De novo assembly of the zucchini genome reveals a whole‐genome duplication associated with the origin of the Cucurbita genus

Summary The Cucurbita genus (squashes, pumpkins and gourds) includes important domesticated species such as C. pepo, C. maxima and C. moschata . In this study, we present a high‐quality draft of the zucchini ( C. pepo ) genome. The assembly has a size of 263 Mb, a scaffold N50 of 1.8 Mb and 34 240 gene models. It includes 92% of the conserved BUSCO core gene set, and it is estimated to cover 93.0% of the genome. The genome is organized in 20...