Avena sterilis TN4 Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Avena sterilis TN4

Avena sterilis is a species of grass weed whose seeds are edible, oat’s conspecific wild progenitor, a wild grass that is common in western Asia and the Mediterranean basin. It is an annual plant and has been a hexaploid for at least 500,000 years.

Assembly

The assembly presented here has been imported from INSDC and is linked to the assembly accession [GCA_947313515.1].

The total length of the assembly is 11059814956 bp contained within 1037 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 508313075, 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_947313515.1.

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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