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Item Diversidade genética de BGMV em linhagens elite de feijoeiro-comum(Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2021-06-30) Bertholdo, Naíze Motta; Faria, Josias Corrêa de; Coelho, Alexandre Siqueira Guedes; http://lattes.cnpq.br/0840926305216925; Coelho, Alexandre Siqueira Guedes; Faria, Josias Corrêa de; Dianese, Érico de Campos; Araújo, Leila Garcês deBrazil is the main common bean consumer in the world, also being the main producer, whose production supply the intern market. Among the factors that influence the productivity, the wide distribution of Bean golden mosaic virus in common bean fields is very important because it can cause chlorosis, leaf crumpling and stunting, and lead up to 100% yield losses. As a response to that, Embrapa developed, through the RNAi approach, a transgenic common bean line with resistance to the Bean golden mosaic virus. Nonetheless, the presence of a resistance gene can increase the selection pressure over the pathogen, that can mutate and overcome the resistance. Despite being DNA viruses, it is described that in species of Begomovirus, the genus of the BGMV, mutation rates are similar to those of RNA viruses. Nevertheless, until now, BGMV has shown smaller genetic variability compared to other species of the genus. The objective of this work was to characterize BGMV populations that infect different common bean elite lines, transgenic and conventional, in two locations: Brasília and Santo Antônio de Goiás. To that, leaf samples from different elite lines were collected in Value for Cultivation and Use (VCU) trials, searching for differences in viral populations from different sources. We used a strategy widely used on studies related to other living beings: next generation DNA sequencing followed by single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) genotyping. The SNPs obtained were used to carry out genetic diversity analysis. The estimates of the proportion of polymorphic sites and of Nei’s gene diversity revealed a greater genetic diversity in viral populations sampled in transgenic plants. The results suggest that, despite the restriction to the viral replication and, therefore, of smaller viral populations, the necessary conditions to the occurrence of selection pressure are given. In the genetic structure analysis, a significant effect was attributed to localities, as has been widely described in literature.Item Avaliação da tecnologia Oxford Nanopore para análise de identidade genética de clones de cana-de-açúcar (Saccharum spp.)(Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2020-03-31) Borges, Sâmella de Souza; Bandeira, Ludmila Ferreira; http://lattes.cnpq.br/5329718658913234; Coelho, Alexandre Siqueira Guedes; http://lattes.cnpq.br/0840926305216925; Coelho, Alexandre Siqueira Guedes; Novaes, Evandro; Borba, Tereza Cristina de Oliveira; Taquary, Adriana Maria Antunes; Vianello, Rosana PereiraBrazil is currently the world's largest producer of sugarcane, which is the raw material for two important products for the Brazilian economy: sugar and ethanol. Aiming both to assess the Oxford Nanopore technology for genotyping applications for sequencing (Genotyping By Sequencing - GBS), with the differential to obtain a high sequencing coverage (> 1,000x), how to develop a GBS platform to to identify sugarcane clones, safely and conveniently, this work used the MinION platform to perform genotyping based on the sequencing of 48 individuals. For this, using the genome of Sorghum bicolor as reference and a set of libraries of sugarcane transcripts, 20 pairs of primers were designed, which were used to obtain amplicons, in which SNPs molecular markers were identified (Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms). Six sequencing libraries were built, the first two being used in pilot trials. The alignment of the sequences obtained in the reference genome was performed using the BWA program. The identification and genotyping of the SNPs was performed using the SAMtools software. The identification of the sugarcane clones was done by calculating the genetic distance between individuals. The cluster analysis was performed using a script written in software R. The sequencing resulted in approximately 841 thousand sequences. The average size of the amplicons was 1.6 kb. High sequencing coverage (average 10,498X / amplicon) was obtained. Nine amplicons were selected, in which 356 SNPs sites were identified. The percentage of mismatches between the obtained and the reference sequences varied from 8% to 20% and the percentage of indels remained homogeneous (~ 6%). The duplicates of the same individual used as biological control formed a knot with a consistency of 94% in the obtained dendrogram, however they did not present perfect genetic identity between them. It is suggested that this fact is mainly associated with the high rate of sequencing error of the Oxford Nanopore sequencing technology, evidencing the difficulty of its use in applications that require a genetic identification with a high degree of security, as occurs in problems involving clonal identification