Italian ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam.)
Genome size (1C, Mb): 2567
Kopecky D, Havrankova M, Loureiro J et al. (2010).
Physical distribution of homoeologous recombination in individual chromosomes of Festuca pratensis in Lolium multiflorum. Cytogenetic and Genome Research 129: 162-172. link
Genetic maps:
Guan X, Hirata M, Ding C et al. (2014). Genetic linkage map of Lolium multiflorum Lam. constructed from a BC1 population derived from an interspecific hybridization, L. multiflorum × Lolium temulentum L. × L. temulentum. Grassland Science 60: 142-149. link
Bartos J, Sandve SR, Koelliker R et al. (2011). Genetic mapping of DArT
markers in the Festuca-Lolium complex and their use in freezing
tolerance association analysis. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 122:
1133-1147. link
Whole genome sequencing:
Knorst V, Yates S, Byrne S et al. (2019). First assembly of the gene-space of Lolium multiflorum and comparison to other Poaceae genomes. Grassland Science 65: 125-134. link
cpDNA sequencing: 135,175 bp
Hand ML, Spangenberg GC, Forster JW, and Cogan NOI. (2013). Plastome sequence determination and comparative analysis for members of the Lolium-Festuca grass species complex. G3 3(4): 607-616. link
Transcriptome sequencing:
Glombik M, Copetti D, Bartos J et al. (2021). Reciprocal allopolyploid grasses (Festuca x Lolium) display stable patterns of genome dominance. The Plant Journal 107(4): 1166-1182. link
Fu Y, Thomas A, Gasior D et al. (2021). A comparison of shared patterns of differential gene expression and gene ontologies in response to water-stress in roots and leaves of four diverse genotypes of Lolium and Festuca spp. temperature pasture grasses. Plos one 16(4): e0249636. link
Cechin J, Piasecki C, Benemann DP et al. (2020). Transcriptome analysis identifies candidate target genes involved in glyphosate-resistance mechanism in Lolium multiflorum. Plants 9:685. link
Hu Z, Zhang Y, He Y et al. (2020). Full-length transcriptome assembly of Italian ryegrass root integrated with RNA-seq to identify genes in response to plant cadmium stress. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 21:1067. link
Pan L, Zhang X, Wang J et al. (2016) Transcriptional profiles of grought-related genes in modulating metabolic processes and antioxidant defenses in Lolium multiflorum. Frontiers in Plant Science 7: 519. link
Stoces S, Ruttink T, Bartos J et al. (2016). Orthology guided transcriptome assembly of Italian ryegrass and Meadow fescue for single-nucleotide polymorphism discovery. Plant Genome 9: 3. link
Czaban A, Sharma S, Byrne S et al. (2015). Comparative transcriptome analysis within the Lolium/Festuca species complex reveals high sequence conservation. BMC Genomics 16: UNSP 249. link