A Chromosome-scale Assembly of the Model Desiccation Tolerant Grass

Overview

Journal Plant Direct

Specialty Biology

Date 2019 Jun 28

PMID 31245697

Citations 26

Authors

Robert VanBuren

Ching Man Wai

Jens Keilwagen

Jeremy Pardo

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Abstract

is an emerging model for desiccation tolerance and genome size evolution in grasses. A draft genome of Oropetium was recently sequenced, but the lack of a chromosome-scale assembly has hindered comparative analyses and downstream functional genomics. Here, we reassembled Oropetium, and anchored the genome into 10 chromosomes using high-throughput chromatin conformation capture (Hi-C) based chromatin interactions. A combination of high-resolution RNAseq data and homology-based gene prediction identified thousands of new, conserved gene models that were absent from the V1 assembly. This includes thousands of new genes with high expression across a desiccation timecourse. Comparison between the Sorghum and Oropetium genomes revealed a surprising degree of chromosome-level collinearity, and several chromosome pairs have near perfect synteny. Other chromosomes are collinear in the gene rich chromosome arms but have experienced pericentric translocations. Together, these resources will be useful for the grass-comparative genomic community and further establish Oropetium as a model resurrection plant.

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