Pisum sativum Garden pea Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Pisum sativum

Pea is a pulse or fodder crop, but the word often refers to the seed or sometimes the pod of this flowering plant species. Peas are eaten as a vegetable. Carl Linnaeus gave the species the scientific name Pisum sativum in 1753. Some sources now treat it as Lathyrus oleraceus; however the need and justification for the change is disputed. Each pod contains several seeds (peas), which can have green or yellow cotyledons when mature. Botanically, pea pods are fruit, since they contain seeds and develop from the ovary of a (pea) flower. The name is also used to describe other edible seeds from the Fabaceae such as the pigeon pea, the cowpea, the seeds from several species of Lathyrus and is used as a compound form for example Sturt's desert pea.

Assembly

The assembly presented here has been imported from INSDC and is linked to the assembly accession [GCA_024323335.2].

The total length of the assembly is 3796066963 bp contained within 1566 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 523395090, 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_024323335.2.

Genomic annotation was deposited along with initial assembly submission by "Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences".

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

References

Improved pea reference genome and pan-genome highlight genomic features and evolutionary characteristics Yang, T., Liu, R., Luo, Y. et al. Nat Genet 54, 1553–1563 (2022).

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