The draft genome of Corchorus olitorius cv. JRO-524 (Navin)

• Main Authors: Debabrata Sarkar, Ajay Kumar Mahato, Pratik Satya, Avijit Kundu, Sangeeta Singh, Pawan Kumar Jayaswal, Akshay Singh, Kaushlendra Bahadur, Sasmita Pattnaik, Nisha Singh, Avrajit Chakraborty, Nur Alam Mandal, Debajeet Das, Tista Basu, Amitha Mithra Sevanthi, Dipnarayan Saha, Subhojit Datta, Chandan Sourav Kar, Jiban Mitra, Karabi Datta, Pran Gobinda Karmakar, Tilak Raj Sharma, Trilochan Mohapatra, Nagendra Kumar Singh
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2017-06-01
• Series: Genomics Data
• Subjects: Bast fibre; Corchorus olitorius; Dark jute; Illumina MiSeq; Whole genome sequence
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213596017300545
• ISSN: 2213-5960

Here, we present the draft genome (377.3 Mbp) of Corchorus olitorious cv. JRO-524 (Navin), which is a leading dark jute variety developed from a cross between African (cv. Sudan Green) and indigenous (cv. JRO-632) types. We predicted from the draft genome a total of 57,087 protein-coding genes with annotated functions. We identified a large number of 1765 disease resistance-like and defense response genes in the jute genome. The annotated genes showed the highest sequence similarities with that of Theobroma cacao followed by Gossypium raimondii. Seven chromosome-scale genetically anchored pseudomolecules were constructed with a total size of 8.53 Mbp and used for synteny analyses with the cocoa and cotton genomes. Like other plant species, gypsy and copia retrotransposons were the most abundant classes of repeat elements in jute. The raw data of our study are available in SRA database of NCBI with accession number SRX1506532. The genome sequence has been deposited at DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank under the accession LLWS00000000, and the version described in this paper will be the first version (LLWS01000000).