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Myburg, Alexander A.
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Grattapaglia, Dario
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Tuskan, Gerald A.
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Vining, Kelly
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Amarasinghe, Vindhya
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Ranik, Martin
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Naithani, Sushma
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Elser, Justin
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Liston, Aaron
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Spatafora, Joseph W.
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Dharmawardhana, Palitha
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Raja, Rajani
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Strauss, Steven H.
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Jaiswal, Pankaj
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- Eucalypts are the world’s most widely planted hardwood trees. Their outstanding diversity, adaptability and growth have
made them a global renewable resource of fibre and energy. We sequenced and assembled >94% of the 640-megabase
genome of Eucalyptus grandis. Of 36,376 predicted protein-coding genes, 34% occur in tandem duplications, the largest
proportion thus far in plant genomes. Eucalyptus also shows the highest diversity of genes for specialized metabolites such as
terpenes that act as chemical defence and provide unique pharmaceutical oils. Genome sequencing of the E. grandis sister
species E. globulus and a set of inbred E. grandis tree genomes reveals dynamic genome evolution and hotspots of inbreeding
depression. The E. grandis genome is the first reference for the eudicot order Myrtales and is placed here sister to
the eurosids. This resource expands our understanding of the unique biology of large woody perennials and provides a
powerful tool to accelerate comparative biology, breeding and biotechnology.
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- Myburg, A. A., Grattapaglia, D., Tuskan, G. A., Hellsten, U., Hayes, R. D., Grimwood, J., ... & Schmutz, J. (2014). The genome of Eucalyptus grandis. Nature, 510(7505), 356-362. doi:10.1038/nature13308
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- The work conducted by the US Department of Energy JointGenome Institute is supported by the Office of Science of the US Department of Energyunder Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. The research and writing of the manuscriptwas supported, in part, by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research in theUS Department of Energy Office of Science under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 aspart of the US DOE Bioenergy Center. Funding for additional components of the studywas provided by the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI)through its research funding agencies (CNPq and FINEP), the Brazilian Federal DistrictResearch Foundation (FAP-DF), the public-private Genolyptus network of Brazilianforestry companies, the Tree Biosafety and Genomics Research Cooperative (TBGRC,Oregon State University), South African forestry companies Sappi and Mondi, theTechnology and Human Resources for Industry Programme (THRIP, UID 80118), theSouth African Department of Science and Technology (DST) and National ResearchFoundation (NRF, UID 18312 and 86936), the Laboratoire d’Excellence (LABEX TULIPANR-10-LABX-41), the Agence Nationale pour la Recherche (Project Tree For JoulesANR-2010-KBBE-007-01; Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT, P-KBBE/AGR_GPL/0001/2010), the Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS),the University Paul Sabatier Toulouse III (UPS). Part of this work was carried out usingthe Stevin Supercomputer Infrastructure at Ghent University, funded by GhentUniversity, the Hercules Foundation, and the Flemish Government–department EWI.
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