Sb bicolor grassl Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Grassl [PI 154844]

Grassl is a historic sorghum breeding line released in 1984. It is classified as a sweet sorghum, meaning it has the ability to accumulate high concentrations of stalk sugars during development, but this line also produces a large amount of plant biomass, which is why is it was selected as the recurrent parent in the Carbon Partitioning NAM (CP-NAM) population (Boatwright et al. 2021). It is known to be highly resistant to multiple diseases, including anthracnose. It is named after the famous plant explorer Carl O. Grassl.

Germplasm synonyms: * GRIN: PI 154844 * Cultivar: GRASSL

Population panels: * Sorghum Bioenergy Association Panel (BAP) - 386 accessions (Brenton et al, 2016) * CP-NAM - 12 accessions (Boatwright et al, 2021; Boatwright et al, 2022; Kumar et al, 2022)

Assembly

The preliminary assembly was constructed using Canu and 30x coverage Pacbio long read data and then aligned to the reference (BTx623) using MUMmer (Voelker et al, 2022). Contigs were sorted using coordinate data from MUMmer and code developed by the Cooper Lab at UNCC (https://github.com/cponce-uncc/bioinformatics_tools). Contigs under 50k base pairs were discarded, as were contigs that were manually determined to not clearly map to a position after sorting.

Annotation

Gene annotations were built by the Ware Lab in CSHL using a pan-gene index from reference gene models and propagated to representative assemblies using the Liftoff tool and further updating their structure using PASA tool (Voelker et al, 2022).

References

Boatwright JL, Brenton ZW, Boyles RE, Sapkota S, Myers MT, Jordan KE, Dale SM, Shakoor N, Cooper EA, Morris GP, Kresovich S. 2021. Genetic characterization of a Sorghum bicolor multiparent mapping population emphasizing carbon-partitioning dynamics. G3 (Bethesda). 11(4):jkab060. PMID: 33681979. doi: 10.1093/g3journal/jkab060.

Boatwright JL, Sapkota S, Jin H, Schnable JC, Brenton Z, Boyles R, Kresovich S. 2022. Sorghum Association Panel whole-genome sequencing establishes cornerstone resource for dissecting genomic diversity. Plant J. PMID: 35653240. doi: 10.1111/tpj.15853.

Kumar N, Brenton ZW, Myers MT, Boyles RE, Sapkota S, Boatwright JL, Cox WA, Jordan KE, Kresovich S. 2022. Registration of the sorghum carbon‐partitioning nested association mapping (CP‐NAM) population. Journal of Plant Registrations. 1-8. doi: 10.1002/plr2.20229.

Voelker WG, Krishnan K, Chougule K, Alexander LC, Lu Z, Olson A, Ware W, Songsomboon K, Ponce C, Brenton ZW, Boatwright JL, Cooper EA. 2022. Ten new high-quality genome assemblies for diverse bioenergy sorghum genotypes. bioRxiv. doi: 10.1101/2022.09.26.509520.

Links

• GRIN: PI 154844