Nature Communications (Nov 2016)

Genome sequence and analysis of the Japanese morning glory Ipomoea nil

  • Atsushi Hoshino,
  • Vasanthan Jayakumar,
  • Eiji Nitasaka,
  • Atsushi Toyoda,
  • Hideki Noguchi,
  • Takehiko Itoh,
  • Tadasu Shin-I,
  • Yohei Minakuchi,
  • Yuki Koda,
  • Atsushi J. Nagano,
  • Masaki Yasugi,
  • Mie N. Honjo,
  • Hiroshi Kudoh,
  • Motoaki Seki,
  • Asako Kamiya,
  • Toshiyuki Shiraki,
  • Piero Carninci,
  • Erika Asamizu,
  • Hiroyo Nishide,
  • Sachiko Tanaka,
  • Kyeung-Il Park,
  • Yasumasa Morita,
  • Kohei Yokoyama,
  • Ikuo Uchiyama,
  • Yoshikazu Tanaka,
  • Satoshi Tabata,
  • Kazuo Shinozaki,
  • Yoshihide Hayashizaki,
  • Yuji Kohara,
  • Yutaka Suzuki,
  • Sumio Sugano,
  • Asao Fujiyama,
  • Shigeru Iida,
  • Yasubumi Sakakibara

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13295
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Japanese morning glory (Ipomoea nil) has diverse flowering traits. Here, the authors describe the reference genome sequence of I. nil, annotations of genes and transposons, and compare evolution of the I. nilgenome to other Convolvulaceae and Solanales genomes.