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Research Project: Characterizing and Evaluating the Genetic Diversity and Horticultural Value of Genetic Resources for Cacao and Other Tropical tree crops Economically important to the United States

Location: Sustainable Perennial Crops Laboratory

Title: Genome assemblies of Erythroxylum. coca var. ipadu and Erythroxylum novogranatense var. truxillense

Author
item PIRRO, STACY - Iridian Genomes
item WHITE, DAWSON - Field Museum Natural History
item Bailey, Bryan
item Meinhardt, Lyndel

Submitted to: F1000Research
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 4/25/2022
Publication Date: 4/25/2022
Citation: Pirro, S., White, D., Bailey, B.A., Meinhardt, L.W. 2022. Genome assemblies of Erythroxylum. coca var. ipadu and Erythroxylum novogranatense var. truxillense. F1000Research. 11:457. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.108549.1.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.108549.1

Interpretive Summary: In South America four species of Erythroxylum are use as commercial sources of cocaine, a tropane alkaloid. Two species of coca, Erythroxylum coca var. ipadu and Erythroxylum novogranatense var. truxillense, were used in this study to develop draft genomes sequences and annotation of these two species. The raw and assembled data are available online at Genebank. This information will be used by researchers to understand the importance genetic differences that differential these plant species.

Technical Abstract: Two species of coca, Erythroxylum coca var. ipadu and Erythroxylum novogranatense var. truxillense, are cultivated in South America and both have been utilized as commercial sources of cocaine, a tropane alkaloid. We present the genome sequences and annotation of these two species. Illumina paired-end reads were assembled de novo by Spades and finished with Zanfona. Annotation was performed via GenMark-ES. The raw and assembled data is available on Genbank.