About the Authors

Rafał Wóycicki

zbigniew_przybecki@sggw.pl (ZP); stanislaw_karpinski@sggw.pl (SK); rafalwoycicki@gmail.com (RW)

Affiliation Department of Plant Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology, Faculty of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW, Nowoursynowska, Warsaw, Poland

Justyna Witkowicz

Affiliation Department of Plant Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology, Faculty of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW, Nowoursynowska, Warsaw, Poland

Piotr Gawroński

Affiliation Department of Plant Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology, Faculty of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW, Nowoursynowska, Warsaw, Poland

Joanna Dąbrowska

Affiliation Department of Plant Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology, Faculty of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW, Nowoursynowska, Warsaw, Poland

Alexandre Lomsadze

Affiliation Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics, Joint Wallace H. Coulter Georgia Tech and Emory Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Magdalena Pawełkowicz

Affiliation Department of Plant Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology, Faculty of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW, Nowoursynowska, Warsaw, Poland

Ewa Siedlecka

Affiliation Department of Plant Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology, Faculty of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW, Nowoursynowska, Warsaw, Poland

Kohei Yagi

Affiliation Department of Plant Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology, Faculty of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW, Nowoursynowska, Warsaw, Poland

Wojciech Pląder

Affiliation Department of Plant Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology, Faculty of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW, Nowoursynowska, Warsaw, Poland

Anna Seroczyńska

Affiliation Department of Plant Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology, Faculty of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW, Nowoursynowska, Warsaw, Poland

Mieczysław Śmiech

Affiliation Department of Plant Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology, Faculty of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW, Nowoursynowska, Warsaw, Poland

Wojciech Gutman

Affiliation Department of Plant Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology, Faculty of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW, Nowoursynowska, Warsaw, Poland

Katarzyna Niemirowicz-Szczytt

Affiliation Department of Plant Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology, Faculty of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW, Nowoursynowska, Warsaw, Poland

Grzegorz Bartoszewski

Affiliation Department of Plant Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology, Faculty of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW, Nowoursynowska, Warsaw, Poland

Norikazu Tagashira

Affiliation Department of Living Design and Information Science, Faculty of Human Development, Hiroshima Jogakuin University, Higashi-ku, Japan

Yoshikazu Hoshi

Affiliation Department of Plant Science, Tokai University, Minamiaso-mura, Kumamoto, Japan

Mark Borodovsky

Affiliation Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics, Joint Wallace H. Coulter Georgia Tech and Emory Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Stanisław Karpiński

zbigniew_przybecki@sggw.pl (ZP); stanislaw_karpinski@sggw.pl (SK); rafalwoycicki@gmail.com (RW)

Affiliation Department of Plant Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology, Faculty of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW, Nowoursynowska, Warsaw, Poland

Stefan Malepszy

Affiliation Department of Plant Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology, Faculty of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW, Nowoursynowska, Warsaw, Poland

Zbigniew Przybecki

zbigniew_przybecki@sggw.pl (ZP); stanislaw_karpinski@sggw.pl (SK); rafalwoycicki@gmail.com (RW)

Affiliation Department of Plant Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology, Faculty of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW, Nowoursynowska, Warsaw, Poland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RW NT YH MB SK SM ZP. Performed the experiments: RW JW PG JD AL MP ES WG KY WP AS MS KN-S GB. Analyzed the data: RW PG JD AL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RW PG AL. Wrote the paper: RW PG JD MB SK SM ZP. Genome assembly, chromosome anchoring, functional annotation, sequence analysis, comparative genome analysis: RW. Gene predictions: RW AL. Comparative analysis of promoters: PG RW JD.