Communications Biology (Jan 2021)
Coconut genome assembly enables evolutionary analysis of palms and highlights signaling pathways involved in salt tolerance
- Yaodong Yang,
- Stéphanie Bocs,
- Haikuo Fan,
- Alix Armero,
- Luc Baudouin,
- Pengwei Xu,
- Junyang Xu,
- Dominique This,
- Chantal Hamelin,
- Amjad Iqbal,
- Rashad Qadri,
- Lixia Zhou,
- Jing Li,
- Yi Wu,
- Zilong Ma,
- Auguste Emmanuel Issali,
- Ronan Rivallan,
- Na Liu,
- Wei Xia,
- Ming Peng,
- Yong Xiao
Affiliations
- Yaodong Yang
- Hainan Key Laboratory of Tropical Oil Crops Biology/Coconut Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences
- Stéphanie Bocs
- CIRAD, UMR AGAP
- Haikuo Fan
- Hainan Key Laboratory of Tropical Oil Crops Biology/Coconut Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences
- Alix Armero
- AGAP, Univ. Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro
- Luc Baudouin
- CIRAD, UMR AGAP
- Pengwei Xu
- BGI Genomics, BGI-Shenzhen
- Junyang Xu
- BGI Genomics, BGI-Shenzhen
- Dominique This
- AGAP, Univ. Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro
- Chantal Hamelin
- CIRAD, UMR AGAP
- Amjad Iqbal
- Hainan Key Laboratory of Tropical Oil Crops Biology/Coconut Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences
- Rashad Qadri
- Hainan Key Laboratory of Tropical Oil Crops Biology/Coconut Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences
- Lixia Zhou
- Hainan Key Laboratory of Tropical Oil Crops Biology/Coconut Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences
- Jing Li
- Hainan Key Laboratory of Tropical Oil Crops Biology/Coconut Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences
- Yi Wu
- Hainan Key Laboratory of Tropical Oil Crops Biology/Coconut Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences
- Zilong Ma
- Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Science
- Auguste Emmanuel Issali
- Station Cocotier Marc Delorme, Centre National De Recherche Agronomique (CNRA)07 B.P. 13
- Ronan Rivallan
- CIRAD, UMR AGAP
- Na Liu
- BGI Genomics, BGI-Shenzhen
- Wei Xia
- Hainan Key Laboratory of Tropical Oil Crops Biology/Coconut Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences
- Ming Peng
- Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Science
- Yong Xiao
- Hainan Key Laboratory of Tropical Oil Crops Biology/Coconut Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-01593-x
- Journal volume & issue
-
Vol. 4,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 14
Abstract
Yaodong Yang et al. report a chromosome-scale genome assembly of the coconut and transcriptome analysis of coconut leaves. Their analysis reveals important steps along the evolutionary trajectory of palms and identifies genes that may play a key role in tolerance to salt stress.
