High-value plant metabolite production in synthetic biosystems

Ephedra sinica is a high-value medicinal plant that produces important
phenylpropylamino alkaloids pseudoephedrine and ephedrine. Few genomics
resources exist for E. sinica, which has been characterized as a
tetraploid with a monoploid genome size of 8.56 Gb. Here we reported a
partial genome assembly of E. sinica (12.8 Gb) based on
Illumina short-read sequencing technology at low coverage.

草麻黄（Ephedra sinica）是一种高价值药用植物，可产生重要的苯丙基氨基生物碱（phenylpropylamino alkaloids）伪麻黄碱与麻黄碱。目前草麻黄的基因组学资源十分有限，其被鉴定为四倍体，单倍体基因组大小为8.56 Gb。本研究基于低覆盖度的Illumina短读长测序技术，报道了草麻黄的部分基因组组装结果（12.8 Gb）。