Sequencing of 6.7 Mb of the melon genome using a BAC pooling strategy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cucumis melo (melon) belongs to the Cucurbitaceae family, whose economic importance among horticulture crops is second only to Solanaceae. Melon has a high intra-specific genetic variation, morphologic diversity and a small genome size (454 Mb), which make it suitable for a great variety of molecular and genetic studies. A number of genetic and genomic resources have already been developed, such as several genetic maps, BAC genomic libraries, a BAC-based physical map and EST collections. Sequence information would be invaluable to complete the picture of the melon genomic landscape, furthering our understanding of this species' evolution from its relatives and providing an important genetic tool. However, to this day there is little sequence data available, only a few me

SUBMITTER: Gonzalez VM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3095328 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature