European ash pangenome reveals widespread structural variation and genetic basis of low ash dieback susceptibility
Daniel P Wood, Mohammad Vatanparast, Dario Galanti, Catherine Gudgeon, Katherine Wheeler, Emma Curran, Levi Yant, Richard Whittet, Richard A Nichols, Richard J A Buggs, Laura J Kelly · 2026
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Description
Daniel Wood and ten co-authors present a 2026 study that builds a full gene map of the European ash tree. Ash dieback disease is wiping out this keystone tree across Europe. A few trees resist the disease, and their genes could guide breeding and planting.
Instead of one reference genome, the team built a pangenome from fifty trees drawn from many places. It holds hundreds of thousands of large variants and thousands of genes that only some trees carry. About a fifth of the map's sequence was missing from the old single reference. They then read data from more than 1,200 trees to find gene marks tied to low disease risk.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Daniel P Wood, Mohammad Vatanparast, Dario Galanti, Catherine Gudgeon, Katherine Wheeler, Emma Curran, Levi Yant, Richard Whittet, Richard A Nichols, Richard J A Buggs, Laura J Kelly |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 95 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |