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  1. Watermelon fruit flesh displays various colors. Although genetic loci underlying these variations are identified, the molecular mechanism remains elusive. Here, we assembled a chromosome-scale reference genome...

    Authors: Na Li, Shilai Xing, Gaofei Sun, Jianli Shang, Jia-Long Yao, Nannan Li, Dan Zhou, Yu Wang, Yuan Lu, Jinpeng Bi, Jiming Wang, Hongfeng Lu and Shuangwu Ma
    Citation: Molecular Horticulture 2025 5:46
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  3. ORANGE (OR) family proteins are DnaJE1 molecular chaperones ubiquitous and highly conserved in all plant species, indicating their important roles in plant growth and development. OR proteins have been found t...

    Authors: Emalee Wrightstone, Lilin Xu, Sombir Rao, Abhijit Hazra and Li Li
    Citation: Molecular Horticulture 2025 5:43
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  5. The presence of stone cells in pear fruit, caused by lignified secondary cell walls (SCWs), leads to a grainy texture in the fruit flesh, thereby compromising its overall quality. Lignification is influenced b...

    Authors: Qi Wang, Xinyi Wu, Mei Ren, Fanghang Zhang, Yang Zhang, Yueyang Wang, Wen Li, Zhihua Xie, Kaijie Qi, Shaoling Zhang, Katsuhiro Shiratake, Yingying Niu and Shutian Tao
    Citation: Molecular Horticulture 2025 5:27
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  6. Histone deacetylases (HDACs) play a crucial role in regulating plant growth, stress responses, and specialized metabolism. Licorice, utilized as both food and herbal medicine for millennia, includes Glycyrrhiza i...

    Authors: Jiangyi Zeng, Xiaoling Ma, Yuping Li, Lijun Zhou, Jingxian Fu, Hongxia Wang, Yongliang Liu, Ling Yuan, Ying Wang and Yongqing Li
    Citation: Molecular Horticulture 2025 5:32
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  7. Areca catechu, as a traditional Chinese medicine, contains a high concentration of therapeutic compounds. However, the biosynthesis of these compounds is largely unexplored. We present a haplotype-resolved genome...

    Authors: Chao Wang, Lei Tan, Zhonghui Zhang, Xianggui Li, Linghao Xia, Peng Cao, Haiyang Tong, Xumin Ou, Shixuan Li, Jianing Zhang, Chun Li, Jun Yang, Wen-Biao Jiao and Shouchuang Wang
    Citation: Molecular Horticulture 2025 5:24
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  8. Rapeseed cakes with low glucosinolates content (GC) possess high feeding value. However, the pursuit of low-GC seeds has inadvertently resulted in a reduction of GC in leaves, making plants more susceptible to...

    Authors: Mengxin Tu, Wenxuan Guan, Antony Maodzeka, Hongyu Zhou, Zi Zhang, Tao Yan, Shuijin Hua and Lixi Jiang
    Citation: Molecular Horticulture 2025 5:23
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  9. Polyploidy occurs frequently in plants and is an important force in plant evolution and crop breeding. New polyploids face various challenges due to genome duplication and subsequent changes in epigenetic modi...

    Authors: Min Ma, Yuanda Wang, Zhenfei Sun, Ranze Zhao, Honghua Li, Xiaoxuan Li, Hongfang Zhu, Xuedong Yang, Changwei Zhang and Yuda Fang
    Citation: Molecular Horticulture 2025 5:22
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  10. Kiwifruit bacterial canker is a devastating disease caused by Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae (Psa). NAC transcription factors play a significant role in host immunity. However, the potential molecular mechan...

    Authors: Chao Zhao, Wei Liu, Chenxiao Yao, Yali Zhang, Xiaofei Du, Chao Ma, Rui Li, Hua Wang and Lili Huang
    Citation: Molecular Horticulture 2025 5:21
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  11. Lanxangia tsaoko is widely utilized in human cuisine as a popular flavoring agent due to its distinctive aroma. It also has a long history of use in traditional Chinese medicine. The edible and medicinal properti...

    Authors: Shanshan Chen, Mofan Zhang, Shuo Ding, Zhichao Xu, Sifan Wang, Xiangxiao Meng, Shilin Chen, Ranran Gao and Wei Sun
    Citation: Molecular Horticulture 2025 5:20
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  12. Fleshy fruits are popular among consumers due to their significant nutritional value, which includes essential bioactive compounds such as pigments, vitamins, and minerals. Notably, plant-derived pigments are ...

