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P-34<br />

Genome-wide identification of grapevine specific genes<br />

B. Cai 1,2 , J. Tao 1 , Z. Zhang 1 , Z-M. Cheng* 1,2<br />

1 College of <strong>Horticulture</strong>, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China;<br />

2<br />

Department of Plant Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA<br />

*Corresponding author: zcheng@utk.edu<br />

Using the grapevine (Vitis vinifera) genome annotation, along <strong>with</strong> the eight sequenced genomes<br />

(Arabidopsis, Oryza, Populus, Carica, Glycine, Medicago, Sorghum, <strong>and</strong> Zea), the plant<br />

transcript assemblies from 250 plant species, ESTs <strong>and</strong> no redundant (NR) proteins datasets from<br />

GenBank, we identified 1,859 genes in grapevine that lack significant sequence similarity <strong>with</strong><br />

all other species. This set of 1,859 genes is termed grapevine-specific genes (GSGs). These<br />

GSGs were screened against the entire grapevine ESTs from NCBI to identify expressed genes.<br />

We obtained 96 expressed GSGs that have the corresponding ESTs in GenBank. For the<br />

expressed GSGs, the in silico gene expression, protein motif were examined. The expressed<br />

GSGs set were divided into five groups <strong>and</strong> eight protein motifs were identified by the MEME<br />

<strong>program</strong> from the five group sequences. These genes may play roles in determining specific<br />

characteristics of grapevines.<br />

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