title: The oryza map alignment project: the golden path to unlocking the genetic potential of wild rice species.
abstract: The wild species of the genus Oryza offer enormous potential to make a significant impact on agricultural productivity of the cultivated rice species Oryza sativa and Oryza glaberrima. To unlock the genetic potential of wild rice we have initiated a project entitled the 'Oryza Map Alignment Project' (OMAP) with the ultimate goal of constructing and aligning BAC/STC based physical maps of 11 wild and one cultivated rice species to the International Rice Genome Sequencing Project's finished reference genome--O. sativa ssp. japonica c. v. Nipponbare. The 11 wild rice species comprise nine different genome types and include six diploid genomes (AA, BB, CC, EE, FF and GG) and four tetrapliod genomes (BBCC, CCDD, HHKK and HHJJ) with broad geographical distribution and ecological adaptation. In this paper we describe our strategy to construct robust physical maps of all 12 rice species with an emphasis on the AA diploid O. nivara--thought to be the progenitor of modern cultivated rice.
authors.affiliation: Arizona Genomics Institute, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA. rwing@ag.arizona.edu
authors.forename: Rod A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Wing
authors.forename: Jetty S S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Ammiraju
authors.forename: Meizhong
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.forename: Hyeran
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Yeisoo
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Dave
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kudrna
authors.forename: Jose L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Goicoechea
authors.forename: Wenming
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Will
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Nelson
authors.forename: Kiran
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Rao
authors.forename: Darshan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Brar
authors.forename: Dave J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Mackill
authors.forename: Bin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Han
authors.forename: Cari
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Soderlund
authors.forename: Lincoln
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Stein
authors.forename: Phillip
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: SanMiguel
authors.forename: Scott
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jackson
mesh_terms: D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D022202:Chromosomes, Artificial, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D032461:Chromosomes, Plant / Q000235:genetics*; D015698:Genomic Library; D012275:Oryza / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*; D010802:Phylogeny; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D006109:Poaceae / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics; D013045:Species Specificity; D026801:Synteny
chemical_list: D010940:Plant Proteins