A Gold Standard to Deconvolute Complicated Structures of Plant Genomes with Recursive Polyploidizations

Plants often have complex genomes, due to recursive polyploidizations and genome repatterning. This makes it difficult to deconvolute their genome structures, and barrier the understanding their formation and the exploration of gene functional evolution. It would be a great pity if failing to decipher a newly sequenced genome structure when enormous amount of money and time invested. However, such failures occurred quite often in last several years. Here, we propose our approach to perform the genome structural analysis, adopted by quite several plant genome sequencing efforts, which we suggest be taken as a gold-standard to analyze a new genome sequence.