Future Improvements in Pecan Breeding

Valued Genomes Published in Nature Communications

Nuts and Nut Clusters of the Four Reference Genomes

Photo Credit: USDA ARS

Standardized images of nuts and nut cluters just before maturity for the four reference genomes.

By njcflocal

July 09, 2021

In a project funded by the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), a team of scientists, including several from the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology and USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS), created a valuable tool for future improvements in pecan breeding by sequencing the complete genomes of four varieties of the cultivated pecan tree. The study was published in Nature Communications. Read more from our fellow researchers at Hudson Alpha.