Insights into the bamboo genome: syntenic relationships to rice and sorghum.
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.
Institute of Crop Science & Institute of Bioinformatics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310029, China.
Yi-Jie
YJ
Gui
Yan
Y
Zhou
Yu
Y
Wang
Sheng
S
Wang
Sheng-Yue
SY
Wang
Yan
Y
Hu
Shi-Ping
SP
Bo
Huan
H
Chen
Chang-Ping
CP
Zhou
Nai-Xun
NX
Ma
Tian-Zhen
TZ
Zhang
Long-Jiang
LJ
Fan
D031723:Bambusa / Q000235:genetics*; D001483:Base Sequence; D022202:Chromosomes, Artificial, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D017343:Genes, Plant / Q000235:genetics; D018745:Genome, Plant / Q000235:genetics*; D058977:Molecular Sequence Annotation; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D012275:Oryza / Q000235:genetics*; D012091:Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid / Q000235:genetics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D045868:Sorghum / Q000235:genetics*; D026801:Synteny / Q000235:genetics*; D003313:Zea mays / Q000235:genetics