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ArticleNature communications2013

Genome sequence of the date palm Phoenix dactylifera L.

Ibrahim S Al-Mssallem, Songnian Hu, Xiaowei Zhang, Qiang Lin, Wanfei Liu, Jun Tan, Xiaoguang Yu, Jiucheng Liu, Linlin Pan, Tongwu Zhang and 34 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 131 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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131citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
33.7field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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131 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 324 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

44 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Ibrahim S Al-MssallemJoint Center for Genomics Research, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Prince Turki Road, Riyadh 11442, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. imssallem@kacst.edu.sa
Songnian Hu
Xiaowei Zhang
Qiang Lin
Wanfei Liu
Jun Tan
Xiaoguang Yu
Jiucheng Liu
Linlin Pan
Tongwu Zhang
Yuxin Yin
Chengqi Xin
Hao Wu
Guangyu Zhang
Mohammed M Ba Abdullah
Dawei Huang
Yongjun Fang
Yasser O Alnakhli
Shangang Jia
An Yin
Eman M Alhuzimi
Burair A Alsaihati
Saad A Al-Owayyed
Duojun Zhao
Sun Zhang
Noha A Al-Otaibi
Gaoyuan Sun
Majed A Majrashi
Fusen Li
Tala
Jixiang Wang
Quanzheng Yun
Nafla A Alnassar
Lei Wang
Meng Yang
Rasha F Al-Jelaify
Kan Liu
Shenghan Gao
Kaifu Chen
Samiyah R Alkhaldi
Guiming Liu
Meng Zhang
Haiyan Guo
Jun Yu
King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology · SABeijing Institute of Genomics · CNChinese Academy of Sciences · CNKing Faisal University · SA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) is a cultivated woody plant species with agricultural and economic importance. Here we report a genome assembly for an elite variety (Khalas), which is 605.4 Mb in size and covers >90% of the genome (~671 Mb) and >96% of its genes (~41,660 genes). Genomic sequence analysis demonstrates that P. dactylifera experienced a clear genome-wide duplication after either ancient whole genome duplications or massive segmental duplications. Genetic diversity analysis indicates that its stress resistance and sugar metabolism-related genes tend to be enriched in the chromosomal regions where the density of single-nucleotide polymorphisms is relatively low. Using transcriptomic data, we also illustrate the date palm's unique sugar metabolism that underlies fruit development and ripening. Our large-scale genomic and transcriptomic data pave the way for further genomic studies not only on P. dactylifera but also other Arecaceae plants.

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ArecaceaeBase SequenceCarbohydrate MetabolismChromosomes, PlantGene DuplicationGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression Regulation, PlantGenes, PlantGenome, PlantMolecular Sequence AnnotationMultigene FamilyPhylogenyPolymorphism, Single NucleotideReproducibility of ResultsSynteny

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PMID23917264
PMCPMC3741641
OpenAlexW2043573189

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