Structure, phylogeny, allelic haplotypes and expression of sucrose transporter gene families in Saccharum.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Sugarcane is an economically important crop contributing to about 80% of the world sugar production. Increasing efforts in molecular biological studies have been performed for improving the sugar yield and other relevant important agronomic traits. However, due to sugarcane's complicated genomes, it is still challenging to study the genetic basis of traits, such as sucrose accumulation. Sucrose transporters (SUTs) are critical for both phloem loading in source tissue and sucrose uptaking in sink tissue, and are considered to be the control points for regulating sucrose storage. However, no genomic study for sugarcane sucrose transporter (SsSUT) families has been reported up to date.

Results

By using comparative genomics and bacterial artificial chromosomes (BACs),

SUBMITTER: Zhang Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4736615 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature