Sequencing wild and cultivated cassava and related species reveals extensive interspecific hybridization and genetic diversity

Bredeson J.V., Lyons J.B., Prochnik S., Wu G.A., Ha C.M., Edsinger-Gonzales E., Grimwood J., Schmutz J., Rabbi I.Y., Egesi C., Nauluvula P., Lebot V., Ndunguru J., Mkamilo G., Bart R., Setter T., Gleadow R.M., Kulakow P., Ferguson M.E., Rounsley S., Rokhsar D.S.
2016

Cassava (Manihot esculenta) provides calories and nutrition for more than half a billion people. It was domesticated by native Amazonian peoples through cultivation of the wild progenitor M. esculenta ssp. flabellifolia and is now grown in tropical regions worldwide. Here we provide a high-quality genome assembly for cassava with improved contiguity, linkage, and completeness; almost 97% of genes ...

Génétique et amélioration des plantes; Taxonomie végétale et phyto-géographie