Genome assembly of Dalbergia cochinchinensis (Dacoc_1.4)

Dalbergia cochinchinensis produces valuable rosewood, which is the world's most trafficked wild product. Despite the growing interest of incorporating genomic tools into conservation of threatened species like D. cochinchinensis, genomic resources remain scarce and disproportionate for endangered plants and in particular Dalbergia species. We presented a complete, chromosome-level assembly of D. cochinchinensis using a combination of ~260X long-read sequencing of PacBio and Oxford Nanopore and ~88.5X Hi-C proximity ligation sequencing. We produced 27,952 unique gene models, the majority of which were functionally annotated and are an improved version of a previous study.