ABSTRACT
The road to sequencing of the apple genome was paved with multiple developments, starting from the endeavour to sequence the human genome (Lander et al., 2001). A spate of technological innovations, primarily in the area of high-throughput and cost-effective sequence acquisition, ushered in the current era of genomics where draft genomes are generated and released on a regular basis (Heather and Chain, 2016). This technological innovation has now enabled several large-scale genera-wide genome-sequencing projects that aim to use population-wide variation to associate important traits with genomic regions or genes (Goodwin et al., 2016).
