Accession

PRJCA001100

Title

The opium poppy genome and morphinan production

Relevance

Medical

Data types

Whole genome sequencing

Organisms

Papaver somniferum

Description

The opium poppy has been a source of painkillers since Neolithic times. Attendant risks of addiction threaten many today. Guo et al. now deliver a draft of the opium poppy genome, which encompasses 2.72 gigabases assembled into 11 chromosomes and predicts more than 50,000 protein-coding genes. A particularly complex gene cluster contains many critical enzymes in the metabolic pathway that generates the alkaloid drugs noscapine and morphinan.

Sample scope

Monoisolate

Release date

2018-10-27

Publication

PubMed ID	Article title	Journal name	DOI	Year
30166436	The opium poppy genome and morphinan production	Science	10.1126/science.aat4096	2018

Grants

Agency	program	Grant ID
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)	General Program	31671372
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)	Young Scientists Fund	31701739
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)	Young Scientists Fund	61702406
Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (MOST)	National Key R&D Program of China	2017YFC0907500
Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (MOST)	National Key R&D Program of China	2018YFC0910400
the Thousand Talents Plan		N/A
Wellcome Trust		WT098051
the Key Construction Program of the National 985 Project		N/A
the Garfield Weston Foundation		N/A
the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council		BB/K018809/1

Submitter

Xiaofei Yang (xfyang@xjtu.edu.cn)

Organization

Xi'an Jiaotong University

Submission date

2018-10-27

Project Data

Resource name	Description
BioSample (1)	-
SAMC047591	Opium poppy