Physical map of maize
Using inbred line B73, three BAC libraries (using three enzymes, HindIII, EcoRI and MhoI)were prepared. Together the three libraries provided 27 fold genome coverage of the genome. The BAC clones of these libraries are being screened using markers earlier mapped using IBM population. The BAC clones are fingerprinted by digesting BAC clones with HindIII,and fractionating the fragments on agarose gel. The gel images are digitized with IMAGE software (Sanger Centre, UK). Contigs were assembled using Fingerprint Contig (FPC) software. In the first instance, 83,000 of the 450,000 BAC fingerprints were assembled into 13,000 contigs and 9,300 singletons (singletons are clones which have no overlap with any other BAC clone).


