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Plant genomes sequenced and published

This website attempts to track sequenced plant genomes which have been published in peer-reviewed journals. The graph below displays the increase of published sequenced plant genomes in the past decade.  Bright green  bars show the number of plant species having their genome published at least once.  Green  bars refer to genomes which have been published at least twice and  dark green  bars to genomes published three or more times.

Cladogram views

The cladogram views arrange published plant genomes according to the phylogenetic position of the plant species. The cladograms for flowering plants and non-flowering plants are displayed separately. For seed plants, an overview cladogram is available. The taxonomy for the cladogram views is based on:

• Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, APG version IV (Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2016)
• NCBI Taxonomy database (Schoch et al. 2020)
• AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, University of Galway.
  Guiry MD & Guiry GM 2024. www.algaebase.org (searched on October 17, 2024)

Scientific names were cross-checked:

• World Checklist of Vascular Plants, WCVP (Govaerts et al. 2021)

The lowest taxonomic rank taken into account is the species rank. Genomes of different subspecies or varieties are pooled into a single species. A mouse-over on the scientific name pops up a box with a common name (if available), the genome size and the citations (maximum of three publications for plants that have their genomes sequenced multiple times). A click on the cited source of an article links to the full-text publication of that article.

Timeline view

The timeline view displays published plant genomes according to their first publication date. If there are more than one publication for an individual plant species on the same date, the publication with the earliest acceptance date is listed. If a single publication describes several species of the same genus, the genus and spp. (species pluralis) is displayed on the timeline and the corresponding mouse-over tooltip lists the individual species from the publication.
The mouse-over functionality also displays a common name (if available), the estimated genome size and the citation of the first publication. A mouse-click links to the full-text publication.

Criteria

The criteria for being listed as a published plant genome are...

• the publication has been released in a recognized peer-reviewed journal
• the organism belongs to an eukaryote of the Archaeplastida group (comprised of land plants, green algae, glaucophytes, red algae and Rhodelphidia)
• the genome has been fully sequenced
• the sequences have been assembled to a high quality reference genome level (e.g. scaffolds/long-read contigs and/or pseudo-chromosome level)
• the assembly underwent structural gene annotation

Disclaimer

The views display scientific names of plant species and their phylogenetic position for illustration purpose only. They do not claim to be an authoritative source for correct plant nomenclature and classification. The curators have attempted to the best of their ability to include all published plant genomes (with some minimal criteria). Inclusion of a published plant genome should not be interpreted as an endorsement of the quality of the genome assembly.
Feel free to contact us (plabipd@fz-juelich.de) if you see any omissions or errors.

Acknowlegdements

We gratefully acknowledge the Javascript code libraries that are used on this website.