A Genome Assembly of the Barley 'Transformation Reference' Cultivar Golden Promise.

Barley () is one of the most important crops worldwide and is also considered a research model for the large-genome small grain temperate cereals. Despite genomic resources improving all the time, they are limited for the Golden Promise, the most efficient genotype for genetic transformation. We have developed a barley Golden Promise reference assembly integrating Illumina paired-end reads, long mate-pair reads, Dovetail Chicago proximity ligation libraries and chromosome conformation capture sequencing (Hi-C) libraries into a contiguous reference assembly.