Title

Insights from the analysis of draft genome sequence of Crocus sativus L.

Authors

Sheetal Ambardar¹, Jyoti Vakhlu² & Ramanathan Sowdhamini^1,3,*

Affiliation

¹National Center for Biological Sciences, Bellary Road, Bengaluru 560065; ²School of Biotechnology, University of Jammu, J&K, India, 180006; ³Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology, Bengaluru 560100, India;

Email

*Corresponding author: Ramanathan Sowdhamini - E-mail: mini@ncbs.res.in

Article Type

Research Article

Date

Received October 21, 2021; Revised October 31, 2021; Accepted October 31, 2021, Published January 31, 2022

Saffron (Crocus sativus L.) is the low yielding plant of medicinal and economic importance. Therefore, it is of interest to report the draft genome sequence of C. sativus. The draft genome of C. sativus has been assembled using Illumina sequencing and is 3.01 Gb long covering
84.24% of genome. C. sativus genome annotation identified 53,546 functional genes (including 5726 transcription factors), 862,275 repeats and 964,231 SSR markers. The genes involved in the apocarotenoids biosynthesis pathway (crocin, crocetin, picrocrocin, and safranal) were
found in the draft genome analysis.

Keywords

Crocus sativus, de-novo genome assembly, apocarotene biosynthesis pathway, MYB TFs, SSR markers, Orthology analysis.

Citation

Ambardar et al. Bioinformation 18(1): 1-13 (2022)

Edited by

P Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.