The Jujube Genome Provides Insights into Genome Evolution and the Domestication of Sweetness/Acidity Taste in Fruit Trees

• Published in: PLoS genetics Vol. 12; no. 12; p. e1006433
• Main Authors: Huang, Jian, Zhang, Chunmei, Zhao, Xing, Fei, Zhangjun, Wan, KangKang, Zhang, Zhong, Pang, Xiaoming, Yin, Xiao, Bai, Yang, Sun, Xiaoqing, Gao, Lizhi, Li, Ruiqiang, Zhang, Jinbo, Li, Xingang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 01.12.2016; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Acids; Bioinformatics; Biology and Life Sciences; Chromosome Mapping; Colleges & universities; Domestication; Engineering; Evolution; Evolution, Molecular; Fruit - genetics; Fruits; Genome, Plant; Genomes; Genomics; Germplasm; Metabolism; Microsatellite Repeats - genetics; Molecular Sequence Annotation; Phylogeny; Research and Analysis Methods; Rhamnaceae; Rosaceae; Rosales; Sequence Alignment; Taste - genetics; Trees; Ziziphus; Ziziphus - genetics; Beijing China; New York; China

Jujube (Ziziphus jujuba Mill.) belongs to the Rhamnaceae family and is a popular fruit tree species with immense economic and nutritional value. Here, we report a draft genome of the dry jujube cultivar 'Junzao' and the genome resequencing of 31 geographically diverse accessions of cultiva...