Abner Herbert Lim, Zhen Jie Low, Prashant Narendra Shingate, Jing Han Hong, Shu Chen Chong, Cedric Chuan Young Ng, Wei Liu, Robert Vaser, Mile Šikić, Wing-Kin Ken Sung, Niranjan Nagarajan, Patrick Tan, Bin Tean Teh
Singapore's National Flower, Papilionanthe (Ple.) Miss Joaquim 'Agnes' (PMJ) is highly prized as a horticultural flower from the Orchidaceae family. A combination of short-read sequencing, single-molecule long-read sequencing and chromatin contact mapping was used to assemble the PMJ genome, spanning 2.5 Gb and 19 pseudo-chromosomal scaffolds. Genomic resources and chemical profiling provided insights towards identifying, understanding and elucidating various classes of secondary metabolite compounds synthesized by the flower...
September 15, 2022: Communications Biology