@article {2626,
	title = {The banana (Musa acuminata) genome and the evolution of monocotyledonous plants.},
	journal = {Nature},
	volume = {488},
	year = {2012},
	month = {08/2012},
	pages = {213-7},
	abstract = {Bananas (Musa spp.), including dessert and cooking types, are giant perennial monocotyledonous herbs of the order Zingiberales, a sister group to the well-studied Poales, which include cereals. Bananas are vital for food security in many tropical and subtropical countries and the most popular fruit in industrialized countries. The Musa domestication process started some 7,000 years ago in Southeast Asia. It involved hybridizations between diverse species and subspecies, fostered by human migrations, and selection of diploid and triploid seedless, parthenocarpic hybrids thereafter widely dispersed by vegetative propagation. Half of the current production relies on somaclones derived from a single triploid genotype (Cavendish). Pests and diseases have gradually become adapted, representing an imminent danger for global banana production. Here we describe the draft sequence of the 523-megabase genome of a Musa acuminata doubled-haploid genotype, providing a crucial stepping-stone for genetic improvement of banana. We detected three rounds of whole-genome duplications in the Musa lineage, independently of those previously described in the Poales lineage and the one we detected in the Arecales lineage. This first monocotyledon high-continuity whole-genome sequence reported outside Poales represents an essential bridge for comparative genome analysis in plants. As such, it clarifies commelinid-monocotyledon phylogenetic relationships, reveals Poaceae-specific features and has led to the discovery of conserved non-coding sequences predating monocotyledon-eudicotyledon divergence.},
	keywords = {Conserved Sequence, DNA Transposable Elements, Evolution, Molecular, Gene Duplication, Genes, Plant, Genome, Plant, Genotype, Haploidy, Molecular Sequence Data, Musa, Phylogeny},
	issn = {1476-4687},
	doi = {10.1038/nature11241},
	author = {D{\textquoteright}Hont, Ang{\'e}lique and Denoeud, France and Aury, Jean-Marc and Franc-Christophe Baurens and Carreel, Fran{\c c}oise and Garsmeur, Olivier and Noel, Benjamin and St{\'e}phanie Bocs and Droc, Ga{\"e}tan and Rouard, Mathieu and Da Silva,C. and Jabbari, Kamel and Cardi, C{\'e}line and Poulain, Julie and Souquet, Marl{\`e}ne and Labadie, Karine and Jourda, Cyril and Lengelle, Juliette and Rodier-Goud, Marguerite and Alberti, Adriana and Bernard, Maria and Correa, Margot and Ayyampalayam, Saravanaraj and Mckain, Michael R and Leebens-Mack, Jim and Burgess, Diane and Freeling, Mike and Mb{\'e}gui{\'e}-A-Mb{\'e}gui{\'e}, Didier and Chabannes, Matthieu and Wicker, Thomas and Panaud, Olivier and Barbosa, Jose and Hribova, Eva and Heslop-Harrison, Pat and Habas, R{\'e}my and Rivallan, Ronan and Francois, Philippe and Poiron, Claire and Kilian, Andrzej and Burthia, Dheema and Jenny, Christophe and Bakry, Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric and Brown, Spencer and Guignon, Valentin and Kema, Gert and Dita, Miguel and Waalwijk, Cees and Joseph, Steeve and Dievart,Anne and Jaillon, Olivier and Leclercq, Julie and Xavier Argout and Lyons, Eric and Almeida, Ana and Jeridi, Mouna and Dolezel, Jaroslav and Nicolas Roux and Risterucci,A. M and Weissenbach, Jean and Ruiz, M and Jean Christophe Glaszmann and Qu{\'e}tier, Francis and Yahiaoui, Nabila and Wincker, Patrick}
}
