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An Expressed Sequence Tag Analysis for the Fast-Growing Shoots of Bambusa edulis Murno

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Bamboo is one of the fastest growing plants in the world and is an economically important crop species in Asia. To identify the genes involved in fast shoot growth, an expressed sequence tag analysis was performed on Bambusa edulis Murno fast-growing shoots. Sequencing of the cDNA clones generated 1,402 5′-end high-quality expressed sequence tags (JG296384-JG297785, average length 655 bp), of which 1,101 clusters (143 consensus and 958 singletons) were revealed by sequence comparison to be unique and 597 (54% of total clusters) of them have a putative ATG start codon. A Basic Local Alignment Search Tool X analysis showed that 995 of these genes were similar to genes present in the National Center for Biotechnology database. A total of 868 genes were most similar to rice genes. The most abundant genes were three thionin-coding genes, which have 27, 17, or 10 clones, respectively, followed by aminocyclopropanecarboxylate oxidase and cysteine protease. Thionin and putative cell elongation-associated genes, xyloglucan endotransglycosylase/hydrolase, expansin, cellulose synthase, and pectin esterase were analyzed by real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction using gene-specific primers. These results suggest that this high-quality library could be a good resource for understanding molecular events of bamboo shoot elongation, and the full-length clones could be used for crop improvement studies in the future.

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Abbreviations

ACC:

Aminocyclopropanecarboxylate

EST:

Expressed sequence tag

NCBI:

National Center for Biotechnology

XTH:

Xyloglucan endotransglycosylase/hydrolase

UDPG:

Uridine diphosphate glucose

GAP:

Glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate

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We thank Ms. Karen Bird, MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, for her help in editing our manuscript. This work was supported by a research grant from the Chungbuk National University in 2011.

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  1. Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, University of Suwon, San 2-2 Wauri Bongdameup, Hwasung, 445-743, South Korea

    Seung Kwan Yoo

  2. Division of Life Sciences, Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, 406-840, South Korea

    Hyoungseok Lee

  3. Natural Science Research Institute, Myongji University, Yongin, 449-728, South Korea

    Ho Bang Kim

  4. Plant Systems Engineering Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Gwahangno 125, Daejeon, 305-333, South Korea

    Serry Koh

  5. Southern Forest Research Center, Korean Forest Research Institute, Jinju, Kyungnam, 660-300, South Korea

    Hyun Cheol Shin

  6. Department of Industrial Plant Science & Technology, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, 361-763, South Korea

    Eunjeong Cho, Yurry Um & Yi Lee

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Cho, E., Um, Y., Yoo, S.K. et al. An Expressed Sequence Tag Analysis for the Fast-Growing Shoots of Bambusa edulis Murno. J. Plant Biol. 54, 402–408 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12374-011-9179-2

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