A draft genome of field pennycress (Thlaspi arvense) provides tools for the domestication of a new winter biofuel crop.

ABSTRACT: Field pennycress (Thlaspi arvense L.) is being domesticated as a new winter cover crop and biofuel species for the Midwestern United States that can be double-cropped between corn and soybeans. A genome sequence will enable the use of new technologies to make improvements in pennycress. To generate a draft genome, a hybrid sequencing approach was used to generate 47 Gb of DNA sequencing reads from both the Illumina and PacBio platforms. These reads were used to assemble 6,768 genomic scaffolds. The draft genome was annotated using the MAKER pipeline, which identified 27,390 predicted protein-coding genes, with almost all of these predicted peptides having significant sequence similarity to Arabidopsis proteins. A comprehensive analysis of pennycress gene homologues involved in glucosinolat

SUBMITTER: Dorn KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4401323 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature