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Ontology and diversity of transcript-associated microsatellites mined from a globe artichoke EST database.
Full Abstract
BACKGROUND: The globe artichoke (Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus L.) is a significant crop in the Mediterranean basin. Despite its commercial importance and its both dietary and pharmaceutical value, knowledge of its genetics and genomics remains scant. Microsatellite markers have become a key tool in genetic and genomic analysis, and we have exploited recently acquired EST (expressed sequence tag) sequence data (Composite Genome Project - CGP) to develop an extensive set of microsatellite markers. RESULTS: A unigene assembly was created from over 36,000 globe artichoke EST sequences, containing 6,621 contigs and 12,434 singletons. Over 12,000 of these unigenes were functionally assigned on the basis of homology with Arabidopsis thaliana reference proteins. A total of 4,219 perfect repeats, located within 3,308 unigenes was identified and the gene ontology (GO) analysis highlighted some GO term's enrichments among different classes of microsatellites with respect to their position. Sufficient flanking sequence was available to enable the design of primers to amplify 2,311 of these microsatellites, and a set of 300 was tested against a DNA panel derived from 28 C. cardunculus genotypes. Consistent amplification and polymorphism was obtained from 236 of these assays. Their polymorphic information content (PIC) ranged from 0.04 to 0.90 (mean 0.66). Between 176 and 198 of the assays were informative in at least one of the three available mapping populations. CONCLUSION: EST-based microsatellites have provided a large set of de novo genetic markers, which show significant amounts of polymorphism both between and within the three taxa of C. cardunculus. They are thus well suited as assays for phylogenetic analysis, the construction of genetic maps, marker-assisted breeding, transcript mapping and other genomic applications in the species.
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Author/s: Scaglione, Davide (D); Acquadro, Alberto (A); Portis, Ezio (E); Taylor, Christopher A (CA); Lanteri, Sergio (S); Knapp, Steven J (SJ);
Affiliation: DiVaPRA Plant Genetics and Breeding, University of Torino, via L, da Vinci 44, 10095 Grugliasco, Torino, Italy. davide.scaglione(-atsign-)unito.it
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Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Journal: BMC genomics (BMC Genomics), published in England. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2009-; vol 10 (issue ) : pp 454
Dates: Created 2009/10/13; Completed 2009/10/30;
PMID: 19785740, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 10/30/2009, IMS Date: )
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