Advancing Eucalyptus genomics: identification and sequencing of lignin biosynthesis genes from deep-coverage BAC libraries
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Paiva, JorgePrat, Elisa
Vautrin, Sonia
Santos, Mauro
San-Clemente, Helene
Brommonschenkel, Sergio
Fonseca, Paulo
Grattapaglia, Dario
Song, Xiang
Ammiraju, Jetty
Kudrna, David
Wing, Rod
Freitas, Ana
Berges, Helene
Grima-Pettenati, Jacqueline
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Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical (IICT), Centro de Florestas e dos Produtos Florestais, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-018 Lisboa, PortugalInstituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica, Apartado 12, 2781-901 Oeiras, Portugal
INRA-CNRGV, Chemin de Borde Rouge, 31326 Castanet-Tolosan, France
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores: Investigação e Desenvolvimento (INESC-ID/IST), R. Alves Redol 9, 1000-029 Lisboa, Portugal
Université de Toulouse; UPS; UMR 5546, Surfaces Cellulaires et Signalisation chez les Végétaux; BP 42617, F-31326, Castanet-Tolosan, France
CNRS; UMR 5546; BP 42617, F-31326, Castanet-Tolosan, France
BIOAGRO - Federal University of Viçosa, Av. P. H. Rolfs, s/n - 36570-000 - Viçosa, MG, Brasil
EMBRAPA Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, EPqB Final W5 NOrte, 70770-910 Brasilia, DF, Brazil
Arizona Genomics Institute, School of Plant Sciences and BIO5 Institute, The University of Arizona, Tucson AZ 85721, USA
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2011
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Paiva et al. BMC Genomics 2011, 12:137 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/12/137Journal
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BACKGROUND:Eucalyptus species are among the most planted hardwoods in the world because of their rapid growth, adaptability and valuable wood properties. The development and integration of genomic resources into breeding practice will be increasingly important in the decades to come. Bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) libraries are key genomic tools that enable positional cloning of important traits, synteny evaluation, and the development of genome framework physical maps for genetic linkage and genome sequencing.RESULTS:We describe the construction and characterization of two deep-coverage BAC libraries EG_Ba and EG_Bb obtained from nuclear DNA fragments of E. grandis (clone BRASUZ1) digested with HindIII and BstYI, respectively. Genome coverages of 17 and 15 haploid genome equivalents were estimated for EG_Ba and EG_Bb, respectively. Both libraries contained large inserts, with average sizes ranging from 135 Kb (Eg_Bb) to 157 Kb (Eg_Ba), very low extra-nuclear genome contamination providing a probability of finding a single copy gene greater than or equal to] 99.99%. Libraries were screened for the presence of several genes of interest via hybridizations to high-density BAC filters followed by PCR validation. Five selected BAC clones were sequenced and assembled using the Roche GS FLX technology providing the whole sequence of the E. grandis chloroplast genome, and complete genomic sequences of important lignin biosynthesis genes.CONCLUSIONS:The two E. grandis BAC libraries described in this study represent an important milestone for the advancement of Eucalyptus genomics and forest tree research. These BAC resources have a highly redundant genome coverage (> 15x), contain large average inserts and have a very low percentage of clones with organellar DNA or empty vectors. These publicly available BAC libraries are thus suitable for a broad range of applications in genetic and genomic research in Eucalyptus and possibly in related species of Myrtaceae, including genome sequencing, gene isolation, functional and comparative genomics. Because they have been constructed using the same tree (E. grandis BRASUZ1) whose full genome is being sequenced, they should prove instrumental for assembly and gap filling of the upcoming Eucalyptus reference genome sequence.EISSN
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