Nymphaea colorata Beijing-Zhang1983 Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Nymphaea colorata

Blue-petal water lilly Nymphaea colorata is a diploid (2n=28) with a relatively small genome size (approximately 400 Mb) popular in breeding programs. As other water lily species, it has large, showy flowers. Its flowers have limited differentiation in perianths (outer floral organs), possess both male and female organs and have diverse scents and colours, similar to many mesangiosperms (core angiosperms, including eudicots, monocots, and magnoliids). Water lilies belong to the angiosperm order Nymphaeales, which together with Amborellales and Austrobaileyales form the so-called ANA-grade of angiosperms, which represent the earliest lineages to diverge from the lineage leading to the extant mesangiosperms.

Assembly

The assembly presented here has been imported from INSDC and is linked to the assembly accession GCA_008831285.2.

The total length of the assembly is 408118238 bp contained within 784 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 25516871, the scaffold L50 value is 7. The GC% content of the assembly is 38.5%.

Annotation

The annotation is imported from NCBI RefSeq annotation release v101.

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

References

• [Zhang L, Chen F, Zhang X, et al. The water lily genome and the early evolution of flowering plants. Nature. 2020 Jan;577(7788):79-84](DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1852-5)

Image credit: Kam Hong Leung, Carlos Magdalena & Kew Gardens