Gossypium raimondii Genome sequencing and assembly. Gossypium raimondii

We have sequenced and assembled the draft genome of Gossypium raimondii, whose progenitor is considered the contributor of the D-subgenome to the economically important natural textile fiber producer, G. hirsutum. Next-generation Illumina pair-end (PE) sequencing strategies were employed to obtain 103.6-fold genome coverage of cleaned DNA sequence from various shotgun libraries with insert sizes ranging from 170 bp to 40 kbp. Over 73% of the assembly is in 281 scaffolds, The N50 of contigs and scaffolds is 44.9 kb and 2,284 kb, respectively, with the largest scaffold measuring 12.8 Mb.