The sunflower genome provides insights into oil metabolism, flowering and Asterid evolution
Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) is an important oil crop and, according to the authors, “the only major crop domesticated in North America.” Assembling its genome has been difficult as more than three quarters of it is made up of young (less than one million years old) long-terminal repeat retrotransposons. Badouin et al. report a reference […]