Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

Genomic basis of the giga-chromosomes and giga-genome of tree peony Paeonia ostii

  • Junhui Yuan,
  • Sanjie Jiang,
  • Jianbo Jian,
  • Mingyu Liu,
  • Zhen Yue,
  • Jiabao Xu,
  • Juan Li,
  • Chunyan Xu,
  • Lihong Lin,
  • Yi Jing,
  • Xiaoxiao Zhang,
  • Haixin Chen,
  • Linjuan Zhang,
  • Tao Fu,
  • Shuiyan Yu,
  • Zhangyan Wu,
  • Ying Zhang,
  • Chongzhi Wang,
  • Xiao Zhang,
  • Liangbo Huang,
  • Hongqi Wang,
  • Deyuan Hong,
  • Xiao-Ya Chen,
  • Yonghong Hu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35063-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Tree peony (Paeonia ostii) has the largest chromosome of any sequenced plants to date. Here, the authors assemble its genome and reveal the association of a list of candidate genes with fatty acid biosynthesis and the possible contribution of transposon and histone expansion to maintain the giga-chromosomes.