Quercus suber HL8 Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Quercus suber

Quercus suber, commonly called the cork oak, is a medium-sized, evergreen oak tree in the section Quercus sect. Cerris. It is the primary source of cork for wine bottle stoppers and other uses, such as cork flooring and as the cores of cricket balls. It is native to southwest Europe and northwest Africa. In the Mediterranean basin the tree is an ancient species with fossil remnants dating back to the Tertiary period. It can survive for as long as two centuries. Typically, once it reaches 25 years old, its thick bark can be harvested for cork every 9 to 12 years without causing harm to the tree.

Assembly

The assembly presented here has been imported from INSDC and is linked to the assembly accession GCA_002906115.3.

The total length of the assembly is 759831951 bp contained within 2341 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 1004955, the scaffold L50 value is 234. The GC% content of the assembly is 35.0%.

Annotation

The annotation is imported from NCBI RefSeq annotation release GCF_002906115.3-RS_2024_06.

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

References

• Usié, A., Serra, O., Barros, P.M. et al. An improved reference genome and first organelle genomes of Quercus suber. Tree Genetics & Genomes 19, 54 (2023)

• Ramos, A., Usié, A., Barbosa, P. et al. The draft genome sequence of cork oak. Sci Data 5, 180069 (2018)

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