Lens culinaris cultivar:CDC Redberry Genome sequencing and assembly

The project goal was to sequence the lentil genome and utilize the sequencing information to accelerate lentil genetic improvement. We have sequenced the lentil variety CDC Redberry using different types of next generation DNA sequencing technologies. The resulting lentil assembly consists of 7 pseudomolecules anchored through the use of 6 high-density genetic linkage maps, with the total assembled bases representing approximately half of the 4 Gb lentil genome. The remaining, unassembled fragments are made up of repetitive sequences. The assembly is accessible by the international research community through the KnowPulse webportal (http://knowpulse.usask.ca/portal/).