Peter J Maughan, David E Jarvis, Eulogio de la Cruz-Torres, Kate E Jaggi, Heather C Warner, Ashley K Marcheschi, H Daniel Bertero, Luz Gomez-Pando, Francisco Fuentes, Mayela E Mayta-Anco, Ramiro Curti, Elodie Rey, Mark Tester, Eric N Jellen
Pitseed goosefoot (Chenopodium berlandieri) is a free-living North American member of an allotetraploid complex that includes the Andean pseudocereal quinoa (C. quinoa). Like quinoa, pitseed goosefoot was domesticated, possibly independently, in eastern North America (subsp. jonesianum) and Mesoamerica (subsp. nuttaliae). To test the utility of C. berlandieri as a resource for quinoa breeding, we produced the whole-genome DNA sequence of PI 433,231, a huauzontle from Puebla, México. The 1.295 Gb genome was assembled into 18 pseudomolecules and annotated using RNAseq data from multiple tissues...
May 29, 2024: Scientific Reports