Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

Chromosome-level and haplotype-resolved genome provides insight into the tetraploid hybrid origin of patchouli

  • Yanting Shen,
  • Wanying Li,
  • Ying Zeng,
  • Zhipeng Li,
  • Yiqiong Chen,
  • Jixiang Zhang,
  • Hong Zhao,
  • Lingfang Feng,
  • Dongming Ma,
  • Xiaolu Mo,
  • Puyue Ouyang,
  • Lili Huang,
  • Zheng Wang,
  • Yuannian Jiao,
  • Hong-bin Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31121-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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The ploidy level of patchouli, an aromatic plant in the Lamiaceae family, remain unclear. Here, the authors assemble a chromosome-level and haplotype-resolved genome for patchouli and reveal that it is tetraploid hybrid as well as compensated aneuploidy.