Editor's Summary
27 September 2007
Heard about the grapevine?
The fourth genome sequence of a flowering plant, the second of a woody plant species and the first for a fruit crop. These important boxes are ticked by the genome sequence published in this issue. The new sequence is particularly revealing about the role of gene duplication in the evolution of the flowering plants. But the reason why non-geneticists will turn to it is more to do with its commercial application: the crop is the grapevine (Vitis vinifera) and the variety is Pinot Noir.
News and Views: Genomics: Vine work
Charles Wenz
doi:10.1038/449417a
Letter: The grapevine genome sequence suggests ancestral hexaploidization in major angiosperm phyla
Olivier Jaillon, Jean-Marc Aury, Benjamin Noel, Alberto Policriti, Christian Clepet, Alberto Casagrande, Nathalie Choisne, Sébastien Aubourg, Nicola Vitulo, Claire Jubin, Alessandro Vezzi, Fabrice Legeai, Philippe Hugueney, Corinne Dasilva, David Horner, Erica Mica, Delphine Jublot, Julie Poulain, Clémence Bruyère, Alain Billault, Béatrice Segurens, Michel Gouyvenoux, Edgardo Ugarte, Federica Cattonaro, Véronique Anthouard, Virginie Vico, Cristian Del Fabbro, Michaël Alaux, Gabriele Di Gaspero, Vincent Dumas, Nicoletta Felice, Sophie Paillard, Irena Juman, Marco Moroldo, Simone Scalabrin, Aurélie Canaguier, Isabelle Le Clainche, Giorgio Malacrida, Eléonore Durand, Graziano Pesole, Valérie Laucou, Philippe Chatelet, Didier Merdinoglu, Massimo Delledonne, Mario Pezzotti, Alain Lecharny, Claude Scarpelli, François Artiguenave, M. Enrico Pè, Giorgio Valle, Michele Morgante, Michel Caboche, Anne-Françoise Adam-Blondon, Jean Weissenbach, Francis Quétier & Patrick Wincker for The French–Italian Public Consortium for Grapevine Genome Characterization
doi:10.1038/nature06148
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