Long read sequencing and assembly of wild diploid relatives and cultivars in support of banana breeding programs
Chen, A.; Zhou, X.; Decker, K.; Havecker, E.; Du, Z.; Brown, A.; Aitken, E. A. B.; SHAH, T.; Uwimana, B.; Hresko, C.; Swennen, R.; Lowdon, R.
Show abstract
Banana is an important fruit and staple crop, which is vital for food and income security in developing countries. A genomics initiative was undertaken as part of the Global Alliance against TR4 (Tropical Race 4 of Fusarium Wilt of Banana) Alliance, with Bayer Crop Science, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, and University of Queensland to collectively accelerate the breeding efforts in Eastern Africa. The goal of this project is to develop genomics resources to improve banana breeding, productivity, and quality traits amid a changing climate and shifting disease pressures for breeding. Here, we present the PacBio HiFi sequencing, assembly, and comparative analysis of seven genomes of wild and edible diploid banana accessions belonging to subspecies considered important progenitors to cultivated banana varieties and part of breeding programs. This banana genome resource will help power genome editing, a pangenome effort, and conventional breeding programs for germplasm improvement.
Matching journals
The top 6 journals account for 50% of the predicted probability mass.
Similar papers in this journal
- Conserving a threatened North American walnut: a chromosome-scale reference genome for butternut (Juglans cinerea) 96%
- Dissection of the Ren6 and Ren7 powdery mildew resistance loci in Vitis piasezkii DVIT2027 using phased parental-progeny genomes and intraspecific locus graph reconstruction 96%
- A genome sequence for the threatened whitebark pine 96%
Similar papers in this journal
- A Partially Phase-Separated Genome Sequence Assembly of the Vitis Rootstock 'Börner' (Vitis riparia x Vitis cinerea) and its Exploitation for Marker Development and Targeted Mapping 96%
- Chromosome-level genome assemblies for two quinoa inbred lines from northern and southern highlands of Altiplano where quinoa originated 96%
- Mapping of the bs5 and bs6 non-race-specific recessive resistances against bacterial spot of pepper 95%
Similar papers in this journal
- A super-pangenome for cultivated citrus reveals evolutive features during the allopatric phase of their reticulate evolution 96%
- Jan and mini-Jan, a model system for potato functional genomics 95%
- A Citrullus genus super-pangenome reveals extensive variations in wild and cultivated watermelons and sheds light on watermelon evolution and domestication 95%
Similar papers in this journal
"Similar papers" are the closest papers from that journal in the model's embedding space. They show what the match is built on, but the ranking comes mostly from a classifier over the whole training set, not from these examples alone.