Identification of candidate flowering and sex genes in white Guinea yam (D. rotundata Poir.) by SuperSAGE transcriptome profiling

• Gezahegn Girma,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Current address: Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

  Affiliations Bioscience center, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria, Plant and AgriBiosciences Research Centre (PABC), Ryan Institute, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland

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• Satoshi Natsume,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Genomics and Breeding, Iwate Biotechnology Research Center (IBRC), Kitakami, Iwate, Japan

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• Anna Vittoria Carluccio,

  Roles Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Bioscience center, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria

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• Hiroki Takagi,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Genomics and Breeding, Iwate Biotechnology Research Center (IBRC), Kitakami, Iwate, Japan

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• Hideo Matsumura,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

  Current address: Gene Research Center, Shinshu University, Ueda, Nagano, Japan

  Affiliation Department of Genomics and Breeding, Iwate Biotechnology Research Center (IBRC), Kitakami, Iwate, Japan

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• Aiko Uemura,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Genomics and Breeding, Iwate Biotechnology Research Center (IBRC), Kitakami, Iwate, Japan

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• Satoru Muranaka ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: s.muranaka@cgiar.org

  Affiliation Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences (JIRCAS), Ohwashi, Tsukuba, Japan

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• Hiroko Takagi,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences (JIRCAS), Ohwashi, Tsukuba, Japan

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• Livia Stavolone,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection, National Research Council, Bari, Italy

  Affiliation Bioscience center, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria

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• Melaku Gedil,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bioscience center, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria

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• Charles Spillane,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Plant and AgriBiosciences Research Centre (PABC), Ryan Institute, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland

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• Ryohei Terauchi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Genomics and Breeding, Iwate Biotechnology Research Center (IBRC), Kitakami, Iwate, Japan

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• Muluneh Tamiru

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Animal, Plant and Soil Sciences, AgriBioBuilding, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Melbourne, Australia.

  Affiliation Department of Genomics and Breeding, Iwate Biotechnology Research Center (IBRC), Kitakami, Iwate, Japan

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