Sphenostylis stenocarpa Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Sphenostylis stenocarpa

Sphenostylis stenocarpa or the African yam bean is a species of plant in the Fabaceae which is native to Africa. It is an important source of food in many parts of Africa. The tubers are fried, boiled or roasted, and are higher than the seeds in protein.

Taxonomy ID 92480

More information General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia

References

• Waweru, B., Njaci, I., Paliwal, R. et al. Chromosome-scale assembly of the African yam bean genome. Sci Data 11, 1384 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-04210-2.

Assembly

The assembly presented here has been imported from INSDC and is linked to the assembly accession [GCA_963425845.1].

The total length of the assembly is 649801261 bp contained within 11 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 69519929, the scaffold L50 value is 4. The GC% content of the assembly is 34.5%.

Annotation

Ensembl-plants displaying genes imported from GenBank entry linked to the assembly with accession GCA_963425845.1.

Genomic annotation was deposited along with initial assembly submission by "International Livestock Research Institute".

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