Cajanus cajan Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Cajanus cajan

Pigeonpea (Cajunus cajan) is an important legume food crop grown primarily by smallholder farmers in many semi-arid tropical regions of the world. Pigeonpea is grown on ∼5 million hectares, making it the sixth most important legume food crop globally. Domesticated >3,500 years ago in India, it is the main protein source for more than a billion people in the developing world and a cash crop that supports the livelihoods of millions of resource-poor farmers in Asia, Africa, South America, Central America and the Caribbean.

Assembly

The assembly presented here has been imported from INSDC and is linked to the assembly accession GCA_000340665.2.

The total length of the assembly is 590369945 bp contained within 31510 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 557663, the scaffold L50 value is 69. The GC% content of the assembly is 33.0%.

Annotation

The annotation presented is derived from genes imported from the community GFF3 with the assembly accession GCA_000340665.2.

Genomic annotation was deposited along with initial assembly submission by "BGI".

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

References

• Draft genome sequence of pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan), an orphan legume crop of resource-poor farmers.
  Rajeev K Varshney, Wenbin Chen, Yupeng Li, Arvind K Bharti, Rachit K Saxena, Jessica A Schlueter, Mark T A Donoghue, Sarwar Azam, Guangyi Fan, Adam M Whaley et al. 2012. Nature Biotechnology. 30:83-89.

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