Genome survey of sago palm (Metroxylon sagu Rottboll)

The sago palm (Metroxylon sagu Rottboll) is a halophytic, underrated starch-producing that both disease resistant and capable of producing high yield storage starch. It deemed the future tree life as it has potential to be cultivated for its starch solve global food security issues in future. Due low scientific interest this palm, scarcity genomic information halted our comprehension on mechanism behind biosynthesis well salt resistance pathways. In study, we report genome survey microsatellite analysis palm. Based k-mer statistical approach, an estimated size 464 Mbp 616 Mbp, consisting 31.9 35.7% repetitive sequence. heterozygosity individual sequenced, true clonal breed, was 0.63 0.66%. A sum 123,430,321,878 clean bases were yielded from 124,258,713,300 raw bases. BUSCO revealed only around 22% 1375 single copy plant genes are complete scaffolds contigs whereas remaining missing (~45%) fragmented (~32%). assembly generated short-read Illumina data likely due repetitiveness genome. recommended long-read sequencing carried out improve study will instrumental polishing known error-prone.