Miscanthus sacchariflorus WGA version 2. Miscanthus sacchariflorus WGA version 2

Miscanthus sacchariflorus (Maxim.) Hack. is a highly productive C4 perennial rhizomatous biofuel grass crop. M. sacchariflorus is among the most widely distributed species within the genus, particularly at cold northern latitudes, and is one of the progenitor species of the main commercial M. x giganteus genotypes. We generated a 2.54 Gbps whole-genome assembly of the diploid M. sacchariflorus “Robustus 297” genotype, which represented ~59% of the expected genome size. We annotated 86,767 protein-coding genes, which we estimated represented ~85% of the M. sacchariflorus genes based on homology, core markers and RNA-seq alignments stats.