ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Plant Sci.
Sec. Plant Bioinformatics
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpls.2025.1603547
PubPlant -a continuously updated online resource for sequenced and published plant genomes
Provisionally accepted- 1Institute for Bio- and Geosciences (IBG-4: Bioinformatics), CEPLAS, BIOSC, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Wilhelm Johnen Straße, Jülich, Germany, Jülich, Germany
- 2Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Institute for Biological Data Science, CEPLAS, Düsseldorf, Germany, Düsseldorf, Germany
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Advances in next-generation sequencing technologies over the last decade have substantially reduced the cost and effort required to sequence plant genomes. Whereas early efforts focused primarily on economically important crops and model species, attention has now turned to a broader range of plants, including those with larger and more complex genomes. In 2024, the genomes of 500 plant species were published, including 370 sequenced for the first time. Tracking and providing access to published plant genomes (now covering more than 1800 species) is an invaluable service for plant researchers. PubPlant is an online resource that serves this purpose by cataloging published plant genome sequences and offering multiple visualizations (https://www.plabipd.de/pubplant_main. html ). It includes a chronology of genome publications, and cladograms to display the phylogenetic relationships among the sequenced plants. An overview diagram for seed plants highlights taxonomic orders and families with sequenced species, and reveals those that have been overlooked thus far. As a use case for PubPlant, we evaluated the status of sequenced food crops. We found that the five plant families featuring the most food crops were those containing the most sequenced plant species.
Keywords: sequenced plant genomes, plant genome publication, timeline, Cladogram, Archaeplastida
Received: 31 Mar 2025; Accepted: 02 Jun 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Schwacke, Bolger and Usadel. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Rainer Schwacke, Institute for Bio- and Geosciences (IBG-4: Bioinformatics), CEPLAS, BIOSC, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Wilhelm Johnen Straße, Jülich, Germany, Jülich, Germany
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