Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

A reference-grade wild soybean genome

  • Min Xie,
  • Claire Yik-Lok Chung,
  • Man-Wah Li,
  • Fuk-Ling Wong,
  • Xin Wang,
  • Ailin Liu,
  • Zhili Wang,
  • Alden King-Yung Leung,
  • Tin-Hang Wong,
  • Suk-Wah Tong,
  • Zhixia Xiao,
  • Kejing Fan,
  • Ming-Sin Ng,
  • Xinpeng Qi,
  • Linfeng Yang,
  • Tianquan Deng,
  • Lijuan He,
  • Lu Chen,
  • Aisi Fu,
  • Qiong Ding,
  • Junxian He,
  • Gyuhwa Chung,
  • Sachiko Isobe,
  • Takanari Tanabata,
  • Babu Valliyodan,
  • Henry T. Nguyen,
  • Steven B. Cannon,
  • Christine H. Foyer,
  • Ting-Fung Chan,
  • Hon-Ming Lam

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09142-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Wild relatives of crop plants are invaluable germplasm for genetic improvement. Here, Xie et al. report a reference-grade wild soybean genome and show that it can be used to identify structural variation and refine quantitative trait loci.