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Sequence-Based Analysis Of Structural Organization And Composition Of The Cultivated Sunflower (Helianthus Annuus L.) Genome, Navdeep Gill, Matteo Buti, Nolan Kane, Arnaud Bellec, Nicolas Helmstetter, Hélène Berges, Loren Rieseberg
Sequence-Based Analysis Of Structural Organization And Composition Of The Cultivated Sunflower (Helianthus Annuus L.) Genome, Navdeep Gill, Matteo Buti, Nolan Kane, Arnaud Bellec, Nicolas Helmstetter, Hélène Berges, Loren Rieseberg
Biology Faculty Articles
Sunflower is an important oilseed crop, as well as a model system for evolutionary studies, but its 3.6 gigabase genome has proven difficult to assemble, in part because of the high repeat content of its genome. Here we report on the sequencing, assembly, and analyses of 96 randomly chosen BACs from sunflower to provide additional information on the repeat content of the sunflower genome, assess how repetitive elements in the sunflower genome are organized relative to genes, and compare the genomic distribution of these repeats to that found in other food crops and model species. We also examine the expression …