    Authors: Huimin Hu, Nirakar Pradhan, Jianbo Xiao, Rui Xia and Pan Liao
    Citation: Molecular Horticulture 2025 5:19
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  13. Actinidia arguta is a newly emerged, commercially cultivated Actinidia species. A. arguta has a beautiful appearance and is rich in anthocyanin, and is thus highly welcomed by consumers. However, the mechanism of...

    Authors: Yukuo Li, Zhe Song, Xu Zhan, Xiaohan Li, Lingshuai Ye, Miaomiao Lin, Ran Wang, Hailei Huang, Jian Guo, Leiming Sun, Hong Gu, Jinyong Chen, Jinbao Fang and Xiujuan Qi
    Citation: Molecular Horticulture 2025 5:18
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  15. Citrus bacterial canker (CBC), caused by Xanthomonas citri subsp. citri (Xcc), poses a significant threat to the citrus industry. Xcc employs the transcription activator-like effector (TALE) PthA4 to target the m...

    Authors: Yichao Yan, Xiaomei Tang, Zhongfeng Zhu, Ke Yin, Yikun Zhang, Zhengyin Xu, Qiang Xu, Lifang Zou and Gongyou Chen
    Citation: Molecular Horticulture 2025 5:30
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  16. The rapid development of Prunus pseudocerasus related industry has increasingly contributed to rural vitalization in China. This study employed a biomod2 ensemble model, utilizing environmental and species occur...

    Authors: Zhengxin Lv, Songtao Jiu, Li Wang, Yan Xu, Jiyuan Wang, Xunju Liu, Jieming Xu, Yuxuan Wang, Muhammad Salman Haider, Ruie Liu and Caixi Zhang
    Citation: Molecular Horticulture 2025 5:26
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  17. Powdery mildew (PM), caused by the biotrophic fungus Podospharea leucotricha, poses a significant threat to apple production. Salicylic acid (SA) signaling plays a crucial role in enhancing resistance to biotroph...

    Authors: Liming Lan, Lifang Cao, Lulu Zhang, Weihong Fu, Changguo Luo, Chao Wu, Xianqi Zeng, Shenchun Qu, Xinyi Yu, Wenyi Deng, Xu Xu, Binhua Cai and Sanhong Wang
    Citation: Molecular Horticulture 2025 5:17
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  19. The role of ethylene as an initial signaling molecule in waterlogging stress is well-established. However, the complex molecular mechanisms underlying ethylene biosynthesis and its functional significance in c...

    Authors: Yajun Yan, Wanwan Zhang, You Wang, Yue Wang, Chuanwei Li, Nan Zhao, Lijie Zhou, Jiangshuo Su, Likai Wang, Jiafu Jiang, Sumei Chen and Fadi Chen
    Citation: Molecular Horticulture 2025 5:15
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  20. Cold stress adversely affects crop growth and development. Radish is an important root vegetable crop, and its taproot formation is susceptible to low temperatures. However, the molecular basis of the cold str...

    Authors: Sen Chen, Liang Xu, Yan Wang, Baozhen Mao, Xiaoli Zhang, Qiyu Song, Feng Cui, Yingbo Ma, Junhui Dong, Kai Wang, Hongyu Bi and Liwang Liu
    Citation: Molecular Horticulture 2025 5:14
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  21. The S-RNase-based self-incompatibility locus (S-locus) in Petunia species contains 16–20 F-box genes, which collaboratively function in the recognition and subsequent degradation of non-self S-RNases, while disti...

    Authors: Chao Gu, Ying Xu, Lei Wu, Xueping Wang, Kaijie Qi, Xin Qiao, Zewen Wang, Qionghou Li, Min He and Shaoling Zhang
    Citation: Molecular Horticulture 2025 5:13
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  22. Authors: Yahui Lei, Songtao Jiu, Yan Xu, Baozheng Chen, Xiao Dong, Zhengxin Lv, Anthony Bernard, Xunju Liu, Lei Wang, Li Wang, Jiyuan Wang, Zhuo Zhang, Yuliang Cai, Wei Zheng, Xu Zhang, Fangdong Li…
    Citation: Molecular Horticulture 2025 5:25
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    The original article was published in Molecular Horticulture 2025 5:6

  25. 5-Aminolevulinic acid (ALA), as a natural plant growth regulator, is well known for promoting red fruit coloring by enhancing anthocyanin accumulation. However, the underlying mechanisms remain elusive. In thi...

