MELOGEN : An EST database for melon functional genomics
Gonzalez-Ibeas, Daniel (Centro de Edafología y Biología Aplicada del Segura. Departamento de Biología del Estrés y Patología Vegetal)
Blanca, José (Instituto de Conservación y Mejora de la Agrodiversidad Valenciana . Departamento de Biotecnología)
Roig, Cristina (Instituto de Conservación y Mejora de la Agrodiversidad Valenciana . Departamento de Biotecnología)
González To, Mireia (Centre de Recerca en Agrigenòmica)
Picó, Belén (Instituto de Conservación y Mejora de la Agrodiversidad Valenciana . Departamento de Biotecnología)
Truniger, Verónica (Centro de Edafología y Biología Aplicada del Segura. Departamento de Biología del Estrés y Patología Vegetal)
Gómez, Pedro (Centro de Edafología y Biología Aplicada del Segura. Departamento de Biología del Estrés y Patología Vegetal)
Deleu, Wim (Centre de Recerca en Agrigenòmica)
Caño Delgado, Ana I. (Centre de Recerca en Agrigenòmica)
Arús i Gorina, Pere (Centre de Recerca en Agrigenòmica)
Nuez, Fernando (Instituto de Conservación y Mejora de la Agrodiversidad Valenciana . Departamento de Biotecnología)
Garcia-Mas, Jordi (Centre de Recerca en Agrigenòmica)
Puigdomènech, Pere, 1948- (Centre de Recerca en Agrigenòmica)
Aranda, Miguel A. (Centro de Edafología y Biología Aplicada del Segura. Departamento de Biología del Estrés y Patología Vegetal)

Date:	2007
Abstract:	Background: Melon (Cucumis melo L. ) is one of the most important fleshy fruits for fresh consumption. Despite this, few genomic resources exist for this species. To facilitate the discovery of genes involved in essential traits, such as fruit development, fruit maturation and disease resistance, and to speed up the process of breeding new and better adapted melon varieties, we have produced a large collection of expressed sequence tags (ESTs) from eight normalized cDNA libraries from different tissues in different physiological conditions. Results: We determined over 30,000 ESTs that were clustered into 16,637 non-redundant sequences or unigenes, comprising 6,023 tentative consensus sequences (contigs) and 10,614 unclustered sequences (singletons). Many potential molecular markers were identified in the melon dataset: 1,052 potential simple sequence repeats (SSRs) and 356 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were found. Sixty-nine percent of the melon unigenes showed a significant similarity with proteins in databases. Functional classification of the unigenes was carried out following the Gene Ontology scheme. In total, 9,402 unigenes were mapped to one or more ontology. Remarkably, the distributions of melon and Arabidopsis unigenes followed similar tendencies, suggesting that the melon dataset is representative of the whole melon transcriptome. Bioinformatic analyses primarily focused on potential precursors of melon micro RNAs (miRNAs) in the melon dataset, but many other genes potentially controlling disease resistance and fruit quality traits were also identified. Patterns of transcript accumulation were characterised by Real-Time-qPCR for 20 of these genes. Conclusion: The collection of ESTs characterised here represents a substantial increase on the genetic information available for melon. A database (MELOGEN) which contains all EST sequences, contig images and several tools for analysis and data mining has been created. This set of sequences constitutes also the basis for an oligo-based microarray for melon that is being used in experiments to further analyse the melon transcriptome.
Grants:	Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia GEN2003-20237-C06
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Published in:	BMC genomics, Vol. 8 (September 2007) , art. 306, ISSN 1471-2164

DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-8-306
PMID: 17767721

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