Description
Moringa oleifera is a fast-growing, drought-resistant tree of the family Moringaceae, native to the Indian subcontinent. It is widely cultivated for its young seed pods and leaves, used as vegetables and for traditional herbal medicine. The bark, sap, roots, leaves, seeds and flowers are used in traditional medicine. Research has examined how it might affect blood lipid profiles and insulin secretion. Extracts from leaves contain various polyphenols.
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Published journals
GigaScience
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Publish date
2018.12
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Sequence Method
Illumina HiSeq
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Assembly
CNA0000022
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Assembly Method
SOAPdenovo v. 2-2.04
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Genome Coverage
398x
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Scaffolds
22329
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Contigs
29972
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N50
45268
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Bioproject
PRJNA474418
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Data
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Reference url
https://academic.oup.com/gigascience/article/8/3/giy152/5232229
Reference
Yue Chang, Huan Liu, Min Liu, Xuezhu Liao, Sunil Kumar Sahu, Yuan Fu, Bo Song, Shifeng Cheng, Robert Kariba, Samuel Muthemba, Prasad S Hendre, Sean Mayes, Wai Kuan Ho, Anna E J Yssel, Presidor Kendabie, Sibo Wang, Linzhou Li, Alice Muchugi, Ramni Jamnadass, Haorong Lu, Shufeng Peng, Allen Van Deynze, Anthony Simons, Howard Yana-Shapiro, Yves Van de Peer, Xun Xu, Huanming Yang, Jian Wang, Xin Liu, The draft genomes of five agriculturally important African orphan crops, GigaScience, Volume 8, Issue 3, March 2019, giy152, https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giy152