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Gene Content Analysis of Sugarcane Public ESTs Reveals Thousands of Missing Coding-Genes and an Unexpected Pool of Grasses Conserved ncRNAs

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Author(s):
Vicentini, R. [1, 2] ; del Bem, L. E. V. [1, 3] ; van Sluys, M. A. [4] ; Nogueira, F. T. S. [5] ; Vincentz, M. [3]
Total Authors: 5
Affiliation:
[1] Univ Estadual Campinas, Ctr Mol Biol & Genet Engn, BR-13083875 Campinas, SP - Brazil
[2] Univ Estadual Campinas, Syst Biol Lab, Ctr Mol Biol & Genet Engn, BR-13083875 Campinas, SP - Brazil
[3] Univ Estadual Campinas, Plant Genet Lab, Ctr Mol Biol & Genet Engn, BR-13083875 Campinas, SP - Brazil
[4] Univ Sao Paulo, Genomes & Transposable Elements Lab, Dept Bot, Inst Biosci, BR-05508090 Sao Paulo - Brazil
[5] Univ Sao Paulo, Dept Genet, Inst Biosci, Sao Paulo - Brazil
Total Affiliations: 5
Document type: Journal article
Source: TROPICAL PLANT BIOLOGY; v. 5, n. 2, p. 199-205, JUN 2012.
Web of Science Citations: 12
Abstract

Sugarcane is the most important crop for sugar industry and raw material for bioethanol. Here we present a quantitative analysis of the gene content from publicly available sugarcane ESTs. The current sugarcane EST collection sampled orthologs for similar to 58 % of the closely-related sorghum proteome, suggesting that more than 10,000 sugarcane coding-genes remain undiscovered. Moreover the existence of more than 2,000 ncRNAs conserved between sugarcane and sorghum was revealed, among which over 500 are also detected in rice, supporting the existence of hundreds of conserved ncRNAs in grasses. New efforts towards sugarcane transcriptome sequencing were needed to sample the missing coding-genes as well as to expand the catalog of ncRNAs. (AU)

FAPESP's process: 08/52071-0 - Energetic homeostasis and sugar signaling: diversification of the molecular mechanisms involved in the control of the energetic balance in angiosperms
Grantee:Michel Georges Albert Vincentz
Support Opportunities: Program for Research on Bioenergy (BIOEN) - Thematic Grants
FAPESP's process: 08/09105-1 - Physiological characterization of bZIPs group J in different green plants evolutionary steps (algae, bryophyta and angiosperm).
Grantee:Luiz Eduardo Vieira Del Bem
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
FAPESP's process: 08/58031-0 - Sugarcane energetic balance: a systems approach towards understanding regulation of sucrose metabolism and sugar signaling
Grantee:Renato Vicentini dos Santos
Support Opportunities: Program for Research on Bioenergy (BIOEN) - Young Investigators Grants