Melon (Cucumis melo) fruit-specific monoterpene synthase

Kathrine H Davidson¹, Syamkumar Sivasankara Pillai¹, Yukihiro Nagashima¹, Jashbir Singh¹, Rita Metrani¹, Kevin M Crosby¹, John Jifon^{1

2}, Bhimanagouda Patil^{1

3}, Seyednami Niyakan⁴, Xiaoning Qian^{4

5

6}, Hisashi Koiwa^{7

8}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Horticultural Sciences, Vegetable and Fruit Improvement Center, Texas A&M University, TX, 77843, College Station, USA.
² Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center, 2415 E Business 83, Weslaco, TX, 78596, USA.
³ Department of Food Science and Technology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA.
⁴ Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA.
⁵ TEES-AgriLife Center for Bioinformatics & Genomic Systems Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA.
⁶ Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA.
⁷ Department of Horticultural Sciences, Vegetable and Fruit Improvement Center, Texas A&M University, TX, 77843, College Station, USA. hisashi.koiwa@ag.tamu.edu.
⁸ Molecular and Environmental Plant Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA. hisashi.koiwa@ag.tamu.edu.

Kathrine H Davidson et al. Mol Hortic. 2023.

. 2023 Mar 3;3(1):3.

doi: 10.1186/s43897-023-00051-6.

¹ Department of Horticultural Sciences, Vegetable and Fruit Improvement Center, Texas A&M University, TX, 77843, College Station, USA.
² Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center, 2415 E Business 83, Weslaco, TX, 78596, USA.
³ Department of Food Science and Technology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA.
⁴ Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA.
⁵ TEES-AgriLife Center for Bioinformatics & Genomic Systems Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA.
⁶ Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA.
⁷ Department of Horticultural Sciences, Vegetable and Fruit Improvement Center, Texas A&M University, TX, 77843, College Station, USA. hisashi.koiwa@ag.tamu.edu.
⁸ Molecular and Environmental Plant Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA. hisashi.koiwa@ag.tamu.edu.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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