Abstract
The Dendrobium hybrid cultivar 'Emma White' is an ornamental, successfully commercialised orchid. We used a gamma ray-induced early flowering mutant and the Illumina HiSeqX10 sequencing platform to generate the first draft de novo whole genome sequence and assembly. The draft sequence was 678,650,699bp in length, comprising 447,500 contigs with an N50 of 1423 and 33.48% GC content. Comparing 95,529 predicted genes against the Uniprot database revealed 60,741 potential genes governing molecular functions, biological processes and cellular components. We identified 216,232 simple sequence repeats and 138,856 microsatellite markers. Chromosome-level genome assembly of Dendrobium huoshanense was used to RagTag-scaffold available contigs of the mutant, revealing a total length of 687,254,899bp with an N50 of 2096. The longest final contiguous length was 18,000,059bp from 30,571bp. BUSCO genome completeness was 93.6%. This study is valuable for investigating the mechanisms of mutation, and developing Dendrobium hybrid cultivars using mutation breeding.
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