Abstract
The recent accumulation of whole genome sequences (WGS) in a large number of plant species creates new opportunities to use this information for identifying genes/quantitative trait loci (QTL) and to accelerate crop improvement. To this end, we recently developed the MutMap method (Abe et al., Nat Biotechnol 30:174-178, 2012) and its derivatives MutMap+ (Fekih et al., PLoS One 8(7):e68529, 2013) and MutMap-Gap (Takagi et al., New Phytol 200(1):276–283, 2013a), which take full advantage of WGS to efficiently identify mutant genes from EMS mutagenized plant populations. We also reported QTL-seq (Takagi et al., Plant J 74:174-183, 2013b), a WGS-based method for identification of QTL. We applied these methods to rice for rapid identification and discovery of genes of agronomic importance. In this chapter, we introduce these WGS-based methods, MutMap family and QTL-seq, and provide an overview of the genetic analyses that we expect to accelerate crop improvement in rice and other crop species of economic importance
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Advances in the Understanding of Biological Sciences Using Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Approaches |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 33-42 |
Number of pages | 10 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783319171579, 9783319171562 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2015 |
Keywords
- Crop
- Mutation
- Mutmap
- Ngs
- Qtl
- Qtl-seq
- Rice
- Snp-index
- Wgs
Profiles
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Sophien Kamoun
- School of Biological Sciences - Professor of Biology
- Plant Sciences - Member
Person: Research Group Member, Academic, Teaching & Research