Triticum aestivum cv. Chinese spring study
454 pyrosequencing of the Triticum aestivum (bread wheat) genome to 5X coverage
The data set represents one of the outputs of the BBSRC funded grant “Mining the allohexaploid wheat genome for useful sequence polymorphisms”. The grant is led by Prof. Keith Edwards (University of Bristol) and is a collaboration between Prof. Neil Hall and Dr. Anthony Hall (University of Liverpool), Dr. Gary Barker (University of Bristol) and Prof. Mike Bevan (John Innes Centre) (BB/G013004/1, BB/G012865/1). The sequencing was done by Dr. Rosalinda D’Amore and informatics by Dr. Rachel Brenchley.
Bread wheat has a hexaploid genome with a size of approximately 17GB, making it one of the largest and most complex plant genomes. Wheat is of fundamental importance to world agriculture with an estimated 2007 harvest of ~550m tonnes. In this project we have taken a whole genome shotgun sequencing approach using the 454 Titanium and new longer read (1KB) platform. We have generated 5x coverage (approximately 85GB of sequence) of the genome of community reference line Chinese Spring (CS).