Generation and analysis of expressed sequence tags from six developing xylem libraries in Pinus radiata D. Don.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Wood is a major renewable natural resource for the timber, fibre and bioenergy industry. Pinus radiata D. Don is the most important commercial plantation tree species in Australia and several other countries; however, genomic resources for this species are very limited in public databases. Our primary objective was to sequence a large number of expressed sequence tags (ESTs) from genes involved in wood formation in radiata pine.

Results

Six developing xylem cDNA libraries were constructed from earlywood and latewood tissues sampled at juvenile (7 yrs), transition (11 yrs) and mature (30 yrs) ages, respectively. These xylem tissues represent six typical development stages in a rotation period of radiata pine. A total of 6,389 high quality ESTs were collected from 5

SUBMITTER: Li X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2636829 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature