De novo assembly of a near-complete genome of aquatic vegetable Zizania latifolia in the Yangtze River Basin
Yao Zhao, Li-bing Liao, Zi-wei Zhu, Li-dong Zhang, Zi-dong Xiong, Zhi-ping Song, Ning Yan, Ai-wen Zhong, Jian Zhang, Cheng-chuan Zhou, Jun Rong · 2024
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Yao Zhao and co-authors assembled a near-complete genome of an aquatic vegetable grown in the Yangtze River Basin, in a 2024 paper. The plant is a special case in farming: its crop form grew up alongside a fungus that lives in it. Long-read sequencing plus a folding map gave a genome of about five hundred seventy-eight million letters. The contigs lined up into seventeen chromosome-scale pieces.
Just under half the genome is repeat sequence. Completeness checks scored near ninety-eight percent. The team forecast just under forty thousand protein-coding genes, and close to nine in ten could be given a known role. The authors offer the assembly as a resource for tracing how this plant was tamed. It should also help studies of how a crop and its resident fungus shaped each other over time, and of the plant's farm value.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yao Zhao, Li-bing Liao, Zi-wei Zhu, Li-dong Zhang, Zi-dong Xiong, Zhi-ping Song, Ning Yan, Ai-wen Zhong, Jian Zhang, Cheng-chuan Zhou, Jun Rong |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 19 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |