A chromosome-scale and haplotype-resolved genome assembly of carnation (Dianthus caryophyllus "Aili")

<i>Dianthus caryophyllus</i> is an economic species often considered excellent cut flowers and is suitable for bouquets and gardens. Here, we assembled the haplotype-resolved genome of <i>D. caryophyllus</i> ‘Aili’ at the chromosome level for the first time. The total lengths of the two assembled haplotypes of carnation were 584.88 Mb for haplotype genome 1 (hap1) and 578.78 Mb for haplotype genome 2 (hap2), respectively. We predicted a total of 44,098 and 42,425 protein-coding genes, respectively.