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Species Profile | Genome Assembly |
Species
- Panax ginseng C. A. Meyer
- Panax notoginseng (Burkill) F. H. Chen
- Panax zingiberensis C.Y. Wu&K.M. Feng
- Panax quinquefolius L.
- Panax japonicus C.A.Mey.var.Major
- Panax japonicus C.A.Mey
- Panax stipuleanatus H. T. Tsai&K. M. Feng
- Panax vietnamensis C.Y. Wu&K.M. Feng
- Panax vietnamensis var.langbianensis
- Panax vietnamensis var.fuscidiscus
- Panax bipinnatifidus var.angustifolius (Burkill) J. Wen
- Panax bipinnatifidus Seen
- Panax pseudoginseng Wallich
- Panax trifolius L.
- Panax sokpayensis
- Panax wangianus Sun
Species Profile

Genus | Panax |
Species | Panax quinquefolius L. |
Common name | American ginseng; Xiyangseng |
Synonyms | |
Chromosome | 2n=4x=48 |
Utilization | medicinal |
Distribution | Widely cultivated in Guizhou,Heilongjiang,Jiangsu,Jiangxi,Jilin,Liaoning,China;Native to Canada and the United States. |
Description
Herbs, perennial,20-50 cm tall.Rootstock spindle-shaped.Leaves palmately compound; bases of petiole and petiolules with numerous lanceolate,stipulelike appendages; leaflets oblong-obovate,8-14 × (2-)2.5-8 cm,membranous,sparsely setose on veins or glabrous adaxially,margin coarsely serrate or dentate,apex abruptly or boldly acuminate.Inflorescence a solitary,terminal umbel 6-20-flowered; peduncle not exceeding petioles.Ovary 2-carpellate; styles 2.Fruit bright red,ca.1.2 cm in diam.
References
QIN Haining, et al, 2021, China Checklist of Higher Plants, In the Biodiversity Committee of Chinese Academy of Sciences ed., Catalogue of Life China: 2021 Annual Checklist, Beijing, China
Genome assembly
Items | 2017a | 2017b | 2020a | 2020b | 2021a | 2017 | 2018 |
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Plant material | Notoginseng | Notoginseng | Notoginseng | Notoginseng | Notoginseng | 4nullyearoldP. ginseng line IR826 | P.Ginsengcultivar “Chunpoong” |
Size of raw data(Gb) | 385.28 | 1837.6 | 178.19 | 240.22 | 424 | 391.46 | 746 Gb pairednullend and 365 Gb matenullpaired raw data |
Total length of contigs (Gb) | 1.53 | 1.99 | - | 2.25 | 2.4 | 3.00 | 2.99 |
Number of contigs | 225513 | 563700 | - | - | 2993 | 39.48kb | - |
Contig N50 | 13.16 kb | 15.99 kb | 1.12 Mb | 220.89kb | 1.45Mb | 21.98Kb | 13.2 kb |
Longest contig (bp) | 120.91 kb | 199.81 kb | 13.35 Mb | 7.10Mb | - | 574.18Kb | - |
Number of scaffolds | 76517 | 122131 | 13292 | 219 | 5218 | 9072 | 9845 |
Scaffold N50 | 157.81 kb | 96.16 kb | 216.47Mb | 173.39 Mb | 196.33 Mb | 108.71kb | 158 kb |
Longest scaffold (bp) | 1.19 Mb | 834.33 kb | 295.55 Mb | 219.05Mb | 460.99kb | 1303.41kb | 3.64Mb |
GC content (%) | 34.85 | 28.65 | 34.45 | 34.02 | 34.43 | 42 | 35 |
Number of genes | 34369 | 36790 | 37606 | 39452 | 47870 | 42006 | 59352 |
Average gene length (bp) | 2705 | 3307 | 5060 | 3883 | - | - | - |
Complete BUSCOs (%)(Genome) | - | 94.5 | 96.6 | 89.3 | 95.4 | - | - |
BUSCOs (%)(Gene set) | 71.3 | 74.1 | - | 82.5 | 94 | 69.9 | 94.6 |
Average CDS length (bp) | 957 | 942 | 1203 | 1002 | 1444 | - | 1120 |
Average exon length (bp) | 251.39 | 211.92 | 231 | 224.65 | 293.09 | - | - |
Average exon number per gene | 3.8 | 4.45 | 5.21 | 4.5 | 4.9 | - | - |
Average transcript length (bp) | 2,705 (UTR excluded) | 3307 | 3759 | 5060 | 5183 | - | - |
Percentage of repeat sequences (%) | 61.31 | 81.26 | 85.85 | 79.07 | 88.2 | 62.17 | - |
Percentage of LTRnullRTs (%) | 57.41 | 66.72 | 58.88 | - | 81.2 | 83.5 | - |
Reference | (Zhang et al., 2017) | (Chen et al., 2017) | (Jiang et al.,2020) | (Fan et al.,2020) | (Yang et al.,2021) | (Xu et al.,2017) | (Jayakodi et al.,2017) |