Domesticated Apple Genome, Now Sequenced

Submitted by admin on Wed, 09/15/2010 - 17:12

An international team of researchers published the Apple (Malus × domestica Borkh.) genome in the Journal Nature Genetics on August 29, 2010. (Velasco et al 2010). This is the first report of a plant genome sequencing from a member of the Rosaceae taxonomic family. The genome putatively contains about 57,000 genes.