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Improved genome assembly and pan-genome provide key insights into eggplant domestication and breeding.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 Jul 2021
Barchi Lorenzo, Rabanus-Wallace Mark Timothy, Prohens Jaime, Toppino Laura, Padmarasu Sudharsan, Portis Ezio, Rotino Giuseppe Leonardo, Stein Nils, Lanteri Sergio, Giuliano Giovanni
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Eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) is an important horticultural crop and one of the most widely grown vegetables from the Solanaceae family. It was domesticated from a wild, prickly progenitor carrying small, round, non-anthocyanic fruits. We obtained a novel, highly contiguous genome assembly of the eggplant '67/3' reference line, by Hi-C retrofitting of a previously released short read- and optical mapping-based...
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