Chromosome-scale reference genome provides insights into the genetic origin and grafting-mediated stress tolerance of Malus prunifolia

Affiliations

• ¹ State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas/Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Apple, College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China.
• ² Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology (Ministry of Education), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China.
• ³ Department of Genomics and Biology of Fruit Crops, Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all'Adige, Italy.
• ⁴ The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited, Auckland, New Zealand.
• ⁵ State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-Resources in Yunnan, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, China.
• ⁶ Yunnan Research Institute for Local Plateau Agriculture and Industry, Kunming, China.
• ⁷ Bioscience and Biotechnology Center, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan.