Xiaoya Shi, Shuo Cao, Xu Wang, Siyang Huang, Yue Wang, Zhongjie Liu, Wenwen Liu, Xiangpeng Leng, Yanling Peng, Nan Wang, Yiwen Wang, Zhiyao Ma, Xiaodong Xu, Fan Zhang, Hui Xue, Haixia Zhong, Yi Wang, Kekun Zhang, Amandine Velt, Komlan Avia, Daniela Holtgräwe, Jérôme Grimplet, José Tomás Matus, Doreen Ware, Xinyu Wu, Haibo Wang, Chonghuai Liu, Yuling Fang, Camille Rustenholz, Zongming Cheng, Hua Xiao, Yongfeng Zhou
Grapevine is one of the most economically important crops worldwide. However, the previous versions of the grapevine reference genome tipically consist of thousands of fragments with missing centromeres and telomeres, limiting the accessibility of the repetitive sequences, the centromeric and telomeric regions, and the study of inheritance of important agronomic traits in these regions. Here, we assembled a telomere-to-telomere (T2T) gap-free reference genome for the cultivar PN40024 using PacBio HiFi long reads...
May 2023: Horticulture Research