Abstract
Eucalyptus is planted worldwide for pulp and paper production with more than 10 million hectares throughout Asia, South America, southern Europe and Australia. The importance of this genus to industry has encouraged its genetics and the molecular biological researches. Consequently, Eucalyptus has become a key forestry species that has a potential for exploring genomic research. With the aim of understanding the genetic system carried by eucalypt, we launched on a large-scale genome analysis of Eucalyptus camaldulensis. Its genome size is estimated to be 650 Mbp. The Whole Genome Shotgun (WGS) method was applied to produce the Eucalyptus draft genome sequence. For the sequencing, another genomic library was constructed in BAC-vector in parallel with WGS. All clones (57,600 BACs) were subjected to end sequence analysis in order to establish the scaffold of WGS-contigs. We are going to report the current status of the E. camaldulensis genome project.
