PacBio and Illumina WGS reads of Vigna umbellata for genome assembly

Ricebean is a warm-season dietary pulse legume crop and was originated in the Indo-China region. It is known to provide food security to the small and marginal farmers of South and South-East Asia. Ricebean is well known for its high nutritional quality and resistance to bacterial leaf spot, Mungbean yellow mosaic virus and bruchid, which are devastating for the other Vigna family crops. We report a reference grade de novo genome assembly, which is anchored to the genetic linkage groups and covered almost the whole estimated genome length of ricebean and so far, the largest among the sequenced Vigna species.