Great collaboration with Zhangjun Fei and GT4SP showing amongst many other things extensive recombination in hexaploid sweetpotato between chromosomes from two wild progenitors using #linkedreads nature.com/articles/s4146…

Enjoyed very much on this collaborative project. Thank all for your contributions and congrats! ⁦GT4SP⁩ ⁦Gates Foundation⁩ ⁦International Potato Center⁩ Buell lab⁩ Shan Wu ⁦Craig Yencho⁩ ⁦@lachlancoin⁩ ⁦@jleebensmack⁩...... nature.com/articles/s4146…

Transcriptomic analysis of sweet potato under dehydration stress identifies candidate genes for drought tolerance - Lau - 2018 - Plant Direct - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Researchers discover genes that give vegetables their shape phys.org/news/2018-11-g…

Orange is the new white: New sweetpotato data is something to be thankful for btiscience.org/explore-bti/ne…

Visit our genomic pumpkin patch! Available now are chrom-length upgrades for cultivated pumpkins Cucurbita pepo, C. moschata and C. maxima, original drafts from (Sun et al. 2017) in Mol. Plant Cell Press and (Montero-Pau et al. 2018) Plant Biotechnology Journal dnazoo.org/post/pumpkin-p…

Cool paper on genome diversity in potato from Buell lab MSU pnas pnas.org/content/early/… tinyurl.com/ya8cl2us

Pumpkin genomes sequenced, revealing uncommon evolutionary history sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/…

After 20 Years, Can Cornell Finally Bust Open Its Great Pumpkin Mystery? n.pr/2z0LL7P

Congrats @SWu728 and Honghe! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tp…

So it turns out that we have to continue worrying about about the dissemination of sweetpotato to Oceania and elsewhere. At the meeting of the Genomic Tools for Sweetpotato Improvement project this was a hot topic. Shan Wu Zhangjun Fei International Potato Center

You may have seen this story about the Current Biology paper arguing that the sweet potato dispersed to Polynesia. The methods are flawed, the conclusions are wrong. Here's my reanalysis: github.com/mmatschiner/ku… Please RT to help undo misinformation. x.com/carlzimmer/sta…