Tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb.)
Karyotype: allotetraploid 2n=6x=42
Thomas HM, Harper JA, Meredith MR et al. (1997). Physical mapping of ribosomal DNA sites in Festuca arundinacea and related species by in situ hybridization. Genome 40: 406-410. link
Humphreys MW, Thomas HM, Morgan WG et al. (1995).
Discriminating the ancestral progenitors of hexaploid Festuca
arundinacea using genomic in situ
hybridization. Heredity 75: 171-174. link
Genome size (1C, Mb): 8535
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:
Dierking R, Azhaguvel P, Kallenbach R et al. (2015). Linkage maps of a mediterranean x continental Tall fescue population and their comparative analysis with other Poaceae species. Plant Genome 8: 1. link
Saha MC, Mian R,
Zwonitzer JC et al. (2004). An SSR- and AFLP-based genetic linkage map
of tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb.). Theoretical and Applied Genetics 110:323-336. link
cpDNA sequencing: 136,048 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:
Hu T, Wang T, Li H et al. (2020). Genome-wide small RNA profiling reveals tiller development in tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb). BMC Genomics 21(1): 1-13. link
Li X-Y, Wang Y, Dai Y et al. (2020). The transcription factors of tall fescue in response to temperature stresses. Plant Biology. link
Dinkins RD, Nagabhyru P, Young CA et al. (2019). Transcriptome analysis and differential expression in Tall fescue harboring different endophyte strains in response to water deficit. The Plant Genome 12:2. link
Amombo E, Li X, Wang G et al. (2018). Comprehensive Transcriptome Profiling and Identification of Potential Genes Responsible for Salt Tolerance in Tall Fescue Leaves under Salinity Stress. Genes 9: 466. link
Li H, Hu T, Amombo E et al. (2017). Transcriptome profilings of two tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea) cultivars in response to lead (Pb) stress. BMC Genomics 18: 145. link
Hu T, Sun X, Zhang X et al. (2014). An RNA
sequencing transcriptome analysis of the high-temperature stressed
tall fescue reveals novel insights into plant thermotolerance. BMC
Genomics 15: 1147. link