All original files were downloaded from ftp://plantftp.helmholtz-muenchen.de and renamed with the prefix "Zm-PE0075-REFERENCE-TUM-1.0" and the suffixes of each fasta name in the original protein fasta file was edited from _Tddd to _Pddd. The file Zm-PE0075-REFERENCE-TUM-1.0_Zm00017a.1.gff was subsequently edited to correctly format the chromosome IDs and renamed Zm-PE0075-REFERENCE-TUM-1.0_Zm00017a.1.mw1.gff. The original genomic fasta file GCA_003704525.1_Zm-PE0075-REFERENCE-TUM-1.0_genomic.fna.gz downloaded from NCBI at ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/genbank/plant/Zea_mays/all_assembly_versions/GCA_003704525.1_Zm-PE0075-REFERENCE-TUM-1.0 was reformatted so the the chromosome IDs were corrected and renamed Zm-PE0075-REFERENCE-TUM-1.0.fa. From genomic fasta file and the gff file, fasta files of gene models were generated using bedtools getfasta, resulting in the file Zm-PE0075-REFERENCE-TUM-1.0_genes.fa.