Dipteryx alata Genome sequencing and assembly. Dipteryx alata

Dipteryx alata (Baru, Leguminosae) is a non-model, neotropical and native tree species endemic to the Brazilian Savannas with economic potential due use in food, medicinal, for animal forager, wood extraction, recovery of degraded areas and landscaping. Although D. alata is recognized as an important Brazilian genetic resource, there are currently no genomic information for this species. We generated a total of 22 Gb raw reads from the genomes of D. alata trees using the Illumina MiSeq platform. These were assembled in 275,707 nuclear genomic sequences (N50 = 1598 bp) with a total of 355MB, which corresponds to 44% of the whole genome. It represents a great advance in the knowledge about the structure and organization of the D. alata genome.