Avena insularis BYU209 Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Avena insularis

Avena insularis is a species of wild oat in the genus Avena that is native to Southern Sicilia and North-Eastern Tunisia. The species is a tetraploid and is found in uncultivated patches around the Mediterranean.

Assembly

The assembly presented here has been imported from INSDC and is linked to the assembly accession [GCA_910574615.1].

The total length of the assembly is 14179720031 bp contained within 6537 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 123034442, the scaffold L50 value is 16. 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_910574615.1.

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

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

References

• Kamal, N., Tsardakas Renhuldt, N., Bentzer, J. et al. The mosaic oat genome gives insights into a uniquely healthy cereal crop. Nature 606, 113–119 (2022)

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

Picture credit (Creative Commons BY-SA 2.5): Georg Gerl, Helmholz Munich, 2024