On October 9, Southwest University held a press conference to announce that the team of Professor Dai Fangyin, Director of the State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology and Chief Scientist of the National Sericulture Industry Technology System, completed the genome analysis of large-scale silkworm germplasm resources. The silkworm super pan-genome map, related research papers were recently published online in the international journal Nature Communications.
For the study of silkworm genes, there was only a single reference genome and partial resequencing data before, which was not enough to support the deep mining of genome variation and excellent genes, especially for molecular breeding, which had significant limitations.
The latest research results, as a new milestone in the world silkworm genome research, will open a new era of silkworm design breeding and multiple innovative utilization.
According to reports, the world's first silkworm super pan-genome map is the first in the world to digitize the silkworm gene bank, and it is the largest long-read pan-genome among animals and plants so far. Bridge", will promote the scientific development of sericulture into the fast lane.
(Reporter Zhong Yi produced Xu Miaoqiao)
Responsible editor: [Liu Xingchen]