Typha latifolia isolate:D0008 Genome sequencing and assembly. Typha latifolia isolate:D0008

Typha, commonly known as cattail, is a genus of 30 species that are aquatic or semi-aquatic plants mostly found in the Northern Hemisphere wetlands. Typha is a monocot with monoecious flowers for which it gets its name since when the seeds are mature they make cottony fluff that is carried by the wind; there are up to 300,000 seeds per plant. However, Typha also grows clonally through rhizomes, which leads to large stands that often compete against other wetland plants, and results in the accumulation of sediment. The leaves are like long hollow straws with aerenchyma cells moving oxygen to the roots and rhizome, even after the leaf structure has senesced. The rhizomes were a staple of native peoples and there is evidence that they may have been eaten as long as 30,000 years ago. Due to its several reproduction strategies and prolific ability to terra form, or sediment in wetlands, we are interested in building genomic and genetic tools to leverage Typha in wetland restoration. Therefore, we generated reference genomes for two North American Typha species, Typha domingensis and Typha latifolia. The high quality genomes were sequenced with Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) long reads, polished with Illumina short reads and scaffolded into 15 chromosomes using HiC.