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High homologous gene conservation despite extreme autopolyploid redundancy in sugarcane.
The New phytologist - 1 Jan 2011
Garsmeur Olivier, Charron Carine, Bocs Stéphanie, Jouffe Vincent, Samain Sylvie, Couloux Arnaud, Droc Gaëtan, Zini Cyrille, Glaszmann Jean-Christophe, Van Sluys Marie-Anne, D'Hont Angélique
Abstract excerpt
Modern sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) is the leading sugar crop and a primary energy crop. It has the highest level of 'vertical' redundancy (2n=12x=120) of all polyploid plants studied to date. It was produced about a century ago through hybridization between two autopolyploid species, namely S. officinarum and S. spontaneum. In order to investigate the genome dynamics in this highly polyploid context, we sequenced...
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