De novo genome assembly of rice bean (Vigna umbellata) - A nominated nutritionally rich future crop reveals novel insights into flowering potential, habit, and palatability centric - traits for efficient domestication.

ABSTRACT: Rice bean is a less-known underutilized legume crop with a high nutritional value among members of the Vigna family. As an initiative to compose rice bean (Vigna umbellata) genomic resource, the size of 414 mega-base pairs with an estimated identification of 31,276 high confidence index genes via 15,521 scaffolds generated from Illumina and PacBio platform 30X coverage data has achieved 96.08% functional coverage data from Illumina and PacBio platform. Rice bean genome assembly was found to be exquisitely close to Vigna angularis (experimental control/outgroup), Vigna radiata, and Vigna unguiculata, however, Vigna angularis being the closest. The assembled genome was further aligned with 31 leguminous plants (13 complete genomes and 18 partial genomes), b

SUBMITTER: Kaul T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9577371 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature