A near-complete genome assembly of cucumber line 6457 and identification of candidate gene controlling pedicel length

Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the S&T Program of Hebei (21326309D) and S&T Program of Hebei (22326308D).

Author contributions

X.S., L.Y., and X.Z., conceived the project and was responsible for the initiation of the project. X.S., Y.X., and L.Y., supervised and managed the project and research. Data generation and collection were performed by X.S., J. Zhao., J. Zhang., X. Li., X. Lei., L.F., J.J., and C.W. Bioinformatics analysis was led by X.S. and C.Z. The manuscript was organized, written, and revised by X.S., Y.X., and X.Z. All the authors read and revised the manuscript.

Data availability

The raw BSA-seq data generated in this study have been deposited in the NCBI Sequence Read Archive (SRA) under BioProject accession PRJNA1301951 (https://dataview.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/object/PRJNA1301951). All genome annotated data related to this study are available in the TVIR database (http://tvir2.bio2db.com).

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no competing interests.

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