A chromosome-scale de novo genome assembly of the dwarf tomato variety Micro-Tom

The cultivated tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is an important crop and model species for genetics and plant molecular biology research. The dwarf tomato variety Micro-Tom is used extensively in research because it is rapid flowering, easy to grow in high volumes in minimal space, and is amenable to genetic transformation. Here we provide a de novo chromosome-scale genome assembly of Micro-Tom that was generated using PacBio HiFi reads and scaffolded using chromosome confirmation capture data. The HiFi data was assembled using the Hifiasm assembler and OmniC data was used for scaffolding using Salsa and several rounds of manual curation and validation.

Methods
The raw PacBio HiFi sequencing reads and OmniC reads of the Micro-Tom variety are available via the European Nucleotide Archive under project number PRJEB62441. A gene annotation file is available upon request.

For scientific correspondence please contact Charles Underwood (cunderwood[@]mpipz.mpg.de).