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Tomato Pangenome Added

16:52 06 March 2026 in Data sets, General News, Web Version

We have added the tomato pangenome described in the paper Shi, C., Chen, S., Wang, J. et al. A tomato telomere-to-telomere super-pangenome empowers stress resilience breeding. Nat Genet (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-026-02508-y. It has 20 annotated accessions.

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Chromosome 1 from several tomato accessions (AC, SL6.0_v2, LA0166, LA0426, M82, LA0111, LA0103) are aligned by connecting orthologous gene pairs

One of the accessions is SL6.0. This is the updated version of the main reference tomato genome Heinz 1706.

The table below lists all the assemblies and their URLs in Persephone.

OrganismGenome#Maps
Solanum cheesmaniaeTomato LA016612
Solanum chilenseTomato LA045812
Solanum chmielewskiiTomato LA102812
Solanum corneliomulleriTomato LA010312
Solanum galapagenseTomato LA042612
Solanum habrochaitesTomato LA177712
Solanum huaylasenseTomato LA198212
Solanum juglandifoliumTomato LA213412
Solanum lycopersicoidesTomato LA295112
Solanum lycopersicumTomato AC12
Solanum lycopersicumTomato TS-6012
Solanum lycopersicumTomato SL6.012
Solanum lycopersicumTomato TS-62312
Solanum lycopersicumTomato M8212
Solanum neorickiiTomato LA073512
Solanum ochranthumTomato LA216012
Solanum pennelliiTomato LA071612
Solanum peruvianumTomato LA011112
Solanum pimpinellifoliumTomato LA209312
Solanum sitiensTomato LA197412