Whole chloroplast genome and gene locus phylogenies reveal the taxonomic placement and relationship of Tripidium (Panicoideae: Andropogoneae) to sugarcane

D Lloyd Evans, SV Joshi, J Wang - BMC evolutionary biology, 2019 - Springer
Background For over 50 years, attempts have been made to introgress agronomically useful
traits from Erianthus sect. Ripidium (Tripidium) species into sugarcane based on both …

The sugarcane mitochondrial genome: assembly, phylogenetics and transcriptomics

DL Evans, TT Hlongwane, SV Joshi, DMR Pachón - PeerJ, 2019 - peerj.com
Background Chloroplast genomes provide insufficient phylogenetic information to
distinguish between closely related sugarcane cultivars, due to the recent origin of many …

Combining protein-based transcriptome assembly, and efficient MinION long read sequencing for targeted transcript sequencing in orphan species. Validation on …

DL Evans - bioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Orphan species that are evolutionarily distant from their closest sequenced/assembled
neighbour provide a significant challenge in terms of gene or transcript assembly for …

Bioinformatics approaches for pathway reconstruction in orphan crops-a new paradigm.

DL Evans, SV Joshi - Quantitative genetics, genomics and …, 2020 - cabidigitallibrary.org
This chapter outlines approaches for gene assembly and gene annotation of orphan crops
(including sugarcane) that allow for sequence assembly even if no closely related sequence …