Title |
A framework genetic map for Miscanthus sinensis from RNAseq-based markers shows recent tetraploidy
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Published in |
BMC Genomics, April 2012
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2164-13-142 |
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Authors |
Kankshita Swaminathan, Won Byoung Chae, Therese Mitros, Kranthi Varala, Liang Xie, Adam Barling, Katarzyna Glowacka, Megan Hall, Stanislaw Jezowski, Ray Ming, Matthew Hudson, John A Juvik, Daniel S Rokhsar, Stephen P Moose |
Abstract |
Miscanthus (subtribe Saccharinae, tribe Andropogoneae, family Poaceae) is a genus of temperate perennial C4 grasses whose high biomass production makes it, along with its close relatives sugarcane and sorghum, attractive as a biofuel feedstock. The base chromosome number of Miscanthus (x = 19) is different from that of other Saccharinae and approximately twice that of the related Sorghum bicolor (x = 10), suggesting large-scale duplications may have occurred in recent ancestors of Miscanthus. Owing to the complexity of the Miscanthus genome and the complications of self-incompatibility, a complete genetic map with a high density of markers has not yet been developed. |
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