scholarly journals Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) from Desiccated Tortula ruralis Identify a Large Number of Novel Plant Genes

1999 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 361-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. J. Wood ◽  
R. J. Duff ◽  
M. J. Oliver
Genetics ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 158 (3) ◽  
pp. 1081-1088 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quang Hien Le ◽  
Kime Turcotte ◽  
Thomas Bureau

Abstract Members of the Tourist family of miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements (MITEs) are very abundant among a wide variety of plants, are frequently found associated with normal plant genes, and thus are thought to be important players in the organization and evolution of plant genomes. In Arabidopsis, the recent discovery of a Tourist member harboring a putative transposase has shed new light on the mobility and evolution of MITEs. Here, we analyze a family of Tourist transposons endogenous to the genome of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (Bristol N2). One member of this large family is 7568 bp in length, harbors an ORF similar to the putative Tourist transposase from Arabidopsis, and is related to the IS5 family of bacterial insertion sequences (IS). Using database searches, we found expressed sequence tags (ESTs) similar to the putative Tourist transposases in plants, insects, and vertebrates. Taken together, our data suggest that Tourist-like and IS5-like transposons form a superfamily of potentially active elements ubiquitous to prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes.


2007 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 501-504
Author(s):  
R. Johnson ◽  
A. Khan ◽  
C. Voisey ◽  
S. Bassett ◽  
C. Gaborit ◽  
...  

As a first step towards a functional genomics approach to gain a greater understanding of this important symbiosis, we have generated, sequenced and analysed two EST libraries from cultures of N. lolii and six in planta subtracted EST libraries enriched for differentially expressed genes. A total of 12871 ESTs were sequenced which, after filtering for quality, clustered into 1066 contigs and 3230 singletons to give a set of 4296 unique sequences or unigenes. BLASTX analysis revealed that 60% of fungal sequences derived from cultures were of unknown function with a sub-set of these corresponding to orphans. For the in planta-derived ESTs, most of the sequences with homologs in the public databases (98%) were of ryegrass origin. Comparisons made against fully sequenced genomes revealed that most fungal ESTs were homologous to genes present in both pathogenic and non-pathogenic ascomycete filamentous fungi, whereas the subtracted libraries comprised mostly plant genes. A range of sequences having significant homology to demonstrated pathogenicity/virulence genes in other fungal pathosystems were also identified, as well as some ESTs with proven roles in endophyte secondary metabolism. Keywords: ESTs, cDNA, Neotyphodium lolii, Lolium perenne, symbiosis, mutualism, suppression subtractive hybridisation


2002 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 376-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carsten Poulsen ◽  
Lone Pødenphant

Messenger RNA from young Lotus japonicus roots carrying root nodule primordia appearing after inoculation with Mesorhizobium loti bacteria were used to construct a cDNA expression library. Single-pass sequencing employing colony-polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and analysis of PCR products established a total of 2,397 new expressed sequence tags (ESTs). We have putatively identified 1,236 known and 484 hypothetical proteins coded by the corresponding mRNAs. The remaining cDNAs are unknown (316) or redundant overlapping cDNAs (361). We hope that this batch of ESTs will assist in the recognition of plant genes involved during development of nitrogen-fixing root nodules.


2001 ◽  
Vol 120 (6) ◽  
pp. 497-502 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. FACCIOLI ◽  
N. PECCHIONI ◽  
L. CATTIVELLI ◽  
A. M. STANCA ◽  
V. TERZI

AoB Plants ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Morad M Mokhtar ◽  
Ebtissam H A Hussein ◽  
Salah El-Din S El-Assal ◽  
Mohamed A M Atia

Abstract Faba bean (Vicia faba) is an essential food and fodder legume crop worldwide due to its high content of proteins and fibres. Molecular markers tools represent an invaluable tool for faba bean breeders towards rapid crop improvement. Although there have historically been few V. faba genome resources available, several transcriptomes and mitochondrial genome sequence data have been released. These data in addition to previously developed genetic linkage maps represent a great resource for developing functional markers and maps that can accelerate the faba bean breeding programmes. Here, we present the Vicia faba Omics database (VfODB) as a comprehensive database integrating germplasm information, expressed sequence tags (ESTs), expressed sequence tags-simple sequence repeats (EST-SSRs), and mitochondrial-simple sequence repeats (mtSSRs), microRNA-target markers and genetic maps in faba bean. In addition, KEGG pathway-based markers and functional maps are integrated as a novel class of annotation-based markers/maps. Collectively, we developed 31 536 EST markers, 9071 EST-SSR markers and 3023 microRNA-target markers based on V. faba RefTrans V2 mining. By mapping 7940 EST and 2282 EST-SSR markers against the KEGG pathways database we successfully developed 107 functional maps. Also, 40 mtSSR markers were developed based on mitochondrial genome mining. On the data curation level, we retrieved 3461 markers representing 12 types of markers (CAPS, EST, EST-SSR, Gene marker, INDEL, Isozyme, ISSR, RAPD, SCAR, RGA, SNP and SSR), which mapped across 18 V. faba genetic linkage maps. VfODB provides two user-friendly tools to identify, classify SSR motifs and in silico amplify their targets. VfODB can serve as a powerful database and helpful platform for faba bean research community as well as breeders interested in Genomics-Assisted Breeding.


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