Watermelon (Charleston Gray) v2.5 Genome

Description

Charleston gray is a principal American dessert watermelon cultivar developed by Charles Fredrick Andrus at the USDA Vegetable Breeding Laboratory in Charleston, South Carolina,. It is a cultivar well known for its resistance to both Fusarium wilt and anthracnose diseases. The Charleston gray genome assembly has a total size of 396 Mb and an N50 scaffold length of 7.5 Mb.

Publication

Wu S, Wang X, Reddy U, Sun H, Bao K, Gao L, Mao L, Patel T, Ortiz C, Abburi VL, Nimmakayala P, Branham S, Wechter P, Massey L, Ling KS, Kousik C, Hammar SA, Tadmor Y, Portnoy V, Gur A, Katzir N, Guner N, Davis A, Hernandez AG, Wright CL, McGregor C, Jarret R, Zhang X, Xu Y, Wehner TC, Grumet R, Levi A, Fei Z (2019) Genome of 'Charleston Gray', the principal American watermelon cultivar, and genetic characterization of 1,365 accessions in the U.S. National Plant Germplasm System watermelon collection. Plant Biotechnol J