Author Topic: Our friend the trifoliate orange genome sequenced.  (Read 930 times)

kumin

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Our friend the trifoliate orange genome sequenced.
« on: November 21, 2020, 05:21:40 PM »
https://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=43947

I actually thought it had been sequenced earlier. Now we need to harness it's deciduous and cold hardy properties.

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Re: Our friend the trifoliate orange genome sequenced.
« Reply #1 on: November 22, 2020, 04:00:38 AM »
Genome sequencing is never-ending process  because of repeats and population polymorphism.
This recent achievement is covering 97% of poncirus genome

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Re: Our friend the trifoliate orange genome sequenced.
« Reply #2 on: November 22, 2020, 02:07:39 PM »
Thank you kumin and Ilya111 for your posts.  It is going to take a longer time to translate, read and then digest all of this information. 

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Re: Our friend the trifoliate orange genome sequenced.
« Reply #3 on: November 23, 2020, 08:15:13 AM »
I could have sworn I heard one of the speakers from UF at the Southeastern Citrus Expo two years ago say that Swingle citrumelo was resistant to HLB.

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