in sugar cane.Item Caracterização genética de uma população base do programa de melhoramento de cana-de-açúcar da Ridesa/UFG(Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2017-12-21) Carneiro, Karla da Silva; Coelho, Alexandre Siqueira Guedes; http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.do?id=K4723538Z2; Coelho, Alexandre Siqueira Guedes; Nunes, Camila de Marillac Costa; Lopes, LorennaIn Brazil, the history of sugarcane is related to the social, economic and politic country development. Sugarcane cultivation is considered as the first organized economic activity in the country. The main purpose of sugarcane cultivation is for sugar and biofuel production, but in recent years the energy production from its biomass has also been explored, increasing the attention for this crop. Modern cultivated sugarcane varieties are hybrids from interspecific crosses between S. officinarum and S. spontaneum. The genetic breeding has given many contributions to sugarcane production and exploration, by the development of superior genotypes. The main sources of variability used in breeding programs are the germplasm banks. However, to explore these resources efficiently it is necessary to have basic information on the available levels of genetic diversity and on its structure, to support decisions on how they can be used in breeding programs. The purpose of this work was to characterize the genetic diversity and structure of a base population from the Ridesa/UFG sugarcane breeding program. A sample of 160 sugarcane clones were genotyped using 37,914 SNP markers. The population showed medium levels of genetic diversity. The average Nei’s gene diversity index was estimated to be 0,173, while the medium observed heterozygosity was a little higher (0,236). The genetic divergence, estimated by Roger’s modified distance varied from 0,20 to 0,30. SNP markers were efficient to identify individuals that are genetic divergent or similar, even without genealogy information. The population structure analysis, performed with the software Structure, suggested the existence of two clusters. Each clone had a fraction of its genome inside these two clusters, corroborating the fact that modern sugarcane cultivars are essentially hybrids. Our results suggest that, given the low level of genetic structure among clones, from the breeding programs standpoint, the evaluated population can be managed as weakly structured, although some small groups, including a small number of clones, had been detected. Among the evaluated clones, the least divergent pairs were those formed by the genotypes 023 and 011, and 066 and 036. The most divergent pairs were formed by the clones 131 and 084, and 131 and 063.Item Clonagem e expressão de uma β-expansina de cana-de-açúcar na levedura Pichia pastoris(Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2016-08-31) Costa, Ilítia Ganaê de Oliveira; Faria, Fabrícia Paula de; http://lattes.cnpq.br/3739169267521003; Coelho, Alexandre Siqueira Guedes; http://lattes.cnpq.br/0840926305216925; Coelho, Alexandre Siqueira Guedes; Silva, Silvana Petrofeza; Georg, Raphaela de Castro; Siqueira, Saulo José Linhares; Colussi, FrancieliIn the last decades the search for new renewable energy sources have increased and one of the emerged technologies was the production of ethanol from lignocellulosic biomass (second generation ethanol). For obtaining fermentable sugars from biomass, a complex of enzymes and proteins that acts on polysaccharides of the plant cell wall is required. Expansins are proteins that can help enzymes in the degradation process, promoting the loosening of the cell wall of plants by breaking hydrogen bonds between cellulose fibers and hemicellulose. The superfamily of expansins has been described mainly in plants, although they are also found in fungi and bacteria. Four families are described to this superfamily: α-expansins, β-expansins, expansins-like A and expansins-like B. The α-expansins are present in most eudicots, whereas the β-expansins are involved in cellular expansion process of the monocots family Poaceae. To analyze the sequence and to verify the functional activity of a β-expansin on filter paper, in this work a gene of β-expansin (expb11) of sugarcane was isolated, cloned and expressed in the yeast Pichia pastoris. Nucleotide sequences of expansin genes from sugarcane were initially obtained from the public SUCEST database using reference sequences of expansins from sorghum, maize and rice as query. A total of 227 ESTs were identified. These ESTs were submitted to clustering and 30 contigs and 92 singletons were obtained. Specific oligos were designed and used to capture the genomic fragment corresponding to the expb11 gene by PCR. The coding DNA fragment of expb11 was obtained by RT-PCR from the total RNA extracted from stalks of the RB867515 sugarcane cultivar. This fragment was cloned into the pGEM-T Easy vector and subcloned into the pPIC9 vector. Genomic and cDNA fragments were sequenced. The expression cassette generated by subcloning into the pPIC9 expression vector was integrated into the P. pastoris strain GS115 genome, but it has not