The Kalanchoë genome provides insights into convergent evolution and building blocks of crassulacean acid metabolism by Yang, X, Hu, R, Yin, H, Jenkins, J, Shu, S, Tang, H, Liu, D, Weighill, D, Cheol Yim, W, Ha, J, Heyduk, K, Goodstein, D, Guo, H, Moseley, R, Fitzek, E, Jawdy, S, Zhang, Z, Xie, M, Hartwell, J, Grimwood, J, Abraham, P, Mewalal, R, Beltrán, J, Boxall, S, Dever, L, Palla, K, Albion, R, Garcia, T, Mayer, J, Don Lim, S, Man Wai, C, Peluso, P, Van Buren, R, De Paoli, H, Borland, A, Guo, H, Chen, J, Muchero, W, Yin, Y, Jacobson, D, Tschaplinski, T, Hettich, R, Ming, R, Winter, K, Leebens-Mack, J, Smith, J, Cushman, J, Schmutz, J, Tuskan, G

“…Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) is a water-use efficient adaptation of photosynthesis that has evolved independently many times in diverse lineages of flowering plants. …”

Temporal and spatial transcriptomic and microRNA dynamics of CAM photosynthesis in pineapple by Wai, CM, VanBuren, R, Zhang, J, Huang, L, Miao, W, Edger, PP, Yim, WC, Priest, HD, Meyers, BC, Mockler, T, Smith, JAC, Cushman, JC, Ming, R

“…The altered carbon assimilation pathway of crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) photosynthesis results in an up to 80% higher water‐use efficiency than C3 photosynthesis in plants making it a potentially useful pathway for engineering crop plants with improved drought tolerance. …”

The pineapple genome and the evolution of CAM photosynthesis by Smith, J, Ming, R, VanBuren, R, Man Wai, C, Tang, H, Schatz, M, Bowers, J, Lyons, E, Wang, M, Chen, J, Biggers, E, Zhang, J, Huang, L, Zhang, L, Miao, W, Zhang, J, Ye, Z, Miao, C, Lin, Z, Wang, H, Zhou, H, Yim, W, Priest, H, Zheng, C, Woodhouse, M, Edger, P, Guyot, R, Guo, H, Guo, H, Zheng, G, Singh, R, Sharma, A, Min, X, Zheng, Y, Lee, H, Gurtowski, J, Sedlazeck, F, Harkess, A, McKain, M, Liao, Z, Fang, J, Liu, J, Zhang, X, Zhang, Q, Hu, W, Qin, Y, Wang, K, Chen, L, Shirley, N, Lin, Y, Liu, L, Hernandez, A, Wright, C, Bulone, V, Tuskan, G, Heath, K, Zee, F, Moore, P, Sunkar, R, Leebens-Mack, J, Mockler, T, Bennetzen, J, Freeling, M, Sankoff, D, Paterson, A, Zhu, X, Yang, X, Cushman, J, Paull, R, Yu, Q

“…Merr.) is the most economically valuable crop possessing crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM), a photosynthetic carbon assimilation pathway with high water-use efficiency, and the second most important tropical fruit. …”