Nature Communications (Nov 2021)

Chloranthus genome provides insights into the early diversification of angiosperms

  • Xing Guo,
  • Dongming Fang,
  • Sunil Kumar Sahu,
  • Shuai Yang,
  • Xuanmin Guang,
  • Ryan Folk,
  • Stephen A. Smith,
  • Andre S. Chanderbali,
  • Sisi Chen,
  • Min Liu,
  • Ting Yang,
  • Shouzhou Zhang,
  • Xin Liu,
  • Xun Xu,
  • Pamela S. Soltis,
  • Douglas E. Soltis,
  • Huan Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26922-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Chloranthales remain the last lineage of core angiosperms that lacks a nuclear genome assembly. Here, the authors report the genome assembly of Chloranthus spicatus and show its contribution to deepen our understanding on diversification, phylogeny, and genome evolution in angiosperms.