The genome of a tiny resurrection plant has been sequenced using PacBio's long-read single-molecule real-time sequencing technology, aiding the understanding of extreme desiccation tolerance. The genome contiguity is comparable to that of genomes sequenced using far more laborious approaches.
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Kellogg, E. Genome sequencing: Long reads for a short plant. Nature Plants 1, 15169 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nplants.2015.169
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