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Representation and participation across 20 years of plant genome sequencing
The field of plant genome sequencing has grown rapidly in the past 20 years, leading to increases in the quantity and quality of publicly available genomic resources. The growing wealth of genomic data from an increasingly diverse set of taxa provides unprecedented potential to better understand the...
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2021
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author | Marks, Rose A. Hotaling, Scott Frandsen, Paul B. VanBuren, Robert |
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description | The field of plant genome sequencing has grown rapidly in the past 20 years, leading to increases in the quantity and quality of publicly available genomic resources. The growing wealth of genomic data from an increasingly diverse set of taxa provides unprecedented potential to better understand the genome biology and evolution of land plants. Here we provide a contemporary view of land plant genomics, including analyses on assembly quality, taxonomic distribution of sequenced species and national participation. We show that assembly quality has increased dramatically in recent years, that substantial taxonomic gaps exist and that the field has been dominated by affluent nations in the Global North and China, despite a wide geographic distribution of study species. We identify numerous disconnects between the native range of focal species and the national affiliation of the researchers studying them, which we argue are rooted in colonialism—both past and present. Luckily, falling sequencing costs, widening availability of analytical tools and an increasingly connected scientific community provide key opportunities to improve existing assemblies, fill sampling gaps and empower a more global plant genomics community. |
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spelling | pubmed-86776202021-12-29 Representation and participation across 20 years of plant genome sequencing Marks, Rose A. Hotaling, Scott Frandsen, Paul B. VanBuren, Robert Nat Plants Article The field of plant genome sequencing has grown rapidly in the past 20 years, leading to increases in the quantity and quality of publicly available genomic resources. The growing wealth of genomic data from an increasingly diverse set of taxa provides unprecedented potential to better understand the genome biology and evolution of land plants. Here we provide a contemporary view of land plant genomics, including analyses on assembly quality, taxonomic distribution of sequenced species and national participation. We show that assembly quality has increased dramatically in recent years, that substantial taxonomic gaps exist and that the field has been dominated by affluent nations in the Global North and China, despite a wide geographic distribution of study species. We identify numerous disconnects between the native range of focal species and the national affiliation of the researchers studying them, which we argue are rooted in colonialism—both past and present. Luckily, falling sequencing costs, widening availability of analytical tools and an increasingly connected scientific community provide key opportunities to improve existing assemblies, fill sampling gaps and empower a more global plant genomics community. Nature Publishing Group UK 2021-11-29 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8677620/ /pubmed/34845350 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41477-021-01031-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Marks, Rose A. Hotaling, Scott Frandsen, Paul B. VanBuren, Robert Representation and participation across 20 years of plant genome sequencing |
title | Representation and participation across 20 years of plant genome sequencing |
title_full | Representation and participation across 20 years of plant genome sequencing |
title_fullStr | Representation and participation across 20 years of plant genome sequencing |
title_full_unstemmed | Representation and participation across 20 years of plant genome sequencing |
title_short | Representation and participation across 20 years of plant genome sequencing |
title_sort | representation and participation across 20 years of plant genome sequencing |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8677620/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34845350 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41477-021-01031-8 |
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