There is an increasing awareness that as a result of structural variation, a reference sequence representing a genome of a single individual is unable to capture all of the gene repertoire found in the species. A large number of genes affected by presence/absence and copy number variation suggest that it may contribute to phenotypic and agronomic trait diversity. Here we show by analysis of the Brassica oleracea pangenome that nearly 20% of genes are affected by presence/absence variation. Several genes displaying presence/absence variation are annotated with functions related to major agronomic traits, including disease resistance, flowering time, glucosinolate metabolism and vitamin biosynthesis. Brassica oleracea is a single species that includes diverse crops such as cabbage, broccoli and Brussels sprouts. Here, the authors identify genes not captured in existing B. oleraceareference genomes by the assembly of a pangenome and show variations in gene content that may be related to important agronomic traits
The pangenome of an agronomically important crop plant Brassica oleracea
Agnieszka A. Golicz,P. Bayer,Guy C. Barker,P. Edger,Hyeran Kim,Paula A. Martinez,C. K. Chan,A. Severn-Ellis,W. McCombie,I. Parkin,Andrew H. Paterson,J. C. Pires,Andrew G. Sharpe,Haibao Tang,G. Teakle,Christopher D Town,Jacqueline Batley,David Edwards
Published 2016 in Nature Communications
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2016
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Nature Communications
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2016-11-11
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Biology, Agricultural and Food Sciences, Medicine
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