Nature Communications (Nov 2016)

The pangenome of an agronomically important crop plant Brassica oleracea

  • Agnieszka A. Golicz,
  • Philipp E. Bayer,
  • Guy C. Barker,
  • Patrick P. Edger,
  • HyeRan Kim,
  • Paula A. Martinez,
  • Chon Kit Kenneth Chan,
  • Anita Severn-Ellis,
  • W. Richard McCombie,
  • Isobel A. P. Parkin,
  • Andrew H. Paterson,
  • J. Chris Pires,
  • Andrew G. Sharpe,
  • Haibao Tang,
  • Graham R. Teakle,
  • Christopher D. Town,
  • Jacqueline Batley,
  • David Edwards

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13390
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Brassica oleracea is a single species that includes diverse crops such as cabbage, broccoli and Brussels sprouts. Here, the authors identify genes not captured in existing B. oleraceareference genomes by the assembly of a pangenome and show variations in gene content that may be related to important agronomic traits