Phyllostachys heterocycle
Information about Moso bamboo Genome
Phyllostachys heterocycle (Moso bamboo), evergreen perennial flowering plants, is an important non-timber forest products in the world. It has notable ecological, economic and cultural value. They are usually used for building materials because of the high specific compressive strength. Bamboo shoots are a kind of delicious food in spring.
The draft genome of moso bamboo was reported by the Research Institute of Forestry of China [1] in Feb. 2013. It has the following information:
The draft genome of moso bamboo was reported by the Research Institute of Forestry of China [1] in Feb. 2013. It has the following information:
● Genome Size:2.05Gb
● Number of Scaffolds: 277278
● Number of Protein-coding Genes: 314613
● Number of transcripts: 31461
● Number of Scaffolds: 277278
● Number of Protein-coding Genes: 314613
● Number of transcripts: 31461
Genome Re-sequencing Projects and Variation Identification
In the research of Zhenhua Peng et al. [1], five plants from a single individual rhizome of the moso bamboo ecotype were sequenced, and 2,009,487 heterozygous SNPs and 51,223 short indels were identified. We curated these variants into our Genome Variation Map(GVM) database.
References
[1] Peng Z, Lu Y, Li L, Zhao Q, Feng Q, Gao Z, Lu H, Hu T, Yao N, Liu K, Li Y, Fan D, Guo Y, Li W, Weng Q, Zhou C, Zhang L, Huang T, Zhao Y, Zhu C, Liu X, Yang X, Wang T, Miao K, Zhuang C, Cao X, Tang W, Liu G, Liu Y, Chen J, Liu Z, Yuan L, Huang X, Lu T, Fei B, Ning Z, Han B, Jiang Z: The draft genome of the fast-growing non-timber forest species moso bamboo (Phyllostachys heterocycla). Nat Genet, 45(4):456-461, 461e451-452. [PMID=23435089]