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Organization of the genome sequence of the polyploid crop species Brassica juncea

Nature Genetics volume 50, pages 1496–1497 (2018)Cite this article

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To the Editor — A draft genome sequence of Brassica juncea, a member of the Brassicaceae and therefore a species benefiting from the functional genomics advances in the ‘model’ species Arabidopsis thaliana, was reported recently by Yang et al.1. B. juncea is a recently formed allotetraploid, whose diploid progenitors were mesohexaploids: Brassica rapa (which contributed the A genome) and Brassica nigra (which contributed the B genome). In addition to underpinning future trait-oriented work in this important crop species, which includes both vegetable and oil types, the sequences were analyzed for characteristics of genome evolution under crop selection. For both purposes, the genome sequences must represent with high fidelity (though not perfectly in ‘draft’ form) both the gene complement and gene order of the species. As a model for addressing the challenges of achieving an adequate representation of the latter for allopolyploid crops, the construction methodology employed short shotgun sequence reads, single-molecule long reads, BioNano sequencing and high-resolution genetic mapping.

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Fig. 1: Quality control assessment of genome sequence organization of B. juncea using genome-ordered graphical genotypes, chromosomes A1 and J1 as an example.

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The B. juncea mRNA-seq data used for production of the graphical genotypes have been deposited in the SRA data library under project ID PRJNA471033.

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This work was supported by the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/L002124/1, BB/L011751/1), including work carried out within the ERA-CAPS Research Program (BB/L027844/1). We would like to thank I. Parkin and A. Harper for their valuable comments on a draft of this manuscript.

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Z.H. and I.B. designed the study and analyzed the data. I.B. wrote the manuscript and Z.H. read and approved the manuscript for publication.

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He, Z., Bancroft, I. Organization of the genome sequence of the polyploid crop species Brassica juncea. Nat Genet 50, 1496–1497 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-018-0239-0

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