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Setaria genome sequencing: an overview

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Title Setaria genome sequencing: an overview
 
Creator Lata, Charu
Prasad, Manoj
 
Subject Biofuel
Crop improvement
Millets
Marker-aided breeding
Setaria
Single nucleotide polymorphism
 
Description Accepted date: 28 March 2013
The genus Setaria includes two important C4 Panicoid grass species, namely S. italica (cultivated) and S. viridis (weed; wild ancestor), which together represent an appropriate model system for architectural, physiological, evolutionary, and genomic studies in related grasses. It is a diploid, inbreeder, self-fertile annual cereal grass having short life cycle and minimal growth requirements. There close relatedness to biofuel crops like switch grass and napier grass further signifies their importance. Further, foxtail millet is an important food and fodder grain crop grown in arid and semi-arid regions in many parts of the world. Therefore, an increasing interest in these species has led to a gradual accumulation and development of genomic data and genetic resources. Setaria genome sequencing is an outcome of such endeavors. These sequencing efforts uncovered several distinctive attributes of Setaria genome that may help in understanding its physiology, evolution and adaptation. This will not only aid in comparative genomics studies of Setaria and related crops including bioenergy grasses but also help in rapid advancements of genomics information for developing varieties with superior traits either through marker-assisted selection (MAS) or using transgenic approaches in these crops.
This study was supported by the core grant from
National Institute of Plant Genome Research and Department of Science & Technology (DST), Govt. of India. Charu Lata acknowledges
DST, Govt. of India, New Delhi for the INSPIRE Faculty Award
(Grant No.IFA-11LSPA-01)
 
Date 2015-11-09T05:49:00Z
2015-11-09T05:49:00Z
2013
 
Type Article
 
Identifier J. Plant Biochem. Biotechnol., 22(3): 257-260
0971-7811
http://172.16.0.77:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/343
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs13562-013-0216-8
10.1007/s13562-013-0216-8
 
Language en_US
 
Publisher Springer