Haplotype-resolved and gap-free genome of a floating aquatic plant from the Oryzeae tribe, Hygroryza aristata

We assembled the genome of H. aristata using 31.91 Gb of Pacific Biosciences (PacBio) High-fidelity (HiFi) data and 22.36 Gb of ultra long Oxford Nanopore Technology (ONT) data, resulting in two gap-free haplotype genomes, hap1 (349.74 Mb) and hap2 (347.98 Mb), each with 12 chromosomes and 23 telomeres. The continuity of chromosomes was supported by High-throughput chromosome conformation capture (Hi-C) data. The assemblies demonstrated high completeness, with > 99.8% of coverage rates, 98.4% of Benchmarking Universal Single-Copy Orthologs (BUSCO) scores, and > 11.0 of Long Terminal Repeat Assembly Index (LAI) scores per haplotype. RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) data (176.06 Gb) of six tissues was generated for genome annotation, identifying 39,139 and 38,746 protein-coding genes in hap1 and hap2, respectively.