    Authors: Liuzi Zhang, Huihui Tao, Jianting Zhang, Yuyan An and Liangju Wang
    Citation: Molecular Horticulture 2025 5:10
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  27. Organic acid is a crucial indicator of fruit quality traits. Citric acid, the predominant organic acid in citrus fruit, directly influences its edible quality and economic value. While the transcriptional regu...

    Authors: Xiahui Lin, Shaojia Li, Yanna Shi, Yuchen Ma, Yinchun Li, Haohan Tan, Bo Zhang, Changjie Xu and Kunsong Chen
    Citation: Molecular Horticulture 2025 5:8
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  28. Sorbitol is an important primary metabolite that serves as both a carbon source and signal to pathogens. The leaf diseases caused by Alternata alternata are particularly serious in crabapple (Malus micromalus). H...

    Authors: Tingting Du, Dong Meng, Hongyan Cao, Yi Lian, Rui Wu, Tengyue Liu, Tianyi Wang, Cai Qin, Zhihua Song, Biying Dong, Yujie Fu and Qing Yang
    Citation: Molecular Horticulture 2025 5:5
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  29. Kiwifruit is an economically and nutritionally important horticultural fruit crop worldwide. The genomic data of several kiwifruit species have been released, providing an unprecedented opportunity for pan-gen...

    Authors: Xiaofen Yu, Minghao Qu, Pan Wu, Miao Zhou, Enhui Lai, Huan Liu, Sumin Guo, Shan Li, Xiaohong Yao and Lei Gao
    Citation: Molecular Horticulture 2025 5:4
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Molecular Horticulture 2025 5:31

  30. Peptide hormones are defined as small secreted polypeptide-based intercellular communication signal molecules. Such peptide hormones are encoded by nuclear genes, and often go through proteolytic processing of...

    Authors: Zhenbiao Zhang, Huibin Han, Junxiang Zhao, Zhiwen Liu, Lei Deng, Liuji Wu, Junpeng Niu, Yongfeng Guo, Guodong Wang, Xiaoping Gou, Chao Li, Chuanyou Li and Chun-Ming Liu
    Citation: Molecular Horticulture 2025 5:7
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  31. Flesh firmness is a core quality trait in apple breeding because of its correlation with ripening and storage. Quantitative trait loci (QTLs) were analyzed through bulked segregant analysis sequence (BSA-seq) ...

    Authors: Qiufang Su, Yifeng Feng, Xianglu Li, Zidun Wang, Yuanwen Zhong, Zhengyang Zhao and Huijuan Yang
    Citation: Molecular Horticulture 2025 5:3
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  32. Banana is sensitive to cold stress and often suffers from chilling injury with browning peel and failure to normal ripening. We have previously reported that banana chilling injury is accompanied by a reductio...

    Authors: Xiangjin Kong, Kuan Peng, Youxia Shan, Ze Yun, Tamas Dalmay, Xuewu Duan, Yueming Jiang, Hongxia Qu and Hong Zhu
    Citation: Molecular Horticulture 2025 5:2
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  33. Cerasus is a subgenus of Prunus in the family Rosaceae that is popular owing to its ornamental, edible, and medicinal properties. Understanding the evolution of the Cerasus subgenus and identifying selective trai...

    Authors: Yahui Lei, Songtao Jiu, Yan Xu, Baozheng Chen, Xiao Dong, Zhengxin Lv, Anthony Bernard, Xunju Liu, Lei Wang, Li Wang, Jiyuan Wang, Zhuo Zhang, Yuliang Cai, Wei Zheng, Xu Zhang, Fangdong Li…
    Citation: Molecular Horticulture 2025 5:6
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Molecular Horticulture 2025 5:25

  36. Steroidal glycoalkaloids (SGAs), predominantly comprising α-solanine (C45H73NO15) and α-chaconine (C45H73NO14), function as natural phytotoxins within potatoes. In addition to their other roles, these SGAs are cr...

    Authors: Yongming Liu, Xiaowei Liu, Yingge Li, Yanfei Pei, Abdul Jaleel and Maozhi Ren
    Citation: Molecular Horticulture 2024 4:43
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  37. Since publication of a draft genome of the doubled-haploid ‘Pahang’ banana (Musa acuminata, DH-Pahang), a new era for banana biology research has begun. With the release of genomic data from some important Musa s...

