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A taste of pineapple evolution through genome sequencing

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The genome sequence assembly of the highly heterozygous Ananas comosus and its varieties is an impressive technical achievement. The sequence opens the door to a greater understanding of pineapple morphology and evolution.

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Figure 1: Phylogenetic tree showing the key position occupied by pineapple for the evolutionary studies of grasses.

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  1. Qing Xu and Zhong-Jian Liu are at the National Orchid Conservation Center of China and Orchid Conservation and Research Center of Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China.,

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Xu, Q., Liu, ZJ. A taste of pineapple evolution through genome sequencing. Nat Genet 47, 1374–1376 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3450

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