Call for Papers

Genomics For Australian Plants Special Issue – synopsis

The Genomics for Australian Plants (GAP) project was initiated in 2018 by Bioplatforms Australia in partnership with researchers from the Australian herbaria, botanic gardens and universities. The broad aims of GAP are:

• Sequence and assemble representative Australian plant genomes across the plant tree of life to enable better conservation, utilisation and understanding of Australia’s unique plant diversity;
• Build genomic capacity across the Australian plant research community to create networks collaborating in the collection, management, dissemination and application of genomic data for Australian plants; 
• Provide tools to enable genomic data to be used to identify and classify biodiversity at a range of scales, and to use these tools to inform conservation management and enable better decision making.

The GAP project has initiated many new research collaborations and rapidly built plant genomics data resources and associated bioinformatics capacity in Australia. For this Special Issue we encourage the submission of novel research that showcases the value and outputs from activity across the three GAP streams: reference genomes, phylogenomics and conservation genomics.

Guest Editors: Dan Murphy and Caroline Puente-Lelievre

Submission Deadline: 3 May 2024