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Scientia Silvae Sinicae ›› 2006, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (11): 37-41.doi: 10.11707/j.1001-7488.20061107

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Sequencing of cDNA Clones and Analysis of the Expressed Sequenced Tags(ESTs)Properties of Male Floral Buds of Populus deltoides

Zhou Xiangming1,2,Zhang Bingyu2,Su Xiaohua2,Wang Dahai2,Huang Qinjun2,Zhang Xianghua2,Zhang Zhiyi1   

  1. 1.Key Laboratory for Genetic and Breeding of Forest Tree and Ornamental Plants,Ministry of Education Beijing Forestry University Beijing 100083;2.Key Laboratory of Tree Breeding and Cultivation,State Forestry Administration Research Institute of Forestry,CAF Beijing 100091
  • Received:2005-09-27 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2006-11-25 Published:2006-11-25

Abstract:

A cDNA library of male floral buds of Populus deltoides through SMART(the Switch Mechanism At the 5' end of RNA Templates)technique was constructed.4 200 clones randomly selected from the cDNA library were sequenced and 3 092 raw sequences were obtained.3 087 valid ESTs were generated after the size of inserts shorter than 150 bp and the contaminants were removed.The average length of the cDNA was 515 bp.A total of 416 clusters were formed after assembly of the 3 087 ESTs,and 451 contigs and 1 104 singletons were obtained.1 015 ESTs with known or unknown function were identified by BlastN searched against the NCBI non_redundant nucleotide databases,540 ESTs had no significant similarity to any protein or DNA sequence in the databases.The present ESTs provide a valuable resource for further research on the flower development of higher plants.

Key words: Populus deltoides, male floral bud, cDNA library, ESTs