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Beta vulgaris (beet) is a plant which is included in Betoideae subfamily in the Amaranthaceae family. It is the economically most important crop of the large order Caryophyllales. It has several cultivar groups: the sugar beet, of greatest importance to produce table sugar; the root vegetable known as the beetroot or garden beet; the leaf vegetables chard and spinach beet; and mangelwurzel, which is a fodder crop. Three subspecies are typically recognised. All cultivars fall into the subspecies Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris. The wild ancestor of the cultivated beets is the sea beet (Beta vulgaris subsp. maritima).

Data

We used Beta_vulgaris.RefBeet-1.2.2.38.gff3 and Beta_vulgaris.RefBeet-1.2.2.dna.toplevel.fa from ensembl as the reference genome. The Isoseq data downloaded from NCBI were under project SRP023136. We used TAPIS pipeline to process these raw data.

Summary

From Iso-Seq data, we found 16,665 transcripts, 102 novel genes and 3,937 Alternative Splicing events.

Reference

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_vulgaris
• http://plants.ensembl.org/Beta_vulgaris/Info/Index