Despite its economical and nutritional importance and the relatively small genome size, currently available genomic and genetic tools for cucumber are very limited.
Here, we propose an additional genomic signature of thermophilic adaptation: small genome size.
Authors' response: The purpose of this paper was to correlate genomic features with phenotype i.e. the small genome size and gene content with the bacterial lifestyle.
Its short generation cycle and very small genome size enables a wide range of molecular and genetic approaches.
The small genome size has enriched a set of resources available for molecular biological studies (Jung et al. 2008).
In addition, because of its small genome size, high transformation efficiency and huge genetic resources, rice was the first crop plant chosen for complete genome sequencing.
This was predicated somewhat on rice's small genome size and the realization from molecular mapping, e.g. RFLPs, of conserved markers and marker order.
Recent efforts have focused on metabolic engineering of lactic acid bacteria as they produce high yields and have a small genome size that facilitates their genetic manipulation.
The small genome size of Can.
High numbers of fusion events have been associated with small genome size [31] and efficiency in transcription or translation [32].
Both WfVEM-Sat and ToLCV-Sat are distinct from α-satellites and β-satellites in terms of genome organization, lack of ORFs, and small genome size.
