Welcome to Wheat Genetics & Genomics Center at CAU

Here we provide blast services to the following related monocots and our published genomic data of Wheat for comparative genomics study.

Brachypodium distachyon 		Brachypodium distachyon (L.) Beauv has many qualities that make it a model for functional genomics studies in temperate grasses, cereals, and dedicated biofuel crops such as Switchgrass. These attributes include small genome (~300Mbp) diploid accessions, tetraploid and hexaploid accessions, a small physical stature, self-fertility, a short lifecycle, and simple growth requirements.

Oryza Sativa 		The genetic information of rice will be useful in understanding the genome of other crops in the grass family including corn, wheat, barley, rye and sorghum, all of which share a common ancestor with rice. As a consequence, the arrangement of genes is similar among these crops. However although rice has a genome of about 390 million bases, corn and wheat genomes contain 2 billion and 16 billion bases, respectively. Therefore the genome information of rice could be used in elucidating the genome structure and finding target genes in these larger genomes.

Sorghum bicolor 		As a model for tropical grasses, sorghum is a logical complement to Oryza (rice). Sorghum is representative of tropical grasses in that it uses 'C4' photosynthesis, comprising complex biochemical and morphological specializations that improve carbon assimilation at high temperatures. By contrast, rice is more representative of temperate grasses, using 'C3' pho-tosynthesis. Its low level of gene duplication makes sorghum, like rice, an attractive model for functional genomics. Sorghum is an excellent bridge from Oryza to leading tropical grass crops with much larger genomes and more gene duplication such as sugarcane, another of the world's most efficient biomass-producing crops that is presently the leading biofuel source worldwide.

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Last modified: May 22, 2011