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Title: The draft genome of the C3 panicoid grass species Dichanthelium oligosanthes

Journal Article · · Genome Biology (Online)
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  1. Donald Danford Plant Science Center, St. Louis, MO (United States); Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL (United States)
  2. Donald Danford Plant Science Center, St. Louis, MO (United States); Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE (United States)
  3. Donald Danford Plant Science Center, St. Louis, MO (United States)
  4. Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA (United States)
  5. Donald Danford Plant Science Center, St. Louis, MO (United States); St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN (United States)

Comparisons between C3 and C4 grasses often utilize C3 species from the subfamilies Ehrhartoideae or Pooideae and C4 species from the subfamily Panicoideae, two clades that diverged over 50 million years ago. The divergence of the C3 panicoid grass Dichanthelium oligosanthes from the independent C4 lineages represented by Setaria viridis and Sorghum bicolor occurred approximately 15 million years ago, which is significantly more recent than members of the Bambusoideae, Ehrhartoideae, and Pooideae subfamilies. D. oligosanthes is ideally placed within the panicoid clade for comparative studies of C3 and C4 grasses. Here, we report the assembly of the nuclear and chloroplast genomes of D. oligosanthes, from high-throughput short read sequencing data and a comparative transcriptomics analysis of the developing leaf of D. oligosanthes, S. viridis, and S. bicolor. Physiological and anatomical characterizations verified that D. oligosanthes utilizes the C3 pathway for carbon fixation and lacks Kranz anatomy. Expression profiles of transcription factors along developing leaves of D. oligosanthes and S. viridis were compared with previously published data from S. bicolor, Zea mays, and Oryza sativa to identify a small suite of transcription factors that likely acquired functions specifically related to C4 photosynthesis. In conclusion, the phylogenetic location of D. oligosanthes makes it an ideal C3 plant for comparative analysis of C4 evolution in the panicoid grasses. This genome will not only provide a better C3 species for comparisons with C4 panicoid grasses, but also highlights the power of using high-throughput sequencing to address questions in evolutionary biology.

Research Organization:
Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Grant/Contract Number:
FG02-12ER16337; SC0008510
OSTI ID:
1395571
Journal Information:
Genome Biology (Online), Vol. 17, Issue 1; ISSN 1474-760X
Publisher:
BioMed CentralCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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Cited by: 26 works
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