Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies have enabled high throughput sequencing of genomes and transriptomes of previously unexplored species. We have used NGS to create reference genomes and transcriptomes of plants adapted to multiple abiotic stresses. We use hybrid assembly pipelines to assemble millions of short reads into longest possible contiguous sequences that can serve as reference sequences for comparative genomics and transcriptomics in Focus2.

(See the RESOURCES page for updates on the genome assembly and annotation)