Research

Publications, presentations and new research activities utilising data from the Genomics for Australian Plants Initiative will be added here.


GAP Publications and accession numbers

Acacia pycnantha (golden wattle) reference genome project
Syme, A., McLay, T., Udovicic, F., Cantrill, D. and Murphy, D., 2021. Long-read assemblies reveal structural diversity in genomes of organelles – an example with Acacia pycnantha. Gigabyte, 2021, pp.1-23.
https://doi.org/10.46471/gigabyte.36

McLay, T. G. B., Murphy, D. J., Holmes, G. D., Mathews, S., Brown, G. K., Cantrill, D. J., Udovicic, F., Allnutt, T. R., and Jackson, C. J. (2022). A genome resource for Acacia, Australia’s largest plant genus. PLOS ONE, 17(10), e0274267.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0274267

Accession numbers:
The Acacia genome project data (chloroplast and nuclear genome are the same archived reads):
Bioproject: PRJNA752212
BioSamples: SAMN20587791


Telopea speciosissima (waratah) reference genome project
Chen, S., Rossetto, M., Merwe, M., Lu‐Irving, P., Yap, J., Sauquet, H., Bourke, G., Amos, T., Bragg, J. and Edwards, R., 2022. Chromosome‐level de novo genome assembly of Telopea speciosissima (New South Wales waratah) using long‐reads, linked‐reads and Hi‐C. Molecular Ecology Resources,.
https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13574

Accession numbers: The Tspe_v1 genome was deposited to NCBI under BioProject PRJNA712988 and BioSample along with the raw data (ONT, 10x and Hi-C) to SRA as SRR14018636, SRR14018635 and SRR14018634.


Jones, A., Torkel, C., Stanley, D., Nasim, J., Borevitz, J., and Schwessinger, B. 2021. High-molecular weight DNA extraction, clean-up and size selection for long-read sequencing. PLOS ONE, 16(7), e0253830.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0253830

Ferguson, S., McLay, T., Andrew, R. L., Bruhl, J. J., Schwessinger, B., Borevitz, J., & Jones, A. (2022). Species-specific basecallers improve actual accuracy of nanopore sequencing in plants. Plant Methods, 18(1).
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13007-022-00971-2


Jackson C, McLay T, Schmidt-Lebuhn AN, in press. hybpiper-nf and paragone-nf: Containerization and additional option for target capture assembly and paralog resolution. Applications in Plant Sciences
[Note: Publication accepted, will be available online in April 2023]


Publications – Using GAP data

Schmidt-Lebuhn, A. N. (2022). Sequence capture data support the taxonomy of. Australian Systematic Botany, 35(4), 317–325.
https://doi.org/10.1071/sb22010

Schmidt-Lebuhn, A. N., Egli, D., Grealy, A., Nicholls, J. A., Zwick, A., Dymock, J. J., & Gooden, B. (2022). Genetic data confirm the presence of Senecio madagascariensis in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany, 1–13.
https://doi.org/10.1080/0028825x.2022.2148544


Barrett, R.L., Clugston, J.A.R., Cook, L.G., Crisp, M.D., Jobson, P.C., Lepschi, B.J., Renner, M.A.M. and Weston, P.H. (2021). Understanding Diversity and Systematics in Australian Fabaceae Tribe Mirbelieae. Diversity, 13(8), p.391. https://doi.org/10.3390/d13080391

Weston, P.H. (2022) Proteaceae. Flora of North America North of Mexico 10-11 (Oxford University Press: New York and Oxford).

Renner, M. A. M., Barrett, R. L., Clarke, S., Clugston, J. A. R., Wilson, T. C., & Weston, P. H. (2022). Morphological and molecular evidence refute a broad circumscription for. Australian Systematic Botany, 35(3), 127–179.
https://doi.org/10.1071/sb21030

Wilson, T. C., Rossetto, M., Bain, D., Yap, J. S., Wilson, P. D., Stimpson, M. L., Weston, P. H., & Croft, L. (2022). A turn in species conservation for hairpin banksias: demonstration of oversplitting leads to better management of diversity. American Journal of Botany, 109(10), 1652–1671.
https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.16074


Simões, A. R. G., Eserman, L. A., Zuntini, A. R., Chatrou, L. W., Utteridge, T. M. A., Maurin, O., Rokni, S., Roy, S., Forest, F., Baker, W. J., & Stefanović, S. 2022. A Bird’s Eye View of the Systematics of Convolvulaceae: Novel Insights From Nuclear Genomic Data. Frontiers in Plant Science, 13.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.889988


Joyce E, Appelhans M, Buerki S, Cheek M, De Vos J, Pirani J, Zuntini A, Bachelier J, Bayly M, Callmander M, Devecchi M, Pell S, Groppo M, Lowry II P, Mitchell J, Siniscalchi C, Munzinger J, Orel H, Pannell C, Nauheimer L, Sauquet H, Weeks A, Muellner-Riehl A, Leitch I, Maurin O, Forest F, Nargar K, Thiele K, Baker W, Crayn D (2023) Phylogenomic analyses of Sapindales support new family relationships, rapid Mid-Cretaceous hothouse diversification, and heterogeneous histories of gene duplication. Frontiers in Plant Science 14,.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2023.1063174 
[Note: Publication accepted]