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5S rRNA intergenic spacers were amplified from two elite sugarcane (Saccharumhybrids) cultivars and their related taxa by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with 5S rDNA consensus primers. Resulting PCR products were uniform in length from each accession but exhibited some degree of length variation among the sugarcane accessions and related taxa. These PCR products did not always cross hybridize in Southern blot hybridization experiments. These PCR products were cloned into a commercial plasmid vector PCR™ 2.1 and sequenced. Direct sequencing of cloned PCR products revealed spacer length of 231–237 bp for S. officinarum, 233–237 for sugarcane cultivars, 228–238 bp for S. spontaneum, 239–252 bp for S. giganteum, 385–410 bp for Erianthusspp., 226–230 bp for Miscanthus sinensisZebra, 206–207 bp for M. sinensisIMP 3057, 207–209 bp for Sorghum bicolor, and 247–249 bp for Zea mays. Nucleotide sequence polymorphism were found at both the segment and single nucleotide level. A consensus sequence for each taxon was obtained by Align X. Multiple sequences were aligned and phylogenetic trees constructed using Align X, CLUSTAL and DNAMAN programs. In general, accessions of the following taxa tended to group together to form distinct clusters: S. giganteum, Erianthusspp., M. sinensis, S. bicolor, and Z. mays. However, the two S. officinarumclones and two sugarcane cultivars did not form distinct clusters but interrelated within the S. spontaneumcluster. The disclosure of these 5S rRNA intergenic spacer sequences will facilitate marker-assisted breeding in sugarcane.
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Pan, YB., Burner, D. & Legendre, B. An Assessment of the Phylogenetic Relationship Among Sugarcane and Related Taxa Based on the Nucleotide Sequence of 5S rRNA Intergenic Spacers. Genetica 108, 285–295 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004191625603
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