Review Article

Insight on Rosaceae Family with Genome Sequencing and Functional Genomics Perspective

Table 1

Genome sequencing of important commercial plants belongs to the Rosaceae family.

Common nameSample nameChr numberGenome sizeCoverage (%)PlatformNumber of genesRepetitive sequences (Mb)Reference
Estimated (Mb)Assembled (Mb)

AppleMallus x domestica “Golden Delicous”2n=2x=34742.3603.981.3BAC + 45457,386362.3Velasco et al., 2010
Mallus x domestica “Golden Delicous” (Heterologous)701.0632.490.2Illumina+ PacBio53,922382.0Li et al., 2016
Mallus x domestica “Golden Delicous doubled-haploid”651.0649.799.8Illumina+ PacBio42,140372.2Daccord et al., 2017

PearPyrus bretschneideri “Dangshansuli”2n=2x=34512.0501.397.9BAC-by-BAC + Illumina42,812240.2Wu et al., 2013
Pyrus communis “Bartlett”600.0577.396.245443,419197.7Chagné et al., 2014

StrawberryFragaria vesca ssp vesca acc. Hawaii 42n=2x=14240.0239.599.8Illumina + 454 + SOLiD33,26449.8Shulaev et al., 2010
Fragaria x ananassa “Reikou”2n=8x=56692.0697.7100.8454 + Illumina64,947328.3Hirakawa et al., 2014
Fragaria iinumae2n=2x=14221.0199.690.326,41163.2
Fragaria nipponica208.0206.599.321,54052.5
Fragaria nubicola202.0203.7100.821,05349.9
Fragaria orientalis349.3214.261.317,23956.2

Chinese plum and Japanese apricotPrunus mume “Mei”2n=2x=16280.023784.6Illumina31,390106.8Zhang et al., 2012

PeachPrunus persica “Lovell” v1.02n=2x=16265.0224.684.7BAC-by-BAC27,85284.41Verde et al., 2013
Prunus persica “Lovell” v2.0227.485.8Illumina26,873-Verde et al., 2017

Sweet cherryPrunus avium “Santonishiki”2n=2x=16380.0272.477.8Illumina43,349119.4Shirasawa et al., 2017

RoseRosa chinensis “Old Blush”2n=2x=14560.0503.097.7Illumina+ PacBio36,377341.5Raymond et al., 2018
Rosa chinensis “Old Blush” (doubled haploid –“HapOB”)568.0±9.0512.090.1 ~ 96.1Illumina+ PacBio44,481279.6Saint-Oyant et al., 2018
Rosa multiflora75071194.8Illumina67,380417.2Nakamura et al., 2018

The higher size of genome assembled than the estimated could be either due to limitation in the kmer abundance analysis or duplication occurring during the genome assembly of highly repetitive region.