ONT reads for the genome sequence assembly of Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris (sugar beet) KWS2320

The sugar beet reference genotype (KWS2320) was sequenced with long and short read technologies (Oxford Nanopore Technologies and Illumina) and assembled to very high quality and contiguity (KWS2320ONT_v1.0). The Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris (sugar beet) genotype KWS2320 is a double haploid (DH) accession. The first sugar beet genome sequence assembly (RefBeet) was generated from KWS2320 by the sugar beet sequencing consortium and published in Dohm JC, et al. Nature 2014. The de novo curated long read-based sequence assembly contributes to a pan-genome approach and allows the investigation of larger structural variations.