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The Sorghum Genome Sequence: A Core Resource for Saccharinae Genomics

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Part of the book series: Plant Genetics and Genomics: Crops and Models ((PGG,volume 11))

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As a taxon noted for large and complex polyploid genomes, a facile genomic model is of especially great importance to the Saccharinae. The genome of Sorghum bicolor (sorghum) offers numerous advantages as such a model, with a physical size (about 730 mbp) that is only moderately larger than that of rice, and enjoying the same low level of gene duplication as rice by virtue of a lack of genome duplication for 70 million years. Saccharinae, especially sugarcane, researchers have long exploited comparative genomics to leverage the small and well-mapped sorghum genome in the study and improvement of more complex genomes. The sequencing of the sorghum genome further enhances such leveraging opportunities, also providing insights into genes and genomic features that may contribute to distinguishing features of the Saccharinae. A host of postgenomic tools for sorghum, many described elsewhere in this volume, provide the foundation for use of sorghum as a Saccharinae functional genomics model. Here, we revisit the sequencing and initial analysis of the sorghum genome, providing more detail than could be included in the primary description of the genome and also highlighting planned efforts to increase knowledge of sequence diversity in the species and the genus.

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Acknowledgments

The author thanks numerous colleagues and collaborators for valuable discussions and innumerable contributions to aspects of 17 years of background work that led to sequencing of the sorghum genome, the Joint Genome Institute of the US Department of Energy for doing the vast majority of sequencing and contributing greatly to annotation and analysis, and a long list of coauthors of the primary sequence description (cited above) whose work is reviewed here.

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Paterson, A.H. (2013). The Sorghum Genome Sequence: A Core Resource for Saccharinae Genomics. In: Paterson, A. (eds) Genomics of the Saccharinae. Plant Genetics and Genomics: Crops and Models, vol 11. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5947-8_5

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