Nature Communications (May 2017)

Draft genome of spinach and transcriptome diversity of 120 Spinacia accessions

  • Chenxi Xu,
  • Chen Jiao,
  • Honghe Sun,
  • Xiaofeng Cai,
  • Xiaoli Wang,
  • Chenhui Ge,
  • Yi Zheng,
  • Wenli Liu,
  • Xuepeng Sun,
  • Yimin Xu,
  • Jie Deng,
  • Zhonghua Zhang,
  • Sanwen Huang,
  • Shaojun Dai,
  • Beiquan Mou,
  • Quanxi Wang,
  • Zhangjun Fei,
  • Quanhua Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15275
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Spinach is an economically important vegetable crop but previous genomic resources were of limited use for comparative and functional analyses. Here, Xuet al. present a high quality draft spinach genome and transcriptome data for multiple Spinaciaaccessions providing insight into Caryophyllales genome evolution.