{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["De Vega J"],"funding":["Earlham Institute (Funder)","Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council","Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council"],"pagination":["29"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC7921889"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["10"],"pubmed_abstract":["<i>Miscanthus sacchariflorus</i> (Maxim.) Hack. is a highly productive C4 perennial rhizomatous biofuel grass crop. <i>M. sacchariflorus</i> is among the most widely distributed species in the genus, particularly at cold northern latitudes, and is one of the progenitor species of the commercial <i>M. × giganteus</i> genotypes. We generated a 2.54 Gb whole-genome assembly of the diploid <i>M. sacchariflorus</i> cv. \"Robustus 297\" genotype, which represented ~59% of the expected total genome size. We later anchored this assembly using the chromosomes from the <i>M. sinensis</i> genome to generate a second assembly with improved contiguity. We annotated 86,767 and 69,049 protein-coding genes in the unanchored and anchored assemblies, respectively. We estimated our assemblies included ~85% of "],"journal":["F1000Research"],"pubmed_title":["Draft genome assembly of the biofuel grass crop <i>Miscanthus sacchariflorus</i>."],"pmcid":["PMC7921889"],"funding_grant_id":["EP/S000771/1","BBS/E/T/000PR9814","BBS/E/W/10963A01A","BBS/E/T/000PR9818","BB/M029271/1","BBS/E/W/0012843A","EI-G-JdV"],"pubmed_authors":["Dyer S","De Vega J","Farrar K","Donnison I"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Draft genome assembly of the biofuel grass crop <i>Miscanthus sacchariflorus</i>.","description":"<i>Miscanthus sacchariflorus</i> (Maxim.) Hack. is a highly productive C4 perennial rhizomatous biofuel grass crop. <i>M. sacchariflorus</i> is among the most widely distributed species in the genus, particularly at cold northern latitudes, and is one of the progenitor species of the commercial <i>M. × giganteus</i> genotypes. We generated a 2.54 Gb whole-genome assembly of the diploid <i>M. sacchariflorus</i> cv. \"Robustus 297\" genotype, which represented ~59% of the expected total genome size. We later anchored this assembly using the chromosomes from the <i>M. sinensis</i> genome to generate a second assembly with improved contiguity. We annotated 86,767 and 69,049 protein-coding genes in the unanchored and anchored assemblies, respectively. We estimated our assemblies included ~85% of ","dates":{"release":"2021-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2021","modification":"2025-04-03T21:33:41.231Z","creation":"2025-04-03T21:33:41.231Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC7921889","cross_references":{"pubmed":["33732433"],"doi":["10.12688/f1000research.44714.1"]}}