Vigna unguiculata IT97K-499-35 Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Vigna unguiculata

The cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) is an annual herbaceous legume from the genus Vigna. It can be erect, semierect (trailing), or climbing. A high level of morphological diversity is found within the species with large variations in the size, shape, and structure of the plant. Four subspecies are recognised, three of which are cultivated.

Assembly

The assembly presented here has been imported from INSDC and is linked to the assembly accession GCA_004118075.2.

The total length of the assembly is 518595462 bp contained within 675 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 41684185, the scaffold L50 value is 6. The GC% content of the assembly is 33.0%.

Annotation

Annotation is imported from NCBI RefSeq.

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

References

• The genome of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata [L.] Walp.).
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