Insights into the Bamboo Genome: Syntenic Relationships to Rice and Sorghum
Yi-Jie Gui1†, Yan Zhou2,4†, Yu Wang1†, Sheng Wang3, Sheng-Yue Wang4, Yan Hu5, Shi-Ping Bo1, Huan Chen1, Chang-Ping Zhou6, Nai-Xun Ma7, Tian-Zhen Zhang5 and Long-Jiang Fan1
1Institute of Crop Science & Institute of Bioinformatics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310029, China;
2State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, Department of Microbiology, School of Life Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China;
3Hangzhou Dianzi University, Xiasha, Hangzhou 310018, China
4Shanghai - MOST Key Laboratory of Health and Disease Genomics, Chinese National Human Genome Center at Shanghai, Shanghai 201203, China
5National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agriculture University, Nanjing 210095, China
6Anji Bamboo Exposition Garden, Anji 313300, Zhejiang Province, China
7The Research Institute of Subtropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Fuyang 311400, China
†These authors contributed equally to this work.
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Online on 14 July 2010 at www.jipb.net and www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/jipb
10.1111/j.1744-7909.2010.00965.x
Abstract
Bamboo occupies an important phylogenetic node in the grass family and plays a significant role in the forest industry. We produced 1.2 Mb of tetraploid moso bamboo (Phyllostachys pubescens E. Mazel ex H. de Leh.) sequences from 13 bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) clones, and these are the largest genomic sequences available so far from the subfamily Bambusoideae. The content of repetitive elements (36.2%) in bamboo is similar to that in rice. Both rice and sorghum exhibit high genomic synteny with bamboo, which suggests that rice and sorghum may be useful as models for decoding Bambusoideae genomes.
Gui YJ, Zhou Y, Wang Y, Wang S, Wang SY, Hu Y, Bo SP, Chen H, Zhou CP, Ma NX, Zhang TZ, Fan LJ (2010) Insights into the bamboo genome: syntenic relationships to rice and sorghum. J. Integr. Plant Biol. doi: 10.1111/j.1744-7909.2010.00965.x
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Received 15 Jan 2010 Accepted 26 Apr 2010
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