Sb bicolor Ji2731 Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Sorghum bicolor ssp. bicolor Ji2731

Ji2731 is a Chinese kaoliang grain sorghum that is well adapted to Northeast China with good seedling establishment and a short growth period.

Assembly

The genome assembly of Sorghum Ji2731 was reported in Tao et al (2021). Sequencing was conducted by the Australia Sorghum breeding team in collaboration with BGI-Shenzhen using Illumina HiSeq 4000 platform and the PacBio Sequel platform to achieve 160X and 35X coverage, respectively. The assembly effort generated a genome of 703.8Mb with contigs N50 of 3.5Mb.

Annotation

Gene prediction was performed using a hybrid approach combining de novo gene predictors and evidence-based methods (Tao et al, 2021), which led to the identification of 36,952 genes in the genome.

References

1. Extensive variation within the pan-genome of cultivated and wild sorghum. Tao Y, Luo H, Xu J, Cruickshank A, Zhao X, Teng F, Hathorn A. Wu X. Liu Y. Shatte T et al. Nat. Plants.
2. The Sorghum bicolor genome and the diversification of grasses. Paterson AH, Bowers JE, Bruggmann R, Dubchak I, Grimwood J, Gundlach H, Haberer G, Hellsten U, Mitros T, Poliakov A et al. 2009. Nature. 457:551-556.
3. The Sorghum bicolor reference genome: improved assembly, gene annotations, a transcriptome atlas, and signatures of genome organization. McCormick RF, Truong SK, Sreedasyam A, Jenkins J, Shu S, Sims D, Kennedy M, Amirebrahimi M, Weers BD, McKinley B et al. 2018. Plant J. 93:338-354.
4. Population genomic and genome-wide association studies of agroclimatic traits in sorghum. Morris GP, Ramu P, Deshpande SP, Hash CT, Shah T, Upadhyaya HD, Riera-Lizarazu O, Brown PJ, Acharya CB, Mitchell SE et al. 2013. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.. 110:453-458.
5. Whole-genome sequencing reveals untapped genetic potential in Africa's indigenous cereal crop sorghum. Mace ES, Tai S, Gilding EK, Li Y, Prentis PJ, Bian L, Campbell BC, Hu W, Innes DJ, Han X et al. 2013. Nat Commun. 4:2320.
6. A Sorghum Mutant Resource as an Efficient Platform for Gene Discovery in Grasses. Jiao Y, Burke J, Chopra R, Burow G, Chen J, Wang B, Hayes C, Emendack Y, Ware D, Xin Z. 2016. Plant Cell. 28:1551-1562.
7. Applying genotyping (TILLING) and phenotyping analyses to elucidate gene function in a chemically induced sorghum mutant population. Xin Z, Wang ML, Barkley NA, Burow G, Franks C, Pederson G, Burke J. 2008. BMC Plant Biol 2008, 8:103.
8. Forward Genetics by Sequencing EMS Variation-Induced Inbred Lines. Addo-Quaye C, Buescher E, Best N, Chaikam V, Baxter I and Dilkes BP. 2017. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics. 7(2):413-425.

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General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia.

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General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia.