Chromosome-level genome assembly and annotation of the loquat (Eriobotrya japonica) genome.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The loquat (Eriobotrya japonica) is a species of flowering plant in the family Rosaceae that is widely cultivated in Asian, European, and African countries. It blossoms in the winter and ripens in the early summer. The genome of loquat has to date not been published, which limits the study of molecular biology in this cultivated species. Here, we used the third-generation sequencing technology of Nanopore and Hi-C technology to sequence the genome of Eriobotrya.

Findings

We generated 100.10 Gb of long reads using Oxford Nanopore sequencing technologies. Three types of Illumina high-throughput sequencing data, including genome short reads (47.42 Gb), transcriptome short reads (11.06 Gb), and Hi-C short reads (67.25 Gb), were also generated to help construct the loq

SUBMITTER: Jiang S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7059265 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature