GENOME ORGANIZATION

The Swetha variety of Sesame sample generated 30 Gb data and provided 85x coverage using different NGS technologies was. The high quality reads were assembled in to 76,029 scaffolds in the draft assembly and further reduced to 16 linkage groups using Chinese Sesame whole genome (Zhang et al. 2013) as reference. The assembled genome covered ~340 Mb of the estimated genome size and showed 96.32% genome coverage. In this study, a total of 24,579 genes were predicted from whole genome assembly of Swetha variety of sesame. The predicted genes were found to involve in pathways such as fatty acid biosynthesis, purine metabolism, starch and sucrose metabolism etc. Furthermore, a total of 8244 genes had significant matches in PlantTFDB corresponding to 76 transcription factor families.