A de novo Genome of a Chinese Radish Cultivar

Abstract Here, we report a high-quality draft genome of a Chinese radish ( Raphanus sativus ) cultivar. This draft contains 387.73 Mb of assembled scaffolds, 83.93% of the scaffolds were anchored onto nine pseudochromosomes and 95.09% of 43 240 protein-coding genes were functionally annotated. 184.75 Mb (47.65%) of repeat sequences was identified in the assembled genome. By comparative analyses of the radish genome against 10 other plant genomes, 2 275 genes in 780 gene families were found unique to R. sativus . This genome is a good reference for genomic study and of great value for genetic improvement of radish.