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Genomic and small RNA sequencing of Miscanthus × giganteus shows the utility of sorghum as a reference genome sequence for Andropogoneae grasses

Kankshita Swaminathan1,2, Magdy S Alabady2, Kranthi Varala1, Emanuele De Paoli3, Isaac Ho4, Dan S Rokhsar4,5, Aru K Arumuganathan6, Ray Ming2,7, Pamela J Green3,8, Blake C Meyers3, Stephen P Moose1,2 and Matthew E Hudson1,2*

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA

2 Energy Biosciences Institute and Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA

3 Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Delaware Biotechnology Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA

4 DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA 94598, USA

5 Center for Integrative Genomics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

6 Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason, Seattle, WA 98101, USA

7 Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA

8 College of Marine Studies, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19711, USA

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Genome Biology 2010, 11:R12 doi:10.1186/gb-2010-11-2-r12

Published: 3 February 2010

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Additional file 1:

Estimates of nuclear DNA content in several Miscanthus accessions, by flow cytometry.

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Additional file 2:

Flow cytometric histogram of M. × giganteus nuclei stained with propidium iodide.

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A table (tab delimited text format) of all repetitive sequences detected in the Miscanthus genome.

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