Whole-genome sequencing reveals untapped genetic potential in Africa's indigenous cereal crop sorghum

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Mace, Emma S ^a   Tai, Shuaishuai ^b   Gilding, Edward K ^c   Li, Yanhong ^b   Prentis, Peter J ^d   Bian, Lianle ^b   Campbell, Bradley C ^c   Hu, Wushu ^b   Innes, David J ^e   Han, Xuelian ^b   Cruickshank, Alan ^a   Dai, Changming ^b   Frère, Céline ^c   Zhang, Haikuan ^b   Hunt, Colleen H ^a   Wang, Xianyuan ^b   Shatte, Tracey ^a   Wang, Miao ^b   Su, Zhe ^b   Li, Jun ^b   Lin, Xiaozhen ^b   Godwin, Ian D ^c   Jordan, David R ^c   Wang, Jun ^b,f,g   more..

^a DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES   (Australia)

^b BGI SHENZHEN   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^e DAFFQ Cooper's Plains   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^g Capital Region   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUXIN; SPACER DNA; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

C4 PLANT; CROP IMPROVEMENT; CULTIVAR; DOMESTICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC RESOURCE; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; GRASS; NATIVE SPECIES; PHENOTYPE; SORGHUM; TAXONOMY;

AFRICA; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CEREAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DOMESTICATION; EUCHROMATIN; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOSS; GENE POOL; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC IMPROVEMENT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HETEROCHROMATIN; INDEL MUTATION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENOME; RICE; SELECTIVE SWEEP; SORGHUM; SOYBEAN; SPECIES; TAXONOMY; WILD TYPE;

AFRICA; CEREALS; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; GENOME, PLANT; GENOTYPE; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SORGHUM;

EID: 84893361639     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3320     Document Type: Article

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