Abbott Peach Project Description

Peach (Prunus persica) represents a model species for prunus and a reference species for Rosaceae, To develop an extensive Prunus EST database for identification and cloning of genes important to fruit and tree development, we generated 8832 high-quality expressed sequence tags (ESTs) from a peach cDNA library of shoot tissue. After assembly and annotation, a putative peach unigene set consisting of 5381 ESTs was defined.Further annotation includes Gene Ontology (GO) classification and computational detection of simple sequence repeats (SSR) and open reading frame (ORF).

December 15, 2005 : Abbott Peach ESTs Analyzed for SSRs

December 23, 2005  : Abbott Peach ESTs Submitted to GenBank

 Processing Summary
 Number of ESTs sequenced  8832
 Number of successful sequences  7085
 Average Success Rate  80.2 %
 Average Base Count  757
 Average Number of HQ Bases  505
 Average Phred Quality Value  32
 Number of Contigs (CAP3 Assembly -p 95 -d 60 )  673
 Number of Singletons  4708
 Number of Putative Unigenes  5381