A chromosome-scale assembly of the bilberry genome identifies a complex locus controlling berry anthocyanin composition

New Zealand Ministry for Business, Innovation, and Employment, Grant/Award Number: C11X1704, Strategic Science Investment Fund (SSIF) platform and USDA-NIFA Vaccinium Coordinated Agricultural Projec

The genome assembly has been submitted to NCBI under BioProject PRJNA672146, BioSample SAMN16560029. The RNASeq data has been submitted to NCBI with accession number PRJNA739815. The genome, gene and protein sequences in fasta format, gene structure and TE annotations in gff format, gene functional annotations in text format were further deposited to the Genome Database For Vaccinium (GDV). These samples and derived data have a Biocultural (BC) Notice attached. The BC Notice is a visible notification that there are accompanying cultural rights and responsibilities that need further attention for any future sharing and use of this material or data. The BC Notice recognizes the rights of Indigenous peoples to permission the use of information, collections, data and digital sequence information generated from the biodiversity or genetic resources associated with traditional lands, waters, and territories. The BC Notice may indicate that BC (Biocultural) Labels are in development and their implementation is being negotiated. For more information about the BC Notices visit https://localcontexts.org/notice/bc-notice/ and https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/mec.15918