Fig. 2: The proposed roadmap to the horticultural plant genome project (HPGP).
From: Genome sequences of horticultural plants: past, present, and future
The first goal of HPGP is to generate all reference genome sequences for horticultural plants, after which pan-genomes and core collections will be generated as a gene bank for horticultural plants. Two recently developed methods would be applied to decode the highly ploidy and highly heterozygous horticultural genomes. The second goal is to detect the various genomic variations within a pan-genome. In addition, the mechanistic signatures leading to the variations would be explored. The third goal is to link the phenotypes with the genomic regions. Two methods would be applied: the quantitative trait locus (QTL) method to correlate genomic variations with a quantitative trait and the genome-wide association study (GWAS) method to associate genomic variation with many genomic variations from different individuals ***p < 0.001
