Vladimir Shulaev is a researcher in plant genomics. As first author of a large collaborative study published online in 2010, he helped produce a reference genome for woodland strawberry, Fragaria vesca. This diploid plant has 14 chromosomes and a relatively small genome, making it a useful model organism for studying strawberry and related crops.[ref]
The genome of woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca) by Vladimir Shulaev and others. Abstract and author byline; Nature Genetics 43, 109–116, 2011; online 26 December 2010
The team used DNA sequencing at about 39-fold coverage to assemble the roughly 240-million-base genome, then used a genetic map to organize the assembly into seven chromosome-scale sequences. Repeatedly reading overlapping stretches of DNA supplies evidence for their order; a genetic map supplies a separate kind of evidence about which stretches belong together. The resulting genome lets researchers locate candidate genes for flowering and fruit traits and compare them with corresponding genes in other plants.[ref]
The genome of woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca) by Vladimir Shulaev and others. Abstract: sequencing coverage, seven pseudochromosomes and horticultural gene candidates
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