Abstract
Trees are important not only in the production of biomass but also in the environment conservation. Poplar is the internationally accepted model tree, and the genome has been first sequenced among woody plant. The development of bio-resource platform such as cDNAs collection besides genomic information is necessary for accurate understanding of roles expressed genes in tree biology. We promote ESTs analysis of poplar (Populus nigra var. italica) and release several thousand full-length cDNAs. Our full-length cDNA collection contributes to collect annotation of expressed genes and functional analysis of the genes.
In spite of increase of poplar's genome and EST data, there aren't enough tools such as data browser. In the present study, we constructed database that includes cDNA physical map, function classification and related information of expressed genes to other plant, and implemented tool for data search. We present the result of poplar cDNA analysis as well as the database.
