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Minireview AA ffrruuiittffuull oouuttccoommee ttoo tthhee ppaappaayyaa ggeennoommee pprroojjeecctt Fusheng Wei and Rod A Wing Address: Department of Plant Sciences and the Arizona Genomics Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA. Correspondence: Rod A Wing. Email: rwing@A Published: 6 June 2008 Genome BBiioollooggyy 2008, 99::227 (doi:10.1186/gb-2008-9-6-227) The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at /2008/9/6/227 © 2008 BioMed Central Ltd AAbbssttrraacctt The draft genome sequence of a transgenic virus-resistant papaya marks the first genome sequence of a commercially important transgenic crop plant. The nice thing about working with some plant genomes is approximately 3x coverage [1]. The majority of assembled that at the end of the day you can eat the fruits of your work. contigs added up to about 271 Mb (73% of the genome) with Originating from Central and South America, the papaya scaffolds spanning 370 Mb. About 167 Mb of sequence (or (Carica papaya) bears highly nutritious and delicious fruit 235 Mb of scaffolds) could be anchored to the integrated and is also a source of papain - a protease used for centuries genetic and physical map of the papaya genome. More than to tenderize meat. Papaya trees can grow 5-10 meters tall, half (52%) of the papaya genome comprises repetitive with large leaves 50-70 cm in diameter and fruits 15-45 cm sequences, mainly long terminal repeat retrotransposons. long and 10-30 cm in diameter (Figure 1). The papaya is Cytogenetic studies suggest that the genome is about 65-70% g