TY - JOUR T1 - Gene mapping of nine agronomic traits and genome assembly by resequencing a foxtail millet RIL population JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/069625 SP - 069625 AU - Xuemei Ni AU - Qiuju Xia AU - Houbao Zhang AU - Shu Cheng AU - Hui Li AU - Guangyu Fan AU - Tao Guo AU - Ping Huang AU - Haitao Xiang AU - Qingchun Chen AU - Ning Li AU - Hongfeng Zou AU - Xuemei Cai AU - Xuejing Lei AU - Xiaoming Wang AU - Chengshu Zhou AU - Zhihai Zhao AU - Gengyun Zhang AU - Zhiwu Quan Y1 - 2016/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/08/15/069625.abstract N2 - Foxtail millet (Setaria italica) provides food and fodder in semi-arid regions and infertile land. Resequencing of 184 foxtail millet recombinant inbred lines (RILs) was carried out to aid essential research on foxtail millet improvement. Bin map were constructed based on the RILs’ recombination data. By anchoring some unseated scaffolds and filling gaps, we update two original millet reference genomes Zhanggu and Yugu to produce second editions. Gene mapping of nine agronomic traits were done based on this RIL population. The genome resequencing and QTL mapping provided important tools for foxtail millet research and breeding. Resequencing of the RILs could also provide an effective way for high quantity genome assembly and gene identification. ER -