Chromosome-level Genome Assembly and Annotation of <i>Petunia hybrida</i>

<b>Project Title:</b><b>Chromosome-level Genome Assembly and Annotation of </b><b><i>Petunia hybrida</i></b><b>Genome Assembly Information:</b><b>Species:</b> <i>Petunia hybrida</i><b>Genome Size:</b> Approximately 1.15 Gb (reported in literature: ~1.3 Gb)<b>Sequence Data:</b> ~120x PacBio data and ~80x Illumina data<b>Genome Assembly and Annotation Tools:</b><b>Canu v1.7</b> for read correction and assembly<b>Optical Mapping (Bionano)</b> and <b>Hi-C</b> for validation and scaffolding<b>Braker3</b> for genome annotation<b>Assembly Statistics:</b>Seven pseudochromosomes, accounting for a total of 1,253.6 Mb<b>BUSCO Completeness:</b> 99.8% based on the viridiplantae-odb10 dataset<b>Gene Prediction and Annotation:</b>A total of 38,613 mRNAs and 34,226 protein-coding genes were predicted.Overall, 28,652 (83.8%) of the predicted gene models were functionally annotated.<br>