Author:
Horvath David P.,Patel Sagar,Doğramaci Münevver,Chao Wun S.,Anderson James V.,Foley Michael E.,Scheffler Brian,Lazo Gerard,Dorn Kevin,Yan Changhui,Childers Anna,Schatz Michel,Marcus Shoshana
Abstract
AbstractLeafy spurge (Euphorbia esulaL.) is an invasive perennial weed infesting range and recreational lands of North America. Previous research and omics projects withE. esulahave helped develop it as a model for studying many aspects of perennial plant development and response to abiotic stress. However, the lack of an assembled genome forE. esulahas limited the power of previous transcriptomics studies to identify functional promoter elements and transcription factor binding sites. An assembled genome forE. esulawould enhance our understanding of signaling processes controlling plant development and responses to environmental stress and provide a better understanding of genetic factors impacting weediness traits, evolution, and herbicide resistance. A comprehensive transcriptome database would also assist in analyzing future RNA-seq studies and is needed to annotate and assess genomic sequence assemblies. Here, we assembled and annotated 56,234 unigenes from an assembly of 589,235 RNA-seq-derived contigs and a previously published Sanger-sequenced expressed sequence tag collection. The resulting data indicate that we now have sequence for >90% of the expressedE. esulaprotein-coding genes. We also assembled the gene space ofE. esulaby using a limited coverage (18X) genomic sequence database. In this study, the programs Velvet and Trinity produced the best gene-space assemblies based on representation of expressed and conserved eukaryotic genes. The results indicate thatE. esulacontains as much as 23% repetitive sequences, of which 11% are unique. Our sequence data were also sufficient for assembling a full chloroplast and partial mitochondrial genome. Further, marker analysis identified more than 150,000 high-quality variants in ourE. esulaL-RNA–scaffolded, whole-genome, Trinity-assembled genome. Based on these results,E. esulaappears to have limited heterozygosity. This study provides a blueprint for low-cost genomic assemblies in weed species and new resources for identifying conserved and novel promoter regions among coordinately expressed genes ofE. esula.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Plant Science,Agronomy and Crop Science
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