The high-quality genome of lotus reveals tandem duplicate genes involved in stress response and secondary metabolites biosynthesis

Acknowledgements

We would like to acknowledge Rebecca Njeri Damaris for revising the manuscript. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC no. 32102422).

Author contributions

P.Y. and L.Z. conceived and designed the project. H.Q. and F.Y. performed data analysis. H.Q. drafted the manuscript. J.D., L.Z., P.Y., and F.Y. discussed and revised the manuscript. All authors contributed to and approved the final manuscript.

Data availability

The whole genome sequence data reported in this paper have been deposited in the Genome Warehouse in the National Genomics Data Center [10], Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences / China National Center for Bioinformation, under accession number GWHBQCP00000000 that is publicly accessible at https://ngdc.cncb.ac.cn/gwh.

Conflict of interest

The authors declare there is no conflict of interest.

Supplementary data

Supplementary data is available at Horticulture Research online.

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