Water lily pond: a multiomics database for water lilies

Chengjun Zhao; Ji Zhang; Yayu Chen; Lishuang Yang; Hongliang Chen; Yufan Liang; Wenquan Wang; Shuang He; Yunqing Luo; Junyu Zhang; Hongbin Zhang; Shuting Yang; Guilian Guo; Wenbai Dai; Zhijuan Yang; Junhao Chen; Yuhan Zhou; Wasi Ullah Khan; Guanhua Liu; Yifan Jiang; Tianlong Zhu; Yingchun Xu; Pedro García-Caparros; Yves Van de Peer; Jia-yu Xue; Chengjie Chen; Liangsheng Zhang; Fei Chen

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Horticulture Research ›› 2025, Vol. 12 ›› Issue (6) :76 DOI: 10.1093/hr/uhaf076

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Water lily pond: a multiomics database for water lilies

Chengjun Zhao ¹^,²^,^‡
, Ji Zhang ¹^,²^,^‡
, Yayu Chen ¹^,²^,^‡
, Lishuang Yang ¹^,²^,^‡
, Hongliang Chen ¹^,²
, Yufan Liang ¹^,²
, Wenquan Wang ¹^,²
, Shuang He ¹^,²
, Yunqing Luo ¹^,²
, Junyu Zhang ¹^,²
, Hongbin Zhang ¹^,²
, Shuting Yang ¹^,²
, Guilian Guo ¹^,²
, Wenbai Dai ¹^,²
, Zhijuan Yang ¹
, Junhao Chen ³
, Yuhan Zhou ⁴
, Wasi Ullah Khan ¹^,²
, Guanhua Liu ⁵
, Yifan Jiang ⁶
, Tianlong Zhu ⁷
, Yingchun Xu ⁶
, Pedro García-Caparros ⁸
, Yves Van de Peer ⁹^,¹⁰^,¹¹^,¹²
, Jia-yu Xue ⁶
, Chengjie Chen ¹³
, Liangsheng Zhang ⁴
, Fei Chen ¹^,²^,^*

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¹National Key Laboratory for Tropical Crop Breeding, College of breeding and multiplication, Sanya Institute of Breeding and Multiplication, HainanUniversity, Sanya 572025, China

²College of Tropical Agriculture and Forestry, Hainan University, Danzhou 571700, China

³Department of Biology, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO 63103, USA

⁴College of Agricultural & Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310085, China

⁵Tea Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310008, China

⁶College of Horticulture, Nanjing agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China

⁷Hainan Fodu Lianyuan Ecological Agriculture Co. Ltd., Haikou 570105, China

⁸Agronomy Department of Superior School Engineering, University of Almería, 04120 Almeria, Spain

⁹Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent 9052, Belgium

¹⁰Center for Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Ghent 9052, Belgium

¹¹Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0028, South Africa

¹²College of Horticulture, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, Nanjing, China

¹³National Key Laboratory for Tropical Crop Breeding, Laboratory of Crop Gene Resources and Germplasm Enhancement in South China, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Key Laboratory of Tropical Crops Germplasm Resources Genetic Improvement and Innovation of Hainan Province, Tropical Crops Genetic Resources Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou 571101, China

^* feichen@hainanu.edu.cn

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Chengjun Zhao, Ji Zhang, Yayu Chen, Lishuang Yang, Hongliang Chen, Yufan Liang, Wenquan Wang, Shuang He, Yunqing Luo, Junyu Zhang, Hongbin Zhang, Shuting Yang, Guilian Guo, Wenbai Dai, Zhijuan Yang, Junhao Chen, Yuhan Zhou, Wasi Ullah Khan, Guanhua Liu, Yifan Jiang, Tianlong Zhu, Yingchun Xu, Pedro García-Caparros, Yves Van de Peer, Jia-yu Xue, Chengjie Chen, Liangsheng Zhang, Fei Chen. Water lily pond: a multiomics database for water lilies. Horticulture Research, 2025, 12(6): 76 DOI:10.1093/hr/uhaf076

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 32172614), Hainan Province Science and Technology Special Fund (no. ZDYF2023XDNY050), Hainan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 324RC452), and The Project of National Key Laboratory for Tropical Crop Breeding (no. NKLTCB202337).

No conflict of interest is declared.

Author Contributions

Fei Chen conceived and designed the study, while Chengjie Chen, Liangsheng Zhang, Jiayu Xue, Feng Chen, Junhao Chen, Yves van de Peer participated in database design. Chengjun Zhao lead the data analysis and database construction. Yayu Chen, Lishuang Yang, Shuang He, Yunqin Luo participated in the database construction, code implementation, tool development, and data organization. Ji Zhang, Yufan Liang, Yuhan Zhou, Wenquan Wang, Shuting Yang, Hongliang Chen, Guilian Guo, Wenbao Dai, Guanhua Liu, Yifan Jiang, and others contributed to the provision and organization of genomic data, as well as downstream analysis and server deployment. Tianlong Zhu, Yinchun Xu, Hongbin Zhang, Zhijuan Yang, and Wasi Ullah Khan handled the collection of sequencing materials. Chengjun Zhao, Fei Chen, and Pedro García-Caparros wrote the draft MS. All the authors approved the final MS. We thank Zong-Ming (Max) Cheng for his valuable help on the database initiation, which started in Nanjing Agricultural University.

Data availability

The data generated in this study have been released in the National Genomics Data Center, with GSA numbers: CRA019059 and CRA018961. The small RNA data can be accessed under GSA numbers: CRA019696 and CRA019738.

Conflict of interest statement

None declared.

Supplementary Data

Supplementary data is available at Horticulture Research online.

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