Soybean is one of the most important crops worldwide. A high-quality reference genome will facilitate its functional analysis and molecular breeding. Previously, biologists from China (Chinese Academy of Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Berry Genomics Corporation) de novo assembled a high-quality Chinese soybean genome—Gmax_ZH13 (Shen et al., 2018). However, due to technical limitations, a large number of small contigs were not anchored onto chromosomes.
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Source: Phys.org