Toward sequencing cotton (Gossypium) genomes.
Chen ZJ, Scheffler BE, Dennis E, Triplett BA, Zhang T, Guo W, Chen X,Stelly DM, Rabinowicz PD, Town CD, Arioli T, Brubaker C, Cantrell RG, Lacape JM,Ulloa M, Chee P, Gingle AR, Haigler CH, Percy R, Saha S, Wilkins T, Wright RJ, Van Deynze A, Zhu Y, Yu S, Abdurakhmonov I, Katageri I, Kumar PA, Mehboob-Ur-Rahman, Zafar Y, Yu JZ, Kohel RJ, Wendel JF, Paterson AH 2007
Plant Physiol; 145(4):1303-1310
Despite rapidly decreasing costs and innovative technologies, sequencing of angiosperm genomes is not yet undertaken lightly. Generating larger amounts of sequence data more quickly does not address the difficulties of sequencing and assembling complex genomes de novo. The cotton (Gossypium spp.) genomes represent a challenging case. To this end, a coalition of
cotton genome scientists has developed a strategy for sequencing the cotton genomes, which will vastly expand opportunities for cotton research and improvement worldwide.
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