Lactuca sativa Salinas Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Lactuca sativa

Lettuce is an annual plant of the family Asteraceae mostly grown as a leaf vegetable. The leaves are most often used raw in green salads, although lettuce is also seen in other kinds of food, such as sandwiches, wraps and soups; it can also be grilled. Its stem and seeds are sometimes used; celtuce is one variety grown for its stems, which are eaten either raw or cooked. In addition to its main use as a leafy green, it has also gathered religious and medicinal significance over centuries of human consumption. Europe and North America originally dominated the market for lettuce, but by the late 20th century the consumption of lettuce had spread throughout the world. In 2023, world production of lettuce was 28 million tonnes, led by China with 53% of the total.

Assembly

The assembly presented here has been imported from INSDC and is linked to the assembly accession GCA_002870075.4.

The total length of the assembly is 2589853228 bp contained within 91 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 324658466, the scaffold L50 value is 4. The GC% content of the assembly is 38.0%.

Annotation

The annotation presented is derived from genes imported from the community GFF3 with the assembly accession GCA_002870075.4.

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

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

References

• Genome assembly with in vitro proximity ligation data and whole-genome triplication in lettuce.
  Reyes-Chin-Wo S, Wang Z, Yang X, Kozik A, Arikit S, Song C, Xia L, Froenicke L, Lavelle DO, Truco MJ, Xia R, Zhu S, Xu C, Xu H, Xu X, Cox K, Korf I, Meyers BC, Michelmore RW.. Nat Commun 8

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