Haplotype-resolved assembly of a tetraploid potato genome using long reads and low-depth offspring data
2024
Serra Mari, Rebecca | Schrinner, Sven | Finkers, Richard | Ziegler, Freya Maria Rosemarie | Arens, Paul | Schmidt, Maximilian H.W. | Usadel, Björn | Klau, Gunnar W. | Marschall, Tobias
Potato is one of the world’s major staple crops, and like many important crop plants, it has a polyploid genome. Polyploid haplotype assembly poses a major computational challenge. We introduce a novel strategy for the assembly of polyploid genomes and present an assembly of the autotetraploid potato cultivar Altus. Our method uses low-depth sequencing data from an offspring population to achieve chromosomal clustering and haplotype phasing on the assembly graph. Our approach generates high-quality assemblies of individual chromosomes with haplotype-specific sequence resolution of whole chromosome arms and can be applied in common breeding scenarios where collections of offspring are available.
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