The Sorghum bicolor reference genome: improved assembly, gene annotations, a transcriptome atlas, and signatures of genome organization

Plant Journal

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 338-354

  McCormick, Ryan F ^a   Truong, Sandra K ^a   Sreedasyam, Avinash ^b   Jenkins, Jerry ^b   Shu, Shengqiang ^c   Sims, David ^b   Kennedy, Megan ^c   Amirebrahimi, Mojgan ^c   Weers, Brock D ^a   McKinley, Brian ^a   Mattison, Ashley ^a   Morishige, Daryl T ^a   Grimwood, Jane ^b,c   Schmutz, Jeremy ^b,c   Mullet, John E ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HUDSONALPHA INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

discrete Fourier transform; gene annotation; genetic variation; genome assembly; kinase; nucleosome occupancy; reference genome; satellite DNA; Sorghum bicolor

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOMES; DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS; ENZYMES; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PLANTS (BOTANY); QUALITY CONTROL; SEED; TISSUE; TRANSCRIPTION;

GENE ANNOTATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME ASSEMBLY; KINASE; NUCLEOSOMES; SATELLITE DNA; SORGHUM BICOLOR;

GENES;

GENES; NUCLEIC ACIDS;

TRANSCRIPTOME;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; INDEL MUTATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOSOME; PLANT GENOME; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SORGHUM;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, PLANT; GENOTYPE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; INDEL MUTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; NUCLEOSOMES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SORGHUM; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 85039153685     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.13781     Document Type: Article

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