First whole genome assembly and annotation of a European common bean cultivar using PacBio HiFi and Iso-Seq data

Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is the most impor-tant grain legume for direct human consumption world-wide. Flageolet bean originates from France and presents typ-ical organoleptic properties, including the remarkable fea-ture of having small pale green colored seeds. Here, we re-port the whole-genome data, assembly and annotation of the flageolet bean accession 'Flavert'. High molecular weight DNA and RNA were extracted and subjected to long-read se-quencing using PacBio Sequel II platform. The genome con-sisted of 566,238,753 bp assembled in 13 molecules, includ-ing 11 chromosomes plus the mitochondrial and chloroplastic genomes. Annotation predicted 29,549 protein coding genes and 6,958 non-coding RNA. This high-quality genome (99.2% BUSCO completeness) represents a valuable data set for fur-ther genomic and genetic studies on common bean and more generally on legumes. To our knowledge, this is the first whole-genome sequence of a common bean accession orig-inating from Europe.(c) 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ )