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Bioinformatics Advance Access published online on October 31, 2006
Bioinformatics, doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btl547
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© The Author (2006). Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org
Received April 15, 2006
Revised September 23, 2006
Accepted October 21, 2006

Discovery note

Simple sequence repeats in organellar genomes of rice: frequency and distribution in genic and intergenic regions

Passoupathy Rajendrakumar 1, Akshaya Kumar Biswal 1, Sena M. Balachandran 1, Kommoju Srinivasarao 1, and Raman M. Sundaram 1 *

1 Biotechnology Laboratory, Crop Improvement Section, Directorate of Rice Research, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad-500030, India

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Raman M. Sundaram, E-mail: rms_28{at}rediffmail.com


  Abstract

Motivation: Simple sequence repeats (SSRs) are abundant across genomes. However, the significance of SSRs in organellar genomes of rice has not been completely understood. The availability of organellar genome sequences allows us to understand the organization of SSRs in their genic and intergenic regions.

Results: We have analyzed SSRs in mitochondrial and chloroplast genomes of rice. We identified 2528 SSRs in the mitochondrial genome and 870 SSRs in the chloroplast genomes. About 8.7% of the mitochondrial and 27.5% of the chloroplast SSRs were observed in the genic region. Dinucleotides were the most abundant repeats in genic and intergenic regions of the mitochondrial genome while mononucleotides were predominant in the chloroplast genomes The rps and nad gene clusters of mitochondria had the maximum repeats, while the rpo and ndh gene clusters of chloroplast had the maximum repeats. We identified SSRs in both organellar genomes and validated in different cultivars and species.

Associate Editor: Christos Ouzounis
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