Towards plant pangenomics
Plant Biotechnology JournalPublished 23 November 2015Open access
Agnieszka A. Golicz, Jacqueline Batley, David Edwards
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The current progress in pangenomics as well as methods and approaches for the characterization of pANGenomes for a wide range of plant species are explored.
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As an increasing number of genome sequences become available for a wide range of species, there is a growing understanding that the genome of a single individual is insufficient to represent the gene diversity within a whole species. Many studies examine the sequence diversity within genes, and this allelic variation is an important source of phenotypic variation which can be selected for by man or nature. However, the significant gene presence/absence variation that has been observed within species and the impact of this variation on traits is only now being studied in detail. The sum of the genes for a species is termed the pangenome, and the determination and characterization of the pangenome is a requirement to understand variation within a species. In this review, we explore the current progress in pangenomics as well as methods and approaches for the characterization of pangenomes for a wide range of plant species.
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