The high-quality Pinellia pedatisecta genome reveals a key role of tandem duplication in the expansion of its agglutinin genes

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by grants from the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. XDB31000000).

Author details

J.M.C. and Z.Z.L. designed the study and led the research. Z.H.Q. wrote the draft manuscript and analyzed the data. J.M.C., J.D., and Z.Z.L. contributed substantially to the revisions. The final manuscript has been read and approved by all authors.

Data availability

All data sets (Illumina, PacBio, Hi-C, RNA-seq and the genome assembly) have been deposited at the China National GeneBank DataBase (CNGBdb, https://db.cngb.org/) website under the accessions CNS0561814–CNS0561818 with CNGB-Project ID CNP0003127.

Conflict of interest

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

Supplementary data

Supplementary data is available at Horticulture Research Journal online.

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