1) A spinach genome assembly with remarkable completeness, and its use for rapid identification of candidate genes for agronomic traits.
Hirakawa H, Toyoda A, Itoh T, Suzuki Y, Nagano AJ, Sugiyama S, Onodera Y
DNA Research, Volume 28, Issue 3, dsab004 (2021) 2) QTL analysis of femaleness in monoecious spinach and fine mapping of a major QTL using an updated version of chromosome-scale pseudomolecules.
Yamano K, Haseda A, Iwabuchi K, Osabe T, Sudo Y, Pachakkil B, Tanaka K, Suzuki Y, Toyoda A, Hirakawa H, Onodera Y
PLoS One, 19(2):e0296675 (2024)

About Spinach Genome DataBase

Spinach (Spinacia oleracea) is a member of the subfamily Chenopodioideae within the family Amaranthaceae, and grown as a nutritious leafy vegetable in over 50 countries worldwide. Unlike most members of Chenopodioideae (x = 9), spinach and other Spinacia members (S. turkestanica and S. tetrandra) are dioecious, and have n = x = 6 chromosomes including sex chromosomes (XY). Furthermore, spinach has also long served as a model to study plant sex determination and expression as well as flavonoid biosynthesis and chloroplast function. Toward accelerating spinach breeding efficiency and enhancing the value of this species as a model plant more and more, Spinach Genome DataBase provides a genome assembly (SOL_r1.1) and pseudomolecules (SOL_r1.0_pseudomolecule) for spinach (breeding line 03-009), as well as a set of predicted genes (SOL_r1.1a) from the genome assembly.

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