The genome assembly of Turmeric (Cucurma longa)

Curcuma longa, a member of the ginger family (Zingiberaceae), has been used for thousands of years in the traditional Indian and folk medicine for the cure of a large variety of illnesses, such as inflammation, infectious diseases, and gastric, hepatic, and blood disorders. Curcumin is a major isolated polyphenol from the rhizome of turmeric (Curcuma longa). It has a wide range of pharmacological effects such as antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, antitumor, and hepatoprotective activities. To study the genomic component of this widely used species having very much complex genomic architecture with numerical variation of chromosomes and ploidy. Here we report a draft assembly of the Turmeric (Curcuma longa) with gene prediction analysis and annotation to understand the biology associated with the significant functional component.