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The Kiwifruit Genome

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The Kiwifruit Genome

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The whole-genome sequence of Actinidia chinensis var. chinensis ‘Hongyang’ was published in 2013 and was represented as the first publicly available Ericales genome sequence. Publication in 2015 of an improved linkage map for A. chinensis and interspecific comparison analyses coupled with the availability of a second whole-genome sequence of a genotype closely related to ‘Hongyang’ have enabled the kiwifruit research community to improve the existing whole-genome sequence. This chapter describes the original genome sequence and steps towards its improvement.

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  1. The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Ltd, Private Bag 92169, Auckland, New Zealand

    Ross Crowhurst

  2. South China Botanical Garden, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xingke Road 723, Tianhe, Guangzhou, 510650, Guangdong, China

    Yifei Liu

  3. IGA Technology Services, Via J. Linussio, 51 - Z.I.U., 33100, Udine, Italy

    Davide Scaglione

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    Raffaele Testolin

  2. Chinese Academy of Sciences, South China Botanical Garden, Guangzhou, China

    Hong-Wen Huang

  3. for Plant & Food Research, The New Zealand Institute, Auckland, New Zealand

    Allan Ross Ferguson

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Crowhurst, R., Liu, Y., Scaglione, D. (2016). The Kiwifruit Genome. In: Testolin, R., Huang, HW., Ferguson, A. (eds) The Kiwifruit Genome. Compendium of Plant Genomes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32274-2_8

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