Abbott Almond Project Description

Almond (Prunus amygdalus) is one of the major crop species that belong to the Rosaceae, which includes a number of economically important fruit trees.

As a part of the effort to develop an extensive EST database for identification and cloning of genes important to fruit and tree development, we generated 2794 high-quality expressed sequence tags (ESTs) from an almond cDNA library of developing seed. After assembly and annotation, a putative almond unigene set consisting of 734 ESTs was defined. Further annotation includes computational detection of simple sequence repeats (SSR).

The annotation results for Gene Ontology (GO) classification and detection of open reading frame (ORF) will soon be available.