Genome Project of Rosa roxburghii
Rosa roxburghii Tratt., a famous Chinese traditional medicine with long history, possesses various secondary metabolites, such as L-ascorbic acid (vitamin C), alkaloids, and polysaccharides. Here we characterized the chromosome-level genome sequence of R. roxburghii, comprising seven pseudo-chromosomes with a total size of 531 Mb with a heterozygosity of 0.097%.