been possible to detect a functional activity of expansin. The expb11 gene comprises 1367 bp, containing 3 introns, and its cDNA is 801 bp long, with an ORF of 776 bp. The alignment of sugarcane and sorghum sequences of expb11 showed that the two species share a 95% sequence identity along these genes and that the gene structure is highly conserved in these species. The in silico analysis of the putative EXPB11 amino acid sequence allowed the detection of two conserved domains, one similar to the GH45 family, and the other to the carbohydrate binding module (CBM). The putative EXPB11 protein has a predicted molecular weight of approximately 26.4 kDa, an isoelectric point (pI) of 4.88, and contains two glycosylation sites. Our results confirmed that the isolated and cloned expb11 gene corresponds to a β-expansin gene from sugarcane, paving the way to the expression, isolation and use of recombinant EXPB11 in the mix of enzymes and proteins for lignocellulosic biomass degradation.Item Genômica de organelas de cana-de-açúcar (Saccharum spp. cultivar RB867515)(Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2017-09-29) Feitosa, Mayara Stefany da Silva Mariano; Coelho, Alexandre Siqueira Guedes; http://lattes.cnpq.br/0840926305216925; Coelho, Alexandre Siqueira Guedes; Borba, Tereza Cristina De Oliveira; Novaes, EvandroSugarcane (Saccharum spp.) is one of the most important crops in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. It is cultivated in more than 100 countries, where it is used as raw material to obtain sugar and bioethanol. Given its importance, many efforts have been carried out to characterize the genome of sugarcane cultivars. The eukaryotic genomes are confined in different cellular compartments that present different inheritance patterns. Plastids and mitochondria have their own genetic system, comprising DNA, RNA and all the demanded components for replication, transcription and protein synthesis, that occur inside these organelles. The primary function of chloroplasts and mitochondria is energy transduction. Chloroplasts are responsible to convert light into chemical energy during photosynthesis, while mitochondria provides energy to the cell in form of ATP molecules during respiration. In this work, the chloroplast and mitochondrial genomes of sugarcane cultivar RB867515 are assembled and characterized, using data from two next generation sequencing technologies – Illumina and PacBio. In chloroplasts, we sought to identify evidences of heteroplasmy, by using long reads from PacBio technology in the assembly process. In mitochondria, we investigated the occurrence of genetic and structural genomic variations. The assemblies were carried out using screened reads for the organellar genomes. These reads were selected by mapping whole genome shotgun reads to reference genome sequences of chloroplast and mitochondria, that are publicly available. The organellar reads were assembled using SPAdes and Organelle_PBA. Gene annotation was obtained using DOGMA, GeSeq and Mitofy tools. Two chloroplast haplotypes (isoforms) were identified in the cultivar RB867515. These isoforms are different from each other because they present a distinct orientation of the SSC (small single copy) region, confirming the hypothesis of chloroplast heteroplasmy in sugarcane. The genome of each chloroplast isoform comprises 141,181 bp, and shows a typic quadripartite structure, that includes a long single copy region (LSC) of 83,047 bp, which is flanked by two inverted repeat regions (IRs) of 22,795 bp and a small-single copy region (SSC), between IRs, of 12,544 bp. The assembled mitochondrial genome comprised two chromosomes of 300,765 bp and 194,383 bp. The estimates of GC (~44%) and AT (~56%) contents were similar to those obtained for other angiosperms. A total of 39 CDSs, 5hypothetical conserved genes, 5 rRNAs, 18 tRNAs and 9 gene fragments transferred from chloroplast were annotated. The RB867515 mitochondrial chromosomes showed differences when compared to those from S. officinarum, including single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), genetic duplications and genomic expansions.Item Mapeamento genético de marcadores SNPs (Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms) em cana-de-açúcar (Saccharum spp.)(Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2018-07-30) Jardim, Priscila Magalhães da Veiga; Coelho, Alexandre Siqueira Guedes; http://lattes.cnpq.br/0840926305216925; Carneiro, Monalisa Sampaio; Silva, Renato RodriguesSugarcane is an important culture quite relevant to the Brazilian economy. The production is growing as well as a cultivated area is increasing every year. The genome of this culture is still deficient due to complications such as high ploidy and the big genome that presents. Among the different genetic characterization studies, the development of genetic maps is important for providing information about the genome structure of a species. In addition, it can help develop the techniques of interpretation and use of genetic information. They provide more understanding of how genetic information is organized in the genome of sugarcane