    Authors: Chunzhen Cheng, Shuofan Wu, Guiming Deng, Ou Sheng, Ganjun Yi and Qiaosong Yang
    Citation: Molecular Horticulture 2024 4:42
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  38. The transfer of genetic material between stocks and scions of grafted plants has been extensively studied; however, the nature and frequency of the transferred material remain elusive. Here, we report a grafti...

    Authors: Aijun Zhang, Tingjin Wang, Lu Yuan, Yuxin Shen, Ke Liu, Bin Liu, Kexin Xu, Mohamed A. Elsadek, Yiting Wang, Liang Wu, Zhenyu Qi, Jingquan Yu, Mingfang Zhang and Liping Chen
    Citation: Molecular Horticulture 2024 4:41
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  39. The plant hormone ethylene is indispensable to the ripening of climacteric fruits. Although extensive studies have been conducted on ethylene signaling, the ethylene response factor (ERF)-mediated transcriptio...

    Authors: Guoming Wang, Zhihua Guo, Tengjiao Wang, Xueping Wang, Kaijie Qi, Jiping Xuan, Chao Gu and Shaoling Zhang
    Citation: Molecular Horticulture 2024 4:38
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  40. Okra yellow vein mosaic disease (OYVMD) is a major constraint to okra production globally. It is caused by several distinct begomoviruses, including okra yellow vein mosaic virus (OYVMV), that are transmitted by ...

    Authors: Thomas Wilbur Davis and Andrew Nasa Thompson
    Citation: Molecular Horticulture 2024 4:36
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  41. The D14 protein, an alpha/beta hydrolase, is a key receptor in the strigolactone (SL) signaling pathway. However, the response of VvD14 to SL signals and its role in grapevine root architecture formation remai...

    Authors: Yan Xu, Zhengxin Lv, Muhammad Aamir Manzoor, Linhong Song, Maosen Wang, Lei Wang, Shiping Wang, Caixi Zhang and Songtao Jiu
    Citation: Molecular Horticulture 2024 4:40
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  44. Fruit ripening is accompanied by the development of fruit quality traits; however, this process also increases the fruit’s susceptibility to various environmental stresses, including pathogen attacks and other...

    Authors: Daoguo Chen, Yuhan Liu, Yong Chen, Boqiang Li, Tong Chen and Shiping Tian
    Citation: Molecular Horticulture 2024 4:35
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  45. Fruit color substantially affects consumer preferences, with darker red strawberries being economically more valuable due to their higher anthocyanin content. However, the molecular basis for the dark red colo...

    Authors: Pengbo Xu, Maobai Li, Chao Ma, Xinyu Li, Peng Bai, Anqi Lin, Chong Wang, Liqing Zhang, Huiyun Kuang and Hongli Lian
    Citation: Molecular Horticulture 2024 4:33
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  46. The cultivated tomato, Solanum lycopersicum, is highly sensitive to cold stress (CS), resulting in significant losses during cultivation and postharvest fruit storage. Previously, we demonstrated the presence of ...

    Authors: Maria Dolores Camalle, Elena Levin, Sivan David, Adi Faigenboim, Majid R. Foolad and Amnon Lers
    Citation: Molecular Horticulture 2024 4:31
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  47. Plants possess the ability to induce programmed cell death (PCD) in response to abiotic and biotic stresses; nevertheless, the evidence on PCD initiation during pear scald development and the involvement of th...

    Authors: Junpeng Niu, Mingzhen Xu, Xu Zhang, Luqi Li, Weiqi Luo, Meng Ma, Lin Zhu, Decai Tian, Shaoling Zhang, Bing Xie, Guodong Wang, Libin Wang and Wei Hui
    Citation: Molecular Horticulture 2024 4:32
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  49. Potato is the most widely grown non-grain crop and ranks as the third most significant global food crop following rice and wheat. Despite its long history of cultivation over vast areas, slow breeding progress...

    Authors: Li Qu, Xueqing Huang, Xin Su, Guoqing Zhu, Lingli Zheng, Jing Lin, Jiawen Wang and Hongwei Xue
    Citation: Molecular Horticulture 2024 4:34
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  50. Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascades have been discovered to play a fundamental role in regulating organ abscission. However, the identity of protein substrates targeted by MAPK cascades, as well a...

    Authors: Fei Wang, Zhijian Liang, Xingshuai Ma, Zidi He, Jianguo Li and Minglei Zhao
    Citation: Molecular Horticulture 2024 4:29
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