Improved Iso-Seq-based genome annotations for Australian wild rice species O. rufipogon and O. meridionalis

This dataset contains improved genome annotation files generated for two Australian wild rice species, Oryza rufipogon and Oryza meridionalis. The annotations were generated by integrating existing reference genome annotations with Iso-Seq-derived transcript models. These files correspond to the improved annotation versions used in the manuscript “Single-molecule long-read sequencing reveals transcriptome complexity and enhances annotation in wild rice”. The original genome assemblies and reference annotations used as the basis for these improved annotations are available from Abdullah et al. (2025), BMC Genomics 26, 54.