Chromosomal-level reference genome of the incense tree Aquilaria sinensis.

ABSTRACT: Trees in the genus Aquilaria (Thymelaeaceae) are known as lign aloes, and are native to the forests of southeast Asia. Lign aloes produce agarwood as an antimicrobial defence. Agarwood has a long history of cultural and medicinal use, and is of considerable commercial value. However, due to habitat destruction and over collection, lign aloes are threatened in the wild. We present a chromosomal-level assembly for Aquilaria sinensis, a lign aloe endemic to China known as the incense tree, based on Illumina short-read, 10X Genomics linked-read, and Hi-C sequencing data. Our 783.8 Mbp A. sinensis genome assembly is of high physical contiguity, with a scaffold N50 of 87.6 Mbp, and high completeness, with a 95.8% BUSCO score for eudicotyledon genes. We include 17 transcriptomes from various plan

SUBMITTER: Nong W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7496549 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature