Review Article

Recent Advances in Cotton Genomics

Table 3

Upland cotton BAC and BIBAC libraries that have been published or are accessible to the public (as of May 2007).

GenotypeMean insert size (kb)No. of clonesGenome equivalentsVector Cloning siteReferences/locations where libraries are available

Tamcot HQ959351,3532.3xpBeloBAC11HindIIIhttp://hbz7.tamu.edu
Auburn 62314044,1602.7xpBeloBAC11BamHIhttp://hbz7.tamu.edu
Texas Marker-113076,8004.4xpCLD04541BamHIhttp://hbz7.tamu.edu
Texas Marker-117576,8006.0xpECBAC1EcoRIhttp://hbz7.tamu.edu
Maxxa137129,0248.3xpCUGI-1HindIII[79]
0-613-2R13097,8255.7xpIndigoBAC-5HindIII[80]

The vectors, pBeloBAC11 (Kim et al. [81]), pECBAC1 (Frijters et al. [82]), pCUGI-1 [79], and pIndigoBAC-5 (http://www.epibio.com/item.asp?ID=328), are BAC vectors whereas pCLD04541 is plant-transformation-competent BIBAC vector (http://www.jic.bbsrc.ac.uk/staff/ian-bancroft/vectorspage.htm; [83]) that can be directly transformed into cotton plants via Agrobacterium.