Project description:Cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) is an important vegetable crop widely grown throughout the world, providing plentiful nutrients and health-promoting substances. To facilitate further genetics and genomic studies and crop improvement, we present here a high-quality reference genome for cabbage. We report a de novo genome assembly of the cabbage double-haploid line D134. A combined strategy of single-molecule real-time (SMRT) sequencing, 10× Genomics and chromosome conformation capture (Hi-C) produced a high quality cabbage draft genome. The chromosome-level D134 assembly is 529.92 Mb in size, 135 Mb longer than the current 02-12 reference genome, with scaffold N50 length being raised as high as 38 times. We annotated 44,701 high-quality protein-coding genes, and provided full-length transcripts for 45.59% of the total predicted gene models. Moreover, we identified novel genomic features like underrated TEs, as well as gene families and gene family expansions and contractions during B. oleracea evolution. The D134 draft genome is a cabbage reference genome assembled by SMRT long-read sequencing combined with the 10× Genomics and Hi-C technologies for scaffolding. This high-quality cabbage reference genome provides a valuable tool for improvement of Brassica crops.
Project description:Complete and accurate reference genomes and annotations provide fundamental resources for functional genomics and crop breeding. Here we report a de novo assembly and annotation of a pea cultivar ZW6 with contig N50 of 8.98 Mb, which features a 243-fold increase in contig length and evident improvements in the continuity and quality of sequence in complex repeat regions compared with the existing one. Genome diversity of 118 cultivated and wild pea demonstrated that Pisum abyssinicum is a separate species different from P. fulvum and P. sativum within Pisum. Quantitative trait locus analyses uncovered two known Mendel's genes related to stem length (Le/le) and seed shape (R/r) as well as some candidate genes for pod form studied by Mendel. A pan-genome of 116 pea accessions was constructed, and pan-genes preferred in P. abyssinicum and P. fulvum showed distinct functional enrichment, indicating the potential value of them as pea breeding resources in the future.
Project description:This study aims at investigating the gene expression profile of thermogenic skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus renifolius). Using Super-SAGE, we compared the gene expression profile of different developmental stages of skunk cabbage spadices.
Project description:This study aims at investigating the gene expression profile of thermogenic skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus renifolius). Using Super-SAGE, we compared the gene expression profile of different developmental stages of skunk cabbage spadices. To obtain the SuperSAGE libraries, we followed the original SuperSAGE protocol described by Matsumura and colleagues (Matsumura et al., 2003) with some modification. Total RNA of spadices in different developmental stage (immature, female, bisexual, and male) were isolated using RNAiso reagent. The SuperSAGE library was directly sequenced with a large-scale pyrosequencing method.
Project description:PURPOSE:To clarify the mechanism of the wax deficiency, the wax-less flowering Chinese cabbage doubled-haploid (DH) line ‘CX001’ and Chinese cabbage DH line ‘FT’, obtained from isolated microspore culture, were used in the experiments. Transcriptome analysis indicated that BraA09g066480.3C was expressed in ‘FT’ but not in ‘CX001’.The work presented herein demonstrated that BraA09g066480.3C was the causal gene for wax-less flowering Chinese cabbage ‘CX001’
Project description:Using 300K′-high density microarray covering the chinese cabbage whole genome, genome-wide expression analyses of cold stress conditions.