The genome sequence of lesser burdock, Arctium minus (Hill) Bernh. (Asteraceae)

Maarten J M Christenhusz; Claudia A Martin; Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Genome Acquisition Lab; Plant Genome Sizing collective; Darwin Tree of Life Barcoding collective; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Management, Samples and Laboratory team; Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: Sequencing Operations; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Core Informatics team; Tree of Life Core Informatics collective; Darwin Tree of Life Consortium

doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.23160.1

The genome sequence of lesser burdock, Arctium minus (Hill) Bernh. (Asteraceae)

Wellcome Open Res. 2024 Oct 15:9:589. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.23160.1. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Maarten J M Christenhusz^{1

2}, Claudia A Martin^{3

4}; Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Genome Acquisition Lab; Plant Genome Sizing collective; Darwin Tree of Life Barcoding collective; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Management, Samples and Laboratory team; Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: Sequencing Operations; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Core Informatics team; Tree of Life Core Informatics collective; Darwin Tree of Life Consortium

Affiliations

¹ Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
² Hortus Botanicus, University of Technology Delft, Delft, The Netherlands.
³ Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Library, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
⁴ The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

Abstract

We present a genome assembly of a diploid specimen of Arctium minus (lesser burdock; Tracheophyta; Magnoliopsida; Asterales; Asteraceae). The genome sequence is 1,903.1 megabases in span. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into 18 chromosomal pseudomolecules. The mitochondrial and plastid genome assemblies have lengths of 312.58 kilobases and 152.71 kilobases, respectively. Gene annotation of this assembly on Ensembl identified 27,734 protein-coding genes.

Keywords: Arctium minus; Asterales; chromosomal; genome sequence; lesser burdock.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by Wellcome through core funding to the Wellcome Sanger Institute [206194, https://doi.org/10.35802/206194] and the Darwin Tree of Life Discretionary Award [218328, https://doi.org/10.35802/218328 ].