Avena byzantina PI258586 Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Avena byzantina PI258586

Avena byzantina, red oats, is a species of cultivated oat in the family Poaceae. It is native to Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, the Transcaucasus, Iran, and Saudi Arabia. Cultivated for thousands of years, it is better suited to warmer conditions than white or common oats, but is often sown as a no‑till winter crop. There are 564 landraces and 203 cultivars of red oats listed in the European Plant Genetic Resources Search Catalogue (EURISCO). Approximately 10% of the millions of hectares worldwide under oats are devoted to red oats, principally for fodder.

Assembly

The assembly presented here has been imported from INSDC and is linked to the assembly accession [GCA_910574625.1].

The total length of the assembly is 12798804213 bp contained within 532780 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 527823683, the scaffold L50 value is 11. The GC% content of the assembly is 44.0%.

Annotation

The annotation presented is derived from genes imported from the community GFF3 with the assembly accession GCA_910574625.1.

Genomic annotation was deposited along with initial assembly submission by "Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research".

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

References

• Avni, R., Kamal, N., Bitz, L. et al. A pangenome and pantranscriptome of hexaploid oat. Nature 649, 131–139 (2026)

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