A sweetpotato gene index established by de novo assembly of pyrosequencing and Sanger sequences and mining for gene-based microsatellite markers

Sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.), a hexaploid outcrossing crop, is an important staple and food security crop in developing countries in Africa and Asia. The availability of genomic resources for sweetpotato is in striking contrast to its importance for human nutrition. Previously existing sequence data were restricted to around 22,000 expressed sequence tag (EST) sequences and ~ 1,500 GenBank sequences. We have used 454 pyrosequencing to augment the available gene sequence information to enhance functional genomics and marker design for this plant species.

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Main Authors:	Schafleitner, R., Tincopa, L.R., Palomino, O., Rossel, G., Robles, R., Alagon, R., Rivera, C., Quispe, C., Rojas, L., Pacheco, J., Solis, J., Cerna, D., Kim, J.Y., Hou, J., Simon, R.
Format:	Journal Article biblioteca
Language:	English
Published:	Springer 2010-12
Subjects:	sweet potatoes, genes, nucleotide sequence, genetic markers,
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/10568/97198 https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-11-604 http://dx.doi.org/10.21223/P3/CZV6P9
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