Elymus sibiricus Genome sequencing and assembly

Siberian wildrye (Elymus sibiricus L.) attracts considerable interest for grassland establishment and pasture recovery in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) due to its excellence in strong stress tolerance, high nutritional value and ease to cultivate. However, the lack of genomic information of E. sibiricus hampers its genetics study and breeding process. In this study, we performed a genome survey of E. sibiricus based on Next-generation sequencing (NGS).