Lablab purpureus Natoba Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Lablab purpureus

Lablab purpureus is a species of bean in the family Fabaceae. It is native to sub-Saharan Africa and it is cultivated throughout the tropics for food. English language common names include hyacinth bean, lablab-bean bonavist bean/pea, dolichos bean, seim or sem bean, lablab bean, Egyptian kidney bean, Indian bean, bataw and Australian pea. Lablab is a monotypic genus.

Assembly

The assembly presented here has been imported from INSDC and is linked to the assembly accession [GCA_030347555.1].

The total length of the assembly is 426257348 bp contained within 1744 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 38128793, the scaffold L50 value is 5. The GC% content of the assembly is 30.5%.

Annotation

The annotation presented is derived from genes imported from the community GFF3 with the assembly accession GCA_030347555.1.

Genomic annotation was deposited along with initial assembly submission by Lablab Genome Sequencing Consortium.

Protein features, BLAST hits and cross-references have been computed by Ensembl Plants.

References

Njaci I, Waweru B, Kamal N, Muktar MS, Fisher D, Gundlach H, Muli C, Muthui L, Maranga M, Kiambi D, Maass BL, Emmrich PMF, Domelevo Entfellner JB, Spannagl M, Chapman MA, Shorinola O, Jones CS. Chromosome-level genome assembly and population genomic resource to accelerate orphan crop lablab breeding. Nat Commun. 2023 Apr 17;14(1):1915. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-37489-7. PMID: 37069152; PMCID: PMC10110558.

Picture credits: Image is reproduced with author's permission from the above publication.