A high-quality genome assembly for Dillenia turbinata (Dilleniales)

<p class="MsoNormal">Objectives<span>: </span><br><em>Dillenia turbinata</em> (Dilleniaceae) is a member of the order Dilleniales, an enigmatic clade of critical importance for understanding the diversification history of flowering plants but for which genome sequences are not available. We have produced and annotated a chromosome-scale whole genome assembly for <em>D. turbinata</em> through the resources of the 10KP (10,000 Plants) Genomes Project. The genome assembly and associated data provided here will serve as a useful resource for comparative and evolutionary genomics research across the flowering plants.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Data description: <br>The <em>D. turbinata</em> genome was assembled from Oxford Nanopore Technology (ONT) and whole-genome shotgun (WGS) sequences, and scaffolded into chromosome-scale pseudomolecules using Hi-C data. The genome assembly is 723,739,077 base pairs in length with a BUSCO completeness score of 97%.  Twenty-eight scaffolds contain more than 99% of the assembly. The repeat-masked genome sequence is annotated with 36,967 protein-coding gene models (93% BUSCO completeness) supported by transcriptome/protein evidence and/or Pfam domain content. These measures indicate high contiguity and completeness for the <em><span>D. turbinata</span></em> genome.</p>