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Genome Structure of Jatropha curcas L.

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The recent progress in DNA sequencing technology has allowed us to acquire information on the structures of whole genomes of various agronomically important plants in a relatively short period of time. In order to understand the genetic systems carried by Jatropha curcas and to accelerate the process of molecular breeding, comprehensive analyses of genes and the genome of this plant have been conducted using both conventional and advanced technologies, and a large quantity of sequence data has been accumulated. The latest draft sequence of the genome of J. curcas is 297 Mb long, and is presumed to cover 99 % of the gene space, with an average GC content of 33.8 %. By combining with the transcriptome information, a total of 30,203 protein-encoding genes, in addition to the 17,575 transposon-related genes and 2,124 putative pseudogenes, were assigned to the genome. Information on the genomic sequences and genes is available at http://www.kazusa.or.jp/jatropha/.

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We are grateful to Kazusa DNA Research Institute Foundation. PBBL is contributed by SEI CSR Foundation, Japan.

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  1. Kazusa DNA Research Institute, 2-6-7 Kazusa-kamatari, Kisarazu, Chiba, 292-0818, Japan

    Shusei Sato, Hideki Hirakawa & Satoshi Tabata

  2. Plant Bioengineering for Bioenergy Laboratory, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan

    Suguru Tsuchimoto, Hiroe Sakai & Kiichi Fukui

  3. Bioengineering for the Interest of Environmental Sustainability (Sumitomo Electric Industries), Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan

    Nakako Shibagaki

  4. Faculty of Science and Technology Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan

    Sachihiro Matsunaga

  5. Department of Applied Biological Science, Tokyo University of Science, 2641 Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba, 278-8510, Japan

    Sachihiro Matsunaga

  6. Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan

    Kiichi Fukui

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Sato, S. et al. (2013). Genome Structure of Jatropha curcas L.. In: Bahadur, B., Sujatha, M., Carels, N. (eds) Jatropha, Challenges for a New Energy Crop. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4915-7_30

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