title: Corrected sequence of the wheat plastid genome.
abstract: Wheat is the most important cereal in the world in terms of acreage and productivity. We sequenced and assembled the plastid genome of one Egyptian wheat cultivar using next-generation sequence data. The size of the plastid genome is 133,873 bp, which is 672 bp smaller than the published plastid genome of "Chinese Spring" cultivar, due mainly to the presence of three sequences from the rice plastid genome. The difference in size between the previously published wheat plastid genome and the sequence reported here is due to contamination of the published genome with rice plastid DNA, most of which is present in three sequences of 332, 131 and 131 bp. The corrected plastid genome of wheat has been submitted to GenBank (accession number KJ592713) and can be used in future comparisons.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University (KAU), P.O. Box 80141, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia; Department of Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. Electronic address: bahieldin55@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Ahmed
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bahieldin
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University (KAU), P.O. Box 80141, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia; Genetics and Cytology Department, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Division, National Research Center, Dokki, Egypt.
authors.forename: Magdy A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Al-Kordy
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University (KAU), P.O. Box 80141, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia; Agricultural Genetic Engineering Research Institute (AGERI), Agriculture Research Center (ARC), Giza, Egypt.
authors.forename: Ahmed M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Shokry
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University (KAU), P.O. Box 80141, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia; Genetics and Cytology Department, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Division, National Research Center, Dokki, Egypt.
authors.forename: Nour O
authors.initials: NO
authors.lastname: Gadalla
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University (KAU), P.O. Box 80141, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: Ahmed M M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Al-Hejin
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University (KAU), P.O. Box 80141, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: Jamal S M
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Sabir
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University (KAU), P.O. Box 80141, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia; Department of Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
authors.forename: Sabah M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Hassan
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University (KAU), P.O. Box 80141, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: Ahlam A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Al-Ahmadi
authors.affiliation: Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
authors.forename: Erika N
authors.initials: EN
authors.lastname: Schwarz
authors.affiliation: Agricultural Genetic Engineering Research Institute (AGERI), Agriculture Research Center (ARC), Giza, Egypt; Faculty of Biotechnology, Misr University for Science and Technology (MUST), 6th October city, Egypt.
authors.forename: Hala F
authors.initials: HF
authors.lastname: Eissa
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University (KAU), P.O. Box 80141, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia; Department of Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
authors.forename: Fotouh M
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: El-Domyati
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University (KAU), P.O. Box 80141, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia; Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
authors.forename: Robert K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Jansen
mesh_terms: D018744:DNA, Plant / Q000235:genetics; D030561:Databases, Nucleic Acid; D018745:Genome, Plant / Q000235:genetics*; D054627:Genome, Plastid / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009710:Nucleotide Mapping; D012275:Oryza / Q000235:genetics; D014908:Triticum / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D018744:DNA, Plant
keywords: GenBank; Next-Generation sequencing; Rice plastid genome