Enrique Dapena de la Fuente

This study shows domestication altered apple defense responses and host-aphid interaction networks, with cultivated apples showing stronger inducible defenses and higher aphid performance.

The paper analyzes the genomic structure and evolution of the S-locus in apple to show how balancing selection maintains conserved S-haplotype architectures despite structural divergence.

This study uses genome and transcriptome data from apple species to show how selection and gene flow shaped the cultivated apple genome, revealing distinct gene pools and adaptive introgression patterns.