First de novo draft genome sequence of Oryza coarctata, the only halophytic species in the genus Oryza

Oryza coarctata plants, collected from Sundarban delta of West Bengal, India, have been used in the present study to generate draft genome sequences, employing the hybrid genome assembly with Illumina reads and third generation Oxford Nanopore sequencing technology. We report for the first time that more than 85.71 % of the genome coverage and the data have been deposited in NCBI SRA, with BioProject ID PRJNA396417.

Authors: Tapan Kumar Mondal, Hukam Chand Rawal, Kishor Gaikwad, Tilak Raj Sharma, Nagendra Kumar Singh