A Draft Genome Sequence for Ensete ventricosum, the Drought-Tolerant “Tree Against Hunger”
by
James Harrison 1, Karen A. Moore 1, Konrad Paszkiewicz 1, Thomas Jones 1, Murray R. Grant 1, Daniel Ambacheew 2
, Sadik Muzemil 2 and David J. Studholme 1,*
James Harrison 1, Karen A. Moore 1, Konrad Paszkiewicz 1, Thomas Jones 1, Murray R. Grant 1, Daniel Ambacheew 2, Sadik Muzemil 2 and David J. Studholme 1,*
1
College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Geoffrey Pope Building, Stocker Road, Exeter EX4 4QD, UK
2
Southern Agricultural Research Institution (SARI). P.O. Box. 06, Hawassa, Ethiopia
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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Agronomy 2014, 4(1), 13-33; https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy4010013
Received: 15 November 2013 / Revised: 9 January 2014 / Accepted: 14 January 2014 / Published: 17 January 2014
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Utilization of Genetic Resources and Emerging-Omics Technologies to Expand Agro-ecological Adaptation of Crops)
We present a draft genome sequence for enset (Ensete ventricosum) available via the Sequence Read Archive (accession number SRX202265) and GenBank (accession number AMZH01. Enset feeds 15 million people in Ethiopia, but is arguably the least studied African crop. Our sequence data suggest a genome size of approximately 547 megabases, similar to the 523-megabase genome of the closely related banana (Musa acuminata). At least 1.8% of the annotated M. acuminata genes are not conserved in E. ventricosum. Furthermore, enset contains genes not present in banana, including reverse transcriptases and virus-like sequences as well as a homolog of the RPP8-like resistance gene. We hope that availability of genome-wide sequence data will stimulate and accelerate research on this important but neglected crop.
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Keywords:
enset; Ethiopia; drought-tolerance; Musaceae
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Harrison, J.; Moore, K.A.; Paszkiewicz, K.; Jones, T.; Grant, M.R.; Ambacheew, D.; Muzemil, S.; Studholme, D.J. A Draft Genome Sequence for Ensete ventricosum, the Drought-Tolerant “Tree Against Hunger”. Agronomy 2014, 4, 13-33.
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