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Structural and Functional Genomic Resources Developed

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The Allium Genomes

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Structural genomic resources of Allium plants have been less developed because Allium species have a relatively large genome size. In this background, there have been few reports of construction of BAC libraries of Allium species. Nevertheless, the BAC clones of Allium cepa (bulb onion) developed as a partial library can be used for not only molecular cloning of novel onion genes but also used as FISH probes in molecular cytogenetic studies. The BAC sequencing and BAC FISH analyses in A. cepa revealed that the highly repetitive elements, such as retrotransposon, are major components of the large chromosomes. With the development of next-generation sequencing technologies, transcriptome level sequencing and assembly has been applied to several Allium species, such as bulb onion, shallot, garlic, bunching onion, and Chinese chive. To activate the accumulating transcriptome information as practical genomic resources of Allium research, a number of attempts have been made for anchoring unigenes onto the genetic map of Allium species. Several databases are available on the Internet that provide information about Allium transcriptome, genetic map, and DNA markers.

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  1. Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Division of Natural Science, Osaka Kyoiku University, 4-698-1 Asahigaoka, Kashiwara, Osaka, 582-8582, Japan

    Go Suzuki

  2. Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8577, Japan

    Turgut Yigit Akyol & Shusei Sato

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  2. Division of Vegetable Science, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India

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  3. Laboratory of Molecular Breeding Arid Land Research Center, Tottori University, Tottori, Japan

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Suzuki, G., Akyol, T.Y., Sato, S. (2018). Structural and Functional Genomic Resources Developed. In: Shigyo, M., Khar, A., Abdelrahman, M. (eds) The Allium Genomes. Compendium of Plant Genomes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95825-5_11

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