supplying a lack in the basic element in this culture. The maps constructed for sugarcane, so far, not shown saturated. This work was obtained a map for sugarcane using SNP markers based on genotyping-by-sequencing technology in next-generation sequencing using the target sequencing strategy (RAPiD-Seq). For obtaining the map, 103 clones RB97327 and RB72454 were used. Probes were designed based on sequence similarity using the sorghum genome as a reference. The construction of the binding groups, considering as a binding criterion of a recombination fraction equal 0.20; allowed the identification of 249 binding groups for the biparental population with 1: 1 segregation. A total of 20555 polymorphic were scored in the analysis. The sum of the average sizes of homeologia groups identified, using the sorghum genome as a reference, was 3964.68 cM for the female parent and 3797.05 cM for the male parent.Item Identificação e caracterização de SNPs no genoma de Eugenia dysenterica DC. (Myrtaceae)(Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2015-12-18) Nunes, Rhewter; Telles, Mariana Pires de Campos; http://lattes.cnpq.br/4648436798023532; Coelho, Alexandre Siqueira Guedes; http://lattes.cnpq.br/0840926305216925; Coelho, Alexandre Siqueira Guedes; Novaes, Evandro; Vianello, Rosana PereiraThe cagaiteira (Eugenia dysenterica DC), belonging to the Myrtaceae family, is a neotropical fruit tree species and native Brazilian Cerrado. As for the vast majority of neotropical species, very little is known about the genome of cagaiteira and genetic studies conducted so far are based on the use of a small number of molecular markers. In order to facilitate the development of genetic analysis studies in genomic scale for the species, this study aimed to identify and characterize variants of a single nucleotide (SNPs) in the genome of E. dysenterica using next-generation sequencing data. Genomic DNA libraries extracted from leaf tissue of five individuals of E. dysenterica, descendants of five distinct natural populations were subjected to sequencing on Illumina MiSeq platform, using the paired-end strategy (2x300). The sequences obtained were submitted to quality control examination to remove adapters and low quality regions. An assembly for the draft genome of E. dysenterica was produced by use of dipSPAdes program. To identify SNPs, after controlling for data quality, we performed the alignment of the assembly reads the draft with the BWA program and variants were identified using the platform of GATK tools. After three stages of filtration were identified 999,016 SNPs, with a Ts / Tv ratio equal to 1.86. We observed a density of one SNP every ~ 251 bases and most SNPs occurs in the context gene (59.79%). Most effects of putative SNPs identified are missense mutations (57.70%), but which have a low impact (0.74%). This work provides subsidies for the development of molecular markers for application in genomic studies of populations of E. dysenterica.Item Desequilíbrio de ligação e análise de seleção genômica em cana-de-açúcar(Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2014-02-27) Oliveira, Ivone de Bem; Coelho, Alexandre Siqueira Guedes; http://lattes.cnpq.br/0840926305216925; Coelho, Alexandre Siqueira Guedes; Novaes, Evandro; Borba, Tereza Cristina de OliveiraLinkage disequilibrium (LD) is a genetic phenomenon, since it directly interferes in the genetic dynamics of populations. Its effect is observed in the non independent segregation of alleles of different loci, resulting in a correlation between them during the haplotype formation. Any factor that alters allele frequencies can interfere in its dynamics. Both evolutionary factors considered in population genetics and the events used in breeding programs affect the linkage equilibrium/disequilibrium balance. As the microevolutionary factors are specific for each population (natural or from breeding), the LD should be assessed specifically in each population. Specific measures of LD were developed considering the different factors involved in order to mitigate their bias during measurement. Aiming to measure the LD in Ridesa breeding populations a model to predict the LD in polyploids was implemented, using the R platform, based on the Raboin et al. (2008) equations, that considers the sugarcane genome inherent attributes (polysomy and polyploidy). By using this model the LD decay profile was obtained for two breeding populations from Ridesa, the first one composed by 91 individuals from the cross between the RB97327 and RB72454 elite clones and the second from the 81 individuals derived from the selfing of the RB97327 clone. A total of 850 and 470 loci of DArT markers, respectively, were evaluated for each population. The populations showed a high LD, suggesting the existence of linkage disequilibrium even between loci that are 30cM apart. Based on the values found and on other sugarcane LD studies found in literature, the possible effect of the processes of genetic improvement on the dynamics of sugarcane LD were discussed. A second study was carried out associating the mendelian segregation analysis of loci and their effect on the