Integration of Cot Analysis, DNA Cloning, and High-Throughput Sequencing Facilitates Genome Characterization and Gene Discovery

Table 1.

BLAST-Based Categorization of HRCot, MRCot, and SLCot Clonesu

BLASTcategories Subcategories HRCot MRCot St.Cot Ref./Acc.
No. % No. % No. %
No significant hit 90 35.6 199 48.7 339 67.9
Chloroplast DNA 0 0.0 41 10.0 5 1.0
Mitochondrial DNA 0 0.0 0 0.0 1 0.2
rDNA 18S-5.8S-26S rDNA 22 8.7 35 8.6 9 1.8 Many refs.
5S rDNA 2 0.8 0 0.0 0 0.0 Many refs.
Centromeric repent Sorghum, pHind12 2 0.8 4 1.0 0 0.0 Miller et al. 1998a
Sorghum, pHind22 0 0.0 1 0.2 0 0.0 Miller et al. 1998a
Sorghum, pSau3A9 4 1.6 1 0.2 0 0.0 Jiang et al. 1996
Sorghum, pSau3A10 3 1.2 0 0.0 0 0.0 Miller et al. 1998b
Sorghum, CEN38 1 0.4 0 0.0 0 0.0 Zwick et al. 2000
Retroelement CACTA-type element/TNP-2 gene 0 0.0 2 0.5 1 0.2 He et al. 2000
Sorghum Leviathan 1 0.4 5 1.2 0 0.0 U07815, U07816
Sorghum, Candystripe-1 2 0.8 0 0.0 0 0.0 Chopra et al. 1999
Sorghum. Retrosor-2 1 0.4 1 0.2 3 0.6 AF061282
Sorghum. Retrosor-6 34 13.4 7 1.7 0 0.0 AF061282
Barley, cereba polyprotein pseudogene 0 0.0 1 0.2 0 0.0 Presting et al. 1998
Rice, gypsy-like integrase gene 0 0.0 3 0.7 0 0.0 AF244793
Maize, rev. tra./integr. pseudogene 0 0.0 1 0.2 0 0.0 AF030633
Sorghum, putative LTR 1 0.4 0 0.0 0 0.0 AF061282
MITE Putative MITE in sugarcane ubi9 gene 0 0.0 3 0.7 0 0.0 AF093505
Putative MITE in sorghum kafirin BAC 0 0.0 0 0.0 1 0.2 AF061282
Other dispersed repeat PRBM-1-related repeat 1 0.4 0 0.0 0 0.0 Turcich et al. 1996
Sorghurn HCSR-1 repeat 0 0.0 0 0.0 1 0.2 AF061282
Sorghum HCSR-7 repeat 2 0.8 0 0.0 0 0.0 AF061282
Johnsongrass XSR3 repeat 0 0.0 1 0.2 0 0.0 X54624
Johnsongrass XSR6 repeat 1 0.4 0 0.0 0 0.0 X54625
Sorghum, putative dispersed repeat 1 0.4 2 0.5 0 0.0 AF114171
Characterized gene Rice, bZIP DNA-binding factor 0 0.0 0 0.0 1 0.2 U04295
Rice, monosaccharide transporter 1 0 0.0 0 0.0 1 0.2 AB052883
Barley, cp33Hv protein 0 0.0 0 0.0 1 0.2 AJ224325
Ice plant protein kinase 0 0.0 0 0.0 1 0.2 Z30331
Maize, peroxidase gene 0 0.0 0 0.0 1 0.2 AJ401276
Sorghum, NADPH-dependent reductase 0 0.0 0 0.0 1 0.2 AF010283
Rice, OsNAC4 gene 0 0.0 1 0.2 0 0.0 AR028183
Canola, FCA gene 0 0.0 1 0.2 0 0.0 AJ237848
Uncertain character 4 1.6 7 1.7 3 0.6
Repetitive EST 49 19.4 27 6.6 11 2.2
Ambiguous EST 11 4.3 11 2.7 23 4.6
Unique EST 21 8.3 55 13.4 96 19.2
Total 253 100 409 100 499 100
  • Clones have been placed into 13 BLAST“categories” according to Figure 3. Some BLASTcategories have been further divided into “subcategories.” For each Cot library, the number (#) and percentage (%) of clones in aBLAST category/subcategory are given.

  • A literary reference (Ref.) or GenBank Accession number (Acc.) is given for the sequence or sequences in a subcategory.

  • Cot clones categorized as “Retroelements,” “MITEs,” and “Other dispersed repeats” collectively constitute “dispersed repeat sequences.”

  • Johnsongrass (Sorghum halepenese Pers.), an extremely aggressive weed, appears to be an interspecific hybrid descendant (autoallotetraploid) of S. bicolor and S. propinquum (Paterson et al. 1995).

  • Genomic sequence of uncertain character.

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