• A high-quality carrot genome assembly provides new insights into carotenoid accumulation and asterid genome evolution 

      Iorizzo, Massimo; Ellison, Shelby L.; Senalik, Douglas A.; Peng, Zeng; Satapoomin, Pimchanok; Jiaying, Huang; Bowman, Megan; Iovene, Marina; Sanseverino, Walter; Cavagnaro, Pablo; Yildiz, Mehtap; Macko-Podgórni, Alicja; Moranska, Emilia; Grzebelus, Ewa; Grzebelus, Dariusz; Ashrafi, Hamid; Zhijun, Zheng; Shifeng, Cheng; Spooner, David M.; Deynze, Allen Van; Simon, Philipp W. (2016)
      We report a high-quality chromosome-scale assembly and analysis of the carrot (Daucus carota) genome, the first sequenced genome to include a comparative evolutionary analysis among members of the euasterid II clade. We ...