An international research group has published a draft genome of a Lovell peach variety of Prunus persica, researchers involved in the project said today.
The International Peach Genome Initiative (IPGI) has released online a high-quality draft with assembled scaffolds covering nearly 99 percent of the peach genome, the researchers said.
P. persica is considered one of the most well characterized members of the economically important Rosaceae family, which includes apple, pear, raspberry, and rose.
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