title: Species-specific accumulation of interspersed sequences in genus Saccharum.
abstract: The genus Saccharum consists of two wild and four cultivated species. Novel interspersed sequences were isolated from cultivated sugar cane S. officinarum. These sequences were accumulated in all four cultivated species and their wild ancestral species S. robustum, but were not detected in the other wild species S. spontaneum and the relative Erianthus arundinaceus. The species-specific accumulation of interspersed sequences would correlate to the domestication of sugar canes.
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences (NIAS), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8602, Japan. shignak@nias.affrc.go.jp
authors.forename: Shigeki
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nakayama
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture; D005828:Genetics, Population; D020071:Interspersed Repetitive Sequences; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D031786:Saccharum / Q000235:genetics*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA