# GO and hybrid sugarcane cultivars

**URL:** <https://community.alliancegenome.org/t/go-and-hybrid-sugarcane-cultivars/7625>\
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**Created:** [April 13, 2024, 1:07am UTC](https://community.alliancegenome.org/t/go-and-hybrid-sugarcane-cultivars/7625 "2024-04-13T01:07:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 13, 2024, 1:07am UTC](https://community.alliancegenome.org/t/go-and-hybrid-sugarcane-cultivars/7625/1 "2024-04-13T01:07:50Z")

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Sugarcane is an incredibly important crop, not only for food but for bioenergy production, and has an estimated annual ecomonic value of up to $90 billion USD. Modern sugarcane hybrids can have 100 to 130 chromosomes and a complex ~10 Gb genome. In a new Nature Communications article, Bao et al. used several tools- including GO- to investigate the expantion of genes related to sugar accumulation, smut resistance, and the origin of genes associated with PBD susceptibility.

 ![Fig 6b from "A chromosomal-scale genome assembly of modern cultivated hybrid sugarcane provides insights into origination and evolution"](https://community.alliancegenome.org/uploads/default/original/1X/d2f8c1201cc80eab5fb10ca2bc43a0b45e4c426f.jpeg)

Read the article: [A chromosomal-scale genome assembly of modern cultivated hybrid sugarcane provides insights into origination and evolution](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11001919/)