A telomere-to-telomere gap-free genome assembly of apricot (Prunus armeniaca L.)
Zhenyu Huang, Hangling Bie, Xinyue Su, Lehan Xia, Long Chen, Yuling Chen, Ruigang Wu, Ming Li, Pingyong Wang, Ke Cao · 2026
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Zhenyu Huang and nine co-authors publish a complete apricot genome in this two thousand twenty-six paper. Apricot is a prized fruit crop, but its genomic tools lagged behind its relatives. The team sequenced the elite cultivar Sungold with four technologies, mixing short, long, and ultra-long reads plus a scaffolding method. The final assembly runs from telomere to telomere with no gaps. Quality scores place it among the best fruit genomes.
All eight centromeres and most telomeres were resolved in full. Such completeness exposes regions that older assemblies missed. Breeders can now hunt trait genes in the full text of the genome. The paper is a resource announcement for the Prunus research community.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Zhenyu Huang, Hangling Bie, Xinyue Su, Lehan Xia, Long Chen, Yuling Chen, Ruigang Wu, Ming Li, Pingyong Wang, Ke Cao |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 29 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |