Pumpkin Genomes Sequenced in Time for Halloween, Revealing Curious Evolution

In a timely fashion for all those jack-o’-lantern carving parties and contests, investigators at the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) within Cornell University and the National Engineering Research Center for Vegetables in Beijing have sequenced the genomes of two important pumpkin species, Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita moschata . Findings from the new study—published recently in Molecular Plant in an article entitled “ Karyotype Stability and Unbiased Fractionation in the Paleo