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Abstract
The penstemons are ornamental annual flowering plants native to the Intermountain West and Rocky Mountains and commonly used for urban landscaping. Elite commercial penstemons are generally susceptible to abiotic stresses, including drought, root rot, cold, and high salinity. Firecracker penstemon (Penstemon eatonii), however, is much more tolerant to these stresses than most elite cultivars. Importantly, firecracker penstemon has been reported to hybridize with many other penstemons and therefore provides the opportunity to develop more tolerant elite cultivars through strategic crossing. To facilitate the study and utilization of firecracker penstemon, we sequenced and annotated the genome of a P. eatonii accession collected from Utah, United States. We also performed low-coverage whole-genome sequencing of 26 additional accessions from three different varieties of P. eatonii. This chromosome-scale genome assembly is the most contiguous and complete Penstemon genome sequenced to date.
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Published in Journal of Heredity, Volume 116, Issue 3, 2025.
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© 2024, © The American Genetic Association. 2024. This article is available under the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC license and permits non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
APA Citation
Jarvis, D. E., Stevens, M. R., Carter, P., Lin, Y. F., Jaggi, K. E., Jijon, G., Kalt, T., Calixto, J., Standring, S., Torres, K., Stephensen, K. B., Mangelson, H., Williams, N. H., Wessinger, C. A., Maughan, P. J., & Frandsen, P. B. (2024). Whole-genome assembly and annotation of the firecracker penstemon (Penstemon eatonii). Journal of Heredity, 116(3), 373–381. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esae058