Plant & Animal Genomes XVI Conference

January 12-16, 2008
Town & Country Convention Center
San Diego, CA

Efficiency Of in silico SNP Discovery In Loblolly Pine

Konstantin V. Krutovsky , Judy E. Brooks

  Department of Ecosystem Science & Management, Texas A&M University, #319 Horticulture and Forest Science Building (HFSB), College Station, TX 77843-2138, USA

SNPs in ESTs representing more than 30 loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) genes have been studied and compared with SNPs that have been independently discovered via direct resequencing of megagametophytes from a medium size population sample. A high correspondence has been observed between both datasets. The discrepancies concerned mainly rare alleles. Our results demonstrate the efficiency of in silico SNP discovery in loblolly pine.