate impacts on grapevine and wild Vitis species using ecological niche models, showing wild species may provide climate-resilient rootstocks for breeding.

The paper identifies structural variations in tea plants that influence gene expression and agronomic traits, revealing their role in domestication and flavor diversity.

This study examines hemizygous genes in 22 crop genomes, finding higher hemizygosity in clonal lineages and distinct expression and epigenetic features compared to diploid genes.

The paper benchmarks and evaluates SVGAP, a pipeline for structural variant discovery, genotyping, and annotation in whole-genome assemblies, showing its effectiveness in maize genomes.

This study introduces ESM-LRR and R-Predictor to identify disease-resistance genes in plants, achieving high accuracy in annotating R genes and predicting NLR-effector complexes.

This study presents haplotype-resolved genome assemblies for two Munage grapevine cultivars, identifies genes associated with fruit color traits, and highlights adaptive selection in ancient grapevines.

This study identifies the polygenic basis of seedlessness in grapevines using integrative genomics, revealing key genes and a machine learning model with 99% prediction accuracy.

This study presents the genome sequence of Vitis amurensis and identifies genes and genomic features related to cold resistance, disease resistance, and sex determination in grapes.

This study identifies multigenic resistance to Xylella fastidiosa in wild grapes and shows climate dependence of resistance traits.

This study investigates the 3D genome organization of pepper, showing how chromatin structure relates to gene expression and evolution.

This study analyzes somatic mutations in clonally propagated grapevines, finding that repetitive intergenic regions drive genome diversification and that deleterious mutations accumulate in clones.