ABSTRACT
Vicia villosa is an incompletely domesticated annual legume of the Fabaceae family native to Europe and Western Asia. V. villosa is widely used as a cover crop and as a forage due to its ability to withstand harsh winters. A reference-quality genome assembly (Vvill1.0) was prepared from low error rate long sequence reads to improve genetic-based trait selection of this species. The Vvill1.0 assembly includes seven scaffolds corresponding to the seven estimated linkage groups and comprising approximately 68% of the total genome size of 2.03 gigabase pairs (Gbp). This assembly is expected to be a useful resource for genetic improvement of this emerging cover crop species as well as to provide useful insights into plant genome evolution.
Competing Interest Statement
Hayley Mangelson is an employee of Phase Genomics (Seattle, WA). Derek M. Bickhart is an employee of Hendrix-Genetics (Boxmeer, the Netherlands). All other authors declare that they have no competing interests.
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
- bp
- base pairs
- BUSCO
- benchmark universal single-copy ortholog
- Gbp
- gigabase pairs
- kbp
- kilobase pairs
- KEGG
- Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomics
- KO
- KEGG orothologous groups
- LINE
- long interspersed nuclear element
- LTR
- long terminal repeat
- Mbp
- megabase pairs
- MITE
- miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements
- MRE
- magnitude of relative error
- NCBI
- Nation Center for Biotechnology Information
- PE
- paired end
- SRA
- Sequence Read Archive
- Vvill1.0
- Vicia villosa reference-quality genome assembly
- WGS
- whole genome sequencing