The Efficacy of Cot-based Gene Enrichment in Wheat (Triticum Aestivum L.)

Lamoureux, D., Peterson, D. G., Li, W., Fellers, J. P., & Gill, B. S. (2005). The Efficacy of Cot-based Gene Enrichment in Wheat (Triticum Aestivum L.). Genome. 48, 1120-1126.

We report the results of a study on the effectiveness of Cot filtration (CF) in the characterization of the gene space of bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), a large genome species (1C = 16 700 Mb) of tremendous agronomic importance. Using published Cot data as a guide, 2 genomic libraries for hexaploid wheat were constructed from the single-stranded DNA collected at Cot values > 1188 and 1639 M·s. Compared with sequences from a whole genome shotgun library from Aegilops tauschii (the D genome donor of bread wheat), the CF libraries exhibited 13.7-fold enrichment in genes, 5.8-fold enrichment in unknown low-copy sequences, and a 3-fold reduction in repetitive DNA. CF is twice as efficient as methylation filtration at enriching wheat genes. This research suggests that, with improvements, CF will be a highly useful tool in sequencing the gene space of wheat.