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A genome resource for green millet Setaria viridis enables discovery of agronomically valuable loci.
Nature biotechnology - 1 Oct 2020
Mamidi Sujan, Healey Adam, Huang Pu, Grimwood Jane, Jenkins Jerry, Barry Kerrie, Sreedasyam Avinash, Shu Shengqiang, Lovell John T, Feldman Maximilian, Wu Jinxia, Yu Yunqing, Chen Cindy, Johnson Jenifer, Sakakibara Hitoshi, Kiba Takatoshi, Sakurai Tetsuya, Tavares Rachel, Nusinow Dmitri A, Baxter Ivan, Schmutz Jeremy, Brutnell Thomas P, Kellogg Elizabeth A
Abstract excerpt
Wild and weedy relatives of domesticated crops harbor genetic variants that can advance agricultural biotechnology. Here we provide a genome resource for the wild plant green millet (Setaria viridis), a model species for studies of C4 grasses, and use the resource to probe domestication genes in the close crop relative foxtail millet (Setaria italica). We produced a platinum-quality genome assembly of S. viridis...
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