Exploiting EST databases for the development and characterisation of 3425 gene-tagged CISP markers in biofuel crop sugarcane and their transferability in cereals and orphan tropical grasses

BMC Research Notes

Ajoy K Roy²  Shiksha Shrivastava²  Sushil Solomon¹  Radha Jain¹  Amaresh Chandra¹ 

[1] Division of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Sugarcane Research, Rae Bareli Road, 226002, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India;Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute, Gwalior Road, 284003, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India

关键词: Gene-tagged markers;    Gene annotation;    Oat;    Tropical grasses;    Sugarcane;    Conserved-intron scanning primers;   

Others  :  1144807
DOI  :  10.1186/1756-0500-6-47

 received in 2012-09-24, accepted in 2013-01-30,  发布年份 2013

【 摘 要 】

Background

Sugarcane is an important cash crop, providing 70% of the global raw sugar as well as raw material for biofuel production. Genetic analysis is hindered in sugarcane because of its large and complex polyploid genome and lack of sufficiently informative gene-tagged markers. Modern genomics has produced large amount of ESTs, which can be exploited to develop molecular markers based on comparative analysis with EST datasets of related crops and whole rice genome sequence, and accentuate their cross-technical functionality in orphan crops like tropical grasses.

Findings

Utilising 246,180 Saccharum officinarum EST sequences vis-à-vis its comparative analysis with ESTs of sorghum and barley and the whole rice genome sequence, we have developed 3425 novel gene-tagged markers — namely, conserved-intron scanning primers (CISP) — using the web program GeMprospector. Rice orthologue annotation results indicated homology of 1096 sequences with expressed proteins, 491 with hypothetical proteins. The remaining 1838 were miscellaneous in nature. A total of 367 primer-pairs were tested in diverse panel of samples. The data indicate amplification of 41% polymorphic bands leading to 0.52 PIC and 3.50 MI with a set of sugarcane varieties and Saccharum species. In addition, a moderate technical functionality of a set of such markers with orphan tropical grasses (22%) and fodder cum cereal oat (33%) is observed.

Conclusions

Developed gene-tagged CISP markers exhibited considerable technical functionality with varieties of sugarcane and unexplored species of tropical grasses. These markers would thus be particularly useful in identifying the economical traits in sugarcane and developing conservation strategies for orphan tropical grasses.

【 授权许可】

   
2013 Chandra et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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