Chromosome-Level Assembly of Flowering Cherry (Prunus campanulata) Provides Insight into Anthocyanin Accumulation.

ABSTRACT: The flowering cherries (genus Prunus, subgenus Cerasus) are popular ornamental trees in China, Japan, Korea, and elsewhere. Prunus campanulata Maxim. is an important species of flowering cherry native to Southern China, which is also distributed in Taiwan, the Ryukyu Islands of Japan, and Vietnam. It produces bell-shaped flowers with colors ranging from bright pink to crimson during the Chinese Spring Festival from January to March each year. We selected the P. campanulata cultivar "Lianmeiren", with only 0.54% of heterozygosity, as the focus of this study, and generated a high-quality chromosome-scale genome assembly of P. campanulata by combining Pacific Biosciences (PacBio) single-molecule sequencing, 10× Genomics sequencing, and high-throughput chromo

SUBMITTER: Jiang D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9957189 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature