Next Generation Sequencing Technologies: The Doorway to the Unexplored Genomics of Non-Model Plants.

ABSTRACT: Non-model plants i.e., the species which have one or all of the characters such as long life cycle, difficulty to grow in the laboratory or poor fecundity, have been schemed out of sequencing projects earlier, due to high running cost of Sanger sequencing. Consequently, the information about their genomics and key biological processes are inadequate. However, the advent of fast and cost effective next generation sequencing (NGS) platforms in the recent past has enabled the unearthing of certain characteristic gene structures unique to these species. It has also aided in gaining insight about mechanisms underlying processes of gene expression and secondary metabolism as well as facilitated development of genomic resources for diversity characterization, evolutionary analysis and marker assi

SUBMITTER: Unamba CI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4679907 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature