Chromosome-level genome assembly, annotation and evolutionary analysis of the ornamental plant Asparagus setaceus

Asparagus setaceus is a popular ornamental plant cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions globally. In this study, a chromosome-level reference genome of A. setaceus was constructed to assist in studying the genome structure and evolution. A total of 112.52 Gb of long reads was produced from Nanopore platform, resulting in 156.28× depth coverage of an estimated genome size of 720 Mb. The combination of Illumina-short reads, 10× Genomics linked reads, and Hi-C data produced the final chromosome quality genome of A. setaceus with a genome size of 710.15 Mb, accounting for 98.63% of the estimated genome size. Furthermore, 96.85% of the sequences were anchored to 10 super-scaffolds, corresponding to the 10 chromosomes. The genome of A. setaceus was predicted to have 28,410 genes, and 25,649 (90.28%) of these genes were functionally annotated. Genome annotation revealed that 65.59% were repetitive sequences, of which long terminal repeats were predominant (42.51% of the whole genome). ...