A long road ahead to reliable and complete medicinal plant genomes

Abstract Long-read DNA sequencing has propelled medicinal plant genomics forward, with over 400 genomes from 203 plants sequenced by February 2025. However, many genomes still have assembly and annotation flaws, with only 11 gapless telomere-to-telomere assemblies. The core challenge remains identif...

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Main Authors: Ling-Tong Cheng, Zi-Long Wang, Qian-Hao Zhu, Min Ye, Chu-Yu Ye
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2025-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-57448-8