LD pattern, that showed that the LD profiles over increasing distances between loci can be associated to the allelic dosage. Furthermore, aiming to illustrate one of the uses of LD in breeding programs a genomewide selection (GWS) study was developed using RR-BLUP methodology. This study was carried out as a proof of concept, in order to study the feasibility of the method of genome-wide selection in sugarcane. For this, the 132 genotypes were characterized for six different characters, namely: stalk weight (kg), stalk diameter (mm), stalk length (m), soluble solids concentration (Brix), internodes number and stalk number per plot. In addition to demonstrate the great potential of these studies in sugarcane using DArT, the results suggest the existence of a strong effect of intrapopulation structure and of the spurious associations between the loci in the accuracy of the model. These factors, usually ignored in this kind of analysis, should be further investigated in future studies.Item Sequenciamento e caracterização parcial do genoma de cagaiteira (Eugenia dysenterica DC.)(Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2016-03-11) Ribeiro, Stela Barros; Telles, Mariana Pires de Campos; http://lattes.cnpq.br/4648436798023532; Coelho, Alexandre Siqueira Guedes; http://lattes.cnpq.br/0840926305216925; Zucchi, Maria Imaculada; Soares, Thannya Nascimento; Coelho, Alexandre Siqueira GuedesThe development of genomic analysis technologies, mainly the next generation sequencing platforms (NGS), has enabled to obtain a large amount of DNA sequencing information. The association between NGS data and cutting edge computational tools affords access to whole genome information for different organisms, through whole genome assembly (or partial) and structural and functional characterization. The cagaiteira tree (E. dysenterica DC.) is one of the Cerrado native species with potential utilization in crop production systems, due to its products exploration: fruits, leaves and bark. Besides, it has ecological importance for food availability to local fauna. Despite the efforts made, little is known about the organization and genetic structure of the cagaiteira tree. The previous researches take into account a reduced number of molecular markers applied to mating systems studies and effects of micro evolutionary events in populations. In this study we obtained an assembly and a partial characterization of E. dysenterica genome, regarding number, structure and function of genes and repetitive DNA. We obtained DNA sequences for five individuals from different populations using Illumina MiSeq sequencing platform. The quality control was performed with FasQc and Trimmomatic. We assembled the reads using dipSPAdes and used blastn and Samtools to verify the assembly quality. We used Repeat Masker, Repeat Modeler and QDD to identify and characterize the repetitive DNA content. For gene prediction and annotation we used AUGUSTUS and Blast2GO. The raw DNA sequences amounted 8.64 Gb, distributed in 63,017,960 reads. After trimming for low quality, the amount decreased to 5.63 Gb, distributed in 59,415,168 reads. After filtering for organellar DNA and contigs smaller than 500 bp, we assembled 130,243 contigs, representing 56.7% (~250 Mb) of estimated E.dysenterica genome size (~442 Mb). About 35.3% of genome assembled comprised repetitive regions, of which 27.1% are transposable elements (most LTR retrotransposons). We identified 55,491 microsatellite regions, 46,701 mononucleotides and 8,403 dinucleotides. The T/A motif was the most common follow by A/T and GA/TC. We predicted 60,171 gene fragments and 228,510 transcripts. We observed a gene density of 1 gene per 7.3 Kb and an average of 3.8 transcripts per gene. This study makes the cagaiteira tree the first native plant species from Cerrado of which genome was widely sampled and characterized using NGS data.Item Mapeamento genético de marcadores DArT (Diversity Arrays Technology) em cana-de-açúcar (Saccharum spp.)(Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2012-06-28) Silva, Daniel Garcia; Novaes, Evandro; http://lattes.cnpq.br/0568272239145336; Coelho, Alexandre Siqueira Guedes; http://lattes.cnpq.br/0840926305216925; Coelho, Alexandre Siqueira Guedes; Novaes, Evandro; Sibov, Sergio Tadeu; Carneiro, Monalisa SampaioSugarcane is an important crop, cultivated in more than 90 countries, occupying an area of approximately 20 million of hectares. Modern varieties (Saccharum spp.) are highly heterozygous interspecific hybrids, polyploids and often aneuploids, with chromosome numbers between 100 and 130. Such characteristics explain the common opinion that the genome of sugarcane is the most complex among cultivated species, posing a challenge to breeding programs. As a contribution to the understanding of this complex genomic architecture, this study aimed to build the first linkage maps using exclusively DArT markers in sugarcane. The maps were built using a progeny derived from the cross between varieties largely used in the Brazilian breeding program of RIDESA (RB97327 x RB72454). The initial mapping population comprised 186 individuals. Total