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Letter to the Editor|09 Dec 2025|OPEN
A gapless genome of early-diverging Asteraceae species, Gerbera, provides insights for ray floret differentiation in the capitula
Xiaohui Wen
1 ,† , Fan Li
2,3 ,† , Chunlian Jin
2,3 ,† , Qinli Shan
2 , Chunmei Yang
2 , Bohao Wang
4 , Fuhui Sun
5 , Qiang Gao
5 , Huichun Liu
1 , Xiaofan Zhou
6 and Kaiyuan Zhu
1 ,
, Liangsheng Zhang
5 ,
, Shenchong Li,
2,3 ,
1Zhejiang Institute of Landscape Plants and Flowers, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 311251, China
2Floriculture Research Institute, Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, National Engineering Research Center for Ornamental Horticulture, Key Laboratory for Flower Breeding of Yunnan Province, Kunming 650205, China
3Yunnan Seed Laboratory, Kunming 650205, China
4Beijing Key Laboratory of Ornamental Plants Germplasm Innovation & Molecular Breeding, National Engineering Research Center for Floriculture, Beijing Laboratory of Urban and Rural Ecological Environment, Key Laboratory for Genetics and Breeding of Forest Trees and Ornamental Plants of Ministry of Education, School of Landscape Architecture, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
5Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Horticultural Crop Quality Improvement, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
6Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Microbial Signals and Disease Control, Integrative Microbiology Research Center, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
*Corresponding author. E-mail: kyzhu1999@163.com,zls83@zju.edu.cn,lishenchong@yaas.org.cn
†Xiaohui Wen,Fan Li,Chunlian Jin contributed equally to the study.
Horticulture Research 13,
Article number: uhaf357 (2026)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/hr/uhaf357
Views: 34
Received: 16 Sep 2025
Accepted: 09 Dec 2025
Published online: 09 Dec 2025
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