PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Xiao Su
AU  - Baoan Wang
AU  - Xiaolin Geng
AU  - Yuefan Du
AU  - Qinqin Yang
AU  - Bin Liang
AU  - Ge Meng
AU  - Qiang Gao
AU  - Sanwen Huang
AU  - Wencai Yang
AU  - Yingfang Zhu
AU  - Tao Lin
TI  - A high-continuity and annotated tomato reference genome
AID  - 10.1101/2021.05.04.441887
DP  - 2021 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 2021.05.04.441887
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2021/05/05/2021.05.04.441887.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2021/05/05/2021.05.04.441887.full
AB  - Genetic and functional genomics studies require a high-quality genome assembly. Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), an important horticultural crop, is an ideal model species for the study of fruit development. Here, we assembled an updated reference genome of S. lycopersicum cv. Heinz 1706 that was 799.09 Mb in length, containing 34,384 predicted protein-coding genes and 65.66% repetitive sequences. By comparing the genomes of S. lycopersicum and S. pimpinellifolium LA2093, we found a large number of genomic fragments probably associated with human selection, which may have had crucial roles in the domestication of tomato. Our results offer opportunities for understanding the evolution of the tomato genome and will facilitate the study of genetic mechanisms in tomato biology. Information for the assembled genome SLT1.0 was deposited both into the Genome Warehouse (GWH) database (https://bigd.big.ac.cn/gwh/) in the BIG Data Center under Accession Number GWHBAUD00000000.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest.