High-throughput sequencing of three Lemnoideae (duckweeds) chloroplast genomes from total DNA.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Chloroplast genomes provide a wealth of information for evolutionary and population genetic studies. Chloroplasts play a particularly important role in the adaption for aquatic plants because they float on water and their major surface is exposed continuously to sunlight. The subfamily of Lemnoideae represents such a collection of aquatic species that because of photosynthesis represents one of the fastest growing plant species on earth.

Methods

We sequenced the chloroplast genomes from three different genera of Lemnoideae, Spirodela polyrhiza, Wolffiella lingulata and Wolffia australiana by high-throughput DNA sequencing of genomic DNA using the SOLiD platform. Unfractionated total DNA contains high copies of plastid DNA so that sequences from the nucleus and mit

SUBMITTER: Wang W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3170387 | biostudies-literature | 2011

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature