A Chromosome-level Genome Assembly of , a Tomato Wild Relative Associated with Resistance to Salinity and Drought

Overview

Journal Front Plant Sci

Date 2024 Mar 25

PMID 38525148

Authors

Corentin Molitor

Tomasz J Kurowski

Pedro M Fidalgo de Almeida

Zoltan Kevei

Daniel J Spindlow

Steffimol R Chacko Kaitholil

Justice U Iheanyichi

H C Prasanna

Andrew J Thompson

Fady R Mohareb

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Abstract

Introduction: is a wild relative of tomato reported to exhibit resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses. There is potential to improve tomato cultivars via breeding with wild relatives, a process greatly accelerated by suitable genomic and genetic resources.

Methods: In this study we generated a high-quality, chromosome-level, assembly for the accession LA1972 using a hybrid assembly strategy with ~180 Gbp of Illumina short reads and ~50 Gbp long PacBio reads. Further scaffolding was performed using Bionano optical maps and 10x Chromium reads.

Results: The resulting sequences were arranged into 12 pseudomolecules using Hi-C sequencing. This resulted in a 901 Mbp assembly, with a completeness of 95%, as determined by Benchmarking with Universal Single-Copy Orthologs (BUSCO). Sequencing of RNA from multiple tissues resulting in ~219 Gbp of reads was used to annotate the genome assembly with an RNA-Seq guided gene prediction, and for a transcriptome assembly. This chromosome-level, high-quality reference genome for accession LA1972 will support future breeding efforts for more sustainable tomato production.

Discussion: Gene sequences related to drought and salt resistance were compared between and to identify amino acid variations with high potential for functional impact. These variants were subsequently analysed in 84 resequenced tomato lines across 12 different related species to explore the variant distributions. We identified a set of 7 putative impactful amino acid variants some of which may also impact on fruit development for example the and . These variants could be tested for their ability to confer functional phenotypes to cultivars that have lost these variants.

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