An Improved Oil Palm Genome Assembly as a Valuable Resource for Crop Improvement and Comparative Genomics in the <i>Arecoideae</i> Subfamily

Oil palm (<i>Elaeis guineensis</i> Jacq.) is the most traded crop among the economically important palm species. Here, we report an extended version genome of <i>E. guineensis</i> that is 1.2 Gb in length, an improvement of the physical genome coverage to 79% from the previou...

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Main Authors: Ai-Ling Ong, Chee-Keng Teh, Sean Mayes, Festo Massawe, David Ross Appleton, Harikrishna Kulaveerasingam
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-11-01
Series:Plants
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/9/11/1476