- 著者
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             Yuichi Katayose
             
             Hiroyuki Kanamori
             
             Michihiko Shimomura
             
             Hajime Ohyanagi
             
             Hiroshi Ikawa
             
             Hiroshi Minami
             
             Michie Shibata
             
             Tomoko Ito
             
             Kanako Kurita
             
             Kazue Ito
             
             Yasutaka Tsubokura
             
             Akito Kaga
             
             Jianzhong Wu
             
             Takashi Matsumoto
             
             Kyuya Harada
             
             Takuji Sasaki
             
          
- 出版者
- Japanese Society of Breeding
- 雑誌
- Breeding Science (ISSN:13447610)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.61, no.5, pp.661-664, 2012 (Released:2012-02-04)
- 参考文献数
- 10
- 被引用文献数
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        Soybean [Glycine max (L) Merrill] is one of the most important leguminous crops and ranks fourth after to rice, wheat and maize in terms of world crop production. Soybean contains abundant protein and oil, which makes it a major source of nutritious food, livestock feed and industrial products. In Japan, soybean is also an important source of traditional staples such as tofu, natto, miso and soy sauce. The soybean genome was determined in 2010. With its enormous size, physical mapping and genome sequencing are the most effective approaches towards understanding the structure and function of the soybean genome. We constructed bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) libraries from the Japanese soybean cultivar, Enrei. The end-sequences of approximately 100,000 BAC clones were analyzed and used for construction of a BAC-based physical map of the genome. BLAST analysis between Enrei BAC-end sequences and the Williams82 genome was carried out to increase the saturation of the map. This physical map will be used to characterize the genome structure of Japanese soybean cultivars, to develop methods for the isolation of agronomically important genes and to facilitate comparative soybean genome research. The current status of physical mapping of the soybean genome and construction of database are presented.