EMBO Member
Pere Puigdomènech
EMBO 2000 | MemC 17–20
Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics, Barcelona, Spain
Plant genome structure and evolution
The main research area at this moment is focused in the evolution of plant genomes. We have sequenced the genome of a traditional horticutural species, melon, that is a diploid and has a genome of intermediate size (450 Mbase). We are interested in the evolution of the species that seems to have suffered an expansion within the last 2 milion years and in the changes suffered during domestication.
Keywords
Plant embryogenesis / cell wall biosynthesis / plant genomics / gene regulation