And the genome really is "short and sweet", weighing in at just 240 million bases of DNA. (See the paper here.) That's pretty small, for a plant. The apple tree genome is over ten times larger, and the pine tree is 100 times larger. But strawberries are sweeter.
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Short and sweet: the strawberry genome
Happy holidays to everyone, and here's a very short seasonal post: the strawberry genome is here! Kevin Folta from the University of Florida led the effort to put the paper together for the journal Nature Genetics, and he has a nice behind-the-scenes summary on his blog here. One tasty tidbit is that the initial proposal for funding failed because the peach and apple genomes had stronger support - but strawberry beat them both (neither of those genomes is yet complete). It's the first plant to be assembled entirely from next-generation sequences, thanks in large part to the efforts of assembly guru Art Delcher.
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Well the apple genome was published, it's just such a complete mess of an assembly (overlapping contigs that contain very different sequences) that it is difficult to use for many research purposes.
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