Gossypium hirsutum
A high-quality cotton genome assembly (ASM98774v1) of the allotetraploid cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L. acc. TM-1) was public in 2015[1]. This genome assembly is approximately 2.19 Gb, and it has the following facts:
● Total Assembly Gap Length: 62.3Mb
● Number of Chromosomes: 26
● Number of Unplaced Scaffolds: 9148
● Number of Genes: 42218
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