Cynara cardunculus Scolymus Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Cynara cardunculus

The artichoke (Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus), also known by the other names: French artichoke, globe artichoke, and green artichoke in the United States, is a variety of a species of thistle cultivated as food. It belongs to the Compositae (a.k.a. Asteraceae), one of the most successful Angiosperm families. Cynara cardunculus is a diploid species (2n=2x=34) with a medium-sized genome.

Assembly

The assembly presented here has been imported from INSDC and is linked to the assembly accession GCA_001531365.2.

The total length of the assembly is 724962400 bp contained within 13479 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 126020, the scaffold L50 value is 1407. The GC% content of the assembly is 35.5%.

Annotation

The annotation presented is derived from genes imported from the community GFF3 with the assembly accession GCA_001531365.2

Genomic annotation was deposited along with initial assembly submission by Compositae Genome Project.

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

References

• The genome sequence of the outbreeding globe artichoke constructed de novo incorporating a phase-aware low-pass sequencing strategy of F1 progeny.
  Scaglione D, Reyes-Chin-Wo S, Acquadro A et al. 2016. Scientific Reports. 6:19427.

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