genomic DNA was extracted from axial buds, following the protocol of Al-Janabi et al. (1999). Using the DArT P/L core facility to generate DArT data, a total of 7680 markers were analyzed, of which 850 were polymorphic. The analysis of segregation patterns in the progeny revealed that 47% of the individuals in the progeny were in fact derived from selfing of the female parent RB97327. These individuals were analyzed as a distinct generation. Linkage analyses were then performed on two populations (from selfing and crossing) separately. The software OneMap was used to construct the maps. The established linkage criteria for linkage analysis were LOD-score ≥ 3.5 and recombination fraction ≤ 0.4. In the first map, built using data from individuals originated from selfing, from 850 polymorphic markers, 392 markers (segregating in a 3:1 manner) were used to create 80 linkage groups related to the variety RB97327. For the population derived from the biparental crossing, four linkage maps were built: an integrated map composed of 98 linkage groups including 632 markers (1:1 and 3:1); an integrated framework map, using a more conservative ordering criteria for the linkage groups, which was composed of 94 linkage groups; and two other linkage maps, one for each parent (RB97327 and RB72454), built to estimate the genome size of the varieties involved in this study. The total length of the linkage map built using data from individuals derived from selfing of the variety RB97327 was 828 cM. The total length of the integrated linkage map was 2848 cM. The lengths of the maps built for each parent, using data from individuals derived from crossing, were 1465 cM (RB97327) and 1976 cM (RB72454). Using the methodology of Hulbert et al. (1988), the estimated genome sizes for these varieties were 2811 cM e 3471 cM, respectively. The maps obtained in these cases covered a low percentage of the estimated genome sizes (52% and 57%). In spite of the low polymorphism, DArT markers showed to be an efficient technique to perform genotyping of sugarcane. Hundreds of polymorphic markers were generated in only one assay, using two methods of genome complexity reduction. These markers represent a new tool for genetic studies in sugarcane, especially if the low cost (USD/marker) involved in data production is considered.Item Caracterização da região Bru1 no genoma da cultivar RB867515 (Saccharum spp.) utilizando sequenciamento de nova geração(Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2014-09-25) Souza, Isabela Pavanelli de; Coelho, Alexandre Siqueira Guedes; http://lattes.cnpq.br/0840926305216925; Coelho, Alexandre Siqueira Guedes; Novaes, Evandro; Carneiro, Monalisa SampaioSugarcane is known as one of the most important crops of the word for its sub products utilization. Four countries, led by Brazil, supply the sugar international trade. Ethanol is other important sugarcane sub product, recognized as an alternative product to sugar, and had great demand in Brazilian trade, for its utilization as non-fossil fuel. The sugarcane genome is one of the most complex among crops, with 10 Gb. Its complete genome is not available, but the recent innovations in genomics tools open up new possibilities for the investigations about the sugarcane’s genome. We did a genome assembly and annotation of a Brazilian sugarcane cultivar (RB867515) genome region, correspondent to eight R570 homologous sequences already published. We use high qualities paired-ends libraries produced by Illumina HiSeq 2000 sequencing platform. The reads were aligned against eight R570 BACs (Bacterial Artificial Chromosome) sequences stored in NCBI using Bowtie2. We used MaSuRCA to assemble the aligned reads de novo, and the consensus sequences were obtained with SAMtools mpileup option. The transposable elements were identified using RepeatMasker and the gene regions were annotated with Blastx against the GenBank non-redundant protein database. After that, the consensus sequences were aligned with the matching reference (R570) using ClustalW in Mega software, to look for the percentage of mismatches and conserved sites between them. We obtained the number of scaffolds bigger than 1 kb ranging from 607 to 2,884, and the longest scaffold had near 21 kb. The consensus sequence length ranged from 81 to 142 kb, and the recovery rate relative to the reference ranged from 82% to 97%. The sequences amounted 1 Mb of RB867515 cultivar genome. We identified 5,145 repeated elements, which 4,662 were microsatellite and 460 were transposable elements, amounted 225 kb of repeated sequences. Among the mobile elements, the retrotransposons comprises 15% of nucleotide composition, ranging from 8% to 29% among BACs. The 134 genes identified on the eight BAC consensus sequences comprised a total of 243 kb, resulting in a density of one gene per 7.2 kb. The average number of genes per BAC was 16, with an average gene length of 1,841 bp. The percentage of mismatches between the RB867515 and R570 BACs ranged from 0.27% to 1.32%. The sugarcane BACs correspond to homeologous genomic regions, with this alignment we can suggest high divergence inside an homeologous group.