MELOGEN: an EST database for melon functional genomics.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Melon (Cucumis melo L.) is one of the most important fleshy fruits for fresh consumption. Despite this, few genomic resources exist for this species. To facilitate the discovery of genes involved in essential traits, such as fruit development, fruit maturation and disease resistance, and to speed up the process of breeding new and better adapted melon varieties, we have produced a large collection of expressed sequence tags (ESTs) from eight normalized cDNA libraries from different tissues in different physiological conditions.

Results

We determined over 30,000 ESTs that were clustered into 16,637 non-redundant sequences or unigenes, comprising 6,023 tentative consensus sequences (contigs) and 10,614 unclustered sequences (singletons). Many potential molecular mar

SUBMITTER: Gonzalez-Ibeas D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2034596 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature