Northern_Brewer
British - apparently some US company stole my name
This is of no relevance except to the hardened hop geeks, but this is a nice preprint where they've sequenced genomes of various Cannabis and Humulus (sub)species, paying particular attention to the sex chromosomes. They also talk a bit about sex-linked "flavour" genes like the prenyltransferases involved in the bitter acid pathways.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.09.627636v1
Evolutionary tree, numbers are estimated times of divergence in millions of years, the ones at the bottom are figs and mulberries as the next-closest cousins.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.09.627636v1

Evolutionary tree, numbers are estimated times of divergence in millions of years, the ones at the bottom are figs and mulberries as the next-closest cousins.
