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Chromosome-level, haplotype-resolved genome assembly of the tanniferous forage legume big trefoil (Lotus pedunculatus Cav.) using CiFi

  • A. T. Pettersson
  • Y. Chen
  • T. Davalan
  • P. Nicholson
  • D. Kopecky
  • B. Studer
  • R. KÖlliker
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Abstract

Big trefoil (Lotus pedunculatus Cav.) is a perennial forage legume that thrives on acidic, low-fertility soils and produces condensed tannins that reduce enteric methanogenesis in ruminants. Despite this agronomic potential, genomic resources for the species remain scarce, and the existing haploid assembly does not resolve the two haplotypes of this outcrossing diploid species. Here we present a haplotype-resolved, chromosome-level reference genome for L. pedunculatus genotype Lusitano29 -- the first plant genome assembled using CiFi, a long-read chromosome conformation capture method. We combined PacBio HiFi long reads with CiFi concatemers produced from DpnII and HindIII libraries; in silico digestion and combinatorial pairing of the resulting monomers yielded 790.3 M and 10.3 M pseudo-paired contacts, respectively, enabling scaffolding and manual curation to chromosome level. The 991.1 Mb assembly resolves two phased haplotypes of 500 and 491 Mb, with 96.6% of the sequence anchored in twelve pseudo-chromosomes (six per haplotype). Telomeric repeats were detected at 19 of 24 pseudo-chromosome ends, and no structural errors were detected (scaffold N50 73.8 Mb; consensus QV 64.7; k-mer completeness 99.4%; genome-mode BUSCO completeness 97.0%; CRAQ S-AQI 100.0). Annotation supported by PacBio Iso-Seq full-length transcripts predicted 38,069 and 36,484 protein-coding genes in haplotypes 1 and 2, respectively (protein-mode BUSCO completeness 96.5%), indicating a high completeness of annotated genes. This genome assembly provides a foundation for allele-aware trait dissection of proanthocyanidin biosynthesis, comparative genomics in Lotus, and population genomics and genomics-assisted breeding in L. pedunculatus.

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@misc{pettersson2026chromosomelevel,
  title = {{Chromosome-level, haplotype-resolved genome assembly of the tanniferous forage legume big trefoil (Lotus pedunculatus Cav.) using CiFi}},
  author = {A. T. Pettersson and Y. Chen and T. Davalan and P. Nicholson and D. Kopecky and B. Studer and R. KÖlliker},
  howpublished = {bioRxiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  doi = {10.64898/2026.09.09.749848},
  url = {https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.09.749848v1},
  note = {CC BY},
}
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TY  - UNPB
TI  - Chromosome-level, haplotype-resolved genome assembly of the tanniferous forage legume big trefoil (Lotus pedunculatus Cav.) using CiFi
AU  - A. T. Pettersson
AU  - Y. Chen
AU  - T. Davalan
AU  - P. Nicholson
AU  - D. Kopecky
AU  - B. Studer
AU  - R. KÖlliker
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/09/09
PB  - bioRxiv
DO  - 10.64898/2026.09.09.749848
UR  - https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.09.749848v1
AB  - Big trefoil (Lotus pedunculatus Cav.) is a perennial forage legume that thrives on acidic, low-fertility soils and produces condensed tannins that reduce enteric methanogenesis in ruminants. Despite this agronomic potential, genomic resources for the species remain scarce, and the existing haploid assembly does not resolve the two haplotypes of this outcrossing diploid species. Here we present a haplotype-resolved, chromosome-level reference genome for L. pedunculatus genotype Lusitano29 -- the first plant genome assembled using CiFi, a long-read chromosome conformation capture method. We combined PacBio HiFi long reads with CiFi concatemers produced from DpnII and HindIII libraries; in silico digestion and combinatorial pairing of the resulting monomers yielded 790.3 M and 10.3 M pseudo-paired contacts, respectively, enabling scaffolding and manual curation to chromosome level. The 991.1 Mb assembly resolves two phased haplotypes of 500 and 491 Mb, with 96.6% of the sequence anchored in twelve pseudo-chromosomes (six per haplotype). Telomeric repeats were detected at 19 of 24 pseudo-chromosome ends, and no structural errors were detected (scaffold N50 73.8 Mb; consensus QV 64.7; k-mer completeness 99.4%; genome-mode BUSCO completeness 97.0%; CRAQ S-AQI 100.0). Annotation supported by PacBio Iso-Seq full-length transcripts predicted 38,069 and 36,484 protein-coding genes in haplotypes 1 and 2, respectively (protein-mode BUSCO completeness 96.5%), indicating a high completeness of annotated genes. This genome assembly provides a foundation for allele-aware trait dissection of proanthocyanidin biosynthesis, comparative genomics in Lotus, and population genomics and genomics-assisted breeding in L. pedunculatus.
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