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Cover Caption: Genome Variations in Sorghum
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of integrative plant biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.734
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1744-7909
pISSN - 1672-9072
DOI - 10.1111/jipb.12161
Subject(s) - sorghum , genome , biology , genomics , gene , genetics , computational biology , evolutionary biology , agronomy
The Presence and Absence Variants (PAVs) are a major source of genome structural variations that are useful in functional genomics and plant breeding. Using the next generation sequencing technology, Zhang et al. (pp. 24–37 ) identifi ed a large number of PAVs in the C4 model plant Sorghum bicolour. They characterized 51 largesized PAVs (> 30 kb) that aff ect a total size of 2.92 Mb and contain 202 genes in a panel of 96 sorghum inbred lines.