BMC Plant Biology

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A consensus genetic map of sorghum that integrates multiple component maps and high-throughput Diversity Array Technology (DArT) markers

Emma S Mace1*, Jean-Francois Rami2, Sophie Bouchet2, Patricia E Klein3, Robert R Klein4, Andrzej Kilian5, Peter Wenzl5, Ling Xia5, Kirsten Halloran1 and David R Jordan1

Author Affiliations

1 The Department of Primary Industries & Fisheries, Queensland (DPI&F), Hermitage Research Station, Warwick, QLD 4370, Australia

2 CIRAD UMR DAP, TA A-96/03, Av Agropolis, 34398 Montpellier CEDEX 5, France

3 Department of Horticulture and Institute for Plant Genomics and Biotechnology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-2123, USA

4 USDA-ARS, Southern Plains Agricultural Research Center, College Station, TX 77845, USA

5 Diversity Arrays Technology P/L, PO Box 7141, Yarralumla ACT 2600, Australia

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BMC Plant Biology 2009, 9:13 doi:10.1186/1471-2229-9-13

Published: 26 January 2009

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Additional file 1:

Locus positions in the component maps. Excel spreadsheet containing a list of all component map loci, the chromosome and position of each locus.

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Additional file 2:

Multicopy marker summary. Excel spreadsheet containing details of the total numbers of multicopy markers identified per chromosome on the sorghum DArT consensus map

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Additional file 3:

Locus positions in the consensus map. Excel spreadsheet containing a list of all consensus map loci and their features; data include the chromosome and position of each locus, details of which component map each locus was mapped in, and multicopy marker details.

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Additional file 4:

Comparison of 42 RFLP markers across sorghum, rice and maize. Excel spreadsheet containing a list of 42 RFLP markers, and their physical location on both the sorghum and rice genome and chromosome and bin identity in maize.

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Additional file 5:

Sorghum/rice gene microcolinearity across a 0.26 MB region of SBI-01 between rz630 and umc90. Excel spreadsheet containing a list of 15 predicted sorghum genes on SBI-01, between rz630 and umc90, their physical location and predicted function, and the homologous rice gene ID, physical location and predicted function of the best hit based on BLASTn and the total number of hits at E = 1e-10.

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