Insights from the first genome assembly of Onion (<i>Allium cepa</i>)

Affiliations

Richard Finkers: ORCiD; Plant Breeding, Wageningen University and Research Centre, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands
Martijn van Kaauwen: ORCiD; Plant Breeding, Wageningen University and Research Centre, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands
Kai Ament: Bejo Zaden B.V., 1749 CZ Warmerhuizen, The Netherlands
Karin Burger-Meijer: Plant Breeding, Wageningen University and Research Centre, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands
Raymond Egging: GenomeScan, 2333 BZ Leiden, The Netherlands
Henk Huits: Bejo Zaden B.V., 1749 CZ Warmerhuizen, The Netherlands
Linda Kodde: Plant Breeding, Wageningen University and Research Centre, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands
Laurens Kroon: Bejo Zaden B.V., 1749 CZ Warmerhuizen, The Netherlands
Masayoshi Shigyo: Laboratory of Vegetable Crop Science, College of Agriculture, Graduate School of Sciences and Technology for Innovation, Yamaguchi University Yamaguchi City, Yamaguchi 753-8515, Japan
Shusei Sato: ORCiD; Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
Ben Vosman: Plant Breeding, Wageningen University and Research Centre, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands
Wilbert van Workum: Limes Innovations B.V., 2351 SX Leiderdorp, The Netherlands
Olga Scholten: Plant Breeding, Wageningen University and Research Centre, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands

Abstract

AbstractOnion is an important vegetable crop with an estimated genome size of 16 Gb. We describe the de novoab initioab initioAllium sativum