Spinach (Spinacia oleracea) is a leafy flowering plant in the amaranth family (Amaranthaceae). It is native to Western Asia but is now cultivated around the world. Spinach contains a high amount of iron and calcium, as well as a high amount of carotenoids, vitamin C, and vitamin K which are essential to the human diet. The spinach genome is diploid with an estimated size of 989 Mb.
Genome release:
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15275
Xu, C., Jiao, C., Sun, H., Cai, X., Wang, X., Ge, C., Zheng, Y., Liu, W., Sun, X., Xu, Y. and Deng, J., 2017. Draft genome of spinach and transcriptome diversity of 120 Spinacia accessions. Nature communications, 8, p.15275.
Content written by Galyna Vakulenko Summer Intern 2018
