Hanting Yang, Can Wang, Guanru Zhou, Yuxuan Zhang, Tianxing He, Lulu Yang, Ya Wu, Zhengnan Wang, Xin Tang, Gang Chen, Zhaoyu Liu, Huanyu Tang, Hanlin Zhou, Xumei Kang, Sanyin Zhang, Liang Leng, Shilin Chen, Chi Song
Mentha is a commonly used spice worldwide, which possesses medicinal properties and fragrance. These characteristics are conferred, at least partially, by essential oils such as menthol. In this study, a gap-free assembly with a genome size of 414.3 Mb and 31,251 coding genes was obtained for Mentha suaveolens 'Variegata'. Based on its high heterozygosity (1.5%), two complete haplotypic assemblies were resolved, with genome sizes of 401.9 and 405.7 Mb, respectively. The telomeres and centromeres of each haplotype were almost fully annotated...
March 2024: Horticulture Research