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Almond genome has been sequenced, and this has been possible thanks to next generation sequencing technologies like Illumina, PacBio, Oxford Nanopore and Pacific Biosciences, among others. The first chromosome-scale almond genome sequenced was done using the Lauranne cultivar, a sweet homozygous, self-compatible, hard-shell French cultivar, with an estimated size of 246 Mb. With this sequencing, the domestication of wild bitter almonds to sweet ones was finally elucidated. The second almond cultivar sequenced was Texas, a cultivar important in the California Almond Breeding Programs, which estimated size was 238 Mb. Recently, the genome of the most widely grown almond cultivar, Nonpareil, has been sequenced (257.2 Mb), in a parallel study of the methylome. For almond molecular breeders, this is a great opportunity to develop new cultivars to meet the new challenges we are facing today and be ready for the future ones.
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This work is produced with the support of a “2020 Leonardo Grant for Researchers and Cultural Creators, BBVA Foundation” to AUSTRAL project. The foundation takes no responsibility for the opinions, statements, and contents of this project, which are entirely the responsibility of its authors. This work has also been supported by the project “ALADINO-MAGIC” funded by Ministry of Science and Innovation (Spain).
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Sánchez-Pérez, R., Martínez-García, P.J., Fernández i Martí, Á. (2023). The Complete Sequence of the Almond Genome. In: Sánchez-Pérez, R., Fernandez i Marti, A., Martinez-Gomez, P. (eds) The Almond Tree Genome. Compendium of Plant Genomes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30302-0_3
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