Abstract
A miniature cultivar Micro-Tom has attracted much attention as a model of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) because it has small size (10-20 cm in height), a short life cycle (70-90 days), and grows well in ordinary laboratory spaces. We have constructed full-length cDNA libraries from Micro-Tom and generated ESTs from the clones as a genomic resource. From the ESTs, non-redundant cDNA clones were selected and used to obtain the full-length cDNA sequences. At present, we generated 57,271 ESTs (including Acc. BW684914-BW692959, DB678295-DB727670) and 1673 full-length sequences (Acc AK224591-AK224910, AB211518-AB211526). We have analyzed the ESTs and full-length sequences by using BLAST and InterPro programs. Additionally, to elucidate intron-exon structures of the tomato genome, we compare the full-length sequences with genomic sequences provided from the international tomato genome sequencing project. All the information is available from a database KaFTom (http://www.pgb.kazusa.or.jp/kaftom/).
