Erianthus arundinaceus is a wild relative of sugarcane(Saccharum officinarum L.)with many desirable agronomic traits for sugarcane genetic improvement.However,limited knowledge of the complex genome of hexaploid E.aru...Erianthus arundinaceus is a wild relative of sugarcane(Saccharum officinarum L.)with many desirable agronomic traits for sugarcane genetic improvement.However,limited knowledge of the complex genome of hexaploid E.arundinaceus has impeded the development of required molecular tools.Dissecting complex genomes into single chromosomes can simplify analyses.The flow-cytometric sorting of a single chromosome of E.arundinaceus in a Saccharum-Erianthus introgression line is reported.A novel approach called genomic in situ hybridization in suspension was used to discriminate the alien chromosome from sugarcane chromosomes at the same size.A total of 218,000 E.arundinaceus chromosome 1(EaC1)were sorted to>97%purity and amplified DNA was sequenced using Illumina and Pac Bio technologies.The resulting assembly had a 70.93 Mb contig sequence with an N50 of 19.62 kb.A total of 56.69 Mb repeat sequences were predicted,accounting for 79.1%of the chromosome and 2646 genes having a total length of 1.84 Mb that represented 2.59%of the chromosome.Of these genes,1877(70.9%)genes were functionally annotated.The phylogenetic relationship of E.arundinaceus with other species using the chromosome1 sequence revealed that E.arundinaceus was distantly related to Oryza sativa and Zea mays,followed by Sorghum bicolor,and was closely related to S.spontaneum and Saccharum spp.hybrids.This study provides the first insights into the characteristics of EaC1,and the results will provide tools to support molecular improvement and alien introgression breeding of sugarcane.展开更多
基金funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31771863)Science and Technology Major Project of the Fujian Province of China(2015NZ0002-2)+3 种基金Special Fund for Scientific and Technological Innovation of the Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University(KFA17168A)Doctoral Students of Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University Going Abroad to Cooperative Research(324-112110082)Key Laboratory of Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agricultural Biological Resources(SKLCUSA-a201912)supported by ERDF Project“Plants as a tool for sustainable global development”(CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000827)。
文摘Erianthus arundinaceus is a wild relative of sugarcane(Saccharum officinarum L.)with many desirable agronomic traits for sugarcane genetic improvement.However,limited knowledge of the complex genome of hexaploid E.arundinaceus has impeded the development of required molecular tools.Dissecting complex genomes into single chromosomes can simplify analyses.The flow-cytometric sorting of a single chromosome of E.arundinaceus in a Saccharum-Erianthus introgression line is reported.A novel approach called genomic in situ hybridization in suspension was used to discriminate the alien chromosome from sugarcane chromosomes at the same size.A total of 218,000 E.arundinaceus chromosome 1(EaC1)were sorted to>97%purity and amplified DNA was sequenced using Illumina and Pac Bio technologies.The resulting assembly had a 70.93 Mb contig sequence with an N50 of 19.62 kb.A total of 56.69 Mb repeat sequences were predicted,accounting for 79.1%of the chromosome and 2646 genes having a total length of 1.84 Mb that represented 2.59%of the chromosome.Of these genes,1877(70.9%)genes were functionally annotated.The phylogenetic relationship of E.arundinaceus with other species using the chromosome1 sequence revealed that E.arundinaceus was distantly related to Oryza sativa and Zea mays,followed by Sorghum bicolor,and was closely related to S.spontaneum and Saccharum spp.hybrids.This study provides the first insights into the characteristics of EaC1,and the results will provide tools to support molecular improvement and alien introgression breeding of sugarcane.
