Glycine max (soybean)
Overview
Glycine max, more commonly called soybean, is an important crop grown throughout the world, and one of the reference legumes. The Glycine max genome is a partially diploidized tetraploid, approximately 1.1 Gbp in size.
Of Special Interest
Genome browsers at SoyBase and Phytozome; Genetic maps, QTL, pathways, traits etc. at the SoyBase main page. Interactive genetic, trait, and QTL maps at SoyBase/SBT, linkage groups A1(5), A2(8), ..., N(3), O(10).
| NCBI taxon | 3847 | |
| GRIN taxon | 17711 | |
| Flowering type | Long Day | |
| Mating system | Predominately Inbreeding |
Nodulators
| Species | NCBI Taxon ID |
|---|---|
| Bradyrhizobium japonicum | 224911 |
Genome Summary
| Chromosomes | 2n = 40 | |
| Genome size | 1,115 (Mbp) | |
| Chloroplast genome size | 152 (kbp) | |
| Chloroplast NCBI accession number | NC_007942 |
Resources
| genetic map | Genetic maps, part of the Soybean Breeder's toolkit at SoyBase | Linkout » |
| genetic map | Genetic map and comparisons | Linkout » |
| genome assembly | Genome build 4.1 at Phytozome | Linkout » |
| genome browser | GBrowse at SoyBase based on build 1.01 | Linkout » |
| genome browser | GBrowse at Phytozome | Linkout » |
| genome browser | Genome browser at PlantGDB | Linkout » |
| other | Soybean portal at Phytozome | Linkout » |
| other | Soybean resources at PLEXdb | Linkout » |
| other | Gene expression and sequence data at SoyXpress | Linkout » |
| publications | Current publications on Glycine max at PubMed | Linkout » |
| transcript assembly | Gene index at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | Linkout » |
| transcript assembly | Transcript assembly at JCVI | Linkout » |
Reference Data
| Type | Description | Source | URL |
|---|---|---|---|
| GFF3 Annotations | Gene models | Phytozome | Download » |
| Genome | Genome assembly | Phytozome | Download » |
Selected References
Current publications on Glycine max at Pubmed.
Ainsworth EA, Yendrek CR, Skoneczka JA, Long SP. Accelerating yield potential in soybean: Potential targets for biotechnological improvement. Plant Cell Environ. 2011 Jun 20. doi: 10.1111/j: 1365-3040.2011.02378.x.
Weston DJ, Karve AA, Gunter LE, Jawdy SS, Yang X, Allen SM, Wullschleger SD. Comparative physiology and transcriptional networks underlying the heat shock response in Populus trichocarpa, Arabidopsis thaliana and Glycine max. Plant Cell Environ. 2011 May 6.
Bolon YT, Haun WJ, Xu WW, Grant D, Stacey MG, Nelson RT, Gerhardt DJ, Jeddeloh JA, Stacey G, Muehlbauer GJ, Orf JH, Naeve SL, Stupar RM, Vance CP. Phenotypic and genomic analyses of a fast neutron mutant population resource in soybean. Plant Physiol. 2011 May; 156(1): 240-53.
Mortier V, Fenta BA, Martens C, Rombauts S, Holsters M, Kunert K, Goormachtig S. Search for nodulation-related CLE genes in the genome of Glycine max. J Exp Bot. 2011 May; 62(8): 2571-83.
Tanaka K, Nguyen CT, Libault M, Cheng J, Stacey G. Enzymatic activity of the soybean ecto-apyrase GS52 is essential for stimulation of nodulation. Plant Physiol. 2011 Apr; 155(4): 1988-98.
Coate JE, Schlueter JA, Whaley AM, Doyle JJ. Comparative evolution of photosynthetic genes in response to polyploid and nonpolyploid duplication. Plant Physiol. 2011 Apr; 155(4): 2081-95.
Wu X, Vuong TD, Leroy JA, Grover Shannon J, Sleper DA, Nguyen HT. Selection of a core set of RILs from Forrest x Williams 82 to develop a framework map in soybean. Theor Appl Genet. 2011 Apr; 122(6): 1179-87.
Jones SI, Gonzalez DO, Vodkin LO. Flux of transcript patterns during soybean seed development. BMC Genomics. 2010 Feb 24; 11: 136.
Schmutz J, Cannon SB, Schlueter J, Ma J, Mitros T, Nelson W, Hyten DL, Song Q, Thelen JJ, Cheng J, Xu D, Hellsten U, May GD, Yu Y, Sakurai T, Umezawa T, Bhattacharyya MK, Sandhu D, Valliyodan B, Lindquist E, Peto M, Grant D, Shu S, Goodstein D, Barry K, Futrell-Griggs M, Abernathy B, Du J, Tian Z, Zhu L, Gill N, Joshi T, Libault M, Sethuraman A, Zhang XC, Shinozaki K, Nguyen HT, Wing RA, Cregan P, Specht J, Grimwood J, Rokhsar D, Stacey G, Shoemaker RC, Jackson SA. Genome sequence of the palaeopolyploid soybean. Nature. 2010 Jan 14; 463(7278): 178-83.
Cheng KC, Strömvik MV. SoyXpress: a database for exploring the soybean transcriptome. BMC Genomics. 2008 Aug 1; 9: 368.
Mudge J, Cannon SB, Kalo P, Oldroyd GE, Roe BA, Town CD, Young ND. Highly syntenic regions in the genomes of soybean, Medicago truncatula, and Arabidopsis thaliana. BMC Plant Biol. 2005; 5: 15.