Abstract
Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) is a promising biofuel crop and one of the dominant species in North American tallgrass prairies. It grows rapidly, reaching up to 2.7 m, and planted fields remain productive for 15 years. The large, highly repetitive, and highly heterozygous genome of the generally tetraploid species have always been challenging for sequencing and assembly. Using PacBio long-read sequencing and bacterial artificial chromosome clone technology, researchers recently published a highly continuous genome assembly (v5) of a lowland switchgrass genotype AP13, which consisted of 626 contigs with a contig N50 of 5.5 Mb and a total of 97.2% bases that were assembled in the chromosomes.
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