The intra-species comparisons were performed in order to avoid, as much as possible, issues associated with the incomplete representation of the wheat and barley genomes on the two GeneChips.
Since these more distantly related species have gene family members which share branches with sequences from wheat throughout the tree, it seems that the representation of caleosins from wheat is likely complete.
For all 199 molecularly characterized genes, orthologous groups were constructed using the gene contents of Arabidopsis, rice, sorghum, maize, Brachypodium, tomato, barley, rye and Aegilops tauschii (as a representation for wheat).
The literature has mainly focused on crop species with a large representation of cereal crops such as wheat, barley, and corn.
Comparatively, the high SSR allele diversity found in the minicore collection approximately reflects the genetic representation of the entire set of Chinese wheat collections.
A large proportion of our reads mapped to these expressed loci (>93%), indicating that they include a good representation of the expressed portion of the wheat genome.
We show here that a two-year cycle combining maize and winter wheat enhances the representation of generalist species in the weed communities found in maize (48% of species) compared to maize cultivated as monoculture (37%).
A large proportion of the trimmed reads (average 93.4%, Additional file 1: Table S2) mapped within the 139,828 previously defined transcribed genomic loci within this reference (see Methods), suggesting that these loci provide a good representation of the transcribed portion of the wheat genome.
An expanded version of the WHEAT 2.6 DArT array was used where coverage for the D-genome of wheat was increased by adding markers from a PstI(TaqI) genomic representation of D-genome enriched DNA fractions.
Figure 5 provides a graphical representation of the historical simulation for corn and wheat inclusion rates in starter, grower, and finisher broiler diets in the CWSR model.
