Preface/Introduction (Ray Ming)

I. Natural History and Pineapple Improvement 1. Origin and Domestication of Pineapple Geo Coppens d'Eeckenbrugge 2. Biology of the Pineapple Plant Duane Bartholomew 3. The Phylogeny of the Family Bromeliaceae J. Andrew C. Smith 4. Genetic Diversity of Pineapple Qingsong Wu 5. Molecular Genetic Map of Pineapple José Manuel Leitão 6. Genetic Transformation of Pineapple Ming-Li Wang and Robert E. Paull 7. A Brief History of Pineapple Improvement Garth Sanewski II. The Pineapple Genome 8. Sequencing and Assembly of the F153 Pineapple Genome Ray Ming 9. The Draft Genome of MD-2 Pineapple Vijay Kumar 10. Comparative Genomics of Pineapple and Other Angiosperm Genomes Haibao Tang 11. Pineapple Repeat Database Romain Guyot 12. Identification of microRNA, phasiRNAs, and Their Targets in Pineapple Ramanjulu Sunkar 13. Comparative Analysis of Transcription Factors in Pineapple Qingyi Yu 14. Alternative Splicing Landscape in Pineapple Xiangjia Min 15. Analysis of Genes Encoding Proteolytic Enzymes in Pineapple Xiangjia Min 16. Genomics of Pineapple Disease Resistance Genes Xiaodan Zhang and Ray Ming 17. Carbon Flux and Carbohydrate Gene Families in Pineapple Robert E. Paull, Neil Shirley, and Vincent Bulone 18. Pineapple DB: An Online Pineapple Bioinformatics Resource José R Botella III. Early Applications and Future Prospects 19. Molecular Markers in Pineapple Jingping Fang and Ray Ming 20. Genomics of the Pineapple Systeine Protease Family Bromelain Ching Man Wai 21. Gametophyte Self-incompatibility in Pineapple Chih-Wei Tung 22. Circadian Clock Cis-elements in the Evolution of CAM Photosynthesis Robert VanBuren 23. Genomic Relationships, Diversity, and Ancestry of Ananas taxa Robert VanBuren and Christian Lexer Index