A Haplotype-resolved, Chromosome-scale Genome for Malus domestica Borkh. 'WA 38'.

Genome sequencing for agriculturally important Rosaceous crops has made rapid progress both in completeness and annotation quality. Whole genome sequence and annotation gives breeders, researchers, and growers information about cultivar specific traits such as fruit quality and disease resistance, and informs strategies to enhance postharvest storage. Here we present a haplotype-phased, chromosomal level genome of Malus domestica, 'WA 38', a new apple cultivar released to market in 2017 as Cosmic Crisp®.

A Critical Appraisal of DNA Transfer from Plants to Parasitic Cyst Nematodes.

Plant-parasitic nematodes are one of the most economically important pests of crops. It is widely accepted that horizontal gene transfer-the natural acquisition of foreign genes in parasitic nematodes-contributes to parasitism. However, an apparent paradox has emerged from horizontal gene transfer analyses: On the one hand, distantly related organisms with very dissimilar genetic structures (i.

A low-cost and open-source solution to automate imaging and analysis of cyst nematode infection assays for Arabidopsis thaliana.

Background: Cyst nematodes are one of the major groups of plant-parasitic nematode, responsible for considerable crop losses worldwide. Improving genetic resources, and therefore resistant cultivars, is an ongoing focus of many pest management strategies. One of the major bottlenecks in identifying the plant genes that impact the infection, and thus the yield, is phenotyping.