A chromosome-scale de novo genome assembly of the dwarf tomato variety Micro-Tom

The cultivated tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is an important crop and
model species for genetics and plant molecular biology research. The dwarf
tomato variety Micro-Tom is used extensively in research because it is
rapid flowering, easy to grow in high volumes in minimal space, and is
amenable to genetic transformation. Here we provide a de novo
chromosome-scale genome assembly of Micro-Tom that was generated using
PacBio HiFi reads and scaffolded using chromosome confirmation capture
data. The HiFi data was assembled using the Hifiasm assembler and OmniC
data was used for scaffolding using Salsa and several rounds of manual
curation and validation.