Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510650, China.
State Key Laboratory of Plant Diversity and Specialty Crops, South China Botanical Garden, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510650, China.
Sci Data. 2024 May 22;11(1):526. doi: 10.1038/s41597-024-03376-z.
Ficus species (Moraceae) play pivotal roles in tropical and subtropical ecosystems. Thriving across diverse habitats, from rainforests to deserts, they harbor a multitude of mutualistic and antagonistic interactions with insects, nematodes, and pathogens. Despite their ecological significance, knowledge about the genomic background of Ficus remains limited. In this study, we report a chromosome-level reference genome of F. hirta, with a total size of 297.27 Mb, containing 28,625 protein-coding genes and 44.67% repeat sequences. These findings illuminate the genetic basis of Ficus responses to environmental challenges, offering valuable genomic resources for understanding genome size, adaptive evolution, and co-evolution with natural enemies and mutualists within the genus.
榕属植物（桑科）在热带和亚热带生态系统中起着至关重要的作用。它们在从雨林到沙漠等各种生境中茁壮成长，与昆虫、线虫和病原体之间存在着多种互利和拮抗的相互作用。尽管它们具有生态意义，但关于榕属植物的基因组背景的知识仍然有限。在这项研究中，我们报告了榕属植物 F. hirta 的染色体水平参考基因组，其总大小为 297.27 Mb，包含 28625 个蛋白质编码基因和 44.67%的重复序列。这些发现阐明了榕属植物对环境挑战的遗传基础，为理解基因组大小、适应性进化以及与该属内的天敌和互利共生体的共同进化提供了有价值的基因组资源。
