Kalanchoe fedtschenkoi cultivar:M2 Genome sequencing and assembly

Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) is a water-use efficient adaptation of photosynthesis that has evolved independently many times in diverse lineages of flowering plants. Kalanchoe fedtschenkoi, an obligate CAM species, is a model species for research into the molecular biology and functional genomics of CAM due to its relatively small genome, low repetitive sequence content, and efficient stable transformation protocols. This genome sequence renders K. fedtschenkoi as a new model for plant evolutionary and comparative genomics research, both for CAM photosynthesis and beyond.