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The Amaranth Genome: Genome, Transcriptome, and Physical Map Assembly.
The plant genome - 1 Mar 2016
Clouse J W, Adhikary D, Page J T, Ramaraj T, Deyholos M K, Udall J A, Fairbanks D J, Jellen E N, Maughan P J
Abstract excerpt
Amaranth ( L.) is an emerging pseudocereal native to the New World that has garnered increased attention in recent years because of its nutritional quality, in particular its seed protein and more specifically its high levels of the essential amino acid lysine. It belongs to the Amaranthaceae family, is an ancient paleopolyploid that shows disomic inheritance (2 = 32), and has an estimated genome size of 466 Mb....
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