Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) is one of the oldest cultivated perennial woody plant species with significant agricultural and economic importance. Date has its center of origin in the Middle East, spreading in ancient times to North Africa and South Asia and later to other hot, arid areas. Dates are a strict dioecious evergreen, obligate outcrossing, and highly heterozygous monocot species that are typically vegetatively propagated. ‘Medjool’ and ‘Deglet Noor’ are the most widely grown date cultivars in the United States and are also important at the global level. Despite their economic values, genomic studies have been hampered due to lack of available assembled genomes. To facilitate future genomic studies, genomes for ‘Medjool’ and ‘Deglet Noor’ were assembled using Dovetail® HiFi and Omni-C® technologies. ‘Medjool’ had a total length of 757 Mb comprising 899 scaffolds (L50 : 7, N50 : 37 Mb) with a BUSCO completeness score of 97.65 %, and ‘Deglet Noor’ had a total length of 772 Mb comprising 1287 scaffolds (L50 : 9, N50 : 33 Mb) with a BUSCO completeness score of 97.65 %.
