ArticleDNA research : an international journal for rapid publication of reports on genes and genomes2018
Multiple hybrid de novo genome assembly of finger millet, an orphan allotetraploid crop.
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- Biotechnological approaches to reduce the phytic acid content in millets to improve nutritional quality.Planta · 2024Review
- Biotechnological studies towards improvement of finger millet using multi-omics approaches.Functional & integrative genomics · 2024Review
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- Omics-driven utilization of wild relatives for empowering pre-breeding in pearl millet.Planta · 2024Review
- Genomic and phenotypic characterization of finger millet indicates a complex diversification history.The plant genome · 2024Article
- Genetic engineering and genome editing technologies as catalyst for Africa's food security: the case of plant biotechnology in Nigeria.Frontiers in genome editing · 2024Review
- Milletdb: a multi-omics database to accelerate the research of functional genomics and molecular breeding of millets.Plant biotechnology journal · 2023Article
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Abstract
Finger millet (Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn) is an important crop for food security because of its tolerance to drought, which is expected to be exacerbated by global climate changes. Nevertheless, it is often classified as an orphan/underutilized crop because of the paucity of scientific attention. Among several small millets, finger millet is considered as an excellent source of essential nutrient elements, such as iron and zinc; hence, it has potential as an alternate coarse cereal. However, high-quality genome sequence data of finger millet are currently not available. One of the major problems encountered in the genome assembly of this species was its polyploidy, which hampers genome assembly compared with a diploid genome. To overcome this problem, we sequenced its genome using diverse technologies with sufficient coverage and assembled it via a novel multiple hybrid assembly workflow that combines next-generation with single-molecule sequencing, followed by whole-genome optical mapping using the Bionano Irys® system. The total number of scaffolds was 1,897 with an N50 length >2.6 Mb and detection of 96% of the universal single-copy orthologs. The majority of the homeologs were assembled separately. This indicates that the proposed workflow is applicable to the assembly of other allotetraploid genomes.
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