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Atriplex hortensis (Mountain Spinach, Orache)

Atriplex hortensis (2n = 2x = 18, 1C genome size ∼1.1 gigabases), also known as garden orach and mountain-spinach, is a highly nutritious, broadleaf annual of the Amaranthaceae-Chenopodiaceae alliance (Chenopodiaceae sensu stricto, subfam. Chenopodioideae) that has spread in cultivation from its native primary domestication area in Eurasia to other temperate and subtropical regions worldwide. Atriplex L. is a highly complex but, as understood now, a monophyletic group of mainly halophytic and/or xerophytic plants, of which A. hortensis has been a vegetable of minor importance in some areas of Eurasia (from Central Asia to the Mediterranean) at least since antiquity. Nonetheless, it is a crop with tremendous nutritional potential due primarily to its exceptional leaf and seed protein quantities (approaching 30%) and quality (high levels of lysine).

Hunt SP, Jarvis DE, Larsen DJ, Mosyakin S, Kolano BA, Jackson EW, Martin SL, Jellen EN, Maughan PJ (2020).  A chromosome-scale assembly of the garden orach (Atriplex hortensis L.) genome using Oxford Nanopore sequencing.  Front. Plant Sci. 11:624

More Information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atriplex_hortensis

Genome assembly:  https://genomevolution.org/coge/