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Sequence‐level comparative analysis of the Brassica napus genome around two stearoyl‐ACP desaturase loci
Author(s) -
Cho Kwangsoo,
O’Neill Carmel M.,
Kwon SooJin,
Yang TaeJin,
Smooker Andrew M.,
Fraser Fiona,
Bancroft Ian
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
the plant journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.058
H-Index - 269
eISSN - 1365-313X
pISSN - 0960-7412
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2009.04084.x
Subject(s) - genome , brassica rapa , biology , brassica , genetics , gene , whole genome sequencing , arabidopsis thaliana , genome evolution , botany , mutant
Summary We conducted a sequence‐level comparative analyses, at the scale of complete bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) clones, between the genome of the most economically important Brassica species, Brassica napus (oilseed rape), and those of Brassica rapa , the genome of which is currently being sequenced, and Arabidopsis thaliana . We constructed a new B. napus BAC library and identified and sequenced clones that contain homoeologous regions of the genome including stearoyl‐ACP desaturase‐encoding genes. We sequenced the orthologous region of the genome of B. rapa and conducted comparative analyses between the Brassica sequences and those of the orthologous region of the genome of A. thaliana . The proportion of genes conserved (∼56%) is lower than has been reported previously between A. thaliana and Brassica (∼66%). The gene models for sets of conserved genes were used to determine the extent of nucleotide conservation of coding regions. This was found to be 84.2 ± 3.9% and 85.8 ± 3.7% between the B. napus A and C genomes, respectively, and that of A. thaliana , which is consistent with previous results for other Brassica species, and 97.5 ± 3.1% between the B. napus A genome and B. rapa , and 93.1 ± 4.9% between the B. napus C genome and B. rapa . The divergence of the B. napus genes from the A genome and the B. rapa genes was greater than anticipated and indicates that the A genome ancestor of the B. napus cultivar studied was relatively distantly related to the cultivar of B. rapa selected for genome sequencing.