The genome sequence of the common toadflax, Linaria vulgaris Mill., 1768

Maarten J M Christenhusz; Benjamin Fisk; Meng Lu; Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Genome Acquisition Lab; Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Genome Acquisition Lab; Plant Genome Sizing collective; Darwin Tree of Life Barcoding collective; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life programme; Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: DNA Pipelines collective; Tree of Life Core Informatics collective; Darwin Tree of Life Consortium

doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.19661.1

The genome sequence of the common toadflax, Linaria vulgaris Mill., 1768

Wellcome Open Res. 2023 Aug 30:8:370. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.19661.1. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Maarten J M Christenhusz¹, Benjamin Fisk², Meng Lu^{3

4}; Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Genome Acquisition Lab; Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Genome Acquisition Lab; Plant Genome Sizing collective; Darwin Tree of Life Barcoding collective; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life programme; Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: DNA Pipelines collective; Tree of Life Core Informatics collective; Darwin Tree of Life Consortium

Affiliations

¹ Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Richmond, England, UK.
² University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, UK.
³ The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
⁴ Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from a Linaria vulgaris specimen (common toadflax; Streptophyta; Magnoliopsida; Lamiales; Plantaginaceae). The genome sequence is 760.5 megabases in span. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into six chromosomal pseudomolecules. Two mitochondrial genomes were assembled, which were 330.8 and 144.0 kilobases long. The plastid genome was also assembled and is 156.7 kilobases in length.

Keywords: Lamiales; Linaria vulgaris; chromosomal; common toadflax; genome sequence.

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).