Avena sativa Williams Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Avena sativa Williams

The oat, sometimes called the common oat, is a species of cereal grass grown for fodder and for its seed, which is known by the same name. Oats appear to have been domesticated as a secondary crop, as their seeds resembled those of other cereals closely enough for them to be included by early cultivators. Oats tolerate cold winters less well than cereals such as wheat, barley, and rye, but need less summer heat and more rain, making them important in areas such as Northwest Europe that have cool, wet summers. They can tolerate low-nutrient and acid soils. Oats grow thickly and vigorously, allowing them to outcompete many weeds, and compared to other cereals are relatively free from diseases.

Assembly

The assembly presented here has been imported from INSDC and is linked to the assembly accession [GCA_951802345.1].

The total length of the assembly is 11107750728 bp contained within 2738 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 515070357, the scaffold L50 value is 10. The GC% content of the assembly is 44.0%.

Annotation

The annotation presented is derived from genes imported from the community GFF3 with the assembly accession GCA_951802345.1.

Genomic annotation was deposited along with initial assembly submission by "Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research".

Small RNA features, protein features, BLAST hits and cross-references have been computed by Ensembl Plants.

References

• Avni, R., Kamal, N., Bitz, L. et al. A pangenome and pantranscriptome of hexaploid oat. Nature 649, 131–139 (2026)

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