Claim · model-written summary
The DNA evidence places pineapple within Bromeliaceae.
- Taxon
- pineapple
Ananas comosuse0 - Outcome
- within the Bromeliaceae familye0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentComparatorSettingDirectionValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“It also helps place pineapple clearly within the Bromeliaceae family”
Title
Phylogenetic and Evolutionary Trajectories of Ananas: Evidence from Whole-Genome Data
Zhonggang Li; Yeping Han International Journal of Molecular Evolution and Biodiversity 2025. doi:10.5376/ijmeb.2025.16.0004
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Observation All Ananas species share a single common ancestor according to mitochondrial and nuclear DNA.
- Observation The pineapple genome has no recent whole-genome duplication.
- Mechanism Transposon increases changed many pineapple gene families.
- Mechanism Repeated copies of certain genes changed many pineapple gene families.