New Delhi. The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) on Tuesday announced the development of India's first fully sequenced Telomere-to-Telomere (T-to-T) reference genome of the pigeon pea variety 'Asha'.The newly developed genome sequence contains 752.65 million base pairs. These base pairs have been arranged into 92 contigs. ICAR stated that this represents the complete genome of all 11 chromosomes of pigeon pea. This genome data, named NIPB CCTUTU 4, has been placed in the global database (NCBI).This genome includes all 11 chromosomes, including centromeres and telomeres. Analysis of the complete genome identified 36,557 genes, which produce 48,008 mRNA (coding sequences)....