Quercus virginiana cultivar:Toomer's Oak Genome sequencing and assembly
Quercus virginiana (subg. Quercus sect. Virentes), the Southern Live Oak, is a species of cultural and ecological importance in the southeastern United States. As part of the first American Campus Tree Genomes (ACTG) Project cohort, a clone of the original Q. virginiana 'Toomer's Oak' was sequenced in memorial of the iconic tree on Auburn University's campus that died after being poisoned with Spike 80DF in 2010.