Ying Su, Xuanwen Yang, Yuwei Wang, Jialei Li, Qiming Long, Shuo Cao, Xu Wang, Zhenya Liu, Siyang Huang, Zhuyifu Chen, Yanling Peng, Fan Zhang, Hui Xue, Xuejing Cao, Mengyan Zhang, Gulbar Yisilam, Zhenzhou Chu, Yuan Gao, Yongfeng Zhou, Zhongjie Liu, Hua Xiao, Xinmin Tian
The cultivated apple (Malus domestica Borkh.) is a cross-pollinated perennial fruit tree of great economic importance. Previous versions of apple reference genomes were unphased, fragmented, and lacked comprehensive insights into the highly heterozygous genome, which impeded genetic studies and breeding programs in apple. In this study, we assembled a haplotype-resolved telomere-to-telomere reference genome for the diploid apple cultivar Golden Delicious. Subsequently, we constructed a pangenome based on twelve assemblies from wild and cultivated apples to investigate different types of resistance gene analogs (RGAs)...
May 14, 2024: Plant Physiology