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Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
plant biology
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A trio-binning approach for Cannabis genome de novo assembly reveals extensive structural variation, and defines paralog cohorts with very good resolution

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With the advent of long read DNA sequencing technologies, assembling eukaryotic genomes has become routine; however, properly phasing the maternal and paternal contributions remains technically challenging. Here, we use the trio-binning approach to separate Oxford Nanopore reads derived from a Cannabis F1 wide cross, made between the Colombian landrace Punto Rojo and the Colorado CBD clone Cherry Pie #16. Reads were obtained from a single PromethION flow cell, generating assemblies with coverage of just 18x per haplotype, but with good contiguity and gene completeness, demonstrating that it is a cost-effective approach for genome-wide and high-quality haplotype phasing, which is of great value for crop breeding programs. Evaluated through the lenses of disease resistance and secondary metabolite synthesis, both being traits of interest for the Cannabis industry, we report copy number and structural variation that, as has recently been shown for other major crops, may contribute to phenotypic variation along several relevant dimensions.

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