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News & Views|05 Apr 2019|OPEN
Novel assembly strategy cracks open the mysteries of walnut genome evolution
G. Albert Wu1 , and Fred G. Gmitter,2
1US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA, USA
2Citrus Research and Education Center (CREC), Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences(IFAS), University of Florida, Lake Alfred, FL, USA
*Corresponding author. E-mail: gwu@lbl.gov

Horticulture Research 6,
Article number: 57 (2019)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41438-019-0143-5
Views: 1088

Received: 27 Mar 2019
Revised: 27 Mar 2019
Accepted: 27 Mar 2019
Published online: 05 Apr 2019

Abstract

High quality chromosome-scale assemblies from an interspecific hybrid between walnut and a wild relative reveal the persistence of asymmetric fractionation between the sub-genomes and suggest a late-Miocene origin for the genus Juglans.