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The genome sequence of common reed, Phragmites australis (Cav.) Steud. (Poaceae)
Maarten J M Christenhusz1,2, Michael F Fay1,
1Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Richmond, England, UK.
Abstract:
We present a genome assembly from an individual Phragmites australis (the common reed; Streptophyta; Magnoliopsida; Poales; Poaceae). The genome sequence has a total length of 848.70 megabases. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into 24 chromosomal pseudomolecules, supporting the specimen being an allotetraploid (2 n = 4 x = 48). The three mitochondrial assemblies had lengths of 304.58, 92.24, and 76.54 kilobases and the plastid genome assembly had a length of 137.67 kilobases. Gene annotation of this assembly on Ensembl identified 47,513 protein-coding genes.
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