Genome sequencing and assembly of G. herbaceum and G. arboreum using long PacBio reads. Gossypium arboreum and Gossypium herbaceum

we sequenced and assembled only two extant diploid A-genomes G. herbaceum (A1) and G. arboreum (A2) by integrating high-coverage SMRT long-read sequencing, paired-end sequencing and Hi-C technologies. Our initial assembly of G. herbaceum is of high quality to enable both coarse and fine-scale comparative cotton genomic studies. The quality of G. arboreum assembly in this report using high-depth coverage of long reads have significant improvement than all previously released assemblies . Our work makes an important step towards unraveling cotton genome evolution, and provides the valuable genomic resource to facilitate genetic improvement of cotton. If you use these data, please cite the paper: Huang G. et al. Genome sequence of Gossypium herbaceum, and genome update of Gossypium arboreum and Gossypium hirsutum provide insights into cotton A-genome evolution. Nature Genetics, 2020.