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AbstractCashew is the second most important tree nut crop in the global market. Cashew is a diploid and heterozygous species closely related to the mango and pistachio. Its improvement by conventional breeding is slow due to the long juvenile phase. Despite the economic importance, very little genomics/transcriptomics information is available for cashew. In this study, the Oxford nanopore reads and Illumina reads were used for de novo assembly of the cashew genome. The hybrid assembly yielded a 356.6 Mb genome corresponding to 85% of the estimated genome size (419 Mb). The BUSCO analysis showed 91.8% of genome completeness. Transcriptome mapping showed 92.75% transcripts aligned with the assembled genome. Gene predictions resulted in the identification of 31,263 genes coding for a total of 35,000 gene isoforms. About 46% (165 Mb) of the cashew genome comprised of repetitive sequences. Phylogenetic analyses of the cashew with nine species showed that it was closely related to Mangifera indica. Analysis of cashew genome revealed 3104 putative R-genes. The first draft assembly of the genome, transcriptome and R gene information generated in this study would be the foundation for understanding the molecular basis of economic traits and genomics-assisted breeding